I don’t want to throw my wife under the bus, but every time her iPhone rings, I recoil in horror.
Her screen is usually filled with horrible placeholder icons where there could be gorgeous photos of our kids, her parents and friends, and so on.
My wife's never spent any time playing around with her contacts, adding pictures and the like.
But, it turns out — neither have our kids, her parents and friends, and so on.
Now, the list of things I don’t know about Apple products is possibly as long as the list of things I do know (after 30 years in the Apple reporting business). But Contact Posters are a feature that I had no idea about.
You can tweak your own contact card on your iPhone, and whatever picture you choose will show up on other people’s iPhones when you call them (if you’re in their contacts list).
It’s a surprisingly fun way to make calls more personal, and there are tons of tweaks and fun things you can do (like Memojis) to make it all the more fun.
Also in today’s newsletter:
Apple cooked with the iPhone 17 lineup, and it’s showing: The new handsets look likely to deliver Apple’s best sales year ever.
There are some great-looking setups in our roundup of the best audio workstations. No. 10 will make your ears bleed!
This clever new snap-on iPhone game controller earned a rare four-and-a-half stars in our hands-on review. It’s especially good for retro gaming, and works with iPad, too. I might put this on my Xmas list — looks fun.
Have a look at the amazing cityscapes in the last X post below about Nano Banana Pro. Do you like them? I think they’re pretty amazing, and a good example of the promise of AI: Utterly original imagery that only a machine could make. I like. Do you? Take the poll below.
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That's why I dropped the “interim” from my title. I'm still called iCEO, though, because I think it's cool.
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