By John Gruber
Previously, on Daring Fireball
September 2026
The iPhones 18 Pro 17 Sep 2026
The iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro 8 Sep 2026
SuperDuper 4 8 Sep 2026
And It’s True That I Stole Your Lighter, and It’s Also True That I Lost the Map 7 Sep 2026
Writing With Unnatural Constraints 4 Sep 2026
August 2026
Thoughts and Observations on Apple’s First Immersive MLB Broadcast, a Yankees 1-0 Win Over the Red Sox 29 Aug 2026
What Is the Point of the DMA? 24 Aug 2026
When New DF Posts Drop in a Forest and No One Is There to Read Them 21 Aug 2026
Follow-Up Thoughts on Watermarking Schemes for AI-Generated Text 17 Aug 2026
Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing 16 Aug 2026
You Don’t Need to Worry About Scratching Your iPhone Camera Lenses 14 Aug 2026
Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was, in Fact, a Correct Rejection 8 Aug 2026
Why Apple Requires a Cellular Account Through a Big Three Carrier to Lease an iPhone 3 Aug 2026
July 2026
Temu Is a Comically Bad App 31 Jul 2026
Ads in Software Are Like Stickers on Laptops 27 Jul 2026
Regarding Ad Blockers and Daring Fireball 24 Jul 2026
The Ads on Apple News Continue to Suck, but at Least There Are a Lot of Them 23 Jul 2026
European Commission: ‘Guidance to Google for AI Interoperability on Android & Sharing of Google Search’ 21 Jul 2026
Mornings in Cupertino Have the Aroma of Napalm Once Again 18 Jul 2026
Exactly Like Om Malik 11 Jul 2026
John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope 9 Jul 2026
What’s Good for the iOS Goose Is Often Not Good for the MacOS Gander 8 Jul 2026
Apple Should Eliminate the App Icon ‘Squircle Jail’ 6 Jul 2026
Claude’s Criminally Bad Electron Mac App Is an Inside Job 3 Jul 2026
A Tale of Two Modems 1 Jul 2026
June 2026
Bernie Sanders: Ideologue and Economic Ignoramus 27 Jun 2026
Om 26 Jun 2026
Spensive Thoughts 25 Jun 2026
The Talk Show: Live From WWDC 2026 12 Jun 2026
Sweet Jeebus, MacOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons From Menu Items 10 Jun 2026
SwiftUI Only Makes It Easy to Develop Bad Apps 7 Jun 2026
May 2026
What Is a Dickover? 29 May 2026
The Fonts of the U.S. Federal Courts 22 May 2026
AI Is Technology, Not a Product 16 May 2026
Nextpad++ 12 May 2026
Software as the Product of Obsession Times Voice 5 May 2026
Y Combinator’s Stake in OpenAI 4 May 2026
Crimes Against Decency Need as Much Cover-Up as Crimes Against the Law 3 May 2026
April 2026
On the Future of Apple’s Vision Platform 30 Apr 2026
The New York Times Printed the Wrong Crossword Grid Last Sunday, and I Find That Timing Serendipitous 26 Apr 2026
Time to Serve Some Delicious Claim Chowder Regarding the Cook-Ternus CEO Transition 24 Apr 2026
Norwegian Boating Licenses and Generational Law 24 Apr 2026
‘We Don’t Serve Their Kind Here’ 24 Apr 2026
Another Day Has Come 20 Apr 2026
‘A Reading Room on Wheels, a Lover’s Lane, and, After 11 PM, a Flophouse’ 18 Apr 2026
David Pierce Tried a Bunch of Android Phones and Then Bought an iPhone Again 15 Apr 2026
Let Us Learn to Show Our Friendship for a Man When He Is Alive and Not After He Is Dead 10 Apr 2026
David Pogue’s ‘Apple: The First 50 Years’ 2 Apr 2026
March 2026
Apple Giveth, Apple Taketh Away 27 Mar 2026
What to Do About Those Menu Item Icons in MacOS 26 Tahoe 24 Mar 2026
AppleScript: ‘Save MarsEdit Document to Text File’ 19 Mar 2026
‘Your Frustration Is the Product’ 18 Mar 2026
Squashing 17 Mar 2026
Apple Exclaves and the Secure Design of the MacBook Neo’s On-Screen Camera Indicator 16 Mar 2026
Modifier Key Order for Keyboard Shortcuts 11 Mar 2026
The MacBook Neo 10 Mar 2026
The iPhone 17e 9 Mar 2026
Thoughts and Observations on the MacBook Neo 4 Mar 2026
HazeOver — Mac Utility for Highlighting the Frontmost Window 2 Mar 2026
February 2026
A Sometimes-Hidden Setting Controls What Happens When You Tap a Call in the iOS 26 Phone App 27 Feb 2026
My 2025 Apple Report Card 25 Feb 2026
Apple Releases iOS 26 Adoption Rates, and They’re Pretty Much in Line With the Last Few Years 17 Feb 2026
January 2026
Politics and the English Language, January 2026 Edition 28 Jan 2026
The Names They Call Themselves 27 Jan 2026
App Store 2025 Top iPhone Apps in the U.S. 26 Jan 2026
The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years 24 Jan 2026
Tahoe Added a Finder Option to Resize Columns to Fit Filenames 23 Jan 2026
Crazy People Do Crazy Things 19 Jan 2026
Thoughts and Observations Regarding Apple Creator Studio 17 Jan 2026
MacPaw Pulls the Plug on SetApp Mobile App Marketplace 16 Jan 2026
Why It’s Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe 12 Jan 2026
‘Fuck You, Make Me’ Without Saying the Words 10 Jan 2026
Let’s Call a Murder a Murder 8 Jan 2026
Pickle Smells Like a Cult 5 Jan 2026
Clicks Communicator and Clicks Power Keyboard 2 Jan 2026
December 2025
‘Do a Better Job on the Wings’ 30 Dec 2025
Slop Is Slop 29 Dec 2025
Apple Announces Changes to iOS in Japan for Compliance With the Mobile Software Competition Act 20 Dec 2025
A Request Regarding ‘Magic Link’ Sign-Ins and Apple’s Passwords App 19 Dec 2025
Apple TV’s New Fanfare 16 Dec 2025
The Full Text of Marco Rubio’s Directive on State Department Typography, Re-Establishing Times New Roman 10 Dec 2025
iMessage’s Delivery Architecture Makes It Hard to Block Without Blocking All iOS Push Notifications 9 Dec 2025
Meta Says Fuck That Metaverse Shit 7 Dec 2025
2025 App Store Award Winners: Tiimo, Essayist, and Detail 5 Dec 2025
Alan Dye Was in Tim Cook’s Blind Spot 4 Dec 2025
Bad Dye Job 3 Dec 2025
Signal Secure Backups Are Now Available on iOS 1 Dec 2025
November 2025
Meta Replaced the Native Windows WhatsApp App With a Shitty Web App 15 Nov 2025
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.1, Along With Renamed and New Personalities 12 Nov 2025
The Software Update UI for Upgrading to MacOS 26 Tahoe Is Needlessly Confusing 10 Nov 2025
Apple and Google, Sitting in a Tree 6 Nov 2025
October 2025
Thoughts, Observations, and Links Regarding ChatGPT Atlas 28 Oct 2025
Apple Loses Landmark U.K. Lawsuit Over App Store Commissions 27 Oct 2025
Two Excellent New iPhone Camera Apps: Not Boring’s !Camera and Adobe’s Project Indigo 21 Oct 2025
Complying With ‘Demand’ From Trump Administration, Apple Removes ICEBlock From App Store 3 Oct 2025
September 2025
Apple on the Digital Markets Act 26 Sep 2025
Personal Note 19 Sep 2025
August 2025
MacOS 26 Tahoe’s Dead-Canary Utility App Icons 25 Aug 2025
MSNBC, Spinning Out of NBCUniversal, Rebrands as ‘MS NOW’ With a Godawful Backronym and Even Worse Logo 20 Aug 2025
How to Use iPhone Mirroring With More Than One iPhone 19 Aug 2025
Joe Caroff, Designer of the James Bond 007 Logo, Dies at 103 18 Aug 2025
Apple Issues a Workaround for the Blood Oxygen Sensor Ban for U.S. Apple Watches 14 Aug 2025
Max Read’s ‘A Literary History of Fake Texts in Apple’s Marketing Materials’ 13 Aug 2025
Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon 8 Aug 2025
The Substack Branding and Faux Prestige Trap 2 Aug 2025
July 2025
ICEBlock, an iOS Exclusive 24 Jul 2025
Curse Not the King 18 Jul 2025
Save Yourself Some Dough on Apple Kit and Make Me Rich on Amazon Prime Day 9 Jul 2025
Jeff Williams, 62, Is Retiring as Apple’s COO 8 Jul 2025
June 2025
More on Apple’s Trust-Eroding ‘F1 The Movie’ Wallet Ad 27 Jun 2025
One Week Out, Some Brief Thoughts and Observations on WWDC 2025 19 Jun 2025
The Talk Show: Live From WWDC 2025 14 Jun 2025
Apple’s Spin on the Personalized Siri Apple Intelligence Reset 12 Jun 2025
Truth Social Is Just Trump’s Blog 6 Jun 2025
Apple Appeals EU’s March Ruling on ‘Interoperability’ Requirements Under the DMA 2 Jun 2025
May 2025
More Insight and Not-Negativity 19 May 2025
15 Years Later: ‘Very Insightful and Not Negative’ 15 May 2025
Single-Story a’s in Very Early Versions of Macintosh System 1 14 May 2025
April 2025
Is Chrome Even a Sellable Asset? 28 Apr 2025
Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search 28 Apr 2025
WebKit Adds Support for ‘text-wrap: pretty’, Now Shipping in Safari Technology Preview 9 Apr 2025
How Many New iPhones Can Fit on a Freight Plane? 9 Apr 2025
Tired: Irresistable Force vs. Immovable Object — Wired: Unchanging Prices vs. Nonsensical Tariffs 4 Apr 2025
March 2025
‘The Studio’ Is Fantastic So Far 30 Mar 2025
The Website That Hacker News Is Afraid to Discuss (You’re Reading It) 26 Mar 2025
It Might Be Time for Me to Collect Some Being Right Points for My 2023 Bluesky Prediction 25 Mar 2025
Keyboard Maestro Hack of the Week: Don’t Paste Images 21 Mar 2025
A Postscript on the Singular Nature of Mark Gurman’s Reporting 16 Mar 2025
Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino 12 Mar 2025
A New System-Wide UI Look for iOS — Let Alone MacOS, Too — Would Be a Huge Deal 11 Mar 2025
Apple Is Delaying the ‘More Personalized Siri’ Apple Intelligence Features 7 Mar 2025
ABC Shuts Down FiveThirtyEight, and Pulls the Plug on Its Website 6 Mar 2025
Why Can’t We Screenshot Frames From DRM-Protected Video on Apple Devices? 1 Mar 2025
February 2025
The iPhone 16e 26 Feb 2025
Apple Pulls Advanced Data Protection From the UK, in Defiance of UK Demand for Global Backdoor 21 Feb 2025
Thoughts and Observations on Today’s iPhone 16e Announcement 19 Feb 2025
Golfo del Gringo Loco 17 Feb 2025
Fox’s New Scorebug Graphic Design, and Our Innate Resistance to Change 10 Feb 2025
Nike’s ‘So Win’ Won the Super Bowl 10 Feb 2025
My 2024 Apple Report Card 7 Feb 2025
Bootable Mac Startup Drive Backups, and Another Ode to SuperDuper 6 Feb 2025
‘Hot Tub’, a Hardcore Porn App for iOS, Hits AltStore in the E.U. 4 Feb 2025
January 2025
Pebble Founder Eric Migicovsky Is Bringing It Back 29 Jan 2025
My Spitball Theory on TikTok’s Current Semi-Reprieve in the U.S. 28 Jan 2025
Openvibe, a Multi-Social-Network App for Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads (Supposedly), and Nostr 28 Jan 2025
Thin Is In 25 Jan 2025
ICE Raids Are an Escalation of Our Long-Simmering De Facto Cold Civil War 24 Jan 2025
Siri Is Super Dumb and Getting Dumber 23 Jan 2025
BrikTok 19 Jan 2025
Nokia’s Next-Day Internal Competitive Analysis of the Original iPhone Largely Got It Right 18 Jan 2025
One Bit of Anecdata That the Web Is Languishing Vis-à-Vis Native Mobile Apps 13 Jan 2025
Nvidia, the New King of Keynotes 11 Jan 2025
December 2024
OpenAI’s Board, Paraphrased: ‘To Succeed, All We Need Is Unimaginable Sums of Money’ 29 Dec 2024
Journalism Requires Owners Committed to the Cause 20 Dec 2024
On the Accountability of Unnamed Public Relations Spokespeople 14 Dec 2024
Federico Viticci on Apple Intelligence, With ChatGPT, as a Breakthrough Automation Tool 13 Dec 2024
The Information Suggests, in an Aside, That Apple Scrapped Work on a Quad-Max/Double-Ultra M-Series Chip 11 Dec 2024
Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Generative AI Bullshit Bathwater 6 Dec 2024
Andy Grove Was Right 3 Dec 2024
November 2024
Apple Tends to Do Right by Apps It Acquires 24 Nov 2024
Regarding — and, Well, Against — Substack 20 Nov 2024
Dr. Oz 19 Nov 2024
Disambiguating iPhone Model Names That Have the ‘S’ Suffix 12 Nov 2024
How It Went 8 Nov 2024
It Doesn’t End 8 Nov 2024
I Wonder 7 Nov 2024
Kottke on the Art and Power of Hypertextual Writing 5 Nov 2024
October 2024
In Defense, I Swear, of the Magic Mouse’s Charging Port Placement 28 Oct 2024
Profiles in Cowardice: Owner Jeff Bezos and Publisher William Lewis of The Washington Post 26 Oct 2024
Vision Pro Bites Dog 25 Oct 2024
The Sordid Tale of Rudy Giuliani’s Yankees World Series Rings 22 Oct 2024
Consider the Plight of the VC-Backed Privacy Burglars 10 Oct 2024
September 2024
A Few Brief Thoughts on Meta Connect 2024 25 Sep 2024
Panels, a New Wallpaper App From Marques Brownlee 25 Sep 2024
The iPhones 16 18 Sep 2024
The Things They Carried 16 Sep 2024
The iOS Continental Fun-Gap Drift 8 Sep 2024
The iOS Continental Drift Widens 6 Sep 2024
August 2024
The Mac Is a Power Tool 10 Aug 2024
Apple’s Profits From Services Are on the Cusp of Surpassing Its Profits From Device Sales 5 Aug 2024
July 2024
Apple Strikes Deal With Taboola to Sell Ads for Apple News 19 Jul 2024
It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns, It’s the Guns 14 Jul 2024
June 2024
Apple Disables WebKit’s JIT in Lockdown Mode, Offering a Hint Why BrowserEngineKit Is Complex and Restricted 24 Jun 2024
WWDC 2024: Apple Intelligence 23 Jun 2024
Training Large Language Models on the Public Web 21 Jun 2024
By My Count Trump Is Batting .900 on the Ten Commandments 21 Jun 2024
The EU Is Reaping What It Sows With the DMA: Uncertainty 21 Jun 2024
The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2024 14 Jun 2024
Gurman’s Epic Pre-WWDC Leak Report 7 Jun 2024
Now Qualcomm Went Long 4 Jun 2024
May 2024
Spotify’s Car Things to Be Rebranded as Car Bricks 24 May 2024
Follow-Up on Apple No Longer Including Stickers With New Products 15 May 2024
The M4 iPad Pros 14 May 2024
Brief Thoughts and Observations on Yesterday’s ‘Let Loose’ iPad Keynote 8 May 2024
April 2024
Base-Model RAM in Apple Devices 25 Apr 2024
Making a Mountain Out of Molehill-Sized M4 News 21 Apr 2024
Face the Critic: Ian Betteridge Edition 19 Apr 2024
European Data Protection Board Goes There, Rules Against Meta’s ‘Pay or OK’ Model 17 Apr 2024
March 2024
More on the EU’s Market Might 29 Mar 2024
The EU’s Share of Apple’s Global Revenue 26 Mar 2024
European Commission Opens DMA Non-Compliance Investigations Against Google, Apple, and Meta 25 Mar 2024
My 2023 Apple Report Card 18 Mar 2024
Quickly Toggling Closed Captions on Apple TV (But Not in Netflix) 15 Mar 2024
Once More Unto the Apple / Epic / European-Commission Breach, Dear Friends, Once More 11 Mar 2024
Sponsorship Openings at Daring Fireball and The Talk Show, Early 2024 Edition 9 Mar 2024
Apple Reinstates Epic’s EU Developer Account 8 Mar 2024
Apple Terminated Epic’s EU Developer Account 6 Mar 2024
February 2024
Poll Results on Apple’s FineWoven iPhone Cases 28 Feb 2024
Apple Sports 21 Feb 2024
The European Commission Had Nothing to Do With Apple’s Reversal on Supporting RCS 16 Feb 2024
Phil Spencer Puts Apple’s Money Where His Mouth Is 15 Feb 2024
Simple Tricks and Nonsense 2 Feb 2024
January 2024
The Vision Pro 30 Jan 2024
Apple’s Plans for the DMA in the European Union 26 Jan 2024
‘Like the Sixth Finger in an AI-Rendered Hand’ 18 Jan 2024
Margrethe Vestager Met With Tim Cook Yesterday, But I Doubt Anything Happened 13 Jan 2024
Al Gore, Mac Nerd and Internet Pioneer 12 Jan 2024
Heyja Vu: App Store Rejects 37signals’s New Hey Calendar App 8 Jan 2024
December 2023
Beep Beep 28 Dec 2023
App Store Rankings as a Proxy for Social Network Momentum 14 Dec 2023
iOS 17.3, Now in Beta, Includes New ‘Stolen Device Protection’ Feature 12 Dec 2023
Beeper Mini Is Back, But Without Phone Number Registration 11 Dec 2023
Beeper? I Hardly Knew Her. 10 Dec 2023
November 2023
More on Sam Altman’s Ouster From OpenAI 18 Nov 2023
Qualcomm’s Awkward Boasting Regarding Its Forthcoming X Elite Platform 18 Nov 2023
Vision Pro, Spatial Video, and Panoramic Photos 10 Nov 2023
The 2023 M3 MacBook Pros 6 Nov 2023
October 2023
The Best Leather Cases for iPhone 15 Pro 30 Oct 2023
Apple Again Hikes Prices for Its Media Services 25 Oct 2023
Apple to Broadcast ‘Scary Fast’ Event Next Monday Night 24 Oct 2023
Apple and AI 23 Oct 2023
Google’s Pixel 8 Launch Event 5 Oct 2023
iPhone 15 OverheatGate Seems to Be a Nothingburger 1 Oct 2023
September 2023
Craptacular Is More Like It 21 Sep 2023
The iPhones 15 Pro (and iPhones 15) 19 Sep 2023
AirPods Pro 2, Now With USB-C Charging Case 18 Sep 2023
Thoughts and Observations on This Week’s ‘Wonderlust’ Apple Event 15 Sep 2023
Apple’s Two-Pronged Annual iPhone Strategy 11 Sep 2023
The China-Apple Cold War Heats Up 10 Sep 2023
August 2023
Idle Speculation on the Widely-Assumed Switch to USB-C Ports on the Upcoming iPhones 15 29 Aug 2023
‘Changes to U.K. Surveillance Regime May Violate International Law’ 23 Aug 2023
Walt Disney’s Mid-Century Business Strategy Charts 17 Aug 2023
Disney and Apple, Sitting in a Tree 16 Aug 2023
Was Trump Using Twitter Direct Messages? (Please Let the Answer Be Yes.) 10 Aug 2023
What’s the Deal With Sensor Tower? 5 Aug 2023
July 2023
Nobody Uses Threads Anymore, It’s Too Crowded 31 Jul 2023
Jackasses of the Week: TechRadar (Foldable Phones Edition) 29 Jul 2023
Translation From Hostage Code to English of X Corp CEO Linda Yaccarino’s Company-Wide Memo 26 Jul 2023
Aptos, Microsoft’s New Default Font for Office Documents 21 Jul 2023
Nerding Out With Maestral, LaunchControl, and Keyboard Maestro 19 Jul 2023
Now Apollo Faces the Cliff 7 Jul 2023
Threads 5 Jul 2023
June 2023
Ahead of Season 1 Finale, Apple Has Made the Entire First Episode of ‘Silo’ Free — on Twitter 28 Jun 2023
FTC Sues Amazon, Claiming ‘Deceptive’ Prime Sign-Up and Cancellation Process 26 Jun 2023
More on Preemptively Blocking Facebook’s Imminent ActivityPub Entry 20 Jun 2023
The Talk Show Live From WWDC 2023 10 Jun 2023
First Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS 7 Jun 2023
May 2023
On Apple Fitting a Headset Announcement Into the Always-Packed WWDC Keynote 19 May 2023
Do Wall Street Journal Reporters Read The Wall Street Journal? 18 May 2023
Let’s Check in on Supermicro, the Target of Bloomberg’s ‘The Big Hack’ 18 May 2023
Browser and OS Market Share Trends in the Mobile Age 2 May 2023
Follow-Up on ‘Adware for Apple Services in iOS’ 1 May 2023
April 2023
If You Come at the King 21 Apr 2023
Adware for Apple Services in iOS 20 Apr 2023
Warner Bros. Discovery Is Really Going to Drop the ‘HBO’ Brand and Just Call Its Streaming Service ‘Max’ 12 Apr 2023
GM, CarPlay, and iPhones 10 Apr 2023
A Bit of Follow-Up on Wavelength 4 Apr 2023
The Case of the iPhone Case Poll 3 Apr 2023
March 2023
Wavelength 27 Mar 2023
It’s Game Over on Vocal Deepfakes 21 Mar 2023
To Ship or Not to Ship, Headset Edition 13 Mar 2023
Tweetbot and Twitterrific Face the Cliff 1 Mar 2023
February 2023
Warren Beatty and Warren Beatty as Dick Tracy Debate Warren’s Beatty’s ‘Dick Tracy’ 26 Feb 2023
Bing, the Most Exciting Product in Tech 17 Feb 2023
My 2022 Apple Report Card 10 Feb 2023
Making Our Hearts Sing 1 Feb 2023
January 2023
Meanwhile, Over in Androidtown 31 Jan 2023
The Billions-Dollar VR/AR Headset Question 26 Jan 2023
Sponsorship Openings at Daring Fireball and The Talk Show, Early 2023 Edition 23 Jan 2023
HomePod Lives 23 Jan 2023
App Store Rejection of the Week: Ice Cubes, a Splendid New Mastodon Client 19 Jan 2023
If a Tree That Was Never Announced Falls in a Forest Does It Make a Sound? 18 Jan 2023
December 2022
I Wish I Could Tell You This One Is Not All About Twitter 16 Dec 2022
If a Third-Party App Store Falls in the Forest and No One Uses It, Does It Make a Sound? 14 Dec 2022
Two Weeks Later and Twitter Is Still Up 2 Dec 2022
November 2022
Twitter Tumult 18 Nov 2022
October 2022
App Store Ads Gone Wild 31 Oct 2022
The 2022 iPad (and a Wee Note About the 2022 iPad Pros) 26 Oct 2022
Everything 6 Oct 2022
September 2022
Apple Watch Ultra 21 Sep 2022
The iPhones 14 Pro (and iPhones 14) 15 Sep 2022
Thoughts and Observations on Last Week’s ‘Far Out’ Apple Event 13 Sep 2022
August 2022
Facebook’s Problems 31 Aug 2022
The Financial Times on the Effects of App Tracking Transparency on Small Businesses 12 Aug 2022
Is App Tracking Transparency Actually Doing Anything Truly Significant? 11 Aug 2022
Dropbox Branding and App Store SEO Shenanigans 5 Aug 2022
Vin Scully 3 Aug 2022
iMessage Editing and Un-Sending in the Fourth iOS 16 and MacOS 13 Developer Betas 1 Aug 2022
July 2022
The 2022 13-Inch MacBook Air 15 Jul 2022
June 2022
The New Prohibition 28 Jun 2022