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My primary mobile OS. Currently running iOS 17. This wiki page contains most of the apps I have used at one point or another across my different iPhones.
(*) = My favorites
Configuration
Display
- Light Mode
- 10:00 to 16:00
- Dark Mode
- 16:00 to 10:00
Focus Modes
- Personal Focus
- 06:00 to 21:00
- Allow Notifications From:
- Alarms
- Calendar
- Contacts (1 person)
- Messages
- Phone
- Reminders
- Signal
- UniFi Protect
- Sleep Focus
- 21:00 to 06:00
- Allow Notifications From:
- Alarms
- Contacts (1 person)
- Reminders
- Signal
Privacy & Security
I generally follow the principle of least privilege by only permitting the bare minimum privileges and revoking as soon as they are no longer required.
Here's the baseline I start with:
- Disable:
- Analytics & Improvements
- Apple Advertising
- Apple ID > Sign-In & Security > Two-Factor Authentication
- Location Services > System Services > Product Improvement
- Tracking > Allow Apps to Request to Track
- Safari > Advanced > Privacy Preserving Ad Measurement
- Enable:
- Apple ID > iCloud > Advanced Data Protection
- Apple ID > Personal Information > Communication Preferences
- App Privacy Report
- Location Services only for Camera, Find My, UDisc, & WiFiman (
While Using) - Safari > Prevent Cross-Site Tracking
- Safari > Hide IP Address
- Safari > Advanced > Advanced Tracking and Fingerprinting Protection
Native Apps
Business
- Element - A cross-platform messenger, based on Matrix
- LinkedIn
- One of the only social media apps I use
Developer Tools
Entertainment
Lifestyle
- Home (
*) - Apple homekit powered smart home manager - Hue - Philips Hue smart home manager
- iRobot - Manage iRobot Roomba devices
- UniFi Protect - View and manage most UniFi Protect cameras and settings
Music
- Apple Music (
*)- Apple's native music streaming app
- Plexamp (
*) - Top-notch music app for your Plex Media Server, with a neural network that provides excellent radio/shuffle suggestions
Navigation
- deedum - A Gemini Protocol browser
News
- NetNewsWire
- A free and open source RSS reader for Mac, iPhone, and iPad
Photo & Video
- Aislingeach - A quick way to generate and rate images from the Stable Horde
- Unsplash - Premium images, mostly free
Productivity
- beorg
- An org-mode editor, outline, and scheduler with paid extensions
- Bitwarden
(
*) - An open source password manager - Bitwarden
Authenticator
(
*) - Generate 2FA on your device - Cryptomator - A cross-platform encryption program
- Obsidian
(
*) - A nice Markdown-based editor based on a "vault" structure. Offers a paid sync solution and community extensions - Strongbox
- Keepass password manager for iOS & macOS
- UniFi Network - View and manage most UniFi Network settings
Safari Extensions
- AdGuard
- Ad blocker
- Dark Reader - Dark mode for all the sites
- PiPifier - Force videos to support PiP
- Privacy Redirect - Redirect select websites to others, usually to privacy-focused alternatives
Social Networking
- MultiTab T
(
*) - A gallery-based Tumblr client with some unique features, such as tab history and sync - Signal
(
*) - A simple, powerful, and secure messenger - Three Cheers - A client for Tildes.net with a design focus that matches the intent of Tildes
- Voyager - A Lemmy client
Sports
- Apple Sports - Apple's new sports app - lacks notifications and live events
- UDisc - Disc golf course maps, score cards, and more
Utilities
- Backblaze - Quickly view and manage Backblaze b2 cloud storage
- Mullvad VPN (
*)- A private VPN service
- OTP Auth (
*) - A minimalistic OTP app with support for biometrics, custom icons, import/export, and iCloud sync - Plex Dash - Stats about your Plex Media Server
- Safari - iOS default browser
- Unifi WiFiman
- Create visual layouts of WiFi strength and save heat maps to your phone
Web Apps & Shortcuts
- Brutalist Report - Minimal news aggregator
- _Cyber.Report - Cybersecurity news aggregator
- Hacker News - Mostly technical news
- NextDNS - NextDNS statistics dashboard
- Readspike - Minimal news aggregator