With an update released today, WhatsApp has introduced free audio calling on iOS (previously launched on Android), improvements to how photos can be attached to conversations, and a new iOS 8 sha...
https://www.macstories.net/ios/whatsapp-adds-ios-8-share-extension/
Apple released iOS 8.3 earlier today, bringing a variety of bug fixes (with some of the most detailed release notes I’ve ever seen in an iOS update), new diverse emoji with skin tones, and vari...
When Greg Gardner, an independent developer based in San Francisco, released Launcher for iOS last year, he didn’t think his handy utility would make headlines around tech blogs and push other ...
https://www.macstories.net/ios/after-six-months-of-rejections-launcher-returns-to-the-app-store/
Apple today released software updates for iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, bringing bug fixes and stability improvements alongside some welcome enhancements to the iOS update process and Yosemite’s iC...
https://www.macstories.net/news/ios-8-1-3-os-x-10-10-2-released/
The Pixel Picker action extension in Apple’s Photos app. I sometimes need to pick specific colors from screenshots I take on my iPhone and iPad, and while I’m aware of the existence of more p...
https://www.macstories.net/ios/pixel-picker-ios-8-extension-picks-colors-from-images-in-any-app/
David Chartier sums up my feelings on custom iOS 8 keyboards so far: As interesting as iOS keyboards can be, their initial implementation at the OS level is severely flawed. They’re cumbersome ...
https://www.macstories.net/linked/improving-ios-8-keyboards/
With iOS 8, Readdle updated their PDF Converter app for iPad with an action extension to quickly convert any webpage to PDF. While the same can be done with Workflow now, I like that PDF Converte...
https://www.macstories.net/ios/pdf-converter-gets-universal-update/
Emoji have really taken off this year, and on the iPhone and iPad it is easier than ever to use them thanks to iOS 8’s custom keyboards. Like many people, I’ve been using and enjoying the fan...
https://www.macstories.net/reviews/emoji-type-a-predictive-emoji-keyboard/
Earlier this week, Panic was forced to remove Transmit’s ability to send files to iCloud Drive following a request by Apple. Fortunately, Apple has reversed their decision (as it happened for t...
https://www.macstories.net/linked/icloud-drive-sharing-restored-in-transmit/
In the years I’ve spent covering iOS automation, I’ve often asked for a mobile version of Automator. Workflow, released today, tries to bring the deep system integration of Apple’s OS X uti...
https://www.macstories.net/reviews/workflow-review-integrated-automation-for-ios-8/
Panic’s Transmit for iOS without iCloud Drive integration. According to a notice added last week in the release notes of Panic’s Transmit, a popular file manager and FTP client released along...
Launched in September alongside iOS 8, Instapaper 6.0 added a share extension to natively save links for later from any iOS app that supported the system share sheet. Today, betaworks has release...
https://www.macstories.net/ios/instapaper-6-1-brings-redesigned-share-extension/
Continuing my exploration of iOS 8 technologies with a focus on extensions, a few days ago I came across WhatFont, the new iOS version of a popular desktop tool. As the name suggests, WhatFont le...
https://www.macstories.net/ios/whatfont-ios-8-extension-identifies-fonts-in-safari/
Drafts 4, which we reviewed in October, offered a handy Notification Center widget to open the app in draft creation mode. The widget could launch Draft to a new empty draft or, even better, crea...
https://www.macstories.net/ios/goodbye-drafts-widget-for-now/
I live in Italy, but MacStories’ audience is primarily US-based, which has posed a few interesting problems over the years. One of them1 has been the constant conversion between currencies: I g...
For over two years, I’ve been trying to turn my iPad into a work machine capable of handling every MacStories-related task – from writing and assembling blog posts to research, email, and exp...
I often want to share photos without revealing the extra bits of information contained inside them – generally, I just don’t want people to know the location where a picture was taken. I’ve...
I take a lot of screenshots on my iPhone and iPad on a daily basis. Before I upgraded to a 64 GB iPhone 6, that was a problem: screenshots would accumulate over time alongside my photos, which w...
https://www.macstories.net/reviews/screeny-lets-you-easily-delete-all-your-screenshots-on-ios-8/
I’ll let you in on a terrible iOS geek’s secret: I sometimes forget about my TextExpander snippets. It’s not that I don’t like TextExpander – I love the app, its integration with other ...
https://www.macstories.net/ios/visual-snippets-with-kuaiboard-for-ios-8/
CloudMagic, an email client I mentioned in my article on Mail and extensions on iOS 8, has been updated today with a share extension and support for saving messages elsewhere with share sheets. I...
https://www.macstories.net/ios/cloudmagic-adds-share-extension-share-sheets-in-email-messages/
A few days ago, I asked a question on Twitter and received lots of interesting replies that I wanted to save for reference. I thought that I could simply use iOS 8 extensions to append direct lin...
https://www.macstories.net/ios/merging-text-captured-from-ios-8-extensions/
Earlier today, Apple released iOS 8.1.1 with bug fixes and performance improvements for the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S. What Apple doesn’t specifically address in their release notes are two welcome ...
One of my biggest frustrations with iOS 8 so far is the lack of extension support in Apple’s Mail app. As I wrote in iOS 8 Changed How I Work on My iPhone and iPad: I’m disappointed to see a ...
https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-8-email-and-extensions/
Alvaro Serrano makes a great point about share sheets and extensions in apps updated for iOS 8: With Reeder’s iOS 8 update, this means Reeder users now have two different ways to send an articl...
Byword, my favorite general-purpose Markdown editor for iOS has been updated today with iOS 8 features that include Document Providers, Handoff, and iCloud Drive. While I can’t try Handoff with...
https://www.macstories.net/linked/byword-updated-with-handoff-document-providers-on-ios-8/
According to TechCrunch, Apple has changed its mind on calculator widgets for iOS 8 following yesterday’s PCalc news: But now we’re hearing that Apple is changing its course. The PCalc app an...
https://www.macstories.net/linked/apple-no-longer-rejecting-ios-8-calculator-widgets/
As tweeted by PCalc developer James Thomson today, he will be forced to remove the app’s iOS 8 widget. Following an approval that saw PCalc 3.3 launch alongside iOS 8 and a feature in Apple’s...
https://www.macstories.net/ios/apple-asks-pcalc-developer-to-remove-ios-8-widget/
Juli Clover, writing for MacRumors: After five and a half weeks of availability, Apple’s iOS 8 operating system is now installed on 52 percent of iOS devices, according to new numbers posted on...
https://www.macstories.net/linked/ios-8-now-on-over-half-of-active-ios-devices/
I’ve talked about musiXmatch, an app to find lyrics for songs playing on your device, before here on MacStories. Earlier this year, I covered the app’s new version for iOS 7, noting how an of...
https://www.macstories.net/ios/the-new-musixmatch-widget-for-ios-8/
Since upgrading to the first beta of iOS 8.1, I started noticing that a few apps were randomly hanging or crashing at launch. I thought that the problem would be fixed for the public release of i...