iOS 760: Social Media Roundup - Cross-platform solutions for a scattered world
iOS Today (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Social media chaos got you jumping between apps like a caffeinated squirrel? Mikah and Rosemary explore the fragmented world of post-Twitter social media and reveal the apps that can help you reclaim your sanity and streamline your online presence. The hosts also reflect on how X/Twitter's changes scattered users across platforms, creating fatigue and missed connections.
- Ivory for Mastodon - Tapbots' premium Mastodon client offers customizable navigation, multiple account support, and elegant design for $14.99-24.99/year, depending on platform coverage
- Tapestry by Iconfactory - Unifies social media feeds, RSS blogs, and podcasts into one timeline supporting Mastodon, Tumblr, YouTube, Blue Sky, and Reddit for $1.99/month or $79.99 lifetime
- Croissant by Innoveghtive - Cleverly named tool lets you post to multiple social networks simultaneously (Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky) with alt-text support for $2.99/month or $59.99 lifetime
- Buffer for business users - Professional scheduling platform supports Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, and more with calendar view and automation integrations
News
- Four new games launching August 7th - Play-Doh World (creative open-world), Worms Across Worlds (strategic combat), Let's Go MightyCat (tower defense), and Everybody Shogi (board game variant)
- Apple Arcade pricing reminder - $6.99/month standalone or included in Apple One bundles starting at $19.95
Shortcuts Corner
- Jack's nonprofit photography challenge - Needs to sort 300+ mixed portrait/landscape photos and videos from iPhone events for marketing purposes
App Caps
- Mikah's pick: Knots 3D ($5.99) - Comprehensive knot-tying reference with 3D animations across categories like scouting, climbing, boating, and military applications
- Rosemary's pick: Capsule medication tracker - Her team's newly released app for tracking medications with scheduling, notifications, and family sharing for $12.99/year (launching price)
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Rosemary Orchard
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on iOS today, Rosemary Orchard and I, Micah Sargent, talk about social media apps and kind of how to bring things together. |
| 0:10.9 | Why can't we all just get along? |
| 0:13.1 | Learn more about that. |
| 0:14.2 | Coming up on iOS today. |
| 0:18.2 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:19.8 | From people you trust. |
| 0:22.3 | This is Twit. |
| 0:26.1 | This is iOS today, episode 760, with Rosemary Orchard and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 2025 for Thursday, July 10th, 2025. |
| 0:40.9 | Social Media Roundup. |
| 0:43.9 | Hello and welcome to iOS today, the show where we talk all things, iOS, iPadOS, |
| 0:49.3 | watchOS, home pod OS, and all the OS's Apple offers as a way to help you make the most of those devices you |
| 0:56.5 | have tips and tricks and apps and all sorts of stuff. That's what we cover here. I am one of the |
| 1:01.6 | hosts of the show, Micah Sargent. And I am Rosemary Orchard. And, you know, I thought, |
| 1:07.5 | Micah, I'd just give you a ping about this topic and see how you felt about it. |
| 1:11.9 | But it turns out ping is nothing anymore. |
| 1:14.9 | Oh, can you? |
| 1:16.7 | Oh, boy, ping. |
| 1:18.1 | You know, Apple tried. |
| 1:20.2 | And it has tried multiple times and multiple ways it feels at this point to attempt to bring a social media app of its own |
| 1:31.5 | to the world and did not successfully do that. And for those of you who never had the opportunity |
| 1:39.5 | to hear about, learn about, and love Ping, That was one of Apple's failed social media experiments. |
| 1:45.1 | But we're here to talk about social media that actually exists. And I think more importantly, |
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