Accidental Tech Podcast

🗣️ 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 Sponsored by: DeleteMe: Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online. Grammarly: A digital writing assistant that ensures your writing and reputation shine.

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 hilar...

Pre-Show: Casey and Marco are sad Ben Rice McCarthy Under the Radar Follow-up: 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️ The Marco Offset Anonymous crushes the dreams of Marco and Casey about cellular MacBooks Another 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 Lock Masimo comes for [more] blood UK drops utterly bananas backdoor legislation Studio Display with A19 Daniel Luz points out makes a funny comparison to Macs Fabian Häusler theorizes it’s about binning Apple’s Hide my Email f...

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‽ 🎉😳 ...

Pre-Show: Marco and Casey’s no-good, very bad days. Follow-up: Casey didn’t read the fine print on Express Replacement 🤦🏻‍♂️ Short Pump John cycled his mouse again AppleCare One Moving a device on a payment plan (via “Clark Griswold” and Anonymous) Tina’s iPhone Tina’s Mac Studio Tahoe beta 5: checkbox contrast improves iOS 26 beta 6 Liquid glass changes Smart TV interfaces over time “Shortcut” New Magic Remote Running 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 bad Post-quantum cryptography Harvest now, decrypt later (via Lisa Ugray) Since iOS 17.4 for...

Pre-Show: Brief vacation results Tim Cook kisses the… ring Video Follow-up: HDTVTest reviews Sony Bravia 8 II and Panasonic Z95B TV shootout results Nilay’s comments AppleCare One iCareCalculator Reddit post (removed by moderators) iCare Calculator web app John’s experience B&H Casey’s roughly equivalent Mac, available for special order Retro computing corner Revisiting eWorld More on Tahoe Gus Mueller …on checkboxes …on sliders Beta 5 improves selection legibility Ejecting USB storage in Windows (via Justin Bradford) Bleeping computer Art & science of UI design Game design concepts in software (via Wes Davis) iPhone 17’s rumored new MagSafe design Majin Bu iPhone 16 A...

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 fingerpri...

Pre-Show: Casey did Marco’s favorite thing CalDigit TS5+ (affiliate link) CalDigit TS5+ (product page) iperf3 Follow-up: F1 (the sport, not the movie) Apple expected to win 🇺🇸 rights F1 TV Vroom John’s video != Casey’s immersive ride-along To see the immersive ride-along, you need to be wearing a Vision Pro; scroll down on that link John’s toaster update AirPods & AppleCare+ Keratoconus Water resistance IP54 AirPods Express Replacement Service B&H Reverting to “normal” tabs in Tahoe (via ST-S) defaults write -g NSSolariumWindowTabs -bool NO Low-cost Apple laptop with A18 Pro mandonam Apple sues leaker Jon Prosser for stealing iOS secrets 99% Inv...

Pre-Show: Live music & failed air conditioners 🗣️ New ATP Members Special: Tier List: Pizza Toppings Follow-up: Meta Hires Top Apple AI Models Executive SFSymbols 🤝🏻 Tahoe Folders Standard SFSymbol: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"camera.viewfinder"}' folder Private SFSymbol: xattr-w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"solar.system"}' folder Random string: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"emoji": "HIMOM"}' folder FB18022272: “summary” symbol missing in SF Symbols 7 developer beta Toolbars Safari Beta 1 image Beta 3 image The Guardian (good example for messing around with the toolbar) Terminal Beta 1 image Beta 3 image iOS 26 Beta 3 Direct video li...

Pre-Show: John’s almost an empty-nester 😱 Reconcilable Differences Follow-up: FireWire now with Thunderbolt! (via Timo Hetzel) Tahoe without Xcode beta: Device Support for macOS 26 Beta Developer downloads ↳ Direct link Putting older OSes on newer hardware (via Gui Rambo) UPS VA ratings (via Marshall C) Apple’s LLM/LRM paper (from Overtime in ATP #643) Training data vs. distribution (via Deon Garrett) Rebuttal Rebuttal of the rebuttal More from Gary Marcus The original rebuttal was… a joke? 🤨 HDR in 𝑥26 iPadOS 26 window limits “Glass iPhone” demo ↳ Direct video link That “natural language to CLI” app is Substage Apple plans to launch a low-cost MacBook powered by… an iPho...

Pre-Show: John has made an important purchase 11 June 2011 Documentation of the journey (spoilers!) John’s beloved Ninja Anova After Dark Follow-up: We’re doing good work here, folks YoLink leak sensors Leak sensor 4-pack with compulsory hub Travel insurance is more than you think it is (via Jason Poole and Levi Dalton) Allianz concierge Window widget size in Tahoe Apple Intelligence is now allowed when booting from an external in Tahoe beta 2 Floating tab bars in iOS 26 Apple “Ducks” The Architect’s Lions Maybe don’t yank out removable storage in Windows either (via Adrian Mester) It’s the world that’s wrong...

Pre-Show: Phish & Wabbit Dave Matthews Season Allianz Ampitheater at Riverfront Belkin UltraGlass 2 Some Administrivia: 🗣️ New ATP Member’s special: ATP Movie Club: Sneakers 🗣️ Sneakers (1992) ATP Performance Shirt Inventory Sale Follow-up: Persistent icon replacement helper apps Pictogram Replacicon Tahoe beta 2 Finder icon updated! Louie Mantia tries again New menu bar background setting! Beta 2, with background Tahoe’s [Not-So-] Naked Robotic Menu Bar (via Vítor) Beta 1, gray Beta 1, red Beta 1, white Safari toolbars (via Lewis Dorigo) Settings → Advanced → Show color in compact tab bar theme_color Yosemite Safari tabs From John’s review Installing betas and DFU mode macvdmtool (via Robert Sherry) DFU Blaster...

Pre-show: G4 Doorbell Pro Bespoke 3D-printed mount Fancy-schmancy Marco-recommended Flashlight What betas are we running? Virtual Buddy 𝑥OS 26 & Version Numbers iOS Apps built against old SDKs get 19.0; new ones get 26.0 (via Gui Rambo) ProcessInfo /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersionCompat.plist Tahoe returns 16 when reqiured for compatibility and 26 otherwise (via Howard Oakley) SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=1 = 16 null or SYSTEM_VERSION_COMPAT=0 = 26 Liquid Glass Adopting Liquid Glass Don’t Liquid Glass All the Things Not present in macOS? (via Steve Troughton-Smith) Liquid Glass clone in Flutter (via Dave Wood) Fluid Glass in React (via Francisco Tolmasky) macOS Tahoe Whimsy returns! (via Minimal Nerd) Squircle Jail ...

Pre-show: Initial Switch 2 Reactions Mario Kart World WWDC F1 Sam Henri Gold Marcel Flighty Parcel Control Plane Acorn Post-show: RIP, John’s Mac Pro Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s latest paper on the limitations of LLMs Previously discussed on ATP #609 GaryMarcus’ blog post which quotes a summary from Josh Wolfe Gary’s 1998 paper Gary’s 2001 book Sponsored by: Clic for Sonos: Elevate Your Sonos Experience with Clic Sponsored by Betterhelp: Give online therapy a try and get on your way to being your best self. DeleteMe: Making it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online. Become a...

Follow-up: Apple “emergency” App Store appeal denied Additional lighting solution (via Nathanial) macOS 26: Tahoe? macOS 26 supported hardware Laurene Powell Jobs & Jony Ive interview MacRumors coverage Molly White’s newsletter Polycom “star”/”spider” phones Vision Pro & John Siracusa Corner Bono: Stories of Surrender Open: An Autobiography Rattle and Hum Apple Immersive Screenshots: Crowd Stadium TV PSA: Plex privacy opt-out Apple/SwiftUI folks: a quick appeal, if you please Casey’s toot FB17661404 WWDC hopes & predictions Greg Jozwiak’s tweet Physicality: The new age of UI by Sebastiaan de With Windows Aero Newton’s cradle Sendable Post-show: Apple declines invitation to The Talk Show Live Retr

Pre-show: ATP’s relationship with Apple Five Whys Follow-up: SSD longevity details from an anonymous SSD firmware engineer Vision Pro on The Price is Right What are Jony Ive and Sam Altman building? Ming-Chi Quo’s opinion Upgrade #565: The Scent of Humane Alexa Plus Update Neutral: Slate Truck Top Gear review TELO, a potential Slate competitor (via Kevin Ayers) There’s a Discord (via Kevin Cash) DeMuro’s review Classic Mini vs. Modern MINI Pickup beds over time Apple Turnover and Apple Turnaround ATP #639: Crimp the World Terry Pratchett’s Boots theory Apple’s “Back to the Mac” event from 2010 Post-show: More...

Pre-show: 🗣️ New ATP Member Special: ATP Top Four: Game Consoles 🗣️ Follow-up: Home Networking Corner 🤝🏻 Vision Pro Corner How I use my AVP to retrofit Unifi Access Points in finished homes SSDs and long-term storage was covered on Security Now #1023 (via Paul Chernoff) SpinRite (Intel-only) Fornite is back in the US App Store App Store link Judge YGR’s filing Apple 🤝🏻 Epic Epic courts Apple developers Gurman on the Apple Intelligence fiasco Previously on ATP The EU App Store warning about external purchases isn’t new after all Apple documentation Apple to open AI models to developers? OpenAI buys Jony Ive’s AI company, io Sam and Jo...

Pre-show: Marco’s [kinda] brief review of the M4 MacBook Pro CalDigit TS5 Follow-up: Letterboxd SF Symbol Procured via volunteer Alyce D! 💙 Custom Symbols App (App Store link) AI App Store summaries != spam email filtering (via Kevin Markham) “A fine is a price” (via Kieran Healy) A Fine is a Price by Gneezy & Rustichini Apple 🤝🏻 Anthropic Apple appeals App Store rule changes Riley Testut details changes to Delta’s IAP options More (Ed: 🤣🤣🤣) Meanwhile, in the App Store… Home networking corner Ubiquiti’s consumer line is Amplifi Try CubiCasa for floor plans (via Colin Robertson) What Unifi Stuff Should I Buy? (via Thunder God Cid) Case...

Pre-show: Chromebook-block evasions Follow-up: At least one person did miss our WWDC sale. 🙁 Vision Pro Corner: StagePlay Blue Man Group Epic vs. Apple The Verge on Apple’s decision making Apple’s Response Apple Appeals App Store rules have been changed MJ Tsai’s Roundup Ryan Jones Gruber Upgrade #562: Let’s Break the Law Tim Sweeney continues grandstanding Fortnite may be coming back… via 🇸🇪? Epic Games announces plans for a shop for iOS developers Press release As was foretold, Stripe has entered the chat Stripe documentation Patreon has also entered the chat Friend of the show Riley Testut works fast Spotify has also ent...

Pre-show: Marco reaches another milestone ThinOptics round clear New ATP Member’s Special: ATP Insider: School, Then and Now Follow-up: A surprising Vision Pro corner: Adventure: Hill Climb Laura’s Hot Lap Neutral Special: Please Lose Control of Your Car Now Laura Hayes Racing (archived) D. Griffin Jones reviews the Sigma BF Article Video John discusses the design of the Mac Pro iPadOS window affordances (via Ole Oskar Eriksen) Synology’s En💩ification (via Erin Power) Server Part Deals Judge tells Apple “yeah, no” 9to5 Mac The Verge “Kafkaesque” Marco returns to YouTube reMarkable 2 Astropad iPad screen film & Apple Pencil tips Mac Power Us...