This post will feature things about the Internet and the iPhone. If you don’t care about smartphone magic, we have a post about physical souvenirs coming up.

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iOS 18 is coming in the fall, and with it some useful changes to the Calculator app. Especially useful, in my opinion, is the calculation history feature. Anyone who has tried to use their iPhone calculator for something involving more than a couple terms should agree.

Unless of course you’re a magician who uses the popular Toxic force, and/or the Cal-Ender principle by Michael Murray (seen in Codebreaker presented by Greg Wilson), and probably other things I don’t know about. If so, you should know that they won’t work anymore as a result of something Apple should have improved years ago. Did Apple have magicians developing their Calculator app until recently?

If you’re looking for alternatives, Calculon by ThoughtCast Magic is one I’ve heard good things about, and the developers claim that they’ll have a version that matches iOS 18 up as soon as it’s relevant. Calculon detects what version of iOS the phone it’s loaded onto is using, so to use their words everything will be copacetic.

The ethical issues of side-loading apps onto your participant’s phone are too complex to be covered in this post, but they’re worth noting. You can use Calculon on your own iPhone, but I imagine most will be doing it on a participant’s phone.

Shoutout to the one person who apparently found us through a religious search engine that shall remain unnamed the other day. I hope you got what you were looking for.

See you next Sunday.