Mark Gurman and Debbie Wu at Bloomberg now report a new design for the iPhone is in the works that takes cues from the current iPad Pro with flat, stainless steel sides and flat screens. When the new iPad Pro design premiered in 2018, a lot of us thought that the iPhone would soon follow. It seemed obvious that the iPad Pro design was the way to go but, at the same time, I’m not actually in the business of making hundreds of millions of iPhones every year and it’s probably a little complicated.

Regardless, I hope this is true. I’ve been using that iPad Pro for a few years now and its design still delights me. My favorite iPhone design thus far was the iPhone 4, which is very reminiscent of this look and I’d like to see it come back to the iPhone.

Joanna Stern for the Wall Street Journal recently did a piece on the many sins with laptop webcams. We talked about this on a recent episode of the Mac Power Users. I understand that laptop screens are very thin, but with the recent improvements to the sound system on Apple laptops, the camera system seems like the obvious next thing to upgrade. Also, if anyone can find a creative solution to the “put a high quality camera in a thin laptop screen” problem, it’s Apple.

David “Undercore” Smith has a new app, appropriately called “Watchsmith“. I think about this app as the watch complication to end all watch complications.

There are two components to this app. First is the actual complication itself. You can customize it to show a lot of different data including date, time, calendar, activity, weather, tides, astronomy, time zones, battery level, and even blank. These views are highly customizeable and you can set the font, color, and background color for each one. For a long time now, I have wanted a simple date complication that just shows a date with a large number so I can read it with my glasses off. Remarkably, Apple’s own complication doesn’t offer that. This app does that and so much more. The app also has a mechanism to change the complication by time of day. Maybe you want the date to appear all day but then have it switch to activity rings at 5PM? Watchsmith can do that.

There are different configurations of the complications for different watch faces. Once you tap the complication it opens up the Watchsmith application, which lets you get information from a variety of sources including workouts, weather, health, calendar, time zones, games, and astronomy. David Smith has been making watch apps for a long time and his experience shines through here. In essence, the complication becomes a trigger for a rather sophisticated control center on your Apple Watch. I’ve been using the beta a few weeks ago and it’s a fixture on my watch. The app is free, but to unlock all of the complications and features you’ll need to subscribe. I’ve already subscribed.

I’ve always liked the round California watch face but never been able to read the date on it because Apple‘s version of the date complication for this watch face is too small. Watchsmith fixes that for me and gives me a whole lot more to boot.

Really? The SE/30 went down in the first round so the cube could win?