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 […]

Jess Weatherbed (Hacker News): All empires eventually fall, and it seems the creative software industry has collectively decided that Adobe’s time has come. […] Pricing in particular has given competitors an opening to attack. Some of the best alternatives aren’t just undercutting Adobe’s price — they’re available for free. People love free. […] Perhaps coincidently, […]

Marcin Wichary: The first field is not focused, so you cannot start typing the number after opening this window. You need to immediately move your hand to the mouse. If you click on any field, the value is not pre-selected, so you cannot start typing a new number then. […] Clicking on parts of the […]

Simon Willison (Hacker News): Zig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project: No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation. English is encouraged, but not required. You are welcome to post in your native language and rely […]

Jason Snell: From the first time I put on the Vision Pro, I never could get Optic ID to work quite right. I couldn’t set it up to work for the longest time, and when I finally did, using it to unlock the device only worked sporadically. […] Worse, though, is that I also wasn’t […]

Tim Hardwick: On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an earlier decision letting Apple keep its current zero-fee link-out commission structure in place while it appeals to the Supreme Court. The reversal means Apple now has to return to a lower court to work out what fees it can charge developers who steer […]

Nathan Manceaux-Panot: Cut, copy and paste commits between branches Copy a commit with ⌘C, then paste it on another branch with ⌘V Or, cut the commit with ⌘X, to move rather than duplicate Paste above the selection using ⇧⌘V, or using the context menu Paste hashes from other apps to insert commits Or, directly drag […]

Gus Mueller (release notes): There’s a new “Bendable” type of Arrow shape which lets you add a nice adjustable curve to your arrow. You can also have arrow heads on either end (or both) of the shape. […] SVG importing has been much improved. Drop shadows, text on a path, poly lines, transforms, reading css […]

Scott Wiener: Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) announced SB 1074, the Blocking Anticompetitive Self-preferencing by Entrenched Dominant platforms (BASED) Act, which is sponsored by Y Combinator and Economic Security California Action. The BASED Act will restore competition to the digital marketplace by prohibiting any digital platform with a market capitalization greater than $1 trillion and […]

Tim Hardwick: Following the latest update of Apple’s Invites app, hosts can now manually edit the guest list to update guest responses and adjust the number of additional guests. […] Elsewhere, the dashboard has been expanded with an All Events view, bringing both upcoming and past events into a single, unified interface. Sharing options have […]

Glenn Fleishman: I set out a few weeks ago to compile a list of all items with certified Find My. Friends, I thought it would number between 20 and 30 items. It started to become unmanageable, so I built a site—FindYourTag—both for my own reference and because why not share it? […] Apple’s absence is […]

Upgrade: And when that’s done, we finish our Apple at 50 coverage with a vibe-based draft. Dr. Drang: My favorite picks were the oddballs, the products that weren’t Macs, iPhones, iPads, iPods, or Apple IIs. In other words: the accessories. I was particularly pleased with Jason’s picks of the LaserWriter, the Apple Disk II, the […]

Joanna Stern chose to use the first post-announcement post on her new site to return to a familiar issue that remains unresolved: Here’s my main question: John Ternus, can you turn-us the iPhone autocorrect around? […] Over the last few months, I’ve noticed more autocorrect mishaps on my iPhone 17 Pro. And I’m not alone. […]