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Visiting Montreal for work and decided to try AirPods Live Translation for the flight attendant instructions…

Maybe a warning about exchange rates?

No idea how new this is, but the App Store now uses 50% of the screen to show an ad for the thing you weren’t searching for.

Gotta keep growing that services revenue I guess!

Andrew Grant Aug 9, 2025

In Europe, sampling fine delicacies such as third-party iOS app stores

Andrew Grant Jul 9, 2025

When you have to confess a rookie error to your AI coding agent

Andrew Grant May 11, 2025

Dare Obasanjo May 10, 2025

Pope Leo XIV says he choose his name to follow the path of Pope Leo XIII who headed the Catholic Church during the Industrial Revolution.

Pope Leo XIII wrote a famous open letter which reflected on the destruction wrought by the Industrial Revolution on the lives of workers. AI is this generation’s industrial revolution.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/europe/pope-leo-prevost-cardinals-artificial-intelligence-intl

Pope Leo signals he will closely follow Francis and says AI represents challenge for humanity

Pope Leo XIV indicated on Saturday that his papacy will follow closely in the footsteps of the late Pope Francis, telling church cardinals that they should take up that “precious legacy” and identifying artificial intelligence as a main challenge for working people and “human dignity.”

CNN

Andrew Grant Dec 8, 2024

The Photos app redesign in iOS continues to tempt me into something I never thought possible - switching to Google Photos

Andrew Grant Oct 27, 2024

Though it does seem just adding ‘gpt’ at the start will send things straight to ChatGPT

‘gpt what restaurants in Vegas have gluten free items on their menu’ etc

Andrew Grant Oct 27, 2024

So far the ChatGPT integration in the iOS 18.2 beta is just a) showing how much better the answers are than Siri, and b) making me wish I could make ChatGPT the default for questions (vs device actions)

Andrew Grant Oct 27, 2024

Fascinating to read through such a large amount of open sourced Apple-authored Swift code https://github.com/apple/security-pcc

GitHub - apple/security-pcc: Private Cloud Compute (PCC)

Private Cloud Compute (PCC). Contribute to apple/security-pcc development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Andrew Grant Oct 7, 2024

@marcoarment I’m a multi-year happy user of SleepWatch. I think it does everything you called out (no fart noises tho).

My only complaint about tagging is there’s no custom tags (but plenty of defaults) and tagging can only be applied retroactively, not for the night ahead.

Great app. The free plan seemed fine but I subscribe because of the trends feature.

For some reason, it has always been omitted from Apple‘s recommended list of such apps, even though it has great watch and iOS app