Andrew Mackarous 🇨🇦

@mackarous
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iOS developer by day, potter by night
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Andrew Mackarous 🇨🇦May 3

@caseyliss something you should probably be aware of when you have Claude as a sponsor again on @atpfm

They started identity verification, using Persona which is a Palantir product. I declined to upload my government id and now I’ve been locked out of my paid account with no ability to cancel or delete. Only action I have is to verify which I do not want to do. This practice is absolutely scummy behavior by Anthropic.

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-verification-on-claude

Identity verification on Claude | Claude Help Center

Andrew Mackarous 🇨🇦Mar 25
@gruber I don’t like the new tap for app updates either but a nice long press on App Store on the Home Screen does the trick for that quick action to go to updates.
Andrew Mackarous 🇨🇦Mar 11

@caseyliss I’m about to receive my second Subaru (keeping my first so I’ll have 2 now) and I just realized you guys never talk about Subarus, how come?

Or Lexus either

Andrew Mackarous 🇨🇦Dec 19
@siracusa I just listened to the last two episodes of ATP and I might have a fix for your iMessage group thing. I have experienced this many time and the only thing that has consistently worked for me is to remove all customizations to the groups, name, profile photo, background, everything. Bring both groups down to standard groups with no customization force quit iMessage and give it a few minutes. When you go back into iMessage, the groups should be merged.
Show threadAndrew Mackarous 🇨🇦Oct 4, 2025
@caseyliss never mind I’m on 659 now 😝
Andrew Mackarous 🇨🇦Oct 4, 2025
@caseyliss i’m listening to episode 658 of ATP and maybe it was addressed in the next episode, but you can turn on advanced data protection to do and to end encrypted iCloud backups
Andrew Mackarous 🇨🇦Sep 13, 2025
Threads: Influencers and content creators
Bluesky: People who fled X
X: Musk lovers
Mastodon: Computer nerds and software engineers
Nostr: Backpacking bitcoiners
Andrew Mackarous 🇨🇦Sep 12, 2025
Anybody got a good recipe for Quesabirria tacos?
Andrew Mackarous 🇨🇦Sep 8, 2025

Just had to file some #AppleFeedback about an #imessage #bug in #ios26

Friend of mine installed 26, set a background then switched to android. Now I have an iMessage chat with a background and I can’t change or remove it.

Andrew Mackarous 🇨🇦Mar 13, 2025

@gruber Just read your article about Swift Assist.

I’m an iOS dev for about 12 years now I was very excited about it and watched the WWDC video that demoed it.

I can’t seem to find that video but I distinctly remember the demo. Apples own announcement page shows a screenshot of it and a demo as well. I wonder if they’ll take it down soon.

https://nr.apple.com/dJ9Z9h6oJ7

Apple empowers developers and fuels innovation with new tools and resources

Apple unveiled new tools and resources to enable developers worldwide to create more powerful apps across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS.

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