The final iOS 26 developer push, the upcoming iPhone event, and exciting news about… iPhone-case materials!

• Pre-Show: Casey and Marco are sad
  • Ben Rice McCarthy
  • Under the Radar
• Follow-up:
  • 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
    • The Marco Offset
  • Anonymous crushes the dreams of Marco and Casey about cellular MacBooks
  • Another Anonymous shares a bit too much information about accidental Siri activations 😆
  • 🤬 John’s AppleCare One update 🤬
  • Help with Trackpad dragging
    • System Settings → Accessibility → Pointer Control → Trackpad Options… → Dragging Style → Three Finger Drag
      • Screenshot
    • …or Drag Lock
  • Masimo comes for [more] blood
  • UK drops utterly bananas backdoor legislation
  • Studio Display with A19
    • Daniel Luz points out makes a funny comparison to Macs
    • Fabian Häusler theorizes it’s about binning
  • Apple’s Hide my Email feature
    • An unexpected wrinkle Timothy Martin points out
    • Anecdote from David Beck
• Apple Event: 9 September 1PM OTTZ
  • Interactive logo
    • Still image for posterity
  • Reverse-engineering by sam henri gold
• “TechWoven” and “Liquid Silicone” cases leaked
  • Maijin Bu on TechWoven
  • …and on Liquid Silicone (and again)
• Apple will simplify the Camera Control button
• Ask ATP:
  • What’s the ∆ between snapshots and backups? (via Phil Hirst)
    • Hyperspace
  • Why is Finder slow to delete files? (via Dan)
  • How will Apple reconcile AI and carbon neutrality? (via Sam Hunt)
• Post-show: Some venting about politics and 𝓍26.
  • Jeff Atwood’s post
  • John’s reply
  • There’s nothing Republicans won’t ruin
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Rumored Apple roadmap
  • Apple readies first upgrade to its struggling Vision Pro headset

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Marco thought the bunnies were real.

• Pre-Show: AI slop vs. not… so… AI… slop
  • AITAH
• Follow-up:
  • Casey spends 24 hours with iOS 26 on his carry phone
    • John’s dancing controls
  • ☝️ Well, actually ☝️, myriad of is okay (via Jason Eccles)
    • Merriam-Webster’s take
  • Are size classes similar to today’s design changes? (via Bryan Guffey)
    • Auto Layout
  • John’s HomePod has risen from the dead!
    • Nic’s Fix
    • Watch John’s actual repair happen
  • 🍿 John would like to air some AppleCare One grievances 🍿
    • John’s tantrum
    • AppleCare One Terms & Conditions
• Blood oxygen with Apple Watch [sorta] returns to the US
  • Gruber’s take
  • Victoria Song at The Verge
• 😳🥳 M5 MacBook Pro with cellular is coming‽ 🎉😳
• A19 Pro in Studio Display 2?
  • Previously, in low-cost MacBook rumors: A18 Pro
• Your Mac game is probably rendering blurry
  • CGDisplayCopyAllDisplayModes()
  • FB13375033
• Ask ATP:
  • Should the name “Siri” be retired? (via Aaron Bushnell)
  • Did Vehicle Motion Cues help John? (via Roly C.)
  • How do we click our trackpads? (via Eli)
• Post-show: Oh yeah! 🗣️ New ATP Members special: ATP Insider: Vacations 🗣️
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s research into using LLMs to make UIs
  • Apple trained a LLM to teach itself good SwiftUI
  • Research paper
  • Stephen Robles’ video

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What we consider a vacation, the types of vacations we enjoy, and our roles in our families when on vacation.

Apple’s latest design updates, developing product sense, AppleCare One friction, and endangered mice.

• Pre-Show: Marco and Casey’s no-good, very bad days.
• Follow-up:
  • Casey didn’t read the fine print on Express Replacement 🤦🏻‍♂️
    • Short Pump
  • John cycled his mouse again
  • AppleCare One
    • Moving a device on a payment plan (via “Clark Griswold” and Anonymous)
    • Tina’s iPhone
    • Tina’s Mac Studio
  • Tahoe beta 5: checkbox contrast improves
  • iOS 26 beta 6 Liquid glass changes
  • Smart TV interfaces over time
    • “Shortcut”
    • New Magic Remote
  • Running your own mail server
    • How does iCloud-on-your-domain work? (via potato.zip)
    • Hide my Email (via Peter Puleio)
    • Jason Diller thinks it’s not so bad
  • Post-quantum cryptography
    • Harvest now, decrypt later (via Lisa Ugray)
    • Since iOS 17.4 for iMessage (via Saul Sutherland)
      • Apple Security Research blog post
    • Compelled adoption (via Brian Jarvis)
    • Chrome adopted it in 2024 (via sayrer)
      • 2024: State of post-quantum internet
      • 2025: Update
• John wages war against icons
  • Adopting Liquid Glass: App Icons
  • WWDC 2025 #361: Create Icons with Icon Composer
  • John’s Mastodon thread
    • Václav Slavík’s solution
    • FB19437407
    • FB19497128
    • FB17892659
  • There’s likely to be a lot more of this
• Ask ATP:
  • Is Liquid Glass on macOS a subtle move toward touchscreen Macs? (via Daniel Liu)
  • How does one build a “good product sense”? (via Ian Anderson)
    • Inspired by Marty Cagan
  • How does one effectively de-duplicate photos using Photos.app? (via Keith Heaton)
• Post-show: Marco’s air-conditioning “update”
• Members-only ATP Overtime: AI voice control as a threat to Apple’s platforms
  • Apple’s Upcoming AI Voice Control will Change how People Use iPhones

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Apple’s Trump support, flagship TV UIs, beta design tweaks, Xcode’s appetite for disk space, and a safe space for Casey… but not his devices.

• Pre-Show:
  • Brief vacation results
  • Tim Cook kisses the… ring
    • Video
• Follow-up:
  • HDTVTest reviews Sony Bravia 8 II and Panasonic Z95B
  • TV shootout results
    • Nilay’s comments
  • AppleCare One
    • iCareCalculator Reddit post (removed by moderators)
    • iCare Calculator web app
    • John’s experience
  • B&H
    • Casey’s roughly equivalent Mac, available for special order
  • Retro computing corner
    • Revisiting eWorld
  • More on Tahoe
    • Gus Mueller
      • …on checkboxes
      • …on sliders
    • Beta 5 improves selection legibility
  • Ejecting USB storage in Windows (via Justin Bradford)
    • Bleeping computer
  • Art & science of UI design
    • Game design concepts in software (via Wes Davis)
• iPhone 17’s rumored new MagSafe design
  • Majin Bu
  • iPhone 16
• Apple’s “Answers” team
• Ask ATP:
  • How can one improve the experience of a permanent-mount SSD on a laptop?
    • Jettison
  • Why is Xcode so thirsty? (via Geoff)
    • Time Machine local snapshots
      • Deleting snapshots with Disk Utility
    • DevCleaner (App Store link)
    • Github
    • GrandPerspective
    • Disk Inventory X
    • DaisyDisk
  • How are we dealing with spam? (via Alan Bailward)
    • SpamSieve
    • MailRoute
    • Fastmail
• Post-show: Apple Express Replacement
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Post-Quantum Cryptography networking in the 𝓍26 OSes
  • Prepare your network for quantum-secure encryption in TLS

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