Episodes

  • 657: Ears Are Weird

    657: Ears Are Weird
    Sep 16 2025
    Marco 0️⃣ → 1️⃣🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️ Podcastathon 2025: Friday, noon → midnight EDTStephen Hackett said the foldable will be the “iPhone Ultra”μm is a “micron”The iPhone Air battery pack does have a USB-C port after alliPhone 17 Pro requires a new adapter to charge at full speed Apple 40W Dynamic Power AdapterAnker Nano 45W chargerA19 vs. A19 Pro A19 Pro benchmarksThe N1 is in every new iPhoneThe whole of the iPhone Air is in the camera plateau Large imageCasey’s memory problems corner ATP #655 (Overcast timestamp link)The mmWave antenna window is back BackgroundLogo placement on Apple’s cases Clear Case with MagSafeTechWoven Case with MagSafeSome funny renders from iPhone case makersTheories about the iPhone 17 Pro colors Every masterpiece has its cheap copyLuke SkywalkerUniversity of VirginiaDenver BroncosAuburn University 2021 impactful boostersiPhone Air Will it bend? Joz (& Ternus) with an incredible [lack of] flex17 was a last-second decision? (via Sam Henri Gold)Max Tech’s discoveries The Air does not have stereo speakersThe Dynamic Island is lower than on other phonesThe USB-C port is not vertically centered ImageNo Cinematic Mode video, including the selfie cameraThe new selfie camera is actually a 24MP sensorNo LiDAR scannerAir & 17 non-Pro are limited to USB 2 USB 2.0Every new iPhone screen has the same specifications, save size/resolution Apple iPhone comparison pageiPhones 17 can now toggle screen flickering off Pulse-width modulation9to5Mac’s coveragePWM sensitive subredditApple Watch Satellite data requires a cellular planJason & Greg Pierce agreeIs “24-hour” battery claim because of a change in measurement?Underscore’s observations about the Ultra Apple Watch batteryAirPods Ear shapes (via Tirial)About that “2×” noise reduction AirPods product pageThe new AirPods Pro case is not smaller“New generation of Ultra Wideband technology” is the U2 chipLive translation is on-device (not in ☁️)Live translation is blocked for EU users with EU Apple Accounts Apple feature availabilitySafari on iOS 26’s compact toolbarTahoe Toolbars (via Zhenyi Tan) * Frosting download link * Frosting test pagePost-show: John’s red dotMembers-only ATP Overtime: Alterego and “thought to text” translation How artificial intelligence gave a paralyzed woman her voice back A high-performance neuroprosthesis for speech decoding and avatar controlMeet the Little Brain Region that Helps You Say What’s on Your Mind Speech sequencing in the human precentral gyrusScientists develop interface that “reads” thoughts from speech-impaired patientsAlterego Sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code atp.Claude: Get 50% off your first three months of Claude Pro. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
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    1 hr and 53 mins
  • 656: A Long T-Shirt

    656: A Long T-Shirt
    Sep 10 2025
    • 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
      • The Marco Offset
    • iPhone event
      • AirPods Pro 3
      • Apple Watch Series 11
        • No new System-in-Package?
        • Whoop Band
      • Apple Watch SE 3
      • Apple Watch Ultra 3
        • LTPO
        • Satellite can-kicking continues
      • iPhone 17
        • Memory Integrity Enforcement
      • iPhone Air
        • iPhone Air MagSafe Battery 💔
      • iPhone 17 Pro & Pro Max
      • Software ship dates
    • Post-show:
      • Apple trade-in
      • ✨ Tina’s dream has come true! ✨
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s competing implementations for the new Siri
      • Gurman, 13 August
      • Gurman, 22 August
      • Gurman, 3 September

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    2 hrs and 36 mins
  • 655: Shorts-Compatible Body Type

    655: Shorts-Compatible Body Type
    Sep 4 2025
    • Pre-Show: Trouble in Razer paradise
    • 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
      • The Marco Offset
    • Follow-up:
      • Casey has thoughts about the compact iOS 26 controls in Safari
        • Settings → Apps → Safari
      • Apple device advice for those that are athletically engaged
        • Place your phone face-down (via. A. O.)
        • Sleep focus is an option (via A. M.)
        • So is Theater Mode and, if taps are an issue, water lock (via Ryan)
        • How to stop Siri from randomly activating all the damn time by D. Griffin Jones
        • Fun fact: you can add it to the Health app! (via Niv Ben-Porath)
          • …but it won’t affect your rings
        • A truly hilarious story from Anonymous
      • Developing “product sense” (via Joseph Kibe)
        • Productive Tensions by Christopher B. Bingham & Rory M. McDonald
    • iPhone 16 exit interview
      • Peltier device
      • Obscura
      • Halide
    • iPhone event preview
      • Crossbody strap
      • Apple Natural Titanium Milanese Loop (Marco’s summer watch band)
    • Post-show: Smaller e-ink note-taking tablets
      • reMarkable Paper Pro Move
        • The Verge’s coverage
        • Ars Technica’s coverage
      • Supernote Nomad
      • iFLYTEK AINOTE Air 2
      • Viwoods AiPaper Mini
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: US government buys 10% of Intel
      • Ars Technica
      • New York Times
      • The Verge
      • Intel self-announces all the red flags

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    2 hrs and 4 mins
  • 654: Athletically Engaged

    654: Athletically Engaged
    Aug 28 2025
    Pre-Show: Casey and Marco are sad Ben Rice McCarthyUnder the RadarFollow-up: 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️ The Marco OffsetAnonymous crushes the dreams of Marco and Casey about cellular MacBooksAnother Anonymous shares a bit too much information about accidental Siri activations 😆🤬 John’s AppleCare One update 🤬Help with Trackpad dragging System Settings → Accessibility → Pointer Control → Trackpad Options… → Dragging Style → Three Finger Drag Screenshot…or Drag LockMasimo comes for [more] bloodUK drops utterly bananas backdoor legislationStudio Display with A19 Daniel Luz points out makes a funny comparison to MacsFabian Häusler theorizes it’s about binningApple’s Hide my Email feature An unexpected wrinkle Timothy Martin points outAnecdote from David BeckApple Event: 9 September 1PM OTTZ Interactive logo Still image for posterityReverse-engineering by sam henri gold“TechWoven” and “Liquid Silicone” cases leaked Maijin Bu on TechWoven…and on Liquid Silicone (and again)Apple will simplify the Camera Control buttonAsk ATP: What’s the ∆ between snapshots and backups? (via Phil Hirst) HyperspaceWhy is Finder slow to delete files? (via Dan)How will Apple reconcile AI and carbon neutrality? (via Sam Hunt)Post-show: Some venting about politics and 𝓍26. Jeff Atwood’s postJohn’s replyThere’s nothing Republicans won’t ruinMembers-only ATP Overtime: Rumored Apple roadmap Apple readies first upgrade to its struggling Vision Pro headset Sponsored by: DeleteMe: Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online.Sentry: A real-time error monitoring and tracing platform Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
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    1 hr and 48 mins
  • 653: Warning Stories

    653: Warning Stories
    Aug 21 2025
    • Pre-Show: AI slop vs. not… so… AI… slop
      • AITAH
    • Follow-up:
      • Casey spends 24 hours with iOS 26 on his carry phone
        • John’s dancing controls
      • ☝️ Well, actually ☝️, myriad of is okay (via Jason Eccles)
        • Merriam-Webster’s take
      • Are size classes similar to today’s design changes? (via Bryan Guffey)
        • Auto Layout
      • John’s HomePod has risen from the dead!
        • Nic’s Fix
        • Watch John’s actual repair happen
      • 🍿 John would like to air some AppleCare One grievances 🍿
        • John’s tantrum
        • AppleCare One Terms & Conditions
    • Blood oxygen with Apple Watch [sorta] returns to the US
      • Gruber’s take
      • Victoria Song at The Verge
    • 😳🥳 M5 MacBook Pro with cellular is coming‽ 🎉😳
    • A19 Pro in Studio Display 2?
      • Previously, in low-cost MacBook rumors: A18 Pro
    • Your Mac game is probably rendering blurry
      • CGDisplayCopyAllDisplayModes()
      • FB13375033
    • Ask ATP:
      • Should the name “Siri” be retired? (via Aaron Bushnell)
      • Did Vehicle Motion Cues help John? (via Roly C.)
      • How do we click our trackpads? (via Eli)
    • Post-show: Oh yeah! 🗣️ New ATP Members special: ATP Insider: Vacations 🗣️
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s research into using LLMs to make UIs
      • Apple trained a LLM to teach itself good SwiftUI
      • Research paper
      • Stephen Robles’ video

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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • 652: You Have 24 Hours to Comply

    652: You Have 24 Hours to Comply
    Aug 14 2025
    Pre-Show: Marco and Casey’s no-good, very bad days.Follow-up: Casey didn’t read the fine print on Express Replacement 🤦🏻‍♂️ Short PumpJohn cycled his mouse againAppleCare One Moving a device on a payment plan (via “Clark Griswold” and Anonymous)Tina’s iPhoneTina’s Mac StudioTahoe beta 5: checkbox contrast improvesiOS 26 beta 6 Liquid glass changesSmart TV interfaces over time “Shortcut”New Magic RemoteRunning your own mail server How does iCloud-on-your-domain work? (via potato.zip)Hide my Email (via Peter Puleio)Jason Diller thinks it’s not so badPost-quantum cryptography Harvest now, decrypt later (via Lisa Ugray)Since iOS 17.4 for iMessage (via Saul Sutherland) Apple Security Research blog postCompelled adoption (via Brian Jarvis)Chrome adopted it in 2024 (via sayrer) 2024: State of post-quantum internet2025: UpdateJohn wages war against icons Adopting Liquid Glass: App IconsWWDC 2025 #361: Create Icons with Icon ComposerJohn’s Mastodon thread Václav Slavík’s solutionFB19437407FB19497128FB17892659There’s likely to be a lot more of thisAsk ATP: Is Liquid Glass on macOS a subtle move toward touchscreen Macs? (via Daniel Liu)How does one build a “good product sense”? (via Ian Anderson) Inspired by Marty CaganHow does one effectively de-duplicate photos using Photos.app? (via Keith Heaton)Post-show: Marco’s air-conditioning “update”Members-only ATP Overtime: AI voice control as a threat to Apple’s platforms Apple’s Upcoming AI Voice Control will Change how People Use iPhones Sponsored by: Factor: Healthy Eating, Made Easy. Get 50% off plus free shipping on your first box.1Password: Award-winning password manager trusted by millions of users.Sentry: A real-time error monitoring and tracing platform. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
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    2 hrs and 9 mins
  • 651: Your Judgement About Pockets

    651: Your Judgement About Pockets
    Aug 7 2025
    Pre-Show: Brief vacation resultsTim Cook kisses the… ring VideoFollow-up: HDTVTest reviews Sony Bravia 8 II and Panasonic Z95BTV shootout results Nilay’s commentsAppleCare One iCareCalculator Reddit post (removed by moderators)iCare Calculator web appJohn’s experienceB&H Casey’s roughly equivalent Mac, available for special orderRetro computing corner Revisiting eWorldMore on Tahoe Gus Mueller …on checkboxes…on slidersBeta 5 improves selection legibilityEjecting USB storage in Windows (via Justin Bradford) Bleeping computerArt & science of UI design Game design concepts in software (via Wes Davis)iPhone 17’s rumored new MagSafe design Majin BuiPhone 16Apple’s “Answers” teamAsk ATP: How can one improve the experience of a permanent-mount SSD on a laptop? JettisonWhy is Xcode so thirsty? (via Geoff) Time Machine local snapshots Deleting snapshots with Disk UtilityDevCleaner (App Store link)GithubGrandPerspectiveDisk Inventory XDaisyDiskHow are we dealing with spam? (via Alan Bailward) SpamSieveMailRouteFastmailPost-show: Apple Express ReplacementMembers-only ATP Overtime: Post-Quantum Cryptography networking in the 𝓍26 OSes Prepare your network for quantum-secure encryption in TLS Sponsored by: DeleteMe: Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online.Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code atp. Become a member for ATP Overtime, ad-free episodes, member specials, and our early-release, unedited “bootleg” feed!
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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • 650: Whatever It Takes to Get the Laundry Folded

    650: Whatever It Takes to Get the Laundry Folded
    Jul 28 2025
    • Pre-Show: Casey’s french-fry problem
    • Follow-up:
      • D. Griffin Jones takes one for the team
      • Casey’s struggles with iperf3
        • Tutorial
        • iperf3 -t 60 -c {ip} -P 4 -i 10 -R
      • John’s new toaster and E01 (via J-P Teti & John F.)
      • Chemical vs. physical sunscreen (via Prodan Statev)
        • Research paper
      • Apple security for unreleased devices
      • Low-cost Apple laptop (via Jason Anthony Guy)
        • Ed: Please don’t give Apple ideas like this. 🫣
      • Getting customer support from Apple (via Patch)
        • Apple support app → Chat
        • Any retail store on Apple Maps → ... → Message
      • CloudFlare & AI crawlers
        • Thoughts from Thomas Schoffelen
        • Thoughts from Aaron Zinck
        • Thoughts from Anonymous
          • JA3/JA4 fingerprint
      • The 𝓍26 public betas are out
        • Under the Radar #323: The Tidal Wave
      • Tahoe beta 4
        • Contrast will decrease until morale improves
          • Startup disk selection (cropped)
          • Startup disk selection (full)
        • News summaries are back, baby! 😬
    • Apple and interfaces
      • Tog in Interface (1992)
        • Amazon
        • NNG
      • Tog on Software Design (1995)
        • Amazon
        • NNG
      • Apple’s Aqua introduction, Macworld San Francisco, 2000
    • AppleCare One
      • Dan Moren’s take
      • The Verge
      • Fees & deductibles
      • FAQ (scroll way down)
    • Post-show: John has an addendum to his earlier topic
    • Members-only ATP Overtime: Frame of preference, an incredible exploration of the Mac’s settings by Marcin Wichary in concert with Mihai Parparita of the Infinite Mac Project
      • Marcin’s announcement
      • Mihai’s associated announcement
      • Embed Infinite Mac
      • Infinite Mac Construction Set

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    1 hr and 27 mins