My camera is an iPhone. It has been for years. And so with new iPhones – with new camera systems – arriving early next week, I decided to explore what was coming next in my Stuff column, ‘Zoom and gloom: The iPhone 17 Pro camera rumours I love – and hate’.

Longplay is great. If you have an iPhone, iPad or Mac and a love of the album as a distinct musical unit (vs having Spotify or Apple Music turn your entire music collection into a massive jukebox), it’s a must. Over at TapSmart, I outline why I think Longplay is the best music app for iPhone.

Two-factor authentication is a must. Increasingly so. Which is why I dug into my favourite 2FA apps for iPhone.

Mac devs are revolting. In the sense that they’re pissed off at Apple. Marco Arment argues Apple’s attempts to harmonise its operating systems “solve a problem no Mac users had”. Craig Hockenberry fumes that one size does not fit all in a blog post that dismantles Apple’s current Mac approach. They’re not alone, and I wonder if the real fallout of the ‘26’ operating systems won’t be so much Liquid Glass, but Apple finally breaking long-term, vocal, important Mac advocates to the degree they just don’t care anymore.

Mac apps no longer feel native. That’s the startling conclusion from Steve Troughton-Smith. And it’s hard to disagree. Things were already quite bad. But macOS 26 makes everything significantly worse with interface design forced on it from mobile platforms. By contrast, although the UI design for iPadOS 26 is poor as well, the functionality improvements from the new windowing system – which I wrote about for WIRED – tip things to positive on Apple tablets.

macOS 26 creates a squircle jail. I remember when Android started experimenting with round icons and shoved existing ones inside of a circle. It looked crap. But, hey, Android! Today, though, Android looks (and often works) better than the upcoming iOS 26, and macOS is now busy forcing distinct icon shapes into identical squircles. The arrogance is breathtaking, as is the total lack of respect for app creators. Bizarrely, some of Apple’s own apps are caught in the mess, although I assume that will be fixed next week. Unlike, you know, the rest of the utter disaster that is Liquid Glass and Apple’s botched UI and UX ‘harmonisation’ of its operating systems.