Jeremy Provost: When you search for Morpho, the App Store automatically flips you over to iPhone & iPad Apps, even though there’s a perfectly good Mac app that matches the search. To add insult to injury, searching for Morpho on the iPhone or iPad App Store does show our app first. But specifically because we’ve […]

Tony Arnold: The attention to detail in Apple’s App Store app is just… not there. I draw your attention to the “Available on” subtitles below each app in the grid — they’re inconsistently truncated, some not even indicating that they are truncated. The spacing and padding also seems to be “best efforts” (check the device […]

Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): Hot on the heels of my previous blog post My collected App Store critiques, I have yet another critique. It’s undoubtedly old news to many people, my critique coming years too late, but in my defense, I almost never shop for apps in the App Store. Rather, I merely download apps in […]

Matt Massicotte: The original implementation used XCTestExpectation to do it. […] At first, I thought that I could use Swift Testing’s confirmation system to handle this. […] But this had two problems. The obvious one is the nesting. I couldn’t figure out an easy way to avoid it. And in fact, my real code had […]

Howard Oakley: Tahoe no longer lets you start a new backup on a Time Capsule, nor it appears to any other store requiring HFS+ (Mac Extended) format. Time Capsule support is expected to end with macOS 26 Tahoe, as macOS 27 is unlikely to support AFP any more, so those Intel Macs compatible with Tahoe […]

susukang: This problem is already reported not only on Reddit but also on Apple Community. […] At least, one annoying problem is fixed that the scroll bar keeps moving to the right, which makes some letters on the left unreadable. Via Jeff Johnson: TextEdit rtf documents always appears horizontally scrolled with show ruler Always showing […]

Kyle Chayka (Hacker News): What I’ve accrued the most of by far, though, are TextEdit files, from the bare-bones Mac app that just lets you type stuff into a blank window. Apple computers have come with text-editing software since the original Mac was released, in 1984; the current iteration of the program launched in the […]

Jason Snell (complete commentary): It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. The whole idea here is to get a broad sense of sentiment—the “vibe in […]

Sabrina Valle and Gnaneshwar Rajan: Danaher, a $150 billion U.S. company that makes tools used in developing and testing medicines, on Tuesday agreed to buy Masimo for $9.9 billion, expanding in patient-monitoring devices in a surprise move outside its main focus. CNBC: Masimo’s non-invasive pulse oximeters will complement Danaher’s invasive Radiometer blood analyzer devices. […] […]

Samuel Axon (MacRumors): When Apple’s Vision Pro mixed reality headset launched in February 2024, users were frustrated at the lack of a proper YouTube app—a significant disappointment given the device’s focus on video content consumption, and YouTube’s strong library of immersive VR and 360 videos. That complaint continued through the release of the second-generation Vision […]

Jon Martindale (Hacker News): Typically, YouTube will stop playing on your phone or tablet if you turn off the screen; if you want to listen to an hour-long playlist or podcast on your next walk with your device locked in your pocket, you need to pay $13.99 per month. Dwayne Cubbins (Hacker News, Slashdot): While […]

Maurice Parker: Adding data syncing to any application is hard. iCloud helps with that somewhat, but it is still really hard to get right. Shoehorning a hierarchical data structure like an outline into a flat data structure like iCloud is super hard and I did not get it right the first time. While I did […]

Ken Macon (Hacker News): Arizona legislators have introduced what may be the most aggressive app store age verification bill in the country. House Bill 2920 would require age verification not just for app downloads, but for preinstalled software, the browser, the text messaging app, the search bar, the calculator, and the weather widget. Every piece […]

RTÉ (Hacker News): French politicians have passed a bill that will ban social media use by under-15s, a move championed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to protect children from excessive screen time. […] It will now go to the Senate, France's upper house, ahead of becoming law. […] The legislation, which also provides […]

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