macOS Tahoe has one feature that I adore: a setting to remove an app’s icon from the menu bar at the top of the screen. Far too many apps want to put their icon there for no helpful reason other than to remind me that they exist. That led to a proliferation of apps like Bartender (which I use to like before it sold out), Ice, and others that let users control what shows up in the menu bar.

I don’t need those apps anymore and I don’t miss them.

Here’s the 1Password icon in my menu bar. I have never, not once, ever used that icon for anything useful.

In System Settings > Menu Bar, I removed 1Password’s “Allow in the Menu Bar” permission.

Ta-da! No more unnecessary icon, and no third-party menu bar manager app required!

Prompt 3.5 for Apple Vision Pro adds a wild new immersive environment!

I was today years old when I started wanting an Apple Vision Pro for the first time ever.

Say hello to MacBook Neo

This is really cool and they’re going to sell a gazillion of them. It’s what I’ll tell my relatives to get to upgrade off old Windows laptops.

And yet, I’m kind of bitter that for years I’ve been told that my iPad Pro can’t have a Terminal.app because it’s not powerful enough and it would be a bad experience and that’s why Apple’s saving me from myself.

It’s not possible to get the iOS Clock app to show you the current time’s seconds, except by looking at its animated icon, or adding a clock widget to your phone’s screen. Inside the app? No. No, you can’t see the exact time in seconds. That’s not something regular users want to do, or something.

I have a pair of AirPods Pro 2 that I wear every day during my commute to quiet the sounds of the bus and subway. Santa brought me an upgraded Pro 3 set last week. Noise cancellation in the Pro 2 was very good. ANC in the Pro 3 is astonishing. The normal background of a thumping diesel engine behind my head went from a quieted roar to nearly silent.

If you love your Pro 2s, which you should, because they’re great, then stick with them. If you were looking for an excuse to upgrade, this is me telling you to do it.

My AirPods Pro case stopped charging on my MagSafe charger. The Internet told me, and I quote,

Just smack them shits on your table

It worked. Percussive maintenance carries the day, yet again.

Technology is not evenly distributed, even in the US. Every time I use Apple Pay on my watch here in my ancestral home, which is not often because I don’t go waving my arm at cashiers like a maniac, but still, even at things like a coffee shop, or a McDonald’s drive through — a McDonald’s! — every time, the person says something close to “whoa, you can pay with your watch?”, and I cannot possibly be the first person here to do this.

This is the one day a year I immerse myself in Apple news. A buddy and I have a decade long tradition of watching the WWDC keynote together. Then I’ll go back to mostly ignoring the hype for another 364 days.

The new Apple News daily Sudoku results page is sloppy. As screenshotted on an iPhone 15 Pro, you have to scroll down about 1/8” to see the whole Leaderboard button.

I will not lose sleep over this, but it’s still sloppy.

cormiertyshawn895/PixelPerfect:

Pixel Perfect lets you increase the text size of iPhone and iPad apps on Mac. Say goodbye to small and blurry text, and enjoy pixel-perfect graphics, all rendered at 100% native resolution.

I just learned about this nifty little MIT-licensed tool that makes iPhone apps running on Macs render text at the correct size. It makes those apps so much more pleasant!