Source: Apple. Today, Apple announced Indie Games Week , a celebration of some of the best games from independent game studios. To kick things off, the company announced seven big titles that are making their iPhone and iPad debut today or are coming soon. Apple’s Carson Oliver, the head of App Store Worldwide, had this to say in the company’s press release : Indie games are constantly pushing the

Getting your whole family up and pointed in the right direction every morning isn’t simple. Everyone’s on a different schedule, and schedules change day to day. It’s a mess that’s solvable with the help of Crickets , the first alarm built for the realities of everyday family life. Crickets lets everyone in your family see the alarms others choose to share and, with permission, change them. So inst

This week, in addition to the usual links, app debuts, and recap of MacStories' articles and podcasts: Building iOS Apps with Multiple Claude Accounts, T3 Code, Cua Spaces, and pstack, by Federico How I Split My Agent Work Between Codex and Claude Code and the Agent Apps I'm Testing, by John This Story is for Club Members Get weekly newsletters, exclusive stories, member downloads, and ad-free ver

We have another collection our favorite indie apps that take advantage of Apple’s latest OS features. Today, we’re highlighting: Haven, Structured, Capture, Scrappy, and Fin. Haven Haven is a HomeKit and Matter pairing code utility by João Franco for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch that added Siri AI features this fall. The app is exactly what you want with this sort of utility because it m

In a post by Greg Joswiak on X and email to creators and media outlets, Apple has said it will hold an ‘Experience’ in Tribeca, New York on Tuesday, October 13 at 09:00 am Eastern. Speculation and rumors have circulated for months that a home hub product is imminent. The latest reports from Mark Gurman suggest it will sit on a semi-circular base reminiscent of an iMac G4 and control your HomeKit d

We’re back with another MacStories Setups update . I swear Federico and I didn’t coordinate our purchases this summer, but you’ll notice that both of us began experimenting with XTEINK readers and the Pebble Index 01 smart ring without discussing it in advance. The UGREEN Thunderbolt 5 Dock and Steam Controller. Since June, you’ll see from Federico’s changes that many revolve around fine-tuning hi

Amazon’s Big Deal Days for Prime members has begun, and we’ve collected some of our favorite deals offered. As usual, we’ve kept our picks simple, including only those that we’ve reviewed, use ourselves, or that are from brands we trust. It’s worth noting that this sales event is focused on Prime members, so many of the deals require a Prime subscription. However, not all do. Smart Home Philips Hu

Deflector for iOS. In my iOS and iPadOS 27 review, I wrote about one of the more interesting additions to the Shortcuts app for power users: automation triggers based on the contents of push notifications received on your device. As I explained, with this new trigger, you can create automations that run certain actions whenever a notification from a specific app, ideally containing a specific titl

Source: Apple. Yesterday, Apple announced on its developer blog that it has begun taking App Store submissions for iPhone Duo apps. The new foldable phone will be in customers’ hands in just over two weeks on October 23 and with Xcode 27.1, developers can recompile existing apps and build new ones. To prepare for the launch, Apple has provided links to design and App Store asset guidance, as well

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Today, on its developer blog , Apple announced plans to “…introduce additional controls to ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do so with very explicit user action.” The company says it’s doing so because of the dangers posed by AI agents. According to Apple’s post : Full Disk Access largely sidesteps these controls in order to allow bac

Source: OpenAI. Earlier this week, I was at OpenAI’s annual DevDay conference where it launched Dots , a personal agent that lives inside the ChatGPT app. I set up my Dot and named it Puck after the mischievous sprite in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream . In the days since then, I’ve found myself using Puck more and more. There are still rough edges, but I thought I’d share what’s working a

This week, in addition to the usual links, app debuts, and recap of MacStories' articles and podcasts: How Agents Changed The Way I Manage Email, by John This Story is for Club Members Get weekly newsletters, exclusive stories, member downloads, and ad-free version of MacStories Unwind. See Plans Already a member? Sign in

My Notion setup (left) and Desk, my custom system for the iOS and iPadOS review. The process for this year’s iOS and iPadOS review was, on the surface, similar to last year’s: I researched, wrote, and edited the entire story in Notion, then used a custom tool to export it to Markdown for MacStories. Structurally, it was also a mirror of last year’s setup: I had separate databases for notes... This

In this month's edition of the Monthly Log: Encountering the Builders of DevDay, by John Making Sense of My Agents with a Notion Board, by Federico This Story is for Club Members Get weekly newsletters, exclusive stories, member downloads, and ad-free version of MacStories Unwind. See Plans Already a member? Sign in

The updated Frames CLI also supports proportional scaling for iPhone Duo. The Frames CLI – the companion command line interface to my Apple Frames shortcut I released earlier this year – received a 1.5.0 update earlier today with two notable additions: iPhone 18 Pro frames, and experimental support for iPhone Duo screenshots in all poses . As always, my shortcut and CLI are based on Apple’s offici

This week, in addition to the usual links, app debuts, and recap of MacStories' articles and podcasts: The iPhone Duo and AI Tides That Lift All iPad Boats, by Federico My To-Go Travel Kit, by John Club MacStories+ Spotlight: Safety Shortcuts, Spotlight Bugs, and Siri Confusion, by John This Story is for Club Members Get weekly newsletters, exclusive stories, member downloads, and ad-free version

It’s time to get back to our favorite indie apps that take advantage of Apple’s latest OS features. Today, we’re highlighting: Bear, Gentler Streak, The Outsiders, DoMarks, and Cheatsheet Notes. John Bear Bear, the note-taking app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, just released version 2.10 with several Siri AI features, including actions to: Create a new note Append text to an existing note

Source: Apple. Today, Apple announced the opening of Apple Music Hall, a state-of-the-art live venue in London’s Battersea Power Station. The intimate concert space will offer a unique experience for both artists and fans alike. According to Apple’s press release : The 600-capacity venue is designed intentionally to close the gap between intimacy and production value and allow for an unprecedented

The M5 Ultra Mac Studio. For the past few days, I’ve been testing the ( currently ) top-of-the-line M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 256 GB of RAM . I’ll cut to the chase: the M5 Ultra Mac Studio is a dream machine for local AI agents. This computer makes it possible to run personal assistants powered by local models with great performance and no additional cloud costs. If you’ve been skeptical of testing