Coming Soon: What’s Next on Apple TV and Apple Arcade in April 2026 John is MacStories' Managing Editor, has been writing about Apple and apps since joining the team in 2015, and today, runs the site alongside Federico. John also co-hosts four MacStories podcasts: AppStories, which covers the world of apps, MacStories Unwind, which explores the fun differences between American and Italian culture and recommends media to listeners, Ruminate, a show about the weird web and unusual snacks, and NPC: Next Portable Console, a show about the games we take with us.

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Comfort Zone, Episode 94: Big Things Have TinyStarts YouTube video by MacStories

Comfort Zone, Episode 94: Big Things Have TinyStarts

@nileane.fr built an awesome Mac app, @chrislawley.me bought a new monitor, and @birchtree.me grills the group on what they'd install if they could only install 3 new apps on their Mac.

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For Apple’s 50th Anniversary, Tim Cook Looks Back to Move Forward Today is Apple's 50th anniversary, and for the occasion, Tim Cook sat down with Ryan D'Agostino of Esquire for a lengthy interview about Steve Jobs, Apple's values as a company, and where the company's next big idea will come from. It's an interesting read that doesn't cover much new ground, but does reveal some of

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First, Last, Everything Technology Podcast · Updated Weekly · First, Last, Everything is a podcast exploring people's personal relationships with technology. In each episode, host Jonathan Reed gets to know a guest through t...

Time for a new episode of FLE!

This time it’s the great David Sparks, aka @macsparky.bsky.social. You know David from MPU, MacSparky Labs, and many of your favourite productivity tips. Lovely guy, inspiring chat!

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Mood Faster: Effortless Mood Tracking I've said over and over that the most important feature of any habit tracker is being able to get in and out of the app quickly. For some developers, that doesn't always come naturally. After all, doesn't every developer want their customers to use their app more than others? Sure they do, but it's not

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Deals Worth Checking Out Before Amazon’s Big Spring Sale Ends Amazon's Big Spring Sale is wrapping up tomorrow, but there is still time to take advantage of some great deals. There are deals across every category, but the smart home and headphones dominate this year's sale, including some favorites from the MacStories Setups page such as the Aqara Hub G5 Pro outdoor camera that I

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OpenAI Bets Big on Building an Everything App OpenAI is making a big bet. One as old as time – at least time as measured by the course of app history. Having abandoned Sora and SmutGPT, the company has put all of its chips on an everything app, raising $122 billion to build it and fund its other operations. If you listen to

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NVIDIA GeForce NOW Adds 4K 90 FPS Game Streaming on Apple Vision Pro NVIDIA has released version 2.0.83 of its GeForce NOW game streaming service with a couple of upgrades for Vision Pro users. First, games can now be streamed at up to 4K resolution at 90 FPS. Gaming at this quality requires a subscription to the service’s Ultimate tier and a Wi-Fi connection with a speed of

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Monthly Log: March 2026 Articles by the MacStories team. Founded by Federico Viticci in April 2009, MacStories attracts millions of readers every month thanks to in-depth, personal, and informed coverage that offers a balanced mix of Apple news, app reviews, and opinion.

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The MacBook Neo Takes on Retro Gaming I love when my interests collide, and today, thanks to Russ Crandall, that's exactly what happened. You see, Crandall runs Retro Game Corps, a YouTube channel covering the world of videogame emulation, handheld consoles, mini PCs, and more. It's an excellent channel that we've covered multiple times on NPC: Next Portable Console, and yesterday, Crandall

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If you are an AppStories+ subscriber and didn't get this week's episode, our apologies. We are working on fixing what went wrong and will update folks on the status soon.

There's just about a day left during Amazon's Big Spring Sale. I've rounded up the best deals of what's still available, including:

🏠 Tons of smart home gadgets
🎧 Excellent headphones

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Well, I Guess I Like Safari’s Compact Tab Bar in iPadOS 24 (Also: Using Vertical Tabs in Safari for iPad) Yours truly, back in September 2021: In case I haven’t been clear enough above, I’ll be blunt: I don’t understand why the compact tab bar exists on iPad, and I think this design shouldn’t have shipped to customers. My understanding is that Apple thought the benefit of removing a separate address bar, therefore saving a

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Deals Worth Checking Out Before Amazon’s Big Spring Sale Ends Amazon's Big Spring Sale is wrapping up tomorrow, but there is still time to take advantage of some great deals. There are deals across every category, but the smart home and headphones dominate this year's sale, including some favorites from the MacStories Setups page such as the Aqara Hub G5 Pro outdoor camera that I

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Automatically Approve Claude Code Permissions in iMessage with Shortcuts Let me start by saying that you probably shouldn't do this. I've been having a surprisingly good time using Claude Code via its new iMessage channel (which is part of my attempt to recreate OpenClaw with an "OpenClaude" system, more about this here), but I find its permission prompt system fairly annoying. You see, while

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AppStories 478 is out and this week, Federico and John imagine what an Apple implementation of a Siri-based agent might look like.

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Podcast Rewind: Folding Phones, a Big Switch 2 Update, Discovering New Mac Apps, and Setups Changes Enjoy the latest episodes from MacStories' family of podcasts: AppStories This week, Federico shares his experiences with foldable Android phones and what Apple might do for its first foldable hardware and its software. On AppStories+, Federico shares his experience using Samsung DeX. NPC: Next Portable Console This week, Nintendo dropped a big Switch 2 software

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🪐🚀 For All Mankind, Season 5 debuts today on Apple TV.

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MacStories Weekly: Issue 506 Articles by the MacStories team. Founded by Federico Viticci in April 2009, MacStories attracts millions of readers every month thanks to in-depth, personal, and informed coverage that offers a balanced mix of Apple news, app reviews, and opinion.

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🪐🚀 For All Mankind, Season 5 debuts today on Apple TV.

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Apple Discontinues the Mac Pro In a move that should suprise no one, Apple discontinued the Mac Pro today. From Chance Miller at 9to5 Mac: It’s the end of an era: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that the Mac Pro is being discontinued. It has been removed from Apple’s website as of Thursday afternoon. The “buy” page on Apple’s website for the Mac Pro

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Comfort Zone, Episode 93: Mine is Free and Open Source, Baby! YouTube video by MacStories

Comfort Zone, Episode 93: Mine is Free and Open Source, Baby!

@birchtree.me poisons the show with Android, @nileane.fr brings us back with Forkflift, and everyone finds a really great Mac app they've never used before.

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🏝️✈️😂 Send Help is now available to purchase and rent in the TV app.

Two stranded colleagues must survive a deserted island together after a plane crash.

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ETA Prime Answers the Question: What if the MacBook Neo Had Thermo-Electric Cooling? By all accounts, the MacBook Neo is a great budget laptop. However, because it has no active cooling system, the A18 Pro thermally throttles pretty quickly, degrading performance of games and other applications. Thanks to how easy it is to take the Neo apart, you've probably already seen videos of users adding a thermal pad

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MacStories Setups: Refining and Simplifying I always enjoy these MacStories Setups updates because everyone is different, with its own unique themes and trends. Last year, Federico spent a lot of time paring back his gadgets, while I was busy expanding my office setup, driven largely by moving away from a Studio Display. For this setup update, I'd say we're a

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Apple: The First 50 Years (hardback edition) is on sale for its best price yet on Amazon.

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3-packs of Aqara Water Leak Sensors are on sale on Amazon.

A great way to avoid disaster around sinks, washing machines, and dishwashers that integrates with Apple's Home app.

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Apple Overhauls App Store Connect Overnight, Apple rolled out a big update to App Store Connect with new sales and analytics tools for developers. App Store Connect is the online portal that developers use to manage everything related to selling apps from TestFlight betas, to managing their App Store listings and tracking sales data and analytics. It's that last piece

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It's been years since I spent any quality time in App Store Connect sales and analytics, so what do y'all think of the update? What's good, what needs work?

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