tvOS 17.2
Apple (MacRumors): Today Apple unveiled a redesigned Apple TV app that makes it even easier for users to watch Apple’s award-winning original series and films, as well as live sports, movies, and...
View ArticleaudioOS 17.2
Juli Clover: Apple does not specify what’s included in the HomePod 17.2 software, and the generic release notes only say that it includes bug fixes and performance improvements. All I know is that it’s...
View ArticlewatchOS 10.2
Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): The watchOS 10.2 update adds support for using Siri to access and record data in the Health app on the Apple Watch Series 9 and the Apple Watch Ultra...
View ArticleiOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2
Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): The iOS 17.2 update includes the new Journal app, which is designed to allow iOS users to record key moments in their lives. The Journal app includes...
View ArticleApple Launches Journal App
Apple: Journal, a new iPhone app available today, helps users reflect and practice gratitude through journaling, which has been shown to improve wellbeing. With Journal, users can capture and write...
View ArticlemacOS 13.6.3 and macOS 12.7.2
Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Ventura 13.6.3. Apple (full installer): This document describes the security content of macOS Monterey 12.7.2. Previously:...
View ArticlemacOS 14.2
Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS Sonoma 14.2 introduces an Enhanced AutoFill feature for PDFs, which Apple announced earlier this year. It automatically...
View ArticleEpic Wins Antitrust Case With Google
Kyle Orland: The jury unanimously answered “yes” to all 11 questions on the verdict form, indicating that Epic had proven those monopolies existed in every worldwide market except for China. Google...
View ArticleXcode 15.1
Apple (downloads): Xcode 15.1 includes SDKs for iOS 17.2, iPadOS 17.2, tvOS 17.2, watchOS 10.2, and macOS Sonoma 14.2. The Xcode 15.1 release supports on-device debugging in iOS 12 and later, tvOS 12...
View ArticleWhy Is Bluetooth Sound Quality Bad on My Mac?
Daniel Gonzalez Reina (via Hacker News): On the one hand you have that Macs will use a HFP when the microphone is in use, and on the other you have that HFP use audio codecs which prioritizes low...
View ArticleVMware Transition to Subscriptions
VMware (via Hacker News): Broadcom’s close of the VMware acquisition has brought together two engineering-first, innovation-centric teams to help build the world's leading infrastructure technology...
View ArticleiCloud Drive in Sonoma: FileProvider and Eviction
Howard Oakley: Prior to Sonoma, one of the features in iCloud Drive that hasn’t behaved as documented is Optimise Mac Storage. This has changed in Sonoma, as it now effectively switches between two...
View ArticleProton Drive for Mac
Tim Hardwick: Swiss-based privacy startup Proton today announced the availability of its end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service for Mac users with the launch of its macOS app. Proton Drive lets...
View ArticleGoogle Reneges on Unlimited Storage and on Read-Only Preservation
Mike Masnick (Hacker News): We’ve written a few times about independent journalist Tim Burke. Earlier this year, the FBI raided his house and seized all of his electronic devices after he had obtained...
View ArticleStandard Ebooks
Standard Ebooks (via Jason Kottke): Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright...
View ArticleGoogle’s Confusing New Location Data Settings
Ron Amadeo: Google’s misleading Location History descriptions in Google Maps have earned it several lawsuits in the US and worldwide. A quick count involves individual lawsuits in California, Arizona,...
View ArticleApple Expands Self Service Repair
Apple: Apple is expanding Self Service Repair, and launching a new diagnostic tool that gives users more transparency and autonomy to troubleshoot issues. Self Service Repair is now available for the...
View ArticleApple and Corellium Settlement
Thomas Brewster (MacRumors): After four years of court hearings and plenty of controversy, Apple and cyber startup Corellium are settling a copyright lawsuit. Terms have not been disclosed.The suit was...
View ArticleThreads in EU and on ActivityPub
Jon Porter (via John Gruber): Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, is now available in the European Union, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced. “Today we’re opening Threads to more countries in Europe,”...
View ArticleStolen Device Protection in iOS 17.3
Joe Rossignol: The first iOS 17.3 beta rolling out to developers today includes a new “Stolen Device Protection” feature that is designed to add an additional layer of security in the event someone has...
View ArticleContingent Pricing for App Store Subscriptions
Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Contingent pricing for subscriptions on the App Store — a new feature that helps you attract and retain subscribers — lets you give customers a discounted subscription...
View ArticleThe Case for Clipboard Managers
Jason Snell: [Over] the two decades of modern macOS, Apple has addressed most of the basic needs of the average user. At the end of that process, I ended up discovering that the most glaring feature...
View ArticleApple Watch Sales Paused Over Masimo Patent
Chance Miller (MacRumors, Hacker News): The Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 will no longer be available to purchase from Apple starting later this week.The move comes following an ITC...
View ArticleAdobe Abandons Figma Acquisition
Paul Kunert (Hacker News): Adobe’s $20 billion buy of web-first design collaboration start-up Figma will harm software developers if it goes ahead as proposed, according to a provisional ruling on the...
View ArticletvOS 17.2 Removes Wishlists
Juli Clover: Unfortunately, Apple’s move to consolidate purchasing and viewing in the Apple TV app has done away with wishlists, and customers who used the feature got no warning about their...
View ArticleiOS 17.2.1
Juli Clover (release notes TBA, security TBA, developer): The iOS 17.2.1 update includes unspecified bug fixes, according to Apple's release notes for the update. Previously: iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2...
View ArticlemacOS 14.2.1
Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Sonoma 14.2.1 includes bug fixes and a security update. macOS 14.2.1 fixes a screen...
View ArticleMeasuring the Data iOS and Android Send to Apple and Google
Douglas J. Leith (2021 PDF, via John Opdenakker, ArsTechnica) We investigate what data iOS on an iPhone shares with Apple and what data Google Android on a Pixel phone shares with Google. We find that...
View ArticleThe Original iPhone Demo
Fred Vogelstein (2013, via Hacker News): The software in the iPhone’s Wi-Fi radio was so unstable that Grignon and his team had to extend the phones’ antennas by connecting them to wires running...
View ArticleGoogle Groups Ending Support for Usenet
Google (via Hacker News): Starting on February 22, 2024, you can no longer use Google Groups (at groups.google.com) to post content to Usenet groups, subscribe to Usenet groups, or view new Usenet...
View ArticleDictation and Predictive Text in macOS Sonoma and iOS 17
Kirk McElhearn: It may seem counterintuitive to dictate and type at the same time, but there is a reason for this. As you dictate, you will find that the accuracy of the transcription is far from 100%....
View ArticleTriggering Swift Property Observers From Initializers
Natalia Panferova: In Swift, property observers such as willSet and didSet are not called when a property is set in an initializer. This is by design, as the initializer's purpose is to set up the...
View ArticleManual AutoFill in Safari
Dan Moren: In a very clever move, Apple has introduced essentially a manual mode for AutoFill. You’re no longer dependent on Safari recognizing that, yes, these are fields where you can put your...
View ArticleHow to Change a New iPhone Passcode If You Forget It
Tim Hardwick: In iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, it is now possible to reset an iPhone or iPad’s new passcode with the previous passcode you used for up to three days after the change is made. In other words,...
View ArticleState Restoration With NSSecureCoding on Sonoma
Milen Dzhumerov: AppKit state restoration behaviour changed on macOS 14 Sonoma in a subtle way that can lead to apps not restoring their state correctly. The change can lead to silent breakages which...
View ArticleiOS 17 Autocorrect
Juli Clover: The machine learning technology that Apple is using for autocorrect has been improved in iOS 17. Apple says it has adopted a “transformer language model,” that will better personalize...
View ArticleWeChat’s HotspotHelper Entitlement
Yingyu (via Hacker News): Since the introduction of iOS 9 in 2015, Apple has included an API call named “HotspotHelper,” enabling developers to request a capability for their apps to assist the system...
View ArticleHow to Control the World
Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis (2018, via Christian Tietze): While unconventional, we hope that it’s obvious that this solution of controlling dependencies is superior to the traditional solutions...
View ArticleBeeper’s Final Fixes and Government Investigations
Juli Clover: On Reddit, the Beeper Mini team says that the Mac-based fix coming on December 20 stabilizes iMessage for Beeper Cloud and Mini, and it “works well” and “is very reliable.”[…]Beeper has...
View ArticleJust Get a Brother
ifixcoinops (via Hacker News): Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going “Just get a Brother, they’re fine” and manMANLike this is actually kinda fascinating...
View ArticleGitMounter
Julia Evans: has anyone made a read-only FUSE filesystem for a git repository where every commit is a folder and the folder contains all the files in that commit? Jordan Rose: And I did in fact do...
View ArticleApple Music Replay’s Broken Record
Joe Rosensteel: The tile implores you to “Replay and share your year in music.” In tiny text, seemingly indicating shame or remorse, it says “Go to site”. You see, the Apple Music app - and iTunes...
View ArticleSpamSieve 3.0.3
SpamSieve 3.0.3 is another maintenance update. The main focus is working around various cases where Apple Mail doesn’t behave properly, resulting in hangs or messages not being filtered or trained....
View ArticleCrashing iPhones With a Flipper Zero
Dan Goodin (via Bruce Schneier): To van der Ham’s surprise and chagrin, the same debilitating stream of pop-ups hit again on the afternoon commute home, not just against his iPhone but the iPhones of...
View ArticleThe New York Times Sues OpenAI
Emma Roth (Hacker News): The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, claiming the two companies built their AI models by “copying and using millions” of the...
View ArticleOperation Triangulation Details
Dan Goodin (Hacker News): Researchers on Wednesday presented intriguing new findings surrounding an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones, many of which belonged to...
View ArticleJapanese Consumption Tax and the App Store
David Smith (2012): The Japanese government requires that Apple withhold 20% of your profits from App Store sales unless you have filed forms demonstrating that you are a foreign company and taxable...
View ArticleBeeper and the Centurion Lounge
John Gruber: Here’s the analogy I’ve been thinking best applies. American Express operates Centurion Lounges at a few dozen airports around the world, exclusively for the use of their Platinum Card...
View ArticleMellel 6 Leaves the Mac App Store
Mellel (via Agen Schmitz): This significant update, more than a year and half in the making, brings Dark Appearance support, Split View, improved Find & Replace and a multitude of enhancements to...
View ArticleApple’s Ferret MLLM
Mike Wheatley (Hacker News, Reddit): Artificial intelligence researchers from Apple Inc. and Cornell University quietly unveiled an open-source and multimodal large language model last October known as...
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