Tag Archive for ‘iOS’

Hartley Charlton, writing for MacRumors:

Apple said it has heard user feedback, which it “deeply appreciates,” and is now making adjustments to the underlying foundations of how Liquid Glass is constructed. Chief among those changes is a new slider that lets users control transparency, ranging from fully opaque to completely clear.

I still haven’t updated to macOS 26 or iOS 26 because Liquid Glass is so bad.

I’ll be upgrading straight to 27 this fall and immediately slide this thing to opaque so fast it’ll make your head spin.

➝ Source: macrumors.com

I didn’t know this existed.

I don’t expect I’ll actually use it much, since I generally am not on my phone while riding in a vehicle. But if I ever found myself in a situation where I needed to use my iPhone while in the passenger seat — to look up information during a road trip, for example — I might give this feature a try.

➝ Source: m.youtube.com

I’m not linking to this application because of its functionality. I’ve never tried it and am not sure if I actually have a use case for it.

I’m linking to it because the app is absolutely gorgeous. It’s probably the coolest looking app I’ve seen in years. I’d love it if more apps were aiming in this direction with their design.

➝ Source: macrowave.co

I’ve been using My Links as my Linkwarden client on mobile, but it had some quirks that I wasn’t in love with — most notably, it always took a couple of taps for me to get to my “Inbox” collection, which is what I spend most of my time in. I’m excited to give the official client a try and hopefully it’ll help streamline my workflow for publishing links like this.

➝ Source: linkwarden.github.io

Yours truly, in March 2009:

This full screen Safari option is left up to the developers though, which is the exact wrong way to do things. When adding an icon to your home screen in Safari you should be given the option to open that web page as full screen. […]

Letting the user choose what home screen bookmarks open as full screen pages would solve all of these problems. Users might actually use the feature and web site developers wouldn’t have to weigh the pros and cons of adding the meta tag to their pages, they could have it both ways. Hopefully Apple will eventually address this problem[…]

Here we are, sixteen and a half years later, and the option is finally available.

From the WebKit team:

For the last 17 years, if the website had the specific meta tag or Web Application Manifest display value in it’s code, when a user added it to their Home Screen on iOS or iPadOS, tapping its icon opened it as a web app. If the website was not configured as such, tapping its icon opened the site in a browser. Users had no choice in the matter, nor visible way to understand why some sites behaved one way while others behaved another.

On Mac, we took a different approach. When introducing Web Apps on Mac in Sep 2023, we made the decision to always open websites added to the Dock as web apps. It doesn’t matter whether or not the website has a Web Application Manifest. Users get a consistent experience. Add to Dock creates a web app.

Now, we are revising the behavior on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. By default, every website added to the Home Screen opens as a web app. If the user prefers to add a bookmark for their browser, they can disable “Open as Web App” when adding to Home Screen — even if the site is configured to be a web app. The UI is always consistent, no matter how the site’s code is configured. And the power to define the experience is in the hands of users.

(Via Michael Tsai.)

➝ Source: webkit.org

Jason Snell, writing for Macworld:

The App Store era must end and the solution is already here.

It’s long past time for Apple to have open up iOS to applications from outside of the App Store. And now we have plenty of evidence to show that everything will be just fine if they do.

➝ Source: macworld.com

Craig Grannell:

However, that UTM is now allowed but iDOS is not is indefensible. They’re both PC emulators. Apple has been inconsistent in the past with App Store rules and approvals, but this pairing is especially stark and egregious. At this point, I wouldn’t spend a single second developing an emulator for iOS. Which is probably how Apple wants it anyway. If I were the iDOS developer, I’d lob the app at AltStore and see what happens. Or, you know, just give up, like so many other ex-iOS devs I hear from these days have already done.

The App Store artificially limits the capabilities of our devices and prevents developers from even exploring entire categories of applications.

Imagine what our devices would be capable of if things were different — if you could install software on them like a computer. Rather than Apple leaning into the idea that they aren’t.

➝ Source: reverttosaved.com

A multi-system emulator for iOS that supports Nintendo 3DS. Because of the lack of JIT, there are limits on what games it can run. But if you want to play some easier to run 3DS titles, you might want to give it a look. I’ve been using Folium to play New Super Mario Bros. 2 on my iPhone 15 Pro and it runs well with the default settings.

➝ Source: folium.emuplace.app