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This week on Magic Rays of Light, Devon gets an Alien intervention, and Sigmund shares his custom art project for increasing media browsing legibility – plus, the return of the hilarious Platonic, and Chief of War reveals itself as the surprise epic no one expected!

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Thank you, Warner! The screenshots are a little deceiving because I don’t have a non-beta device to take them with, but the features I’m describing here are available on iOS 18 as well. It was the Control Center stuff last year where I really went all out and got myself into trouble. 😅

App Intents enable amazing features on our devices, but I recently found myself overwhelmed by so many options. In the Monthly Log, I share how I muddled my setup, plus my scaled-back approach that’s resulted in something more clean and usable. club.macstories.net/posts/app-in...

This week on Magic Rays of Light: with tvOS 26 now in public beta, we preview Apple TV’s next major software update coming this fall and recap Stick, an Apple Original hole-in-one! Plus, calling Pluribus, release news, and the week in Apple TV.

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This week on Magic Rays of Light, we begin our final trip to Las Colinas as Acapulco returns, and we share our first impressions of the upcoming Apple Games app – plus, Ted Lasso, Kansas City BBQ, a summer of love from Infuse, and the week in Apple TV.

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This week on Magic Rays of Light, Foundation returns for its centuries-long deadly game of intergalactic chess, and we share our favorite films and TV shows from the first half of 2025 – plus, a recap of Apple Original sci-fi comedy Murderbot and the week in Apple TV!

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Magic Rays of Light will not release this week due to health and scheduling issues.

For now, watch some Apple TV, and play some Apple Arcade. Devon and Sigmund will be back next week!

This week on Magic Rays of Light:

Danny Boyle has us reflecting on the shared cinematic experience, and an Apple image sensor patent has us wondering if we could end up inside the screen. Then, we recap Carême and the week in Apple TV.

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I love apps that surface old items for me to revisit, like Photos and Everlog. To get a similar experience out of my Collections databases, I created a custom On This Day view, and I shared all of the details in the latest Club MacStories Monthly Log. club.macstories.net/posts/adding...

This week on Magic Rays of Light, Sigmund and Devon are joined by Jonathan Reed and Benjamin Mayo to highlight the theatrical debut of F1: The Movie – plus, the iPhone camera technology behind the film’s racing scenes and Friday’s streaming premiere of Smoke.

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Interview: Craig Federighi Opens Up About iPadOS, Its Multitasking Journey, and the iPad's Essence - MacStories It’s a cool, sunny morning at Apple Park as I’m walking my way along the iconic glass ring to meet with Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, for a conversation about the iPad. It’s the Wednesday after WWDC, and although there are still some developers and members of the press around Apple’s campus, it

So two guys with great hair sat down to talk about the iPad.

This story from @viticci.macstories.net is not only a fascinating interview, but a telling history of how far the iPad has come and the place it’s in today. www.macstories.net/stories/inte...

This week on Magic Rays of Light, Sigmund and Devon highlight The Buccaneers’ return, go hands-on with F1’s haptic trailer, explore the potential for other enhanced media experiences through metadata tracks on Apple TV, and recap Your Friends & Neighbors.

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WWDC Favorites (2025 Edition) | Devon Dundee I’m back for another year with a grab bag of my favorite announcements from this year’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference. It was a great week with lots to be excited about from Apple. Here’s what I’m looking forward to most. Liquid Glass : The design of Apple’s operating systems developed iterat

I finally got around to writing up my favorite announcements from WWDC this year! devondundee.com/blog/wwdc-fa...

This week on Magic Rays of Light: Sigmund and Devon break down Apple’s tvOS and visionOS announcements from WWDC25, grade their predictions, and highlight the new Michael Pearce directed Apple Original film Echo Valley.

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Camera Remote and Higher-Quality Audio Recording Coming to AirPods This Fall - MacStories While most of the new features announced at WWDC today are coming to Apple’s major OSes, the AirPods weren’t completely left out of the fun. Today, Apple revealed a couple of enhancements coming to the AirPods line this fall. [aside pre_title=”Supported By” title=”Longplay” align=”center” width=”narrow”] Longplay: The home for your albums. Now on iOS, coming

AirPods will never stop gaining new features. www.macstories.net/news/camera-...

Apple Intelligence Expands: Onscreen Visual Intelligence, Shortcuts, Third-Party Apps, and More - MacStories One of the big questions heading into today’s WWDC keynote was how Apple would address its AI efforts. After a splashy introduction last year followed by a staggered rollout and the eventual delay of the more personalized Siri, it was unclear how much focus the company would put on Apple Intelligence during its big announcement

We weren’t sure what Apple Intelligence would have to offer in its second year after a bit of a rocky start, but the set of features is expanding in some really interesting ways. www.macstories.net/news/apple-i...

visionOS 26: The MacStories Overview - MacStories As part of this year’s WWDC keynote, Apple today announced visionOS 26, the next major version of visionOS coming this fall. The update features new ways for users to experience spatial content, display information in their environment, and interact with apps and games. It represents the next step forward for Apple’s vision of spatial computing,

What’s the next step for spatial computing? We got our first look today at WWDC. My overview on MacStories: www.macstories.net/news/visiono...

As of this moment, my reading, podcast, and video queues are empty. We’ll see how long that lasts.

This week on Magic Rays of Light:

Sigmund and Devon highlight the excellent new Owen Wilson golf comedy #Stick - plus #WWDC25 hopes and wishes, and an annual head-to-head with their Apple TV and tvOS related predictions.

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Screens Enables File Transfers Between Your Mac and Other Apple Devices - MacStories For years, my go-to solution for remotely accessing a Mac from another device has been Screens from Edovia. It’s excellent for logging into my home iMac from my iPad when I’m on the go, getting tasks done on machines across my work network from my office on my Vision Pro, quickly checking things from my

Today, Screens is adding a feature I’ve long hoped for: file transfers between remote Macs and iPhones, iPads, and Vision Pros. My story on the update: www.macstories.net/news/screens...

Leave it to Black Mirror to find new and innovative ways of depressing me after all these years.

Thank you! Yes, I’ve given it a spin a couple of times. It’s really well done and even addresses a couple of my Reeder pain points, but I haven’t been able to get the design to click for me. Are you using Tapestry?

Bringing My Social Media Timelines Into Reeder

I actually did it: I went all in on the new Reeder for social media, and I shared how it’s going in the latest Club MacStories Monthly Log. club.macstories.net/posts/bringi...

Taylor Swift Finally Owns All of Her Old Music “All of the music I’ve ever made now belongs to me,” the pop star wrote after re-acquiring the rights to her first six albums

You love to see it. apple.news/AbEsIr87wQky...

This week on Magic Rays of Light, Sigmund and Devon highlight Bono: Stories of Surrender (Immersive) and look back at The Studio – plus, a new Apple Original film in production from Siân Heder, our first glimpse at Smoke and Chief of War, and the week in #AppleTV.

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*grabs a coffee*

A framed screenshot of an iPhone Home Screen with a purple-blue gradient background and four widgets: Everlog (with a blurred snippet of a journal entry from May 25, 2023, and the number 10), Photos On This Day (featuring a photo of a smiling white dog with the caption “6 Years Ago”), and two from Collections (one showing a blog post entitled “Branson” from May 25, 2012, and another showing MacStories Weekly from May 25, 2024).

I’m playing around with an On This Day widget dashboard that includes journal entries, photos, creative output, and editing work from this date in past years.

Things I found today: a picture from the day we adopted Winter six years ago and a blog post I wrote in 2012!

Noah (from another room): Daddy! Daddy! *DADDY!*

Me (rushing into the room): Yes?

Noah: Hi. 😊

And so it begins.

This week on Magic Rays of Light:

We go on an EPIC adventure in search of the #FountainOfYouth with Guy Ritchie's latest family feature for Skydance and Apple Original Films – plus, #DeafPresidentNow, #Cannes, CarPlay Ultra, and the week in #AppleTV.

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