654: Athletically Engaged
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-Show: Casey and Marco are sad
- Follow-up:
- 🗣️ It’s St. Jude time again! 🗣️
- 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- …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
- 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)
- 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.
- Members-only ATP Overtime: Rumored Apple roadmap
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I have to tell you I'm having a sad. |
| 0:02.3 | Oh, what's going on? |
| 0:03.7 | First of all, I have a cold, which is why I sound funny. |
| 0:06.2 | So let me just get that out right in front of everything. |
| 0:08.5 | Me too, sort of. But it's summer. You're not supposed to have a seat. Yeah, my daughter came down with something right before she's going to go to school and she decided to give it everybody. So anyway, here we are. Similarly, my daughter went to school and shared all those germs with all of us, which is delightful. |
| 0:05.8 | School is the source of all germs, especially like... My daughter went to school and shared all those germs with all of us, which is delightful. |
| 0:21.9 | School is the source of all germs, especially like when young children go to school for the first time, like preschool or kindergarten. |
| 0:28.0 | Oh, that's where all viruses come from. |
| 0:30.7 | But, you know, certainly it doesn't get that much better as they get through the older grades. |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah, that's so true. |
| 0:36.9 | So I'm having a sad because I had a really solid plan |
| 0:42.5 | for a light redesign of call sheet for iOS 26. |
| 0:48.2 | And the gist of it is, is that I was going to move to the system, in Swift U.S.S.U.I. It's dot searchable, |
| 0:58.6 | but the system search box and search affordances, which I am not using in call sheet because |
| 1:04.6 | you couldn't put them at the bottom of the screen until very recently. And then I forget |
| 1:08.6 | why I didn't do it after that, but I think there was very little control over whether or not it was focused for a while. They've been chipping away at all these problems over the years, but I've been over the last few days, because I've been real late on starting my work on this because of all the things going on in my life, which everything's fine, but it's been a lot. And so I'm really dug in the last few days. |
| 1:27.9 | I was feeling really good. Like the direction in my mind I'm feeling great about. I really think |
| 1:33.1 | that this is going to be awesome. I'm going to use the system search affordance at the bottom of |
| 1:37.2 | the screen. And the only problem with that is, is you navigate into subscreens. You got to like, |
| 1:43.0 | kind of quietly, like, |
| 1:44.5 | re-scaffled a new one of those because each individual screen, each individual view wants to |
| 1:51.1 | have its own. You can't, there's no real idea of a universal search box, but I was like, |
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