How to take solar eclipse photos with iPhone

Plus: Layoffs hit Apple!

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Lewis Wallace
April 05, 2024

If you’re lucky enough to be anywhere near the path of totality for next Monday’s solar eclipse — and you want to try to capture the moment with your iPhone — you need to start planning now.

To take a proper eclipse photograph, you’ll need some special equipment (Amazon still has stuff in stock for last-minute delivery), along with some specialized knowledge.

Today’s how-to is filled with tips for taking the best possible solar eclipse photos with your iPhone. It’s not too late to gear up and make it happen.

Alternatively, you could forget about snapping pix, put down your iPhone, and just enjoy the surreal moment.

Also in today’s newsletter:

  • After canceling big projects, Apple joined the rest of the tech world and laid off some of its employees.

  • Logitech’s excellent Apple accessories, which often draw raves in our Setups posts, are on sale now. See how much you can save on some of the best mice, keyboards and webcams around.

  • Speaking of setups with cool things in them, we’ve got a rare Mac Pro sighting!

  • You can get the latest Microsoft software for less at CdkeySales ... just be sure to use code CULT for maximum savings.

  • I got a sick chuckle from seeing the smartphone disaster in one of the tweets below. Maybe next time just take your Apple Watch to the gym, bro.

— Lewis Wallace, managing editor

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Tweetz o’ the day

One more thing ...

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There are just certain things you can’t make electrons do. There are certain things you can’t make plastic do or glass do or factories do or robots do. And as you get into all these things, designing a product is keeping 5,000 things in your brain, these concepts, and fitting them all together and continuing to push to fit them together in new and different ways to get what you want. And every day you discover something new, that is a new problem or a new opportunity to fit these things together a little differently. And it’s that process that is the magic.

— Steve Jobs, 1995.

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