Finally: Apple Frames, my shortcut for putting screenshots inside physical device frames, now supports all the latest devices from 2024: - All iPhone 16 models - M4 iPad Pros - Watch Series 10 Free download + the backstory of changes to screenshots in iOS 18: www.macstories.net/ios/apple-fr... - ThreadSky

viticci.macstories.net • 98 days ago

Finally:

Apple Frames, my shortcut for putting screenshots inside physical device frames, now supports all the latest devices from 2024:

- All iPhone 16 models
- M4 iPad Pros
- Watch Series 10

Free download + the backstory of changes to screenshots in iOS 18: https://www.macstories.net/ios/apple-frames-3-3-adds-support-for-iphone-16-and-16-pro-m4-ipad-pro-and-apple-watch-series-10-feat-an-unexpected-technical-detour/

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abrattle.bsky.social•89 days ago

Using the Shortcut on my Mac, lets me choose an image but then freezes on the progress wheel... any idea where I'm going wrong?

viticci.macstories.net•89 days ago

What's the image? And the source? Photos?

abrattle.bsky.social•89 days ago

It's an iPhone 15 Pro screenshot, saved in my Photos reel. I've also tried exporting the image to a folder named 'Images to Frame' at the root of my iCloud Drive...

shankarux.bsky.social•97 days ago

This is one of the best digital resource I use frequently. Thank you!

ravedog.bsky.social•97 days ago

It’s awesome. Oh I accidentally chose a screen shot from car play and it gave an error about png. Figured it had to do with that is was a weird size being that it was CarPlay.

atnbueno.com•96 days ago

Oh? How are Carplay screenshots? 🤨

There's no official "product bezel" (frame) but it shouldn't be difficult to make one from a good photo 🤔

ravedog.bsky.social•96 days ago

Here’s the problem with that: CarPlay displays are all different in dimensions. There’s no one size fits all. The second issue is that what exactly would be the “frame”? It’s not a physical apple device, it’s a display screen in a car. And every car is different and the “frame” would be different

atnbueno.com•96 days ago

Yeah, I've had a look at Google Images and I've seen a variety of sizes. But if I had CarPlay I'd make a good photo of my car's "frame" and adjust it to the size of the screenshots I could get.

Different photos could be adapted for different screenshot sizes and use that size to select the frame.

ravedog.bsky.social•96 days ago

I mean you could. The shortcut code is right there and you could figure it out.

atnbueno.com•90 days ago

I did 😎

viticci.macstories.net•97 days ago

Yeah, that's not supported.

ravedog.bsky.social•97 days ago

Yeah I realized the mistake I had made. Be nice if it error trapped it and told me I’m an idiot.

marty.day•98 days ago

I loved An Unexpected Technical Detour's new album this year.

kunwarsahni.bsky.social•97 days ago

With the new shortcut, on iPhone 15 pro I get a pink iPhone 16 frame, is there a way to get the pro/non-pink frame?

viticci.macstories.net•97 days ago

Not at the moment, but I'm thinking about how to enable different color options. That's next on my list.

kunwarsahni.bsky.social•97 days ago

Would it be possible to go to the older version just to get the black frame 😅

jordyvantoor.bsky.social•92 days ago

Thanks for the update! I look forward to a future version that allows to choose the device color. I prefer the grey frames because it’s a more neutral look.

dblakeley.bsky.social•97 days ago

Thanks for the excellent update to Apple Frames as well as acknowledgement of my and Antonio's input on the problem.

atnbueno.com•96 days ago

It's probably too late to be useful for you 😅, and now that you have all the frame assets converted to 16 bits, that's pretty efficient.

But I've found a native (non-JavaScript) way to overlay a mix of 8-bit and 16-bit images. Here's a demo with a particular frame:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/30a3e9fd91eb4ee58c32889283938155

atnbueno.com•96 days ago

The basic idea of this #shortcut is to use a completely transparent 16-bit canvas as the bottom layer of all the overlaying.

This has a nice secondary effect: the frame is not overlaid on itself, so its borders keep the original antialiasing (frame on top of frame ends up with them a bit crispier).

atnbueno.com•97 days ago

Great solution going with 16-bit frames 👏🏼👏🏼

A little detail: It's probably insignificant in MacStories' CDN traffic, but the files in "frames-1732495370596.zip" can be optimized from 52 to 30 MiB 🙂

https://www.atnbueno.com/experiments/frames-1732495370596-optimized.zip

serenacloos.nl•97 days ago

I can’t get it to work. On my iPhone and iPad it keeps going to the oldest screenshot. Setting is set false.
(Edited 19:02 via @skeetsapp.com)

viticci.macstories.net•97 days ago

Are you sure you're running the latest version? This is the setting that controls whether or not you should see oldest or newest screenshots first when running Frames manually, and it's working for me.