Must-Have Music Widgets for Your iPhone 
This week, Federico and John tour music widgets, one of their favorite categories, exploring the many widgets they’re using to listen to music and follow their favorite artists.
Using Soor’s Widgets and Magic Mixes As I detailed in the last episode of AppStories, I’ve spent the past few weeks tweaking my iPhone’s Home Screen and playing around with different approaches to widgets and app icons. The layout I eventually settled on (which you can find in the AppStories show notes) takes advantage of dark mode to create the...
Our Newly Customized iOS 14 Home Screens
This week, Federico and John revisit their approaches to their iPhone Home Screens, including the third-party widgets they’re using, and how they are optimizing their mix of apps and widgets since the iOS 14 update. Federico also shares a trick for integrating certain widgets and folders of icons into his wallpaper.
Two years ago in our MacStories Weekly newsletter for Club MacStories members, I shared a shortcut that enabled creating wallpapers for iPhone and iPad featuring solid colors or gradients of your choice. Given the newfound popularity of the Shortcuts app and the amazing custom Home screens people are putting together with widgets in iOS 14, I thought I’d play my part and revisit the shortcut by simplifying it and adding new features. The shortcut is now called WallCreator and you can download it for free (alongside 220 other shortcuts) from the MacStories Shortcuts Archive.
An Interview with Michael Flarup
This week Federico and John conclude the MacStories Summer OS Preview Series by interviewing designer Michael Flarup about Mac iconography, the design of Mac Catalyst apps, content-focused design on the iPad, augmented reality, and more.
A Few iOS and iPadOS 14 Tips Much to everyone’s surprise, iOS 14 was released earlier this week – a mere 24 hours after Apple’s media event. As I mentioned on Twitter and various podcasts, I’m still working on my annual iOS and iPadOS review, which I hope to publish soon on MacStories. This year has been odd for everyone, and...
Apple’s New App Review Guidelines
The Many Ways to Use Widgets
Exploring Apple’s 2020 Gaming Updates 
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