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!

France Fines Apple €150 Million Over iOS Data Consent Rules - Bloomberg

Things like this are why it’s hard for me to take EU regulation seriously. (In before “but what about the US…” Yeah, I know.)

It’s purely good that Apple makes apps get your approval before allowing them to track your actions. France claims this is hard for the poor companies like Facebook that want to collect every move you make. Yes. It’s supposed to be. That’s the point. I want it to be.

Will macOS 15.3 be the minor version where Safari (but not Chrome or Firefox) regularly stops hanging until I reboot? Crossing my fingers!

After Apple broke my Apple Card yesterday, I thought I’d found the correct, undocumented, undiscoverable way to update the App Store to use my new card information. Nope. Apple is still declining transactions from their own card after they unilaterally decided to change it.

I’m anticipating the moment they tell me they’ve canceled my account for nonpayment. What an unnecessary mess.