I tried to open an app so I could dive into some fiction podcasts and VoiceOver jumped to 30 spaces without me touching the screen. I wish I could sue society for this kind of lackluster treatment by companies. Can lawyers and I connect? Frankly, I've got the time and knowledge and I'd honestly love to take some CEOs money and just live off settlements because I'm beyond angry. I'm tired. Tired of having to beg people for mutual aid while venture capitalists debate about graph lines. Turn me into a plaintiff that takes your opponents money if they're a giant corporation. #Apple
I am in need of people with experience in publishing to the Apple App Store. I need help with AppTrackingTransparency and when it is (not) needed and how to solve conflicts with apple reviewers.
My problem: Apple rejects my app because I didn't implement ATT, despite the fact that I don't track users or give data to third parties for the sake of tracking or advertising. #dev #apple #apps #privacy
I have missed the subway twice because of Face ID. I went to swipe my phone to get through the turnstiles, and found it had been awakening itself and searching for my face unsuccessfully in my pocket. The train closed its doors and drove away as I stood there clumsily entering my passcode using Voiceover, with which it is impossible to type anything efficiently. But hey, at least I always know exactly where my phone is at every single second I’m in public now. Because if I don’t, literally anyone could pick it up, point it at my face without me knowing, and walk away with my unlocked phone. I don’t have to be looking at them either because Apple’s only solution to the fact that blind people can’t look directly at the camera is to turn off the requirement to look directly at the camera. Man I miss Touch ID. And the headphone jack. And buttons… #Blind #Apple #iPhone #Disability
This is why Macs have become horrible for recording and performing music.
It isn't a solution at all. It just resets the audio. It will fail again and again. Absolute crap that I doubt would have gotten past QA when I was there. It is garbage.
AudioRescue: One-click macOS menu bar app to instantly fix MacBook Pro/Air audio crackling, stuttering & distortion. Works on M1/M2/M3/M4 & Intel Macs. Automates the sudo killall coreaudiod...
When will the #NFB remember not all #Blind people use #Apple products, the #Android users have been complaining about many of the same issues for months, or years without any response when brought to the NFB but as soon as impacts one person on iPhone it's an immediate priority. @mastoblind
Lots of folks speculating about AirDrop working on the Pixel, if it was reverse engineering or asking if Apple might break the compatibility. The reality might be a bit more mundane. Seems Apple is just being forced to play by regulators' rules... youtu.be/t2I9FyZdhbs
TEAM SGG PATREON https://www.patreon.com/SomeGadgetGuy AirDrop now works on Pixel phones! Did Google reverse engineer Apple's popular file sharing protocol? ...
Whatever maniac on #Apple Music's #holiday hits station decided that Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen is a #Christmas#song needs to be fired. Then hired, so that they can be fired all over again! It's not Christmas #music just because it mentions a character from the Bible one time!
In Mac OS X Tahoe (and probably Sequoia), the OS downloads between 14G and 40G of these stupid aerial flyover videos. I never asked for this bullshit. I deleted the files and they came back.
#Apple hat gestern(?) das "iPhone Pocket" vorgestellt.
Jetzt zerreißen sich die Kommentatoren die Münder über dieses hoffnungslos überteuerte Stückchen Stoff. Und die Kommentare sind allesamt berechtigt.
Allerdings trifft das im Grunde auf jedes Modeaccessoire zu (und als solches sehe ich das "iPhone Pocket"). Alle, ausnahmslos alle, sind hoffnungslos überteuerte Unsinnigkeiten und Ausdruck der gesellschaftlichen Dekadenz.
The more I use iOS 26, the more I think voiceover is essentially broken and cannot be repaired. Focus is utterly atrocious. Multiple times, I close an app, or open another app, only for voiceover to continue to read the previous app as if it were still up on the screen, the keyboard has a significant delay that I can’t get rid of. No matter how much animations and or haptics I disable. Every time I want to use the space bar, upon engaging the keyboard, there is a significant delay. Everything just has a colossal delay attached to it now and I really think this is the cause of their new glass view or whatever the hell the corporation is calling it. It seems to slow down apps also. Even though it is supposed to be smooth and otherwise, there are many instances where the apps just feel clunky and or broken in multiple ways. I’m not sure if it’s just me, but for example, search edit boxes/feilds in apps like the podcast app just feel as if they are struggling to function. I constantly feel as if I am using my own phone wrong, which feels utterly ridiculous because I am an expert user. This is honestly why I’ve reverted back to using a computer more and more nowadays. I don’t do anything complicated on the phone. My phone has basically transformed into a portable audiobook player and podcast player because browsing on the web on the mobile phone is a level of hell I will never willingly participate in again unless I absolutely have to do so. Everything feels that badly designed. #Apple #IOS
Apple follows EU Digital Markets Act by introducing hefty fines for independent software developers. Expensive fees will restrict the use of alternative app installation.
You know things are bad when you're trying to reset your iPad, can't use a phone number you don't have, forget your trusted phone number, and there's no option to get a recovery email. You have to admit, #apple is secure for sure. So secure that even if you're the right person, you can't get into your Apple account at all because of these layers.
Anyone else struggling with there #Apple#Watch where it keeps crashing pretty often when even using something as simple as the settings app? Its really annoying and now I can really only use my watch as an elaborate timepiece because it won't work even after I turned off Background App Refresh, turned off the add music automatically thing, and even deleted all the apps I don't use. Any help would be appreciated, already submitted feedback to apple. This is for an Apple Wwatch Series 10 running the latest stable OS and not the beta as of now.
“Apple is now treating federal agents—who are public employees exercising government power—as if they’re a vulnerable minority group in need of protection from ‘discrimination.’ This isn’t just a misapplication of content policies; it’s a fundamental inversion of what those policies were designed to do.”
Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to redefine “protected class” in a way that would make Orwell proud. According to int…
"Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has learned. The app, called Eyes Up, differs from other banned apps such as ICEBlock which were designed to report sightings of ICE officials in real-time to warn local communities. Eyes Up, meanwhile, was more of an aggregation service pooling together information to preserve evidence in case the material is needed in the future in court.
The news shows that Apple and Google’s crackdown on ICE-spotting apps, which started after pressure from the Department of Justice against Apple, is broader in scope than apps that report sightings of ICE officials. It has also impacted at least one app that was more about creating a historical record of ICE’s activity during its mass deportation effort."
***** An Open Letter to the CEOs of #Apple and #Google: Would you have supported the Nazis during WWII? *****
Dear Tim and Sundar,
Hi. I'd normally start a letter like this asking how you were doing, but since you're both billionaires who have been palling around with Donald Trump, I think we can dispense with that formality this time.
I've got a question for you guys. I don't really expect an answer, but I feel that it needs to be asked anyway. Here we go ...
"If Apple, Google, and apps had been around during WWII, would you have supported the Nazis, either explicitly or implicitly?"
As you probably know, IBM has been raked over the coals for decades for the technological assistance they provided the Third Reich, helping them tabulate "undesirables" for a "final solution."
Which brings us to you two! Yeah, you knew this was coming. I have to assume that your dramatic decisions to remove apps that helped the public legally determine the location of ICE operations was approved at your level. If not, you're still ultimately responsible, of course.
Word is that DOJ requested Apple to pull the apps, and that Google pulled them proactively without waiting around for a request. These of course were completely legal apps, breaking no laws that I'm aware of. Banning them from your apps stores effectively bans them virtually completely in a practical sense. Sideloading in iOS has always been difficult, and Google has announced upcoming restrictions that would make sideloading much more difficult for Android as well.
The parallels between your decisions regarding those apps and what went on during WWII in Nazi Germany are very troubling indeed. The Nazis legally (under then current laws) rounded up their target populations: Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and a range of other "undesirables", then "disappeared" them with minimal or no due process, whisking them off to concentration camps. This included cripples, mothers, children -- an enormous range. Many were never heard from again. Millions were exterminated.
I don't need to spell out the parallels with what Trump's ICE is now doing -- they're obvious on the daily news. And before you protest that you're not killing anyone by banning those apps, I'd argue that you indeed are very likely contributing to deaths.
The large majority of people being deported via these ICE raids have no criminal record and their only "crime" is being in this country illegally -- sometimes for decades raising families of U.S. citizens. Many are being deported to countries where they face the high likelihood of horrific treatment including torture and death.
I don't really need to go on any further, do I boys? You're both intelligent and informed. You both know exactly what you're doing. So I come back to the original question. If your firms had been around during WWII, would you have supported the Nazis? If not, your apparently enthusiastic embrace of the current administration's fascist behaviors seems inexplicable.
But hey, perhaps you have logical explanations that aren't obvious to those of us in the non-billionaire class. If so, we'd love to hear them!
Today we merged a new feature in curl: support for Apple SecTrust. This will become available in curl 8.17.0, due to be released on the 5th of November 2025.
Reminder that #USB is, and always was, a bad design; as usual for Intel. We had #Firewire, a true bus, and not the worst option of many, polling, like USB. We could have had everything USB-C offers now -- reversible plugs, power-negotiation, multi-protocol -- with Firewire decades ago if USB hadn't taken over. Firewire even had Ethernet-over-Firewire, at 400MBps, fifteen years before Thunderbolt would do the same.
Firewire didn't need a different plug for the computer-side and for the device-side (USB-A & USB-B) because it was a true bus. You could hook any two devices together via a normal Firewire cable and you'd get instant two-way communication. This is how the PS2 did link-play. USB pushed the workload on to the computer. USB-C solves the "who is the host and who is the client?" problem by putting a tiny *computer* into the cable, that's how insane USB has become.
Firewire has been gone so long now that most #Apple #Mac users probably don't even know that you could plug a Mac into another computer via Firewire, power it on holding T and the internal disk drive would appear *as an external HDD* to the other computer.
One week with the iPhone Air. Setup, hand feel, thinness, drops, battery, VoiceOver, and all the ways it works (and doesn’t) when you actually live with it.
I should have stayed om 17. In my case anyway, probably because I’m using an older iPhone SE, the typing on this has decreased dramatically. There’s a very noticeable delay from when I type the keys to it actually transmitting. Not sure if anyone else is having this issue, but it’s prevented me from using my phone without a Bluetooth keyboard, and I can’t express how frustrating this is. #Apple
I read the latest #Apple event news with extreme, well, just boredom. Partially because I kept thinking, where's the small phone? I don't need a giant screen. Give me a small phone, a phone that will actually fit in my tiny pocket. I'm blind. I don't need a large screen. I am somewhat excited for the update today though. I might just send in my old SE for a battery replacement and a possible screen repair and call it another 5 years.
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🤯 Instagram is testing new iOS push notifications that include a profile photo. Each time the notification is shown on your screen, it triggers a GET request to fetch that image, letting Meta track every on-screen impression.
The app still misuses push notifications to send detailed device analytics about the device (uptime, battery, volume, locale, timezone, memory, CPU, etc.)
I can’t believe how easy it is to switch to @Tutanota and its excellent apps. I’ve been frustrated by how most alternatives to Apple Mail and Apple Calendar fall short. But Tuta Mail and Calendar work so well — including with my own domains. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #email #calendar #ios #macos #apple #EUAlternatives
Live Translation with AirPods is not going to be available in the EU. This means that it doesn't use on-device AI model and the microphones forward everything to remote servers 🤯
UPDATE: Before this post goes out of control. The DMA can also be a reason why this feature is not available in the EU:
@mysk@mastodon.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social I would bet that this isn’t about GDPR but about the digital markets act, in which case on-device or off device doesn’t make a difference.
To elaborate on my hostility against WebKit: WebKit does nothing but get in my way whenever I work on literally any website.
When I rewrote nouveau's website in late 2023, it worked perfectly fine on Firefox (Gecko) and Chromium (Blink), but was broken on Epiphany/Safari (WebKit). The logo, which is an SVG, would not adapt to dark style, because, to this day, WebKit still does not support prefers-color-scheme in SVGs. So, as a workaround, instead of having one SVG file for both color schemes, we have one SVG file for light style, and one for dark style. Edit: This feature is currently considered nonstandard and is only written as a draft. WebKit behaves appropriately, see: estradiol.city/@ity/1150068605…
Another example: On my website, some elements are intentionally made to be unselectable using user-select: none;, such as the command-line decoration and the “Table of Contents” text, but on WebKit, these elements continue to be selectable because it does not properly support the user-select property. And no, using the vendor prefix is completely unacceptable, especially considering that it behaves differently.
Lastly, WebKit does not yet fully support the ::marker pseudo-element. This means, in my articles, numbered list items in the table of contents are completely wrong and don't represent the same numbers as headings.
Apple has consistently proved that they don't care about WebKit, because otherwise browsers like Safari and Epiphany would have worked as well as they do on Firefox and Chromium. There's absolutely no reason to force WebKit onto iOS and iPadOS if they're not even willing to invest in WebKit. Likewise, Apple employees working on WebKit should really stop calling themselves “WebKit evangelists” if their inferior engine regularly gets in developers’ way. So yes, WebKit sucks, and this is 100% on Apple. I don't care about being harsh. Apple is a multi-trillion dollar company, most of which came from exploiting people. The least they can do is invest in their projects.
For clarity, my hostility towards WebKit is purely targeted at Apple's lack of involvement with WebKit, not the browsers using it.
The ::marker CSS pseudo-element selects the marker box of a list item, which typically contains a bullet or number. It works on any element or pseudo-element set to display: list-item, such as the and elements.
That's not normative, that's descriptive of Firefox & Chromium behavior (the purpose of mdn is to be descriptive rather than normative, unlike the specifications themselves)
MDN even warns that "Respects color-scheme inherited from parent" is "non-standard" and to "Expect poor cross-browser support"
The feature itself is listed as "Full support" for Safari/WebKit on that site.
The feature is also considered "unfinished" by W3C, and W3C in the specification warns that
Information about a user can be used as an active fingerprinting vector. Analysis of impact pending, more information to be provided before spec is published. User agents and developers implementing this specification need to be aware of this vector and take it into consideration when deciding whether to use the feature. Specifically prefers-reduced-motion, prefers-color-scheme and prefers-reduced-data are currently of concern for exploitation.
W3C further comments on the specific feature that
[css-mediaqueries] Should prefers-color-scheme in SVG images be context-dependent? RESOLVED: Have prefered-color-scheme reflect 'color-scheme' on the embedding element in the embedding document, to the extent acceptable from security standpoint (pending security review)
I have no idea what policy WebKit has for standards, but the only standard it seems to violate is one that begins with this statement:
This is a public copy of the editors’ draft. It is provided for discussion only and may change at any moment. Its publication here does not imply endorsement of its contents by W3C. Don’t cite this document other than as work in progress.
So while it is certainly dumb that it has not been fixed yet, it feels a bit of a stretch to call it a violation of web standards, imo.
I wonder how difficult it is to fix, I've been meaning to try to get into WebKit stuff
#Apple created a 24k gold and glass statue for Donald Trump, featuring a unique piece of glass crafted by iPhone glass manufacturer Corning. Tim Cook personally presented it as a gift to Trump. The piece is a large glass disc with the Apple logo cut into it. Trump’s name is printed on the top, while the bottom bears what appears to be Cook’s signature, along with the inscription “Made in USA” and the year 2025.
If I recall my last business ethics and compliance training at #Apple correctly there was something about corruption and not giving gifts to government officials, not even in countries where it’s „customary“ or „necessary“ to do so to do business…
Free Software developers: your voice is needed! The Free Software Foundation Europe has launched the Digital Markets Act Interoperability Survey to gather ...
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Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, June 22, 2025, and this is show number 1050.
Eagle-eyed product developer @parkerortolani spotted something in Apple's WWDC 2025 presentation: Mastodon. During designer Billy Sorrentino's section on visual intelligence, there's a clear shot of @ivory. "It was clearly both a way to subtly show developers what they can do with their own apps, but also read as a sort of endorsement of Mastodon as a social platform," Ortolani writes on his blog. "Apple didn’t show Bluesky, Threads, or X. They chose to show a third-party Mastodon client."
After reading this thread, I don't want a new Mac anymore. I do wish there were posts like this going over Android and Windows' accessibility frameworks, but I'll take what I can get.
