606: A Decade of Half-Presses

Accidental Tech Podcast

• Join us in raising money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
  • Donate in ATP’s name!
  • Ryan Ricard’s great idea
  • Calculate your Marco Offset
  • Podcastathon: Casey was live from noon → midnight on Friday, 20 September
• Follow-up:
  • John filename extraction from Photos
    • From the ATP Insider: Photo Workflows special
    • John’s AppleScript
    • Other suggestions
      • Shortcuts (for example, Josh Woodward’s)
      • osxphotos (via Muli)
      • Directly read SQLite database
        • Suggestion from Will Leinweber
      • Use Swift/PhotoKit
        • Example from Alex Mazanov
          • SwiftBar
  • Always sending photos to the shared library (via Alexander Faxå)
  • JPEG-XL in iOS 18 on iPhone 16
  • iPhone apps and spying via the microphone
    • Eavesdropping via Siri
    • Secure Exclave
  • iPhone 16 & 16 Plus battery removal
    • iFixIt teardown
    • iFixIt blog post
  • Jeff Johnson figured out how to silence the monthly screen recording prompts
    • Sometimes the keys are bundle IDs
    • Shell script to push everything out a year by Kyle Rubenok
    • Amnesia App has come out to handle this for you
    • TextSniper
• iPhone 16 Pro Impressions
  • Is it green or blue?
  • Belkin UltraGlass 2 Screen Protector
  • Hypercritical #86: Naked Robotic Core
• AirPods 4 with ANC Impressions
• Apple Watch Series 10 Impressions
• Post-show Neutral: Volvo EX90’s annoying “feature”
  • Animation
  • Timestamp link to a video review
  • Still images
  • Bugatti Chiron
    • Headlight replacement
• Members-only ATP Overtime: Meta kicks Apple when it’s down
  • Meta canceled its Vision Pro competitor
  • The Information
  • Zuckerberg calls Meta the “opposite of Apple”
    • Interview video

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