Federico Zanetello: @State is one of the many SwiftUI’s pillars that, once understood, we take for granted and use pretty much everywhere without a second thought. But what is @State? What’s happening behind the scenes? Nikita Vasilev: The answer is that @State does not store its value in the struct. The struct holds only a […]

Anders Borum: After my experiments with APFS cloning, I made a Quick Action shortcut for Finder that’s much faster than Duplicate or “cp -c -R”, both of which clone files individually instead of the whole tree in one go. The regular file copying APIs also give you folders full of file clones rather than a […]

Rafe Rosner-Uddin (Hacker News): The Seattle-based group has started to widely deploy its in-house “MeshClaw” product in recent weeks, allowing employees to create AI agents that can connect to workplace software and carry out tasks on a user’s behalf, according to three people familiar with the matter. Some employees said colleagues were using the software […]

Tim Hardwick: The file in question is called “weights.bin,” which powers Google’s on-device Gemini Nano AI model – the engine behind Chrome features like scam detection, autofill suggestions, and the “Help Me Write” tool. Local models tend to be pretty big storage-wise, and this one is no different. The problem is that Google hasn’t clearly […]

Ken Case: Redesigning and rebuilding all of our toolbars, sidebars, and inspectors for Liquid Glass gave us a great opportunity to cross-pollinate features, making some familiar platform-exclusive features available across all platforms for the first time. And it was also easier than ever to build new features that work in consistent ways across those platforms. […]

Apple (xip, downloads): Xcode 26.5 includes Swift 6.3 and SDKs for iOS 26.5, iPadOS 26.5, tvOS 26.5, macOS 26.5, and visionOS 26.5. Xcode 26.5 supports on-device debugging in iOS 15 and later, tvOS 15 and later, watchOS 8 and later, and visionOS. Xcode 26.5 requires a Mac running macOS Tahoe 26.2 or later. […] Messages […]

macOS 15.7.7 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. macOS 14.8.7 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. Howard Oakley. I don’t know what happened to 15.7.6 or 14.8.6, but they seem to have been skipped. Jesse Squires: I […]

Apple: This document describes the security content of iOS 18.7.9 and iPadOS 18.7.9. […] Available for: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, iPad 7th generation After a brief reprieve, Apple seems to have gone back to the policy of iOS 18.7.3, where you can only get iOS 18.7.9 if your phone is not capable […]

Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS Tahoe 26.5 adds a Suggested Places section to the search interface in the Apple Maps app. It also lays the groundwork for ads in the Maps app, which are coming this summer. The App Store is also getting a monthly subscription option that will […]

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, developer): iOS 26.5 introduces end-to-end encryption for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users. E2EE for RCS requires both participants in the conversation to have a carrier that supports the feature, and carriers will be rolling out support over time. Encrypted RCS messages have a small lock […]

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): watchOS 26.5 adds a new Pride Luminance watch face. It also fixes a bug with dual SIM iPhones and an issue that could cause audio alerts to fail to play in the Workout app. Previously: watchOS 26.4

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): No new features were found in tvOS 26.5 during the beta testing period, so it likely focuses on bug fixes and performance improvements. Previously: tvOS 26.4

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, developer): Apple’s release notes say that visionOS 26.5 includes bug fixes and security improvements. Previously: visionOS 26.4

Juli Clover (release notes): According to Apple’s release notes, HomePod Software 26.5 includes performance and stability improvements. Previously: audioOS 26.4

Nate Anderson: I’ve recently developed a daily habit—perhaps one I should cut back on—of visiting several subreddits to keep up on things like audio production and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But I was surprised this weekend to suddenly find myself cut off; Reddit simply would not let me visit the site on my mobile […]

Ask.com: As IAC continues to sharpen its focus, we have made the decision to discontinue our search business, which includes Ask.com. After 30 years of answering the world's questions, Ask.com officially closed on May 1, 2026. Mr. Macintosh: Courtesy of the Internet archive, the image above is from the 1996 beta. This is what Ask […]

Paulo Andrade (Mastodon): Unlike my other apps, where I typically blend AppKit (or UIKit) with SwiftUI, Shopie is built entirely in SwiftUI. I wanted to keep it that way to maximize code reuse across iOS, iPadOS, and now macOS. This post explores how far SwiftUI can take you on the Mac in 2026, especially if […]

Juli Clover: Rave, a cross-platform service that lets users watch movies and TV shows together, today filed a series of antitrust lawsuits against Apple after Apple removed the Rave app from the App Store in August 2025. According to Rave, Apple cited “unspecified allegations of fraud and vague concerns about content moderation” when pulling the […]

Hex: Sendy has been completely refreshed with a modern, more polished interface. […] Reach your audience sooner with 2 times faster sending speeds. […] Design beautiful emails faster than ever with the all-new drag & drop editor. No coding required. […] Get up and running faster with built-in templates. […] Introducing a new File Manager […]

Greg Hurrell: The other backup tool that has saved my hide in the past is SuperDuper!, but on this occasion I didn’t have access to my physical (SuperDuper!) backup, so restoring from the cloud (Arq) was my only option. […] Arq used all the memory on the system, requiring me to start again[…] Restarting is […]

Alen Todorov (via Hacker News, MacRumors): After 14 years of waiting on developers to ship Wallet support, Apple is letting users do it themselves. Here is what Bloomberg is reporting, how the new flow works, and what it means for third-party tools like WalletWallet. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported on Monday that iOS 27 will add […]

Juli Clover (Slashdot, Hacker News): Apple will pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing it of false advertising and unfair competition after the personalized Siri features it promoted when launching the iPhone 16 were delayed. A smarter, Apple Intelligence version of Siri was shown off at WWDC 2024, and then promoted in […]

Nilay Patel (Hacker News): It’s a way of thinking that basically created our modern world. Marc Andreessen, the literal embodiment of software brain, called it in 2011 when he wrote the piece “Why software is eating the world” as an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal. But software thinking has been turbocharged by AI in […]

Adam Engst: What I didn’t know until recently is that Apple provides a hidden—but documented, amazingly!—way to export your replacement pairs to a property list file. All you have to do is select the items to export (Command-A selects all) and drag them to the desktop. You can then edit that file in a text […]

John Gruber: I know that sounds like a joke but I really do think the biggest problem with the Touch Bar wasn’t that the first crack at it wasn’t good enough, but that they never took a second crack at it. One could argue that the second crack was adding the physical Esc key. That […]

Goichi Hirakawa: Compatible with Mac with Apple Silicon [i.e. doesn’t require Rosetta]. Updated the app icon. Improved compatibility with macOS Tahoe. Previously: Ending macOS Intel Support GyazMail 1.7

Jason Snell (complete commentary): There weren’t too many radical changes in this year’s survey. Respondents are most positive about Apple’s hardware, with another strong score honoring its commitment to security and privacy. And optimism about the future of Apple in the enterprise skyrocketed, up half a point to tie for second-highest score in the survey. […]

Craig Mod (Hacker News): The iPad should be radically (though obviously) touch-only. No keyboards. No pointers. No mice. No trackpads. Just your disgusting fingers flopping over the screen and mooshing into icons. It should not have any window’d modes. Each app should fill the whole screen and only the whole screen. […] iPadOS shouldn’t be […]

Apple (transcript, MacRumors, Hacker News): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $111.2 billion, up 17 percent year over year. Diluted earnings per share was $2.01, up 22 percent year over year. “Today Apple is proud to report our best March quarter ever, with revenue of $111.2 billion and double-digit growth across every geographic segment,” said […]

Ryan Christoffel (Reddit): Apple recently announced an AI partnership with Google. But reporting indicates the company initially pursued deals with other companies, including Anthropic. Based on new comments from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, it’s easy to see why. Gurman, speaking on TBPN, said the following: Apple runs on Anthropic at this point. Anthropic is powering a […]