Notices by John Gruber (gruber@mastodon.social)

Incredible headline.

@yeri The PRC isn't worried about intercepting all messages in real-time because if they want to know anything, they'll just come to your house and take your devices.

App Store scam of the week?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sora-2-ai-video-generator/id6747757145

@BasicAppleGuy Needs wrenches that wouldn't break if you applied any actual torque to them: https://daringfireball.net/2025/08/macos_26_tahoes_dead_canary_utility_app_icons

My favorite post in a while:

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/08/15/woz-on-slashdot

Apple will give you a $5 iTunes gift card if you can read “Today” in the App Store app’s iOS 26 tab bar.

@GSStamas Let’s say the coach of a team
is trying to make the team lose. He’s still the coach of the
team. The United States is the world’s oldest and largest
democracy, the beacon of freedom, and the military that
holds the free world safe. Trump is president. Though he
is, I agree with you, working against the free world, he’s
still the leader of it too. That’s what makes this whole
thing so perilous.

Passwords is one of the most serious apps Apple makes and it looks like a Fisher Price app for toddlers.
https://mastodon.social/@chockenberry/114887010253212557

Oof.
https://mastodon.social/@timonus/114902608622996991

I think Apple’s in trouble here.
https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/114898260376387566

@caseyliss The worst part is the “®”.

@anildash You trying to be a blogger now?

@pluralistic @codinghorror @kudra @bugwhisperer @siracusa If you think the Foxconn/Apple suicide rate was a real problem, what do you think happened after 2010? Do you think it’s the nets catching people? The truth is the suicide rate was 4x lower than the typical US college and lower than the average nationwide in China.

https://www.wired.com/2011/02/ff-joelinchina/

T for Tariff
T for Trump

Either way to read it, it works. Good icon.
https://mstdn.ca/@toddtyrtle/114286757952888800

@stroughtonsmith @thomholwerda You’re arguing iPhone Mirroring is not in the EU for similar reasons to TV Shows in iTunes?

@thomholwerda Do you expect every new thing Apple has to delay or never launch in the EU to be of Apple Intelligence quality?

Still no word on iPhone Mirroring, for example, which I use every day and is technically excellent. And based on yesterday's EU decision I expect never to come to the EU.

@gryzor @stroughtonsmith @thomholwerda The EC is all-in on an interpretation of the DMA that holds that iOS isn’t permitted to have features that only work with other Apple products. iPhone Mirroring only works with Macs (Apple Silicon or those with a T2 security chip).

In addition to being wrong and unhelpful on MacOS 15.3, Siri's product knowledge is also wrong and unhelpful on iOS 18.3. Here are the answers I got after asking “How do I turn off suggestions in Messages?” and (trying to give Siri more of a chance to get it right) “How do I turn off Siri suggestions in Messages?”

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“Product knowledge” is one of the Apple Intelligence Siri features that, in its statement yesterday, Apple touted as a success. But what I asked here is a very simple question, about an Apple Intelligence feature in one of Apple's most-used apps, and it turns out Siri doesn't even know the names of its own settings panels.

MacOS 15.3.1. Asked Siri “How do you turn off suggestions in Messages?”

Siri responds with instructions that:

(a) Tell me to go to a System Settings panel that doesn't exist. There is no “Siri & Spotlight”. There is “Apple Intelligence & Siri" and a separate one for “Spotlight”.

(b) Are for Mail, not Messages, even though I asked about Messages, and Siri's own response starts with “To turn off Siri suggestions in Messages”