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Wesley Hilliard
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Writer and podcaster at @appleinsider.com. HilliTech blog. 10 year US Navy veteran. He/Him
The wedding went great! I’m now a married man, and our honeymoon starts today.
October 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Reading Gurman's newsletter and my post yesterday and it's amusing how we land in such different positions. He echoes the pundit view of "Apple must get AI right" when customers are buying iPhone 17 faster than iPhone 16 in spite of less AI promise up front.

And I said this on glasses development:
October 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Handheld 40x on iPhone 17 Pro Max. Not bad
October 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Finished putting up our indoor and outdoor Halloween decorations today.
October 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
iPhone 17 Pro Max 40x at night. Neat.

No AI in sight 😆
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Ok maybe in 2 hours
September 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Time to get to work
September 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Used my goofy cat to help explain what taking photos without an Ultra Wide Camera on iPhone Air might be like.
September 18, 2025 at 3:39 AM
A couple of similar 10x-ish crops. It's not that I'm trying to win photography awards with shots like these, but I find wildlife fun to observe and I like capturing them to share or put in my daily journal entries.

These guys have taken over my Mom's smart bird feeder and they're fun to observe.
September 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I'm constantly trying to take photos from about 10x the 24mm Main iPhone Camera. I expect the 8x Telephoto (yes, cropped sensor) will be a huge improvement for these kinds of shots.

Excited to test this out Friday.
September 16, 2025 at 2:21 AM
I write about tech in a thoughtful way that gets beyond clickbait and tribalism. I want to help people care and feel excited about technology in spite of everything.

I do that on AppleInsider and our podcast:
appleinsider.com/editor/wesle...

And my blog:

www.hilli.tech

Also, I love my cats:
September 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Google Pixel 10 needs AI slop for it to achieve zoom, but no one ever talks about how good iPhone is at zoom, including digital crop zoom.

16.5x and 25x shot through a window and screen. Not something I'd hang on a wall, but that's plenty of detail and no AI involved on a previous gen camera.
September 2, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I wanted the purple so bad since it was the gameboy I had, but it sold out way too fast. The standard transparent color has been nice though.
September 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
idk why the AP interpreted this paragraph differently, but these companies didn't agree to share patient data. They agreed to meet CMS interoperability framework criteria so patients can choose to share data.

Big distinction. Apple doesn't have our health data to share.
www.cms.gov/newsroom/pre...
July 31, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The AP post I quoted here wrote that paragraph based on this section of the press release in the image. Why say these companies agreed to share patient data when they've agreed to implement a framework for patients to *opt in* to sharing data with the new health network.

No need to sensationalize.
July 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
On another note, how are all of these idiots not bankrupt or dead?
July 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I love that shirt! I still have it but sadly this might have been the last time I wore it since it was obviously too small at that point. Good news is I'm almost small enough to fit it again.
July 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
@rmondello.com yeah, idk why people believe some rando. X really is a cesspool. Glad you stood up and said something.
July 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
July 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
New cheat code: make a folder called Wallpapers then set their date to 1990 (or whatever is before your first photo) and get all your saved wallpapers out of your photo timeline.

You can't select photos from Files for wallpapers, so if they have to be in the Photos app, they can at least be grouped
July 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Pre-ordered Tony Hawk's Pro Skater and Apple Wallet grabbed the receipt as if it were a physical item that will be delivered.

The new Mail detection of delivery status for Wallet is excellent, but this is a funny mistake. Leaving it in to see if it shows as delivered when I get the release email.
July 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
@bsky.app any reason my icon is gray after the latest update?

I'm running iPadOS 26 beta 3 btw, so I'm aware it could be a weird thing. Just sharing to share.
July 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Like, wtf is this?

"Liberals will love him and the left will see him as a betrayer"

That's two sets of people now? ugh. You kids need to chill with all the political terms.
June 25, 2025 at 2:11 AM
How do you feel about the dark mode icon? There's also that odd touch of the color gradient on the smile.
June 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Image Playground Animation style in iPadOS 26 vs the original version in iPadOS 18.

It's not perfect and has a way to go, but significantly better here.
June 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM