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@BetaProfiles Like just give me the option to turn up the aesthetic. I understand if they need to pare it down for normies, but please let me have a WWDC mode I can flip on.

Compared to iOS 26.1, the menu animation in the WWDC25 demo feels much more fluid and bouncy.

Sorry I’m late! I was at home sitting down

. @jacksfilms you missed something in your analysis

@GoogleSheetKath omg these memories are triggering PTSD in me. Thank you so much for this tip!

So you've just downloaded data and you are thinking, "Why are there so many columns? I only want to know X, Y, and Z!" 😩 Here’s a quick trick I use in Google Sheets to make sense of the chaos: 1️⃣ Go to Data → Column Stats 2️⃣ Review each column using the stats bar on the right This lets you spot duplicates, blanks, and unique values at a glance, so you can identify the columns that actually matter. I delete irrelevant ones as I go. Now you're left with clean, focused data that works for you. ✨

@theapplehub An underscreen sonic Touch ID plus Face ID plus a new Gait ID plus a new Behavior ID plus a new Location ID. Put it all together so Apple can always determine with high confidence whether it’s me using my iPhone without making me wait for scans. @reneritchie

Evolution of Apple IDs Touch ID (2013) - iPhone 5s Face ID (2017) - iPhone X Optic ID (2024) - Vision Pro Which would you rather use?

@theapplehub 13 mini after almost two years. This free battery swap is going to feel sooooooooooo good!

1 year later my iPhone 15 Pro Max ends up with 89% battery health.. What’s yours?

@sophiaedm @Spectacles Forget the haters. You’re on the front edge of the platonic ideal of AR!

CHEERS TO THE NEXT ERS OF AR GLASSES WITH @Spectacles!!!

@sterlingcrispin Okay but like it seems to me like the point is that the foundational hardware and tech and form factor that we’ve been waiting for has been realized. Even with awful “performance” now, it’s just tweaking and improvements from here. Am I missing something?

I worked on these for about a year at Snap, and I have a million negative things to say about the experience and the device, but I think the product speaks for itself and is obviously bad. I don’t want to get into the specifics because I might inadvertently break an NDA, and would probably hurt some people’s feelings who worked on it, but it’s really a disaster.

@PicturesFoIder It absolutely does not cost this much. Those prices are massively inflated by the hospital to get as much money as possible from the insurance company. They would likely charge way less if the patient did not have insurance.

In case you were wondering how much brain surgery costs in the US

@SnazzyLabs Page two is an extra folder of apps that I can access quickly without going to my Home Screen. Still figuring out exactly what I want. Honestly a bit shocked I ended up putting all the big stuff in the same spots as Apple; that might change when we get all the connection buttons.

Share your iOS 18 Control Center.

@jaydenstech Still experimenting. I’m treating the second page like another folder of apps i can access without having to go to my Home Screen.

iOS 18 users: What does your Control Center look like?

@rsgnl @markgurman NO! Do NOT change the form factor! It’s plenty small as it is and mini users want to keep using the same accessories we’ve always used!

The next Mac mini per @markgurman: - A smaller design, closer to the size of an Apple TV - M4 and M4 Pro chips - 5 USB-C ports, including 2 on the front side like the Mac Studio - No more USB-A ports, but HDMI, Ethernet, and a headphone jack will remain

@bilawalsidhu Super cool. Obvi there’s a ton of improvement to be made, but the foundation is now built. Everything else is just tweaks to what already exists. This is the platonic concept everyone knows is necessary to start teasing mainstream adoption.

Okay it happened! Snapchat Spectacles AR glasses. Fully standalone. 46 degree field of view. 37 pixels per degree. That’s roughly like a 100” TV screen! 2x snapdragon chips. 45 minutes of battery. Auto transitioning lenses. Designed for co-presence. Spectator mode and more. Gotta hand it to Snap for pushing on this extremely hard engineering challenge, despite the rest of their peers going VR first as a stepping stone to this ultimate vision.

@IntoGalaxyy Most people do not know what it is, which is why most people should not buy the Pro

This can't be real 😭 Do people ACTUALLY NOT KNOW what that is???

@theapplehub GOATed design. Still feels🔥today. Yeah, the animations were slow, but it was so beautiful. Just Jony Ive untethered.

Apple released iOS 7 on this day, 11 years ago!

@ScathingSamosa @Android Convince your mom to download use another app

@Android Why don't Americans just use WhatsApp 💀

A new era of texting has begun.

@LeakerApple What do you mean they don’t get enough credit? Tech people praise it all the time

For anyone not aware, Apple’s A18 Pro chip in their PHONE has more powerful CPU cores than a literal i9-14900K desktop-class processor running at 6Ghz. Apple doesn’t get enough credit for their incredible silicon team.

@durreadan01 Swapped the placement of the flashlight. Gotta keep me on my toes

iOS 18 finally lets you change your Lock Screen shortcuts. And I’ve decided on camera and flashlight. 🤩 How about you?

@ViolentFemz @KritikallyDumb This interaction is art

@KritikallyDumb i’m a woman

all art is political. reply with an art and i’ll tell you how it’s political, also every human creation is art so have at it.