Apple love to preach "the UI gets out of the way of your content" with each new redesign, but how true is that in practice? Let's compare the total height of the Safari UI with a toolbar, favourites bar and tab bar visible, across the three latest Mac OS design languages – Yosemite, Big Sur and now Tahoe. I've added a red line for emphasis.

It sure looks to me like the UI is eating more into my content with each redesign.

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As Apple prepares for WWDC 2025, the company must address its AI blunders and rekindle its relationship with developers to stay relevant.

Apple’s AI rollout has been rocky, from Siri delays to underwhelming Apple Intelligence features. WSJ’s Joanna Stern sits down with software chief Craig Federighi and marketing head Greg Joswiak at WWDC 2025 in Cupertino to talk about the future of AI at Apple—and what the heck happened to that smarter Siri.

My phone runs a bit hotter than it used to, but it's a beta so they'll probably reduce the effects to make it less of drain on performance and battery life. There is a reduce transparency toggle which does help a bit, esp. for readability. Hopefully when iOS 26 is released there's an obvious option to reduce transparency.

My opinion on the "liquid glass" is mixed. Some parts look pretty cool. The apps (Mail, Photos, etc.) use it quite well, with only some parts are transparent making readability a bit better. I really like the change to the search bars being at the bottom, makes the phone more one-handable. Safari doesn't look too good in my opinion, the glass effects are a bit much. The camera app just hid all the buttons, which is a bit annoying. You can have it show flash and live photos toggles in settings, which is good.

The lock screen effect with the "3d" photos is very cool, but the phone runs extra hot when it's enabled so I turned that off. The glassy clock is pretty cool and there's the option to make it normal again if you select "solid". Swiping up from the lock screen makes a weird glass effect with the edges distorted and lots of rainbow fringing, which looks a bit odd. When you swipe down you can see the home screen app icons until it's all the way down, then they all pop out of existence and the background is replaced. Bit jarring. Similar effect with swiping up, background changes with no transition, but the apps appear in an animation this time. Weird. I'm assuming this is probably a bug with the beta, at least I hope it is...

Onto the home screen. I think the "liquid glass" themes make the tinted icons look a bit better than just colour on black, I like that bit of customisability. I still do not get the "clear" icons, it quite literally is transparent and you can barely differentiate the icons. You can always swap it to the default, but there is still some annoying glass effects on app icons where it clearly isn't natively built (I'm guessing the glass effects is applied to all icons automatically incl. third party apps, but it doesn't look too great with some of them). The app folders look terrible though and the reflection/refraction is really distracting. The pop ups when you select text is especially annoying, popping up a huge bubble. I'll need some time to get used to that vs just clicking right to share, translate, etc. The control center is not very nice to look at but it works fine.

Overall, in places where it's used tastefully (in a lot of Apple's apps, for instance) it works quite well if a bit distracting. I like the lock screen and home screen customisation and the ability to change it to "solid". The glass effects are still quite distracting though. The reduce transparency toggle does help a bit with readability, but it's annoying that it's buried deep in accessibility settings. Not very accessible at all. The lock screen 3d effect is cool but is a bit subtle, and it makes the phone uncomfortably hot. There are still plenty of bugs, but that'll hopefully be fixed in the public release. I like the option for the tinted icons but do not get the clear icons. Camera app isn't too functional, just hiding everything isn't better than before! The iOS 26 beta is quite fun, if very buggy, and the liquid glass works in some places but doesn't work in all places.

I wish Apple would allow download of iPad apps onto Apple TV. They should fit side orientation wise on most TVs. Apple TV remotes have a touch pad so they would interact like they would on your Mac (Mac already lets you download iPad apps). They have comparable processors as well. Often smaller developers spend less time Apple TV versions of apps than the more widely used touch versions. Would be nice to give more options to the weak Apple TV store - especially with gaming.

I wouldn't recommend It though. While it is really cool, most apps have small top-left buttons, while apple's core apps have doubled their size.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30926370

A beta version of uBO Lite (uBOL) for iOS and macOS is available through TestFlight: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/327

For details of uBOL, see the project page: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

Apple warns Australia against following the EU in mandating iOS app sideloading, citing security risks. Australia is considering forcing Apple to open its App Store to sideloading as part of competition reforms.

I know this is going to be unpopular with some, but I am seriously considering a Mac and I am annoyed by the idea of it.

I NEED MacOS or Windows for my work. There is one application that does not work in Linux yet and there are no alternatives. It is a critical work application.

With that being said, you can probably guess that Linux is my preferred OS of choice.

I am currently using a Windows desktop for my work, but I do run into situations where I need a laptop. The laptop I am using now is a Thinkpad from 2021 with Fedora. I actually really love this computer. My only real complain is that the webcam is pretty garbage.

So, I think I need a new computer. My choices are Windows laptops which have decent pricing with good specs, or Apple which is extremely expensive for what you get.

I'm really annoyed with Windows' ads, bloat, and general lack of privacy; specifically Recall. On the other hand, it is hard to justify spending an extra $400 on a Macbook air just to get a 1tb hard drive. My work files alone take up a little more than 200gb.

I guess this is just a rant. I'm not looking for any solutions as what I am really looking is the ability to use Linux for my work which is not an option at the moment.

Write to any where in /var/mobile/Containers/, running on iOS 16.0 - 18.5 (up to lastest since Apple said it's not security issues and you don't have to concern it).

YSK

If you have an Apple Card, you can schedule payments from your bank's Bill Pay feature rather than rely on Goldman Sachs to automatically debit your bank account.

tl;dr you can setup payments to originate from your bank. Follow the steps outlined under "Methodology" heading

Reasoning

You may be asking: "why" would I rely on Bill Pay? Personally, I like to have control on what is debited from my account rather than relying on external parties to "get it right". Many horror stories of creditors, services either "fat fingering" or having "internal system issues" causing auto withdrawal methods to well exceed the amount due [8]. It's honestly up to you. I bring it up here because Apple/Goldman Sachs do not advertise it and find it scummy/misleading. I hope some people find it useful.

Research

Publicly, Apple only publishes these 3 methods of paying your account balance with Goldman Sachs/Apple Card:

1. Set up automatic payments in Wallet app [1]
2. Schedule one time payments in Wallet app [2]
3. Schedule payment using "card.apple.com"

Several discussions on Apple's own discussion forum around this topic all point back to the aforementioned methods of payment [3,4,5]. One of these discussions hinted at the ability to use an external means of payment [3], but ultimately failed to provide any instructions for this.

There was a more recent discussion on this topic [6] and decided to deep dive into this address that was shared:

Goldman Sachs Bank, Lockbox 6112, P.O. Box 7247, Philadelphia, PA 19170-6112

I cross referenced the address with my most recent statement with Apple Card (April 2025) and it does appear to be valid and owned by Goldman Sachs entity. I found it buried in the "Legal" section of my credit card statement:

... Billing Rights Summary

What To Do If You Think You Find A Mistake On Your Statement:

If you think there is an error on your statement, write to us at:

Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Salt Lake City Branch

Lockbox 6112

P.O. Box 7247

Philadelphia, PA 19170-6112 ...

I wasn't familiar with what a "Lockbox" is in mailing address, so I looked it up [7].

What Is Lockbox Banking? Lockbox banking is a service provided by banks to companies for the receipt of payment from customers.

Bingo. So I will use this address to setup Bill Pay.

So, for those unfamiliar with "Bill Pay" offered by most (if not all) US banks. I understand it as an electronic means of remitting payments to creditors (ie, Goldman Sachs) or service providers (ie, your landlord, cellular device provider). However, if payee does not support an electronic means of payment. Then the Bill Pay service will fallback on issuing a check to the address associated with the payee.

So armed with this information, I should in theory be able to remit payment from my bank's bill pay feature.

Initially, I wasn't comfortable with relying on this feature for paying my card on time since it's not even advertised as a method in the billing statement. So decided to do a small test payment well in advance of the due date at end of the month.

Methodology

1. Get "Card Number" from Wallet app

Wallet app > Tap 💳 icon in top right > authenticate with Face ID or pass code > save the "Card Number" value under "Virtual Card Number" heading

2. Create new bill payee with following information:

Account Number: replace_with_card_number_from_previous_step

Name: Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Salt Lake City Branch

Address Line 1: LOCKBOX 6112

Address Line 2: PO BOX 7247

Zip: 19170-6112

City: PHILADELPHIA

State: PA

3. Submit form to create new payee

NOTE: here I was given a quote of 1-2 days for electronic delivery. Gave me confidence this might work

4. Remit $10 payment to newly created payee

I did the aforementioned steps on 2025-05-09 and observed the following:

1. Payment scheduled via Bill Pay to be sent on 2025-05-12 and delivered to payee (Goldman Sachs) on 2025-05-14
2. Debit on account for $10 on 2025-05-12
3. 2025-05-14 received e-mail and Wallet transaction notification of an "Offline Payment" that was processed

Pros / Cons

Pros

• take away potential of GS debiting my account beyond what is due
• increase control of payments to creditor

Cons

• (at least for my bank) debit on your account happens on the send on date
• have to manually schedule every month as opposed to letting GS take what they supposedly are owed

References

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/102534#autopay

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/102534#make

[3] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252947711?sortBy=rank

[4] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252716535?sortBy=rank

[5] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254433851?sortBy=rank

[6] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255616490?sortBy=rank

[7] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/lockboxbanking.asp

[8] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/went-broke-because-autopay-wish-190015131.html