I want more control over my smart heating. Which might sound odd when you learn I’ve got a Tado system, which provides granular control of each individual room. But you only get one schedule. And this doesn’t work well as you come out of winter and 21°C feels very different from how it did a few months back. Tado is big on automation and AI and reckons that’s enough to cope. It isn’t. My argument: give me extra manual controls.

What does a new Apple CEO mean for iPhone? After writing for Stuff about what I want to see from Apple’s new CEO, I’ve penned a piece for TapSmart about how his leadership might impact iPhone.

The C64 and Spectrum are reborn as handhelds. I honestly didn’t see this coming, but a collab between HyperMegaTech and Retro Games Ltd has resulted in a couple of DS-like clamshells. Each one looks the part, echoing its 8-bit forebear. The screen aspect ratio is odd, although you can often successfully crop borders out of games to have them fit more optimally. I like the bundled games, though, which mix old and new. And there’s a microSD slot for adding more.

Drop7 is still amazing. And it’s now joined my iPhone classics series. I really wish Zynga would bring this game back, but it’d probably stick out in their catalogue for not being infested with exploitative IAPs.

Bacon in Zane is bonkers. Having invited players to flip bacon onto everything (including Francis Bacon) in Bacon – the Game, Philipp Stollenmayer has created a follow-up. This one-thumb iPhone effort has you nudge a piece of bacon through a medically implausible human body. It’s strange and a lot of fun – and now part of my best free iPhone games roundup.