Norbert Heger: Apple’s built-in firewall is causing troubles when used together with third-party firewalls that are based on Apple’s Network Extension framework (which is actually the only way for third-party developers to create such firewall produ…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: The European Commission, in conjunction with the Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Network, today announced that it has formally notified Apple regarding potential breaches of the EU's anti-geo-blocking rules. […] According to …
Lees meerSergiu Gatlan: “Opening or saving files within Desktop or Documents folders can cause the file’s app to freeze. This occurs on macOS 15,” the company said in a Friday update to a support document tracking the recent issues in OneDrive.[…]Until a fix…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Assuming that your old Mac made Time Machine backups, and you want your new Mac to continue doing so, now’s the time to connect that backup storage, if it wasn’t already used as the migration source. When you do, you’ll be offered two…
Lees meerAdam Engst (Hacker News): A pair of new ads for Apple Intelligence portray the Writing Tools and Memories movies as tools for those unwilling to put in any effort.In the first ad, Apple Intelligence enables a goof-off who wastes time and annoys his …
Lees meerTim Hardwick: Bloomberg reports that the case – the first of its kind to be heard in Beijing’s intellectual property court – bears similarities to Epic Games’ 2021 lawsuit against Apple. Bodyreader claims Apple unfairly removed their app citing “dis…
Lees meerJohn Geleynse: Being a part of Apple for 25 years has been the privilege and experience of a lifetime. […] We released the platforms and tools that helped bring incredible products to life. We inspired developers to do some of the best work of their…
Lees meerSix0Four (via Hacker News): Ordered 2 Macbooks for $2500 from Apple (Canada). Paid for their same day delivery service which they use Uber for and it says delivered but it wasn’t. Driver stole them or he delivered to the wrong person that stole them…
Lees meerKevin Purdy (Hacker News): Sega has put dozens of its Master System, Genesis, Saturn, and other console titles onto modern game stores over the years. But, like that Dreamcast controller stashed in your childhood garage, they’re about to disappear—a…
Lees meerCraig Grannell: I vividly remember getting a wonderful surprise on the sole WWDC I was flown out to, on attending a developer session on accessibility and seeing someone on stage proudly noting that slide transitions in menus had been added to Reduc…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: When macOS loads two of those E cores with low QoS threads, it sets them to run at a low frequency to make the most of their energy efficiency. When it loads two E cores with threads that were intended to be run on P cores, as they ha…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Law enforcement officials in Detroit, Michigan are warning other police officers about an alleged iPhone change that causes Apple devices stored for forensic examination to spontaneously restart, reports 404 Media.iPhones that are under…
Lees meerBenjamin Mayo: Some iPhone users are reporting a scary bug with the Notes app on iPhone. After agreeing to new iCloud terms and conditions as prompted by the system, the Notes app appears to disconnect from iCloud and instead presents users with a s…
Lees meerAndrew Cunningham: Last year’s M3 Pro chip was a departure from the M1 Pro and M2 Pro. Compared to the M2 Pro, it came with more E-cores but fewer P-cores, as well as fewer GPU cores and less memory bandwidth. As we wrote at the time, this meant tha…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (Ming-Chi Kuo): Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro models will feature an upgraded main rear camera with a variable aperture for the first time, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.[…]The iPhone 14 Pro, 15 Pro, and 16 Pro’s main cameras feat…
Lees meerKuba Suder: CloudKit also automatically creates indexes for each field in each record type - when you’re done with development, you can delete some indexes that you won’t need so they don’t waste space in the production database. Apple: A request to…
Lees meerMatt Massicotte: I think the vast majority of the time, a global actor should be applied to the type as a whole, not to individual properties.[…]But, while detached does prevent isolation inheritance, it also does other stuff too. Detached tasks do …
Lees meerJoe Rosensteel: It doesn’t list interactions for things that are not in the medication app, like vitamin supplements, antacids, NSAID painkillers, etc. All of which had very clear, urgent warnings in the prescription paperwork, but because they aren…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: When you start observing another person’s screen in iOS 18, the system will tell you that you can now tap and draw on their screen. Taps are drawn as purple circles that disappear quickly – they’re subtle, but noticeable. […] With …
Lees meerSarah Reichelt (Mastodon): In Xcode 16, Apple quietly introduced the ability to format your Swift files using Swift Format. I’m a long-time user of SwiftLint, but having such a tool built into Xcode would be a great convenience, so I decided to give…
Lees meerFatbobman (Mastodon): [prepareForDeletion is called] when the managed object is about to be deleted, typically used for cleaning up resources or manually managing relationships. Note that this method is triggered before validateForDelete. If the del…
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