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The iPhone Duo is eSIM-only worldwide, but so is every iPhone 16 and 17 sold in the US. Here is what to test with your carrier and in Intune before October, and where the tooling is thinner than you would like.

The iPhone Duo's inner display reports regular size classes in both dimensions — the one assumption a decade of iPhone code takes for granted. Apple's developer guidance is out, the device ships 23 October, and here are the five questions to send your app owners now.

Apple's foldable, the iPhone 18 Pro, the new Watches and AirPods — every figure from Apple's own releases, and the three Duo specs that change how you provision an iPhone.

AI desktop apps want Accessibility, Screen Recording and sometimes Full Disk Access. Here's what a management profile can still grant, what it never could, and what changes when Apple removes the PPPC route for Accessibility in macOS 27.

A shell script pushed through Intune runs as root on every Mac in scope, and nothing in that pipeline reads your logic. Here is the three-layer review order that catches the mistakes — and exactly where AI review stops being trustworthy.

Apple's 25 August desktop refresh debuts M6 silicon in the $899 Mac mini and pushes Mac Studio to M5 Max and M5 Ultra. Past the benchmark multipliers, here's what a Thunderbolt split, a 32GB ceiling and a 22 September ship date actually mean for a managed Mac fleet.

A bash-native Mac admin's setup for querying Intune device data with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK — the install that actually belongs on a fleet, four queries worth keeping, and how to catch the cmdlets AI invents.

The three-way framework debate mostly collapsed in 2026 — Apple's MLX is the engine underneath all of it now. Here is which wrapper to sanction on a managed Mac fleet, how much unified memory people actually need, and why port 11434 belongs in your firewall policy today.

Custom compliance settings for macOS just went GA in Intune, which means a lot of Mac admins are about to ask an AI to write their discovery scripts. Here is the prompt-review-test-deploy loop that keeps a fabricated preference key from locking out ten thousand users.

What started in Xcode 26 as a single "Intelligence" chat panel has turned, by Xcode 26.3, into a genuine three-way race: Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's Codex, and Apple's own built-in assistant are all sitting in the same IDE, all able to touch your code, and all fighting for the same job.

The iPad has always been the creative's device — a canvas for illustrators, a drafting table for writers, a mood board for designers. Add Claude into that workflow and it becomes something more: an AI collaborator that helps you move from blank page to finished piece faster, without losing the creative edge that made you reach for an iPad in the first place. Here's how writers and designers are using Claude on iPad to sharpen their creative process.

The Mac has always been the developer's machine of choice. In 2026, it's also become the best platform for AI-assisted development — not because of any single tool, but because of how well a handful of them work together. Here's a practical breakdown of the AI stack serious Mac developers are running right now.

Token Management, Part 3 of 3.

Apple previewed the next generation of Apple Intelligence at WWDC on June 8, and unlike the 2024 rollout, most of what was shown is already in a developer beta with a public beta due in July and a full release this fall alongside macOS 27. The headline is a rebuilt Siri, but the features that will change your day-to-day are scattered across Safari, Photos, Shortcuts, and Passwords. Here's what's real, what runs on your Mac versus in the cloud, and where the caveats are. One s

Token Management, Part 2 of 3.

Getting more out of Claude · No code required

What’s New in Claude Opus 4.8? Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 this morning. If you only read the headline, you might file it under “incremental point release” and move on. The company frames it that way too — a modest but tangible upgrade from Opus 4.7, available at the same price. However, a few features included in this release genuinely matter for my day-to-day work on a Mac. They deserve ten minutes of your attention before you return to your projects. Here’s a brief o

The last post walked through Power Automate cloud flows for Outlook automation from a Mac, and used Copilot in one place — to draft a flow from a natural-language description. Azure Logic Apps, which is the larger sibling of Power Automate, lets AI show up in three different places. It can write the workflow for you. It can be a step inside the workflow. And at the new edge of the platform, it can be the thing running the workflow. Each of those is a different tool with a dif

Most Power Automate tutorials quietly assume you are sitting at a Windows machine. You are not, and for the daily-email side of automation it turns out that does not matter. Cloud flows run entirely in the browser. The Outlook 365 connector talks to your mailbox over Microsoft's APIs. Copilot in the flow editor will build the first draft for you from a plain-English description. The only piece that is Mac-hostile is Power Automate Desktop, the Windows-only RPA tool — and if y

Final Cut Pro went through a long quiet stretch. For years the updates were small enough that people kept asking whether Apple had forgotten about it. Then FCP 11 shipped in late 2024 with Magnetic Mask, FCP 12 followed, and in January Apple announced the Creator Studio subscription bundle that pulls Final Cut, Logic Pro, Pixelmator Pro, Motion, Compressor, and MainStage into one package. The AI features are the part of all this that actually shows up in my edits. Here is wha