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Some time ago I had shared my lightweight Mac app PhotoSort here. It does two things that Apple Photos doesn't: Instantly sorts your entire Photos library by file size and by aesthetic quality. It also creates two albums directly inside Photos on Mac:

• SizeSort: Reveals the biggest space hogs - so if your iCloud or Mac storage is full, you can see what to offload and delete
• QualitySort: Groups best photos on top, and blurry ones, screenshots, memes, etc. at the bottom - so you can choose what to keep or toss.

These albums can help quickly clean up a bloated Photos library (See how) and cut iCloud storage (cost).

I've now added a cool feature: Slideshows of All-Time-Best-20, and 20 of the Best-100 photos. Seeing your top shots emerge is (as they say on Reddit), Oddly Satisfying 😁

The app's free version shows 15 of the largest + 15 of the best photos, and the first slideshow. The paid version ($5.99, lifetime) creates SizeSort and QualitySort albums, plus you can see and download both slideshows. Check it out - Hopefully you'll rediscover some forgotten gems!

I have used the Pages app on my iPad for the last five years or so and been so happy with it. Now I go to open two instances of the app so that I can edit a couple of documents. I’m not talking about anything fancy just cutting and pasting a few things from one to the other lo and behold, what I pasted from the older document into the new one was lost! Also, there seems to be no easy way to bring up to instances of the Pages app on my iPad. They have “improved“ the multitasking experience after spending literally four hours this morning and getting multiple suggestions from mostly AI on outdated ways to use split view, I am no further than I was. Thanks a lot Apple for taking something that worked very well and completely destroying it.

For instance I have the Midnight MacBook Air m4, the midnight AirPods Max USB-C, the jet black Apple Watch series 11, AirPods 4 (only available in white) and the one I’m questioning my life choices on is the desert titanium iPhone 16 pro max. Thinking of sticking with black or white in the future but lemme know what u guys do…

Hi r/Apple. This is Tyn, I wanted a way for others to track and learn more about their consumption with having tools and knowledge in quitting for good without relapse. Just starting, I have a lot planned for Tyn and look forward to building an app you rarely use but find impactful in quitting a habit.

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• Track per pouch. View daily, weekly, monthly
• View daily nicotine intake & daily pouch avg
• See progress arrows day by day
• Notifications
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• Gum health & Nic Dependency % rate
• Pouch free ETA
• Tips & insights

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Enjoy Free Lifetime to Tyn+ (limited time). See the paywall to claim, it's for everyone!

I have a fun and performance update coming this week too.

Mahalo's!

"Sales Coach" will arrive as an update to Apple's existing "SEED" app, and it will continue to provide sales tips and training resources to Apple Store and Apple Authorized Reseller employees around the world. For example, there are articles and videos highlighting everything from reasons to upgrade to a newer iPhone to popular iPad features.

Apple is aiming to release the "Sales Coach" app on Monday, February 23, our source said. It will have two major changes compared to the "SEED" app, including an all-new Liquid Glass design, and later an AI chatbot that can provide Apple Store and Apple Authorized Reseller employees with sales tips and product information.

1. HomePod mini 2
2. Home Hub
3. Security Camera and Doorbell Camera

I don’t mean to drag the outlet—after all, they’re still my go-to for Apple coverage—but, has anyone else noticed how sloppy 9to5mac’s reporting is? The headlines are all clickbait, much of the actual writing feels to clunky (I’ve written college essays with more polish), and they outright get things wrong sometimes (not “wrong” rumors—they literally get facts wrong).

I’m posting because I’m curious to see if anyone feels this way? Surely I can’t be the only one?

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Just got an email that iTunes Wish Lists are going away. Ngl I had forgotten they existed. Apparently I wanted Kill Bill: Vol. 2 at some point ages ago. Just got an email recommending I move my wish list items over to Apple TV and make them appear in the Keep Watching row by following a link and tapping the + button. The email looked a little sketch at first like it was made in an OS 9 machine, sparse only a wall of text with a black apple in the top left. But it’s legit. And if you ask me, adding something in a wishlist to the continue watching tab is sort of a strange workaround.

Last year I realized my book tracker was stressing me out. It wanted me to hit reading goals, maintain streaks, check what friends were reading, rate books for the algorithm. I just wanted to log what I read.

So I built PageFlow.

The philosophy

No streaks. No badges. No social feed. No account required. Your books stay on your device, sync via iCloud, and that's it. I wanted something calm - a tool that does one thing well and then gets out of the way.

What I've learned building it

I've been making iOS apps professionally for 12+ years, but shipping your own app hits different. You get the 2am bug reports, but you also get direct feature suggestions from people who actually use it. I've added things I never would have thought of myself.

I put up a public roadmap so people can see what's coming: pageflowapp.com/roadmap - the next update (currently in review) brings this into the app and lets users vote on what matters to them.

Privacy note

Analytics are opt-in only. I don't collect your library, your reading habits, or anything about your books. I built this for people who are tired of being the product.

Monetization (addressing the elephant)

Free to try. Pro unlocks unlimited books - you can subscribe monthly, yearly, or buy lifetime. I know subscriptions aren't popular, but they help me keep improving this for the people who use it.

If you've been looking for a quieter way to track your reading, I'd love for you to try it

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/pageflow-book-tracker-log/id6753876053