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AppStories, Episode 305 – A Close-Up Look at Anybox and Spring→

This week on AppStories, we dig into two excellent apps we’ve been enjoying recently: Anybox, a bookmark and file organizer, and Spring, a third-party Twitter client.

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On AppStories+, Federico explains what’s coming next with Apple Frames 3.1, his shortcut for framing screenshots with Apple hardware images.

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AppStories, Episode 304 – Calendars, Communications, and More Revisited→

This week on AppStories, we pick up where we left off in episode 300 by revisiting episode 200 about calendar apps, communications, home assistants, and Federico’s first surprise of 2021.

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On AppStories+, we argue against waiting to upgrade macOS and share some of our plans for our redesigned workspaces.

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Sebastiaan de With’s iPhone 14 Pro Max Camera Review→

Photo: [Sebatiaan de With](https://lux.camera/iphone-14-pro-camera-review-a-small-step-a-huge-leap/)

Photo: Sebatiaan de With

Sebastiaan de With, part of the team behind the excellent camera app Halide, has published his annual iPhone camera review, this year putting the iPhone 14 Pro Max through its paces in and around San Francisco, Bhutan, and Tokyo. de With’s review is packed with details about every lens and Apple’s computational photography pipeline, taking readers behind the scenes in ways that Apple simply doesn’t.

Regarding the front-facing camera de With says:

In our testing, the iPhone 14 Pro achieved far sharper shots with vastly — and we mean vastly — superior dynamic range and detail.

The ultra wide camera was substantially improved too:

…with iPhone 14 Pro’s ultra-wide camera comes a much larger sensor, a new lens design and higher ISO sensitivity. While the aperture took a small step back, the larger sensor handily offsets this.

However, it’s the 48MP main lens that impressed de With the most:

While arguably, a quad-bayer sensor should not give true 48-megapixel sensor resolution as one might get from, say, a comparable ‘proper’ digital camera, the results out of the iPhone 14 Pro gave me chills. I have simply never gotten image quality like this out of a phone. There’s more here than just resolution; the way the new 48 megapixel sensor renders the image is unique and simply tremendously different than what I’ve seen before.

Overall, the advances made to Apple’s Pro-line cameras are impressive this year. With new shooting modes and changes across all of the cameras, I’m looking forward to spending more time experimenting with what the iPhone 14 can now do.

Be sure to check out the full review for de With’s stunning photography and details on the iPhone 14 Pro Max’s other lenses, as well as what’s improved and what hasn’t when it comes to Apple’s Photonic Engine processing pipeline.

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AppStories, Episode 302 – Stage Manager in iPadOS 16→

On Episode 302 of AppStories, we explored Federico’s story about Stage Manager in iPadOS 16, including its bugs, missing features, and design flaws.

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On AppStories+, Federico provided a behind-the-scenes look at the difficulties of covering Stage Manager, a feature that, until recently, was barely unusable.

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512 Pixels’ macOS Screenshot Library Updated with Ventura Screenshots→

Every year, our pal Stephen Hackett updates his macOS Screenshot Library with images from the latest macOS release. Today, on 512 Pixels, he released an extensive set of light and dark mode screenshots from macOS Ventura, which joins sets for each release extending all the way back to the Mac OS X Public Beta.

The Snow Leopard desktop. Source: 512 Pixels.

The Snow Leopard desktop. Source: 512 Pixels.

The collection is a terrific resource for anyone researching the evolution of Apple’s design language over the decades or if you just want to have your own Snow Leopard Moment.

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AppStories, Episode 301 – The New iPad and iPad Pro Review: Mixed Signals→

This morning we got into the details of Federico’s review of the latest iPad Pro and the new 10th generation iPad.

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AppStories, Episode 300 – App Trends Revisited and Reconsidered→

This week on AppStories, we mark episode 300 of the show by revisiting the app trends they covered in episode 100 and discussing the new trends that will shape the apps we use in the next several years.

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On AppStories+, we reveal the app trends we want to see end.

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iOS and iPadOS 16.1 Betas Add Per-App Clipboard Access Permissions to the Settings App→

In iOS 16 and the upcoming iPadOS 16.1, Apple added an alert when an app tries to read your device’s clipboard, giving users a chance to grant or deny access. It’s a privacy measure, but for apps that have legitimate reasons to use the clipboard’s contents, it quickly becomes an annoyance to confirm every time you want to paste something. Apple has said that excessive prompts to use the clipboard are a bug that it was working to fix, but whatever the origin, the latest beta of iOS and iPadOS 16.1 include new settings that dramatically improve the experience.

After asking for permission to paste from another app at least once, a new setting appears in an app's Settings entry.

After asking for permission to paste from another app at least once, a new setting appears in an app’s Settings entry.

According to Joe Rossignol at MacRumors:

 In the Settings app on the fourth beta of iOS 16.1 and later, a new “Paste from Other Apps” menu appears for apps that have previously asked for permission to paste content from another app. The menu can be found in the Settings app → [App Name] → Paste from Other Apps.

The menu presents users with three options:

  • Ask: The app must continue to request permission to paste content from other apps.
  • Deny: The app cannot paste content from other apps.
  • Allow: The app can paste content from other apps without asking for permission again.
To never see the paste prompt again choose 'Allow.'

To never see the paste prompt again choose ‘Allow.’

This change is a huge win for any app you use and trust that needs clipboard access. For me, that’s Obsidian. We use a custom plugin for creating Markdown links to webpages and images that we shared last fall with Club MacStories members. The plugin works the way I think all text editors should handle Markdown linking when you have a URL on your clipboard: highlight some text, paste, and instead of replacing the highlighted text, the URL is linked to highlighted text. However, since running iOS and iPadOS 16 betas, I’ve had to select ‘Allow Paste’ anytime I wanted to create a Markdown link using the plugin. Now, with ‘Allow’ chosen in the Obsidian entry of the Settings app, that’s no longer a constant source of friction as I write, which is great.

It’s worth noting that the setting doesn’t sync across devices. For example, if you Allow pasting on an iPhone, you’ll have to do the same on an iPad. Also, the setting only appears in the Settings app after an app has requested permission to access the clipboard at least once.

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AppStories, Episode 299 – Return to the App Grab Bag→

This week on AppStories, we return to the app grab bag to cover more of our favorite releases and updates from the past several weeks.

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On AppStories+, we look back at 2022’s unusual beta period, and I update listeners on the state of macOS Ventura and my upcoming review.

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