There were lots of reviews of the new AirPods Pro this week, and the ones that I saw were unanimous in really liking them. David Johnson of Apple News Net says that it is hard to explain why, but they are easy to love. Jeff Benjamin of 9to5 considers them almost perfect. Lory Gill of iMore finds them much more comfortable than AirPods. And Zac Hall of 9to5Mac explains what it was like to run with AirPods Pro in a Half Marathon at Disney World. And if you have both AirPods and AirPods Pro, Marques Brownlee shows that you can do this. And now, the news of note from the past week:
- Illinois attorney John Voorhees discusses a major update to Apple's privacy webpage in an article for MacStories.
- Voorhees also reported that you can now get Photoshop on an iPad. I've been trying it out this week, and so far I like it.
- A post on the Lit Software blog explains how Illinois attorney Tricia Gifford used TrialPad on her iPad in a medical malpractice trial.
- Ryan Christoffel of MacStories explains that Adobe is providing 17,000 fonts for the iPad and iPhone, and 1,300 of them are free. The rest require a Create Cloud subscription.
- Sebastian de With explains and shows on the Halide blog why "the iPhone 11 is the first iPhone that legitimately challenges a dedicated camera."
- John Gruber of Daring Fireball recently noted that iOS 13.2 was killing apps when they were in the background, meaning that when you switched to a second app and then returned to the first one, everything was not as you had left it. I noticed this on my iPad, and it was really annoying. Fortunately, yesterday Apple released iOS 13.2.2 and iPadOS 13.2.2 to fix this and other bugs.
- In an article for Macworld, Jason Snell explains what he did when he lost power for 72 hours due to the California fires and offers advice for dealing with this circumstance. Unfortunately, losing power happens from time to time where I live in New Orleans, sometimes because of a hurricane or bad storm, other times for seemingly no reason at all. Just yesterday, we lost power at my house for a while until the utility company fixed a wire in a transformer that had burnt out. Ugh.
- Neil Cybart of Above Avalon explains his theory that Apple's success with the Apple Watch forced Fibit to be acquired by Google.
- David Pierini of Cult of Mac reports that a man in England was in a car accident and knocked unconscious, but fortunately his Apple Watch automatically contacted emergency help.
- Have you been watching Apple TV+? I have, and so far I really liked the two shows I've seen. I loved For All Mankind, and my wife and I both enjoyed The Morning Show. For both shows, the third episodes were especially good, and I look forward to seeing more; it appears that new episodes come out on Fridays. Jason Cross of Macworld put together a good list of the shows available now and all of the known shows coming in the future — and there are a ton of them.
- And finally, Joanna Stern of the Wall Street Journal reviewed the AirPods Pro. But she also created a video to test them on a mechanical bull to see how well they stay in your ears:
