Accidental Tech Podcast

By Marco Arment, Casey Liss, John Siracusa

Three nerds discussing tech, Apple, programming, and loosely related matters.... more

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September 10, 2025656: A Long T-Shirt
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
The Marco Offset
iPhone event
AirPods Pro 3
Apple Watch Series 11
No new System-in-Package?
Whoop Band
Apple Watch SE 3
Apple Watch Ultra 3
LTPO
Satellite can-kicking continues
iPhone 17
Memory Integrity Enforcement
iPhone Air
iPhone Air MagSafe Battery 💔
iPhone 17 Pro & Pro Max
Software ship dates
Post-show:
Apple trade-in
✨ Tina’s dream has come true! ✨
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s competing implementations for the new Siri
Gurman, 13 August
Gurman, 22 August
Gurman, 3 September
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2h 37min
September 04, 2025655: Shorts-Compatible Body Type
Pre-Show: Trouble in Razer paradise
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
The Marco Offset
Follow-up:
Casey has thoughts about the compact iOS 26 controls in Safari
Settings → Apps → Safari
Apple device advice for those that are athletically engaged
Place your phone face-down (via. A. O.)
Sleep focus is an option (via A. M.)
So is Theater Mode and, if taps are an issue, water lock (via Ryan)
How to stop Siri from randomly activating all the damn time by D. Griffin Jones
Fun fact: you can add it to the Health app! (via Niv Ben-Porath)
…but it won’t affect your rings
A truly hilarious story from Anonymous
Developing “product sense” (via Joseph Kibe)
Productive Tensions by Christopher B. Bingham & Rory M. McDonald
iPhone 16 exit interview
Peltier device
Obscura
Halide
iPhone event preview
Crossbody strap
Apple Natural Titanium Milanese Loop (Marco’s summer watch band)
Post-show: Smaller e-ink note-taking tablets
reMarkable Paper Pro Move
The Verge’s coverage
Ars Technica’s coverage
Supernote Nomad
iFLYTEK AINOTE Air 2
Viwoods AiPaper Mini
Members-only ATP Overtime: US government buys 10% of Intel
Ars Technica
New York Times
The Verge
Intel self-announces all the red flags
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2h 5min
August 28, 2025654: Athletically Engaged
Pre-Show: Casey and Marco are sad
Ben Rice McCarthy
Under the Radar
Follow-up:
🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
The Marco Offset
Anonymous crushes the dreams of Marco and Casey about cellular MacBooks
Another Anonymous shares a bit too much information about accidental Siri activations 😆
🤬 John’s AppleCare One update 🤬
Help with Trackpad dragging
System Settings → Accessibility → Pointer Control → Trackpad Options… → Dragging Style → Three Finger Drag
Screenshot
…or Drag Lock
Masimo comes for [more] blood
UK drops utterly bananas backdoor legislation
Studio Display with A19
Daniel Luz points out makes a funny comparison to Macs
Fabian Häusler theorizes it’s about binning
Apple’s Hide my Email feature
An unexpected wrinkle Timothy Martin points out
Anecdote from David Beck
Apple Event: 9 September 1PM OTTZ
Interactive logo
Still image for posterity
Reverse-engineering by sam henri gold
“TechWoven” and “Liquid Silicone” cases leaked
Maijin Bu on TechWoven
…and on Liquid Silicone (and again)
Apple will simplify the Camera Control button
Ask ATP:
What’s the ∆ between snapshots and backups? (via Phil Hirst)
Hyperspace
Why is Finder slow to delete files? (via Dan)
How will Apple reconcile AI and carbon neutrality? (via Sam Hunt)
Post-show: Some venting about politics and 𝓍26.
Jeff Atwood’s post
John’s reply
There’s nothing Republicans won’t ruin
Members-only ATP Overtime: Rumored Apple roadmap
Apple readies first upgrade to its struggling Vision Pro headset
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1h 48min
August 21, 2025653: Warning Stories
Pre-Show: AI slop vs. not… so… AI… slop
AITAH
Follow-up:
Casey spends 24 hours with iOS 26 on his carry phone
John’s dancing controls
☝️ Well, actually ☝️, myriad of is okay (via Jason Eccles)
Merriam-Webster’s take
Are size classes similar to today’s design changes? (via Bryan Guffey)
Auto Layout
John’s HomePod has risen from the dead!
Nic’s Fix
Watch John’s actual repair happen
🍿 John would like to air some AppleCare One grievances 🍿
John’s tantrum
AppleCare One Terms & Conditions
Blood oxygen with Apple Watch [sorta] returns to the US
Gruber’s take
Victoria Song at The Verge
😳🥳 M5 MacBook Pro with cellular is coming‽ 🎉😳
A19 Pro in Studio Display 2?
Previously, in low-cost MacBook rumors: A18 Pro
Your Mac game is probably rendering blurry
CGDisplayCopyAllDisplayModes()
FB13375033
Ask ATP:
Should the name “Siri” be retired? (via Aaron Bushnell)
Did Vehicle Motion Cues help John? (via Roly C.)
How do we click our trackpads? (via Eli)
Post-show: Oh yeah! 🗣️ New ATP Members special: ATP Insider: Vacations 🗣️
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s research into using LLMs to make UIs
Apple trained a LLM to teach itself good SwiftUI
Research paper
Stephen Robles’ video
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1h 48min
August 14, 2025652: You Have 24 Hours to Comply
Pre-Show: Marco and Casey’s no-good, very bad days.
Follow-up:
Casey didn’t read the fine print on Express Replacement 🤦🏻‍♂️
Short Pump
John cycled his mouse again
AppleCare One
Moving a device on a payment plan (via “Clark Griswold” and Anonymous)
Tina’s iPhone
Tina’s Mac Studio
Tahoe beta 5: checkbox contrast improves
iOS 26 beta 6 Liquid glass changes
Smart TV interfaces over time
“Shortcut”
New Magic Remote
Running your own mail server
How does iCloud-on-your-domain work? (via potato.zip)
Hide my Email (via Peter Puleio)
Jason Diller thinks it’s not so bad
Post-quantum cryptography
Harvest now, decrypt later (via Lisa Ugray)
Since iOS 17.4 for iMessage (via Saul Sutherland)
Apple Security Research blog post
Compelled adoption (via Brian Jarvis)
Chrome adopted it in 2024 (via sayrer)
2024: State of post-quantum internet
2025: Update
John wages war against icons
Adopting Liquid Glass: App Icons
WWDC 2025 #361: Create Icons with Icon Composer
John’s Mastodon thread
Václav Slavík’s solution
FB19437407
FB19497128
FB17892659
There’s likely to be a lot more of this
Ask ATP:
Is Liquid Glass on macOS a subtle move toward touchscreen Macs? (via Daniel Liu)
How does one build a “good product sense”? (via Ian Anderson)
Inspired by Marty Cagan
How does one effectively de-duplicate photos using Photos.app? (via Keith Heaton)
Post-show: Marco’s air-conditioning “update”
Members-only ATP Overtime: AI voice control as a threat to Apple’s platforms
Apple’s Upcoming AI Voice Control will Change how People Use iPhones
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2h 9min
August 07, 2025651: Your Judgement About Pockets
Pre-Show:
Brief vacation results
Tim Cook kisses the… ring
Video
Follow-up:
HDTVTest reviews Sony Bravia 8 II and Panasonic Z95B
TV shootout results
Nilay’s comments
AppleCare One
iCareCalculator Reddit post (removed by moderators)
iCare Calculator web app
John’s experience
B&H
Casey’s roughly equivalent Mac, available for special order
Retro computing corner
Revisiting eWorld
More on Tahoe
Gus Mueller
…on checkboxes
…on sliders
Beta 5 improves selection legibility
Ejecting USB storage in Windows (via Justin Bradford)
Bleeping computer
Art & science of UI design
Game design concepts in software (via Wes Davis)
iPhone 17’s rumored new MagSafe design
Majin Bu
iPhone 16
Apple’s “Answers” team
Ask ATP:
How can one improve the experience of a permanent-mount SSD on a laptop?
Jettison
Why is Xcode so thirsty? (via Geoff)
Time Machine local snapshots
Deleting snapshots with Disk Utility
DevCleaner (App Store link)
Github
GrandPerspective
Disk Inventory X
DaisyDisk
How are we dealing with spam? (via Alan Bailward)
SpamSieve
MailRoute
Fastmail
Post-show: Apple Express Replacement
Members-only ATP Overtime: Post-Quantum Cryptography networking in the 𝓍26 OSes
Prepare your network for quantum-secure encryption in TLS
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1h 45min
July 28, 2025650: Whatever It Takes to Get the Laundry Folded
Pre-Show: Casey’s french-fry problem
Follow-up:
D. Griffin Jones takes one for the team
Casey’s struggles with iperf3
Tutorial
iperf3 -t 60 -c {ip} -P 4 -i 10 -R
John’s new toaster and E01 (via J-P Teti & John F.)
Chemical vs. physical sunscreen (via Prodan Statev)
Research paper
Apple security for unreleased devices
Low-cost Apple laptop (via Jason Anthony Guy)
Ed: Please don’t give Apple ideas like this. 🫣
Getting customer support from Apple (via Patch)
Apple support app → Chat
Any retail store on Apple Maps → ... → Message
CloudFlare & AI crawlers
Thoughts from Thomas Schoffelen
Thoughts from Aaron Zinck
Thoughts from Anonymous
JA3/JA4 fingerprint
The 𝓍26 public betas are out
Under the Radar #323: The Tidal Wave
Tahoe beta 4
Contrast will decrease until morale improves
Startup disk selection (cropped)
Startup disk selection (full)
News summaries are back, baby! 😬
Apple and interfaces
Tog in Interface (1992)
Amazon
NNG
Tog on Software Design (1995)
Amazon
NNG
Apple’s Aqua introduction, Macworld San Francisco, 2000
AppleCare One
Dan Moren’s take
The Verge
Fees & deductibles
FAQ (scroll way down)
Post-show: John has an addendum to his earlier topic
Members-only ATP Overtime: Frame of preference, an incredible exploration of the Mac’s settings by Marcin Wichary in concert with Mihai Parparita of the Infinite Mac Project
Marcin’s announcement
Mihai’s associated announcement
Embed Infinite Mac
Infinite Mac Construction Set
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1h 28min
July 22, 2025649: Prove It With Cameras
Pre-Show: Casey did Marco’s favorite thing
CalDigit TS5+ (affiliate link)
CalDigit TS5+ (product page)
iperf3
Follow-up:
F1 (the sport, not the movie)
Apple expected to win 🇺🇸 rights
F1 TV
Vroom
John’s video != Casey’s immersive ride-along
To see the immersive ride-along, you need to be wearing a Vision Pro; scroll down on that link
John’s toaster update
AirPods & AppleCare+
Keratoconus
Water resistance
IP54
AirPods Express Replacement Service
B&H
Reverting to “normal” tabs in Tahoe (via ST-S)
defaults write -g NSSolariumWindowTabs -bool NO
Low-cost Apple laptop with A18 Pro
mandonam
Apple sues leaker Jon Prosser for stealing iOS secrets
99% Invisible #626: Emoji Law
Gruber’s theorized redactions
Gruber’s predictions
Cloudflare Declares Content Independence Day
Press release
ChangeDetection.io
Stratechery (paywalled)
Post-show: Marco solved sunscreen
John’s hat that he likes
John’s hat that is cheaper but that he likes less
🇯🇵 Skin Aqua Super Moisture UV Gel (eBay)
🇪🇺 La Roche-Posay Anthelios UVmune 400 Invisible Fluid, Non-Perfumed (eBay)
Australian sunscreen video
Members-only ATP Overtime: Is copying Apple hardware a good idea?
Kuycon G32P 6K 32” IPS monitor
Video review by Oliur / UltraLinx
ASUS 32” 6K ProArt display
Previously on ATP overtime
D. Griffin Jones’ review of the 5K
Studio Display Mark II coming in early 2026?
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1h 57min
July 17, 2025648: Part of the Movement
Pre-Show: Live music & failed air conditioners
🗣️ New ATP Members Special: Tier List: Pizza Toppings
Follow-up:
Meta Hires Top Apple AI Models Executive
SFSymbols 🤝🏻 Tahoe Folders
Standard SFSymbol: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"camera.viewfinder"}' folder
Private SFSymbol: xattr-w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"sym":"solar.system"}' folder
Random string: xattr -w 'com.apple.icon.folder#S' '{"emoji": "HIMOM"}' folder
FB18022272: “summary” symbol missing in SF Symbols 7 developer beta
Toolbars
Safari
Beta 1 image
Beta 3 image
The Guardian (good example for messing around with the toolbar)
Terminal
Beta 1 image
Beta 3 image
iOS 26 Beta 3
Direct video link
_David Smith’s beta 2 (?) video
Stephen Hackett’s beta 3 video
Matt Birchler: Liquid glass, now with frosted tips
Steve Troughton-Smith pours water on the fire
YouTube’s new player UI
“Clear” iPhone mock-up was by Gavin Nelson in April 2025
HDR controls in iOS 26 (via Gui Rambo)
Demo project
✌️ out, Jeff Williams
Gruber
Gurman
Casey ponders the purpose of AppleCare
Casey in Dongletown
Post-show: John & Casey review F1
Plumber Problem
Guenther Steiner
Brad Pitt drives a F1 car for the first time
Vision Pro Brad Pitt ride-along (Vision Pro users, scroll down)
Casey’s pinball machine
Members-only ATP Overtime: 2020 Hindsight
John Giannandrea
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1h 56min
July 07, 2025647: You Get One Exclamation Point
Pre-Show: John’s almost an empty-nester 😱
Reconcilable Differences
Follow-up:
FireWire now with Thunderbolt! (via Timo Hetzel)
Tahoe without Xcode beta: Device Support for macOS 26 Beta
Developer downloads
↳ Direct link
Putting older OSes on newer hardware (via Gui Rambo)
UPS VA ratings (via Marshall C)
Apple’s LLM/LRM paper (from Overtime in ATP #643)
Training data vs. distribution (via Deon Garrett)
Rebuttal
Rebuttal of the rebuttal
More from Gary Marcus
The original rebuttal was… a joke? 🤨
HDR in 𝑥26
iPadOS 26 window limits
“Glass iPhone” demo
↳ Direct video link
That “natural language to CLI” app is Substage
Apple plans to launch a low-cost MacBook powered by… an iPhone CPU‽
Apple A18
References spotted in code
Jason on A18 speed
Stephen on the technical limitations
Ask ATP:
Is adding permanent NVMe storage a bad plan? (via Neil)
CalDigit TS5+
What’s the best way to increase “internal” storage on a Mac? iSCSI? Mounted disc images? (via Patrick Harms)
Atto Xtend SAN
How does a new grad land a job?
Post-show: Casey’s approach to ad-free YouTube must be dissected
YouTube Premium Lite
Members-only ATP Overtime: Apple’s App Store changes for the EU
Jason’s coverage
Store Services tiers in the EU
Gruber’s summary
Cranky man remains cranky
Steve Troughton-Smith’s take
The Verge
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1h 59min

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