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Daily coverage of Apple, other technology companies, and the intersection of technology and culture.
Different visions of vision products (Member Podcast)
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Different visions of vision products
As we write about Vision Pro and visionOS 26, Apple makes a move to build smart glasses from the bottom up....
https://sixcolors.com/member-podcast/2025/10/different-visions-of-vision-products/
about 3 hours ago
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Clic for Sonos (Sponsor)
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Clic for Sonos
My thanks to Clic for Sonos for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Clic for Sonos is the fastest native Sonos client for iPhone, iPad, Mac,...
https://sixcolors.com/sponsor/2025/10/clic-for-sonos-5/
about 4 hours ago
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Appleâs ICEblock capitulation is business as usual
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Appleâs ICEblock capitulation is business as usual
So, I guess I'm going to need to keep writing this piece. Say what you will about Apple's decision this week to remove from the...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/apples-iceblock-capitulation-is-business-as-usual/
about 4 hours ago
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visionOS Diary: Work it
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visionOS Diary: Work it
It's been a busy few weeks around here, what with Apple's latest platform updates and new iPhones, but I finally have time to catch my...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/visionos-diary-work-it/
1 day ago
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visionOS 26 Review: Keep moving toward the future
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visionOS 26 Review: Keep moving toward the future
The side of my head does look like that! If visionOS and the Vision Pro are all about charting a course to the future of...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/visionos-26-review-keep-moving-toward-the-future/
2 days ago
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Two iPhones, an iPad, and a podcast: Adventures with Final Cut Camera
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Two iPhones, an iPad, and a podcast: Adventures with Final Cut Camera
Myke framed by Final Cut Camera on an iPhone. A bit lost in the hubbub around the announcement of the M4 iPad Pro back in...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/two-iphones-an-ipad-and-a-podcast-adventures-with-final-cut-camera/
2 days ago
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The Back Page: Liquidity crisis (Member Post)
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The Back Page: Liquidity crisis
After a long summer of discontent, Apple released its latest operating system updates earlier this month, and the result has been RAGE! PANIC! RIOTING IN...
https://sixcolors.com/member/2025/09/the-back-page-liquidity-crisis/
3 days ago
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Export keys securely from Passwords to third-party managers
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Export keys securely from Passwords to third-party managers
I ranted about the joy of passkeys and some of their limitations a few weeks ago, and that prompted a question from Six Colors member...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/export-keys-securely-from-passwords-to-third-party-managers/
4 days ago
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This Week in Apple: To laugh, perchance to scream (Member Post)
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This Week in Apple: To laugh, perchance to scream
Apple has HAD ENOUGH of government overreach, Tim Cook makes a new friend, and the App Store remains undefeated. Practicing my tight five Apple would...
https://sixcolors.com/member/2025/09/this-week-in-apple-to-laugh-perchance-to-scream/
7 days ago
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New iPhones and Q&A (Member Podcast)
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New iPhones and Q&A
We're trying out new iPhones, and answering your questions!...
https://sixcolors.com/member-podcast/2025/09/new-iphones-and-qa/
7 days ago
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Quip: The Clipboard Manager for Apple Devices That Doesnât Suck (Sponsor)
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Quip: The Clipboard Manager for Apple Devices That Doesnât Suck
My thanks to Quip for sponsoring Six Colors this week. Clipboard managers arenât usually exciting. Most of them just capture everything you copy, then become...
https://sixcolors.com/sponsor/2025/09/quip-the-clipboard-manager-for-apple-devices-that-doesnt-suck-4/
7 days ago
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Apple adds iPhones to Friday Night Baseball coverage
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Apple adds iPhones to Friday Night Baseball coverage
Imagine an orange phone at Dodger Stadium. (Apple TV+) Surprise! Last Friday, Apple TV+'s Friday Night Baseball broadcast of the Giants and the Dodgers featured...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/apple-adds-iphones-to-friday-night-baseball-coverage/
7 days ago
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Apple posts thoughts on the DMA (Link)
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Apple posts thoughts on the DMA
In an unsigned post on Apple Newsroom, Apple has poured out its heart about the EU's Digital Markets Act: Itâs been more than a year...
https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/09/apple-posts-thoughts-on-the-dma/
8 days ago
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Nicâs Fix brings back original HomePods (like mine)
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Nicâs Fix brings back original HomePods (like mine)
My HomePod, open to the world. One of my original HomePods died last year of a sudden illness. It was survived by its fellow stereo...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/nics-fix-brings-back-original-homepods-like-mine/
8 days ago
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Pro today, Air tomorrow? Apple plays the long iPhone game (Six Colors/Jason Snell)
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Pro today, Air tomorrow? Apple plays the long iPhone game
iPhone sales are important! That's about as obvious as a dog-bites-man statement can get. This year, early reports suggest sales of the iPhone 17 might...
https://sixcolors.com/offsite/2025/09/pro-today-air-tomorrow-apple-plays-the-long-game/
8 days ago
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Charting the path of the A19 Pro
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Charting the path of the A19 Pro
One of the first things I did when I got the new iPhones into Six Colors global HQ was to get the iPhone 17 Pro...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/charting-the-path-of-the-a19-pro/
9 days ago
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Apple announces a new set of Immersive film releases (Link, Post)
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Apple announces a new set of Immersive film releases
Vision Pro goes to the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall this fall. Apple has announced another round of Immersive films for the Vision...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/apple-announces-a-new-set-of-immersive-film-releases/
11 days ago
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Solution to a âJeopardy!â streaming conundrum: What is Tailscale?
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Solution to a âJeopardy!â streaming conundrum: What is Tailscale?
It is perhaps not surprising that my spouse and I raised a Jeopardy! fan. Our older child, halfway through college, not only loves the show...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/solution-to-a-jeopardy-streaming-conundrum-what-is-tailscale/
11 days ago
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Better accessibility coming to Kindle books (Link)
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Better accessibility coming to Kindle books
E-reader accessibility is anything but consistent. You might find a font size adjustment, but no high-contrast or dark mode settings. And screen readers, where they...
https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/09/better-accessibility-coming-to-kindle-books/
11 days ago
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This Week in Apple: The waiting is the hardest part (Member Post)
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This Week in Apple: The waiting is the hardest part
iPhone 17s begin to arrive as fresh rumors hit the mill and one iPhoneâs sales performance seems a little thin. Out for delivery Happy delivery...
https://sixcolors.com/member/2025/09/this-week-in-apple-the-waiting-is-the-hardest-part/
14 days ago
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The hardest job in programming is progress bars (Member Podcast)
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The hardest job in programming is progress bars
Special guest John Moltz joins Dan to discuss the arrival of the latest iPhones....
https://sixcolors.com/member-podcast/2025/09/the-hardest-job-in-programming-is-progress-bars/
14 days ago
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ListenLater.net (Sponsor)
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ListenLater.net
My thanks to ListenLater.net for sponsoring Six Colors this week. ListenLater.net is a clever idea--it turns your reading list into a podcast playlist. I collect...
https://sixcolors.com/sponsor/2025/09/listenlater-net-2/
14 days ago
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Relay Podcastathon for St. Jude (Link)
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Relay Podcastathon for St. Jude
Relay's seventh annual live telethon for St. Jude is Friday from noon to midnight Eastern time. I'm one of six co-hosts(!) this year. Tune in...
https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/09/relay-podcastathon-for-st-jude/
15 days ago
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FileVault on macOS Tahoe no longer uses iCloud to store its Recovery Key
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FileVault on macOS Tahoe no longer uses iCloud to store its Recovery Key
In macOS 26 Tahoe, Apple has updated how it manages encryption keys in FileVault, the feature that protects your Mac's data volume by encrypting it....
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/filevault-on-macos-tahoe-no-longer-uses-icloud-to-store-its-recovery-key/
17 days ago
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watchOS 26 Review: Wrist/reward ratio
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watchOS 26 Review: Wrist/reward ratio
After a pretty big overhaul a few years back with watchOS 10 and a more modest update in watchOS 11, I'd describe this year's updateânow...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/watchos-26-review-wrist-reward-ratio/
18 days ago
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iPadOS 26 review: A computer?
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iPadOS 26 review: A computer?
iPadOS 26 is one of the biggest updates in iPad history. There's a new design that changes the look and feel of the whole interface,...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/ipados-26-review-a-computer/
18 days ago
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macOS 26 Tahoe review: Power under glass
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macOS 26 Tahoe review: Power under glass
macOS 26 Tahoe is two things at once: It's the broadest and most productivity-focused update for macOS in years, while also taking collateral damage from...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/macos-26-tahoe-review-power-under-glass/
18 days ago
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iOS 26 Review: Through a glass, liquidly
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iOS 26 Review: Through a glass, liquidly
iOS 26! It feels like just last year we were here discussing iOS 18. How time flies. After a year that saw the debut of...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/ios-26-review-through-a-glass-liquidly/
18 days ago
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This Week in Apple: iPhone enthusiasm plateaus (Member Post)
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This Week in Apple: iPhone enthusiasm plateaus
We made it, folks. It's the end of iPhone announcement week. On Tuesday, we climbed to the top of the highest mountain range, only to...
https://sixcolors.com/member/2025/09/this-week-in-apple-iphone-enthusiasm-plateaus/
21 days ago
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Low-Hanging Thoughts (Member Podcast)
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Low-Hanging Thoughts
We discuss this week's iPhone event and Apple's many product decisions....
https://sixcolors.com/member-podcast/2025/09/low-hanging-thoughts/
21 days ago
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Magic Lasso Adblock (Sponsor)
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Magic Lasso Adblock
My thanks to Magic Lasso Adblock for sponsoring Six Colors this week. With over 5,000 five star reviews; Magic Lasso Adblock is simply the best...
https://sixcolors.com/sponsor/2025/09/magic-lasso-adblock-14/
21 days ago
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Reverse Centaurs (Link)
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Reverse Centaurs
Cory Doctorow wrote a column for Locus about the exact difference between exciting AI stories and AI horror stories: I was writing an article and...
https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/09/reverse-centaurs/
22 days ago
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Apple is finally a carmaker
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Apple is finally a carmaker
(leonov.o / Shutterstock.com) I had a thought while I was watching the latest iPhone launch event--other than, "This is what I'm doing with my free...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/apple-is-finally-a-carmaker/
22 days ago
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iPhone Air v. iPhone 17 Pro (and other buying conundrums) (Six Colors/Jason Snell)
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iPhone Air v. iPhone 17 Pro (and other buying conundrums)
It was an expensive day. It's always an expensive day. New iPhones, Apple Watches, and AirPods Pro made their debut, and this means that on...
https://sixcolors.com/offsite/2025/09/iphone-air-v-iphone-17-pro-and-other-buying-conundrums/
22 days ago
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Thinking through Appleâs September 9 announcements
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Thinking through Appleâs September 9 announcements
Big day on Tuesday, as iPhone Days usually are. I think Apple's big event this year was actually more impressive than it's been for quite...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/thinking-through-apples-september-9-announcements/
23 days ago
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Why Appleâs big event seems smaller (Link)
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Why Appleâs big event seems smaller
I really enjoyed today's Stratechery piece by Ben Thompson, which tries to understand how Apple can have an impressive roll-out of some really good new...
https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/09/why-apples-big-event-seems-smaller/
23 days ago
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iPhone 14 and 15 users will get another year of free satellite features (Link)
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iPhone 14 and 15 users will get another year of free satellite features
I found myself thinking about satellite connectivity during today's Apple event, during which the company announced that the Apple Watch Ultra 3 would include the...
https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/09/iphone-14-and-15-users-will-get-another-year-of-free-satellite-features/
24 days ago
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A few details Apple didnât mention during its âawe-droppingâ event
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A few details Apple didnât mention during its âawe-droppingâ event
Apple crams a lot into its keynotes, but almost as notable is what it chooses not to talk about. Having had some time after today's...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/a-few-details-apple-didnt-mention-during-its-awe-dropping-event/
24 days ago
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Glasgow residents disturbed by⊠iPhone air? (Link)
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Glasgow residents disturbed by⊠iPhone air?
Nicole Mitchell of the Glasgow Times reports about a commercial shoot in late August: Concerns have been raised about "excessive noise" during a recent commercial film...
https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/09/glasgow-residents-disturbed-by-iphone-air/
24 days ago
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You can now play all those old iPod games, if you still have an iPod (Link)
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You can now play all those old iPod games, if you still have an iPod
Before the iPhone, Apple took a shot at making the iPod a device that could do more than just play music. Amongst it: playing games.1...
https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/09/you-can-now-play-all-those-old-ipod-games-if-you-still-have-an-ipod/
25 days ago
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Yes, your Mac talks to itself. Itâs okay.
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Yes, your Mac talks to itself. Itâs okay.
Like our vestigial appendix, which can sometimes burst and cause us trouble, the origins of "modern" networking date back so far that weird shapes and...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/what-is-the-sound-of-one-computer-networking/
25 days ago
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This Week in Apple: Everybody needs money, thatâs why they call it money (Member Post)
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This Week in Apple: Everybody needs money, thatâs why they call it money
With John Moltz traversing America's heartland, it falls to me, his trusty editor, to step in and fill his shoes. After five days in hell,...
https://sixcolors.com/member/2025/09/this-week-in-apple-everybody-needs-money-thats-why-they-call-it-money/
28 days ago
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OS and iPhone anticipation (Member Podcast)
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OS and iPhone anticipation
Getting ready for next week's big stuff....
https://sixcolors.com/member-podcast/2025/09/os-and-iphone-anticipation/
28 days ago
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OneSnap travel-ready wireless charger (Sponsor)
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OneSnap travel-ready wireless charger
My thanks to Footnote Accessories for sponsoring Six Colors this week for the OneSnap. The OneSnap is a MagSafe-compatible wireless charger that delivers up to...
https://sixcolors.com/sponsor/2025/09/onesnap-the-travel-ready-wireless-charger-for-iphone-airpods-and-apple-watch-2/
28 days ago
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Apple Arcade, six years in (Link)
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Apple Arcade, six years in
Writing at The Verge (paywalled), Ash Parrish talks to Apple Arcade senior director Alex Rothman about the state of the service. It's not the most...
https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/09/apple-arcade-six-years-in/
29 days ago
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Instagram adds iPad support (finally) (Link)
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Instagram adds iPad support (finally)
For more than a decade, we've all been wondering why Instagram doesn't have an iPad app. I'm not sure we ever got a good answer--but...
https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/09/instagram-adds-ipad-support-finally/
about 1 month ago
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âOne Size Does Not Fit Allâ (Link)
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âOne Size Does Not Fit Allâ
Craig Hockenberry of the Iconfactory on what troubles him about Liquid Glass in macOS Tahoe: If youâre someone whoâs only using email, a web browser,...
https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/09/one-size-does-not-fit-all/
about 1 month ago
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Donât despair, de-pair! Free your AirPods from tracking
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Donât despair, de-pair! Free your AirPods from tracking
The Find My system lets you find lost things and alerts you when you leave something behind. But because devices (things that can contact the...
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/dont-despair-de-pair-free-your-airpods-from-tracking/
about 1 month ago
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This Week in Apple: Oops, all wrenches (Member Post)
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This Week in Apple: Oops, all wrenches
The Moltz Family Road Trip 2025 (motto: âOh, god, how many more days do we have?!â) checks in to talk about the little surprises that...
https://sixcolors.com/member/2025/08/this-week-in-apple-oops-all-wrenches/
about 1 month ago
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The Back Page: Phoning it in (Member Post)
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The Back Page: Phoning it in
Good morning and welcome to Apple Park. We've got a lot of very exciting announcements in store for you today, which is totally the same...
https://sixcolors.com/member/2025/08/the-back-page-phoning-it-in/
about 1 month ago
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