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Last month I posted an item (linking to a post from Rob Griffiths) explaining how to hide the prompts in System Settings to upgrade to MacOS 26 Tahoe. The technique I posted involved hand-editing a device management profile.

This video from Mr. Macintosh shows how to do the same thing, but using the free iMazing Profile Editor to create the device profile instead of hand-editing the XML Property List. If you were spooked or put off by the original technique, but want to stay on MacOS 15 Sequoia and hide all the prompts related to Tahoe, watch this video.

MacOS 15.7.5 Sequoia came out this week alongside Tahoe 26.4, and it was delightful only to see the update notice for 15.7.5 in System Settings.

My linkblog is down. Still diggin!

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James Bradford, one of nine students arrested for reading in the Jackson, MS public library in 1961.

Important message from Xanthe:

🫵️ YOU should go watch Project Hail Mary in Imax right now. I don’t care what you’re doing. Get on the bus and buy a ticket.

I agree! You should read the book too.

Apple (xip, downloads): Xcode 26.4 includes Swift 6.3 and SDKs for iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, tvOS 26.4, macOS 26.4, and visionOS 26.4. Xcode 26.4 supports on-device debugging in iOS 15 and later, tvOS 15 and later, watchOS 8 and later, and visionOS. Xcode 26.4 requires a Mac running macOS Tahoe 26.2 or later. There are […]

Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS Tahoe 26.4 returns the compact tab bar option to Safari for those who prefer the slimmed down look, along with a new Charge Limit feature for the Mac so you can set a maximum charge level from 80 to 100 percent. It also adds […]

macOS 15.7.5 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. macOS 14.8.5 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. See also Howard Oakley. Previously: macOS 15.7.4 and macOS 14.8.4

Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, enterprise, developer): iOS 26.4 adds a new Apple Music feature called Playlist Playground, which uses AI to generate playlists for you based on text-based prompts. You can ask for moods, feelings, occasions, and more when making a request. Joe Rossignol: iOS 26.4 was released today, and it includes a […]

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): The update makes it quicker to start a workout in the Workout app by tapping on a Workout type icon, plus it has eight new emoji characters that include orca, trombone, treasure chest, fight cloud, hairy creature, landslide, ballet dancer, and distorted face. Previously: Apple Watch Fitness Regressions watchOS […]

Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): Apple added a new Genius Browse section to the Apple TV app in tvOS 26.4. Genius Browse is a content discovery feature that provides recommendations for TV shows and movies across multiple suggested categories. Suggestions vary based on content preferences, and the options are updated regularly. […] tvOS 26.4 […]

Juli Clover (no release notes, security, enterprise, developer): visionOS 26.4 includes bug fixes and security improvements, along with improved Spatial Audio and eight new emoji characters. New additions include distorted face, fight cloud, landslide, ballet dancer, treasure chest, trombone, orca, and hairy creature. Previously: visionOS 26.3

Juli Clover (release notes): According to Apple’s release notes, HomePod Software 26.4 includes performance and stability improvements. Previously: audioOS 26.3

Marcin Wichary: The search for the strangest Adobe setting continues in Lightroom, where the first option in the Interface section is… end marks[…] Presently, only one option is there… …but at least back in 2012 there were many more. What does it do? It adds an old-time’y glyph at the end of either left or […]

Sunil Bhatt: Thanks to the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Garmin watches in the EU can now sync steps, sleep, and heart rate data automatically, even when the Garmin Connect app is closed. This removes a long-standing limitation that previously favoured the Apple Watch. For years, Garmin users on iPhone had to manually open […]

Attila Miklosi: Apple replaced Launchpad with a new “Apps” view — a hybrid of Spotlight search and a scrolling list of your installed applications. You can access it from the Dock or via keyboard shortcut, but it behaves very differently from the old grid. […] AppGrid is a grid-based app launcher built specifically for macOS […]

Pop some popcorn. Put some butter. Add some salt. Because opportunists (politicians) are pointing their muskets at villains (tech bros), using children’s welfare as the ammunition. In case you were wondering, I am talking about the battle between New Mexico AG and Silicon Valley’s villain in chief. The next bout is on May 4. So …

Paul Elie:

In societies where freedom is under threat, an informed citizen is countercultural and deep reading is an act of resistance. Just as protest and vigilance are essential, so is the ability to read and think. In a would-be autocracy, the autocrat aims to subsume our society’s particular narratives into his master narrative — in which his name fills the headlines, his voice and image dominate the broadcasts, and his airbrushed visage appears on the facades of government. To read a book, however, is to enter a narrative that stands outside the politics-and-media maelstrom. In a would-be autocracy, even a small bookstore — with hundreds of books, classic, recent, and current — is a space of contrary narratives, where truth is recognized as both essential and complicated.

Anthony Lane: I remember listening to “Bedtime Stories,” Madonna’s 1994 album, and being surprised by a moony track called “Love Tried to Welcome Me,” which contains the lines “But my soul drew back, / Guilty of lust and sin.” This is an unacknowledged but unmistakable nod ...