I normally don’t write about beta bugs, but I’ve seen lots of people discussing this one and also received customer questions about it. I can reproduce it on my Mac, though not for every HFS+ volume. Apple: HFS external media might fail to mount automatically. (168672160) Workaround: For macOS only, use CLI tool diskutil mount […]

Sergiu Gatlan (Hacker News): Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information. […] “A code issue is allowing items in the sent items and draft folders to be picked […]

Ordinal0 (via Hacker News): In this post, I’ll walk through the process of reverse engineering the .car file format, explain its internal structures, and show how to parse these files programmatically. This knowledge could be useful for security research and building developer tools that does not rely on Xcode or Apple’s proprietary tools. As part […]

Brent Simmons: Spotlight has recently become terrible for launching apps after being so good for years. Now when I type something like Cal or Calendar or even Calendar.app I have to manually select the actual app in the list, if it even appears. I’ve never used Spotlight for this on macOS (preferring LaunchBar) but have […]

Mohammad Azam: We started with a simple model. Then we added a new property and transformed existing data. Then we introduced a uniqueness constraint and cleaned up duplicates before enforcing it. Each change felt small in isolation. But every one of those changes altered the structure of data already stored on disk. […] SwiftData gives […]

Juli Clover: Starting with iOS 26.4, Stolen Device Protection will be enabled by default and turned on for all iPhone users. […] Stolen Device Protection requires additional authentication through Face ID or Touch ID to access certain iPhone features like the Passwords app, Lost mode in Find My , Safari purchases, and more. Some features […]

Tim Hardwick: Apple’s iOS 27 update will prioritize cleaning up the operating system’s internals, with engineers making changes that could result in better battery life, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The effort is said to be similar to what Apple did with its Snow Leopard Mac update years ago, and will involve removing old code, […]

Howard Oakley: [Y]ou’ll then be invited to choose from the available diagnostic suites according to your Mac’s hardware, from: Mac Resource Inspector, to test the main Mac hardware over a period of 1-7 minutes; Display Anomalies, for any built-in LCD panel; Keyboard, only when built-in; Trackpad, only when built-in; Touch ID, for any built-in Touch […]

Peter Steinberger (Twitter, Hacker News): When I started exploring AI, my goal was to have fun and inspire people. And here we are, the lobster is taking over the world. My next mission is to build an agent that even my mum can use. That’ll need a much broader change, a lot more thought on […]

UK Competition and Markets Authority: The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is seeking views on a package of commitments from Apple and Google intended to deliver immediate improvements in certainty, transparency and fairness for thousands of UK businesses dependent on app stores to serve their customers. Additional commitments from Apple will deliver a step change […]

William Gallagher: Apple buries the fact that its Apple Creator Studio bundle’s generative AI features come with any usage limits, but the limits are real and now appear to be significantly less than expected. Apple (via Ben Lovejoy): The exact number of images, slides, and presenter notes that you can generate varies based on the […]

Juli Clover: Apple will soon do away with iTunes Wish Lists featuring movie and TV shows, according to emails going out to customers as of today. Apple says that people who still have wish lists should migrate items to their Apple TV watchlist before the feature is removed. Each email that Apple is sending out […]

Zac Hall (Hacker News, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Slashdot): Despite inking a deal with Google to use Gemini AI as the brains behind upgraded Siri, Apple is reportedly facing internal challenges in getting the final product ready for prime time. The reported delays could stretch into iOS 27 this fall. Apple first announced a more capable version […]

Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Tahoe 26.3 focuses on bug fixes and security updates rather than new features, so it is a smaller update than some of the other releases we’ve had. In the next couple of weeks, Apple will begin testing macOS Tahoe […]

Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, enterprise, developer): According to Apple’s release notes, iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3 include unspecified bug fixes and security updates, but there are a couple features that Apple didn’t highlight [link]. Andrew Cunningham: Apple is adding a handful of iPhone features designed to make it easier to use third-party devices […]

macOS 15.7.4 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. macOS 14.8.4 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. See also: Howard Oakley. Previously: macOS 15.7.3 and macOS 14.8.3

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): watchOS 26.3 includes unspecified bug fixes and security updates, and there were no new outward-facing features discovered during the beta testing process. Previously: watchOS 26.2.1

Juli Clover (release notes): According to Apple’s release notes, HomePod Software 26.3 includes performance and stability improvements. Previously: audioOS 26.2

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): The tvOS 26.3 update includes bug fixes and security improvements[…] Previously: tvOS 26.2

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, developer): Apple’s release notes say that visionOS 26.3 includes bug fixes and security improvements[…] Previously: visionOS 26.2

Adam Engst: The transition from version 14.4 of Pages, Keynote, and Numbers to version 15.1 has been confusing, to say the least. In late January, Apple released version 14.5 of all three apps, with the App Store claiming “This update contains bug fixes and performance improvements” for all three. I wonder if even that is […]

BasicAppleGuy: A comparison between the original icons, the pre–Creator Studio icons, and the non–Creator Studio icons. Adam Engst: I have to wonder whether the Numbers icon expresses the designer’s disdain for Liquid Glass or the community’s criticism of it. It looks like it’s giving the finger. Ezekiel Elin: I thought that the new Creator Studio […]

Agen Schmitz (MacRumors, Reddit): Goodbye iWork, hello Apple Creator Studio. Apple has released version 15.1 of Pages, Keynote, and Numbers with a bevy of new features, as long as you pony up for the Apple Creator Studio subscription[…] […] $129.99 annual Apple Creator Studio subscription; Keynote, 906.7 MB, release notes; Numbers, 722.3 MB, release notes; […]

Craig Grannell (Mastodon): Still, I did write ‘Why I want Apple Arcade to include classic arcade games – and why that’ll never happen’. But now it has happened, thanks to Retrocade. And here’s the bit that genuinely surprised me: Retrocade is good to the point I think it’s the best entry point for normal people […]

Apple (via Hacker News): The traditional Mach scheduler attempts to achieve these goals by expecting all threads in the system to be tagged with a priority number and treating high priority threads as interactive threads and low priority threads as batch threads. It then uses a timesharing model based on priority decay to penalize threads […]

Brent Simmons (2025): With retirement imminent — this is my last job, and June 6 is my last day (maybe I’ve buried the lede here) — I want to thank my team publicly for how they’ve made me a better engineer and, more importantly, a better person. Brent Simmons (Mastodon): I’m not retiring from writing apps — […]

Kirk McElhearn (Bluesky, Hacker News): I use Apple News to keep up on topics that I don’t find in sources I pay for (The Guardian and The New York Times). But there’s no way I’m going to pay the exorbitant price Apple wants for Apple News+ – £13 – because, while you get more publications, […]

Colin Cornaby (Mastodon): Certain tasks have worked well for me. These tasks tend to fit the LLM model well. […] It’s probably not surprising that there is a relationship between the sunk cost fallacy and gambling. Gamblers get a huge dopamine rush when they win. Sunk cost fallacy feeds that. No matter how much they’ve […]

Mark Alldritt (Mastodon): I’ve released a new command-line tool called AEQuery. It queries scriptable macOS applications using XPath-like expressions, translating them directly into Apple Events. The short version: you describe what you want using a slash-delimited path, and AEQuery resolves the SDEF terminology, constructs the Apple Events, and returns the results as JSON. […] The […]

Howard Oakley: Time Machine had happily gone that long without backing up or warning me that it had no backup storage. […] I think this results from Time Machine’s set and forget trait, and its widespread use by laptop Macs that are often disconnected from their backup storage. […] If you do just set it […]