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The deal first: lifetime Pro drops from $49.99 to $34.99 with the offer code FIRSTWEEK30P, valid until July 17 and capped at 1000 redemptions total. Redeem it in the App Store app (App Store menu, then Redeem Gift Card or Code). There is also a yearly option at $9.99, and the base app is free with a usable tier (5 steps per guide, 10 guides, GIF export), so you can test it before paying anything.

Background, because I made this: I'm the person my family and coworkers ask when they don't know how to do something on their Mac. For years my answer was screenshots, cropped by hand, arrows drawn in Preview, pasted into a document. Three weeks later someone asks the same question, the app got an update, and half my screenshots are wrong.

StepGrab is what came out of six months of fixing that for myself. It sits in the menu bar, you hit record, do the task once, and stop. Every click turns into an annotated screenshot on its own, with an arrow on the thing you clicked and step text written by an on-device AI model ("Click Export in the toolbar"). Fully offline, no account, nothing leaves your Mac. Exports as GIF for free, PDF and MP4 with Pro.

Released last week and there are still codes left. Happy to answer questions.

PS: there is also an yearly subscription for 9,99$

When the iPhone 18 Pro was announced, Apple's Newsroom press release said the new Texture and Grain controls for Photographic Styles would come with iOS 27 to every iPhone supporting the latest generation of Photographic Styles. Per Apple's own user guide, that means the iPhone 16 and 17 lineups and the iPhone Air.

Less than two weeks later, the footnote was rewritten: the controls are now limited to photos captured on iPhone 18 Pro models and some iPhone Duo cameras. No announcement, no technical explanation. MacRumors, Macworld and The Verge covered it, and the original wording is still on the Wayback Machine.

What bothers me most: older iPhones on iOS 27 already show these controls when editing a photo shot on an 18 Pro. So the software clearly runs on them.

I'm about to buy an iPhone 17 pro, and this kind of quiet backtracking doesn't inspire confidence.

There is a precedent: in 2022, Stage Manager was M1-only until enough people complained, and Apple extended it to older iPad Pros. If you care about this, send feedback. It takes two minutes, and volume is what they look at.

For reference, I have a well-kept iPhone 16 Pro Max and a brand new Apple Watch series 11.(I got it last month I know there’s a S12)

No matter where I use Siri either on the iPhone or on Apple CarPlay or on the watch 50% of the time, at least it just stops listening without an answer, or simply does not work.

Raise to speak on my new series 11 has been absolutely awful compared to my series 7 and takes so long to respond and then just doesn’t do anything…

Im a computer engineering student with at least a basic knowledge of how technology works however, I cannot put together why the new siri is more awful in day-to-day tasks than it was before.

Apples main point is reliability. The best AI/Assistant is the one you can easily use… and Siri AI is below optimal. Do I need to get an iPhone 17-18 to utilize it properly?

Thanks for listening to my rant.

Edit: I own a Series 11 that was bought 20 days ago which at the time was brand new. I used to have a series 7 that worked flawlessly with raise to speak and Siri.

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