While the federal government is shutdown (🖕🐘🟠), I was happy to do my job as a GA resident and early vote to bring some balance to Public Service Commission (price of utilities) and yes to education funding (ESPLOST). 💙

Thanks to @hankgreen.bsky.social for raising awareness!

youtu.be/UgvE_gPi7Kc

Appreciate @whataburgerr.bsky.social offering late hours, but those 100% brightness white digital menu screens are in desperate need of a night mode design. 🫣

Swift(1)’s limited storage encouraged purchasing of physical copies bc it included all game data. Not to mention the ‘ownership’ aspect.

Swift(2) key cards do not contain full game data. Does that lessen the value of purchasing physical? Should I go 100% digital?

Did iOS 26 finally bake Replay into Music app instead of a website?

Why does Apple Passwords duplicate an account if I save email/password credentials and passkey?

Would be nice if a single account record could hold both credential types, default to trying passkey first, but have email credentials there as backup.

iOS App Library needs custom groups!
App Store’s broad categories do not match how users think about their apps.

An example from my device: ‘other’ group clearly needs a custom ‘smart home’ group to clean things up.

Wish I could turn this NHL playoff tracker from Apple News into a widget. News offers widgets for topics, but that only shows articles. Not scores.

And their Sports app does not offer any widgets. 🤦‍♂️

Is there a way to have @theverge.com links shared on Bluesky open in Apple News instead of browser?

I get it, exclusive streaming shows drive subs during active seasons and while a series is popular. However, could we start an industry standard rule that 3 years after the end of a series – or when streaming rights are sold – they make the shows available on physical discs and for digital purchase?

PDF of K-12 school year calendar uploaded to ChatGPT with simple prompt of “create ics file with multiple dates for events listed in calendar pdf”. ChatGPT took two attempts but generated file.

Opened file with Calendar on Mac and all events were imported.

Siri AI, is this on your 2027 roadmap?

Why is Genmoji not available in Reminders?

Our family grocery list could really use a pop of color and whimsey. The standard emoji food set covers a lot, but it makes those items without a graphic look more lonely.

Taking the Openvibe app for a spin. 🐙

It aggregates Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads for reading, posting and most importantly interacting with posts.

https://openvibe.social/

Why does Apple Invites not utilize an App Clip?

Forcing people to log into their iCloud in a browser while on iPhone is unnecessary friction. App Clip should allow invitees to rsvp and tease value of full app download.

Apple should offer printed invite cards as an add-on purchase for Invites. Kids get a card, parents get a link.

bsky, mastodon & threads…

I like my social like my backups, redundant.