Last week, Ford CEO Jim Farley stepped up to the Decoder mic to explain why Ford isn’t offering CarPlay Ultra. Then this week, our friend Joanna Stern followed up with RJ Scaringe to discuss (again) why his company’s cars don’t have CarPlay support at all.
Next month’s Apple Arcade lineup includes the revamped Football Manager (November 4th), which, among other things, is finally adding women’s teams. Meanwhile, on November 6th the subscription service is adding a pair MySims games and a collection of Toca Boca minigames. Full details here.
The newest iOS 26.1 developer beta forces you to slide to stop the alarm instead of mashing a button. This makes a lot of sense to me and I hope Apple keeps it in the final release, though I may regret saying that when I want to sleep more.
With glued-in components that are difficult to access, iFixit has some major criticisms of the AirPods Pro 3 that echo what it said about the first AirPods Pro and even about the very first set of AirPods.
