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F**k It! Why you should install the new iPhone beta right now
Leander Kahney
October 25, 2024
Year after year I have trouble with Apple’s betas.
I always install them on all of my primary devices, and I often regret it!
My iPhone won’t work, my Mac freezes up, my iPad randomly shuts down.
A lot of this I can live with, except on my Mac, my primary device for work.
After getting burned a few years ago with a particularly unstable macOS beta, I’ve avoided running macOS test software.
But not this year! As I’m typing this, my Mac Studio is running the macOS Sequoia 15.2 beta. There are just too many new goodies to pass it up.
Thankfully, everything seems fine so far.
And you should do the same with the iOS 18.1 iPhone beta.
It’s not just to play around with the new features. There is actually one very good reason to install it now instead of waiting for next week’s official release. Do it!!!
Also in today’s newsletter:
Apple is actively developing a blood-sugar monitoring app and testing it internally. Right now, it’ll likely work with blood-sugar monitors already on the market, but Apple’s goal is a health holy grail: Adding it to the Apple Watch.
Hate is a strong word, but it’s pretty close to describing how I feel about Microsoft software. Which is why you don’t want to spend a penny more than you have to on Micros**t’s wares! Luckily, our friends at CdkeySales have some of the lowest prices on the web.
Ahead of Monday’s release of iOS 18.1, Apple is rolling out new firmware for AirPods Pro that turns them into hearing aids (and more). I’ve been playing around with it, and boy — they work better than expected. As usual, the AirPods firmware update process is as opaque as ever, but here are some tips.
iPhone snatching is supposedly epidemic in London. One design firm is fighting back with the nuttiest Judas Priest iPhone case you’ve ever seen.
As an independent online publisher, I can’t bring myself to fully endorse ad-blockers, but AdGuard is highly rated, and this lifetime family plan is a steal at just $19.
Yesterday’s poll genuinely surprised me about what hardware you guys are most looking forward to next week. I thought the rankings would be different. See below.
— Leander Kahney, EIC.
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Tweets of the day
Google has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever
— System Settings (@app_settings)
5:45 PM • Oct 24, 2024
In iOS 18.2, you can turn off ChatGPT confirmation so Siri contacts ChatGPT directly without asking for permission first.
Turning this off makes the experience a lot better.
— Adan (@durreadan01)
11:40 AM • Oct 24, 2024
What’s the best iOS stock app?
— Private Talky (@privatetalky)
5:32 AM • Oct 25, 2024
Wallpaper of the day
Halloween wallpaper 🎃
— Aesthetics 𝕏 (@aestheticsguyy)
7:19 PM • Oct 24, 2024
One more thing ...
[Wehn Jobs got to meet Bob Dylan] We sat on the patio outside his [hotel] room and talked for two hours. I was really nervous, because he was one of my heroes. And I was also afraid that he wouldn’t be really smart anymore, that he’d be a caricature of himself, like happens to a lot of people. But I was delighted. He was as sharp as a tack. He was everything I’d hoped. He was really open and honest. He was just telling me about his life and about writing his songs. He said, “They just came through me, it wasn’t like I was having to compose them. That doesn’t happen anymore, I just can’t write them that way anymore.” Then he paused and said to me with his raspy voice and little smile, “But I still can sing them.”
Today’s poll
Do you immediately install Apple’s betas on your main devices? |
Results from yesterday’s poll: What are you most looking forward to next week?
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