Archive for November 21, 2025

Friday, November 21, 2025

Black Friday 2025

My apps are on sale for Black Friday, and here’s a list of deals that I found and that developers submitted. I’ll add more deals throughout the week as I see them.

Apps:

Accessories:

Books and Training:

Photos and Video:

Stores:

Lists of Deals:

Previously:

Contacts in Tahoe

Marcel Weiher:

So Tahoe apparently has a new Contacts app.

Unusably slow.

So slow that you think it has crashed.

Why am I not surprised that otool -L shows a SwiftUI dependency?

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Oh, and it flickers and has visual glitches.

Not just when scrolling, also when just sitting there.

It really is incredibly slow, especially resizing the window, even on an Apple Silicon Mac. And, yes, the pane that shows the contact details has a distracting gray gradient that takes a split second to flash into place each time you click on a contact and then proceeds to sit there flickering.

See also: the MacRumors forum.

Previously:

Update (2026-01-14): See also: Dave DeLong.

Update (2026-01-15): Michael:

It’s the not scrolling which kills me. Sometimes I’ve had to switch to Edit mode to scroll to the info I need.

Update (2026-03-18): Helge Heß:

I’m kinda OK w/ Tahoe overall, but the Contacts.app card view is just a bad joke. Usability and more importantly performance wise. It takes like a second to fully render the basic card. And that flicker when it tries to come up w/ a background. It’s not cached either, you get it every time you switch contacts.

Update (2026-03-20): Bmosbacker:

I had the unenviable task of cleaning up and reorganizing my contacts in the Contacts app. What a terrible app! I will not go into the gory details. Suffice it to say that what should have been a simple drag and drop required exporting, importing, and drag and drop.

Does anyone know of a good contacts app for Mac and iOS that is native, syncs flawlessly and quickly, supports groups and smart lists, and works with Apple Mail for adding contact information from a message? I prefer a one-time purchase.

Oliver Busch:

The majority of the contact info area is a massive image. Sidebar text is arbitrarily truncated. Sidebar is not resizable (yet the respective control is shown). Stil unfixed problems with importing a contacts backup.

Update (2026-03-30): Mario Guzmán:

Address Book in Mac OS X Leopard & Snow Leopard was probably peak in the “Design is how it works” part of that quote.

Notice how the + symbol is in the bottom bar, corresponding to each column. There is no confusion where a new “item” (whatever “item” may be), will appear.

Today, if you look at Notes, the + is above the editor/note view -- and not over the list of notes column (where it actually appears).

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