Rosyna Keller: FruitMenu Redux revives a utility (FruitMenu) that brings lost Mac OS Classic features to Mac OS X. Specifically, it restores the fully customizable Apple menu. It’s no longer a haxie that works by patching the operating system. Now, it’s a regular app that hooks into other apps (e.g. to switch to a particular […]

I haven’t seen it documented, but it looks like Flickr went back to shipping its rewrite of the app. It’s better than before but loses the scroll position when going from an individual photo back to the grid. Previously: Flickr 5.0

Hartley Charlton: A 47-minute video of the Q&A session from Apple’s 2010 iPhone 4 “antennagate” press conference has surfaced on YouTube, showing Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, and Bob Mansfield answering reporters’ questions. […] Jobs used his prepared presentation to announce free cases for eligible customers and a 30-day return option. Apple later posted video of […]

Jason Snell: Apple has added some light menu-bar management, specifically to deal with items that overflow the notch on some MacBook models. I’m glad that it’s taken this tentative step, though I wish it were more—it’s okay, Apple, you can sherlock all those menu-bar-management utilities out there—and of course, it should’ve happened back when the […]

I remain unhappy with Apple’s passkey backup story. There’s little documentation about this, but from what I can tell: There are no automatic versioned backups. (Syncing is not backup because it doesn’t protect you against human error, bugs, or attacks.) Even if you have a Time Machine backup, it’s not possible to restore it to […]

Apple: Siri AI is a completely reimagined version of Siri that is more personal and powerful. With detailed responses and rich, natural conversations, Siri AI helps users get more done than ever before. Built on Apple Intelligence, this new version of Siri draws on personal context understanding to help users find what they need in […]

Ken Case: OmniFocus 4.9 adds support for Siri AI, optional new date parsing assistance via Apple Intelligence, and a range of new and updated App Intents exposed as Shortcuts actions. […] In our testing we’ve found that the new Siri AI hasn’t yet learned how to work with app capabilities that it hasn’t specifically been trained on, even for […]

Apple: iPhone Handoff lets you use one phone number between two devices, so you can switch between them whenever you want. It makes it easy to move back and forth between devices optimized for the moment — like weekday business or weekend adventures. […] After iPhone Handoff is set up, one iPhone becomes the main […]

Alexander Cohen: The Post reported that UK security officials had issued such a TCN, in secret, in January 2025, requesting that Apple create a way to access encrypted iCloud data belonging not just to UK users, but to Apple users worldwide. The chutzpah of it all was astonishing. Apple’s position (privately, since they were prohibited […]

Alex Blake (Hacker News): The ‘ads’ in question appear in the Settings app in iOS. They can be found near the top of the iPhone’s display and promote several products to the user, including paid-for iCloud+ storage, free trials for services like Apple Music and Apple TV, and the AppleCare+ extended warranty. Infuriatingly for iOS […]

Juli Clover: The iPhone 18 Pro Max has a battery capacity over 20 watt-hours, which means there are additional shipping requirements. If an iPhone 18 Pro Max needs to be shipped somewhere, its maximum battery capacity has to be limited through firmware. […] Customers who need to ship the iPhone 18 Pro Max for repair, […]

Mike Bombich: I remember seeing this one way back in Big Sur; you’d create a perfectly functional bootable copy of the system, but it wouldn’t show up in the Startup Disk Preference Pane. Apple ultimately resolved that issue in macOS Monterey, but now we’re seeing it again — unfixed in the Golden Gate release candidate. […]

HarperCollins (Amazon): When Steve Jobs hired Ron Johnson to create the Apple Store in 2000, conventional wisdom said that the internet would put stores out of business. By the time he left Apple in 2011, Johnson and his team had created the most respected and profitable retail stores in the world. And even then, skeptics […]

Today, Apple sent me an e-mail about the Airmail Mac e-mail client: Thank you for subscribing to Airmail Pro Yearly. We wanted to let you know about an upcoming change to this subscription. The developer, Bloop S.R.L, is raising the price of this subscription from $9.99 per year to $49.99 per year. This is a […]

SpamSieve 3.3.2 is an update of my Mac e-mail spam filter that improves remote training, can export more rule information, and improves uninstallation, help, and more. The most significant news is that Microsoft has changed plans again. They will no longer be preventing users from continuing to use Legacy Outlook and in fact will keep […]

Andrew Cunningham: The Golden Gate update to Liquid Glass solves a fair number of the most common criticisms through both design changes and customizable settings. It doesn’t fix everything, and the changes are primarily iterative—if your quarrel is with the overall design direction, this update won’t help you. […] The net effect of all of […]

Apple: Xcode now supports a JSON-based project format (.xcproj) that’s more readable, merge-friendly, and easier for coding agents to edit. Enable it in the file inspector. Projects using .xcproj also open in earlier versions of Xcode 27. Learn more in Updating your Xcode project configuration file format. Fatbobman: [The] new project.xcproj caught my eye. What […]

Joe Rossignol: Apple just seeded the first beta of iOS 27.2 to developers for testing. Yes, you read that correctly: iOS 27.2, not iOS 27.1. […] Apple previously announced that the iPhone Duo will ship with iOS 27.1, which means that software version will contain all sorts of references to the device hidden within the […]

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Our solution hinges on splitting the Apple Reference Image process into two phases: creating a secure digital negative, and developing that negative into a reference image. Each phase receives our strongest protections. […] Apple Reference Image provides both a lower bound and an upper bound on capture time from Apple’s cryptographic […]

Jonathan M. Gitlin: GM made the decision to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto phone casting from its newer EVs, and it’s one we’ve been pretty critical of. Although the automaker told us it made that decision in order to offer a better, more unified experience to its customers, that may well have changed: here, […]

David Smith: Here’s the 17 family data as a percentage of overall usage for Widgetsmith. Generally they followed the usual adoption pattern, and overall did very well ending at around 20% of total usage. With the exception of the Air really struggling to find market share. For comparison the 16 Plus ended its first year […]

Amber Neely: A new section in the iOS 27 privacy policy shows that Apple has reversed its stance on using customers’ data to train its AI models. Previously, the company assured customers that it had no need for customer data, and would figure out how to make Siri AI work well without it. Apple maintains […]

Apple (xip, downloads): Xcode 27 includes Swift 6.4 and SDKs for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, macOS 27, and visionOS 27. Xcode 27 supports on-device debugging in iOS 17 and later, tvOS 17 and later, watchOS 10 and later, and visionOS. Xcode 27 requires a Mac running macOS Tahoe 26.6 or later. […]

Apple (security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. Apple (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. See also: MacRumors, Mr. Macintosh, and Howard Oakley. Previously: macOS 27 Golden Gate macOS 26.6.2 macOS 15.7.9 and 14.8.9

Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, iOS 26.7 includes security fixes, but it does not have any other features. Apple will eventually show iOS 27 as the main update for the iPhone, but that likely won’t happen for a few weeks. Users who want to stay […]

Apple (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): Explore what’s new for macOS 27. The page is designed in an annoying way that requires sideways scrolling, and there doesn’t seem to be a PDF list of the new features like in previous years. See also: Jason Snell Juli Clover Marcus Mendes William Gallagher Mr. […]

Apple (release notes, guide, security, enterprise, developer): Explore what’s new for iOS 27. See also: Juli Clover Federico Viticci Dan Moren Malcolm Owen Devon Dundee: The reason you should update your Apple devices today is performance. Previously: iOS 27 Public Beta iOS 27 Announced iOS 27 “Rave” Update to Clean Up Code iOS 26

Apple (release notes, guide, security, enterprise, developer): Explore what’s new for iPadOS 27. See also: Juli Clover Federico Viticci Previously: iPadOS 27 Announced iPadOS 26

Apple (release notes, security, developer): Explore what’s new for watchOS 27. See also: Juli Clover John Voorhees Previously: watchOS 27 Announced watchOS 26

Apple (release notes, security, enterprise, developer): Explore what’s new for visionOS 27. See also: Juli Clover Devon Dundee Previously: visionOS 27 Announced visionOS 26