The Talk Show With John Gruber

441: ‘Serious Opinionators’, With Adam Engst

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Adam Engst returns to the show to talk, in detail, about certain of the UI changes in iOS 26 and Apple's version 26 OSes overall. In particular, the new Unified view in the Phone app, and the Filter pop-up menu in both the Phone and Messages apps. Also: a shoutout to Balloon Help.

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    • Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.

    Links:

    • Adam’s two pieces on the Classic and Unified views in the iOS 26 Phone app:
      • “Hidden Setting Controls What Happens When You Tap a Call in the Phone App”.
    • “Comparing the Classic and Unified Views in iOS 26’s Phone App”.
    • My link post, with some commentary.
    • Reader support for TidBITS in 2026.
    • Brent Simmons, linking to code, on how to eliminate all the menu item icons in a Mac app built for MacOS 26 Tahoe.
    • Paul Kafasis’s One Foot Tsunami.
    • Nikita Prokopov: “It’s Hard to Justify Tahoe (Menu Bar) Icons”.
      • Yours truly, linking to Prokopov: “A shitty idea that works against usability, inconsistently implemented, all in the name of adding some ugly visual bling to the UI.”
    • Jim Nielsen on Tahoe’s menu-item icons: “Icons in Menus Everywhere — Send Help”.
      • Yours truly, linking to Nielsen: “Well, who’s laughing now?”
    • Norbert Heger: “The Struggle of Resizing Windows on macOS Tahoe” — and a follow-up.
    • Daring Fireball: “Why It’s Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe”.
    • Daring Fireball: “Bad Dye Job”.
    • Episode sponsor Sentry’s two-minute video showing how to use Seer, their AI debugging agent.
    • TipKit Apple Developer documentation.
    • Balloon Help in System 7.
    • David Pogue’s soon-to-be-released book: “Apple: The First 50 Years”.

      • This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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