ForestVPN: Many of us rely on VPN apps to secure our online activities, but did you know there’s a way to set up a VPN on your iPhone without downloading an app? This method not only saves space but also provides a seamless experience for users who …
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, no security, enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 fixes a bug that could cause the Messages app to crash when a message with a shared Apple Watch face w…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, no developer): iOS 18.0.1 update addresses issues with several bug fixes for the touch screen, camera, and Messages app. Previously: iPadOS 18.0.1 iOS 18
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, no developer): Apple today released iPadOS 18.0.1 for the iPad, and it brings iPadOS 18 to the for M4 iPad Pro models for the first time since the iPadOS 18 update was pulled for those devices. After iPadOS 18 w…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, no security, no developer): watchOS 11.0.1 introduces bug fixes for the Apple Watch. It fixes an issue that could cause the Music app to crash, plus it addresses a bug that could cause the battery to drain faster than exp…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, no developer, no security, no enterprise): The visionOS 2 update fixes a bug that could cause YouTube in Safari to freeze, plus it addresses an issue with Safari Web Extension data. Previously: visionOS 2
Lees meerMatt Henderson: There used to be a great PDF app for the Mac called something like PDFPro [PDFpen]. At some point it got acquired by @NitroHQ, and began to ask to upgrade to a new version seemingly every time I launched it—up to version 13. Today, o…
Lees meerZigZag (also): Even though Finder Sync extensions are embedded and distributed in their containing applications (like containing application FileUtils embeds its extension FileUtilsSync), the actual hosting application for those extensions is Finder…
Lees meerAlex Petrov (release notes): This release is amplified with new disassemblers and decompilers, such as the RISC-V decompiler, the disassembler support of T-Head instruction set for the XUANTIE-RV architecture, the nanoMIPS decompiler and disassemble…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: What I’d forgotten is that Apple had removed this as default behavior a few years ago (I think in MacOS 10.14 Mojave), but you can restore the feature with this hidden preference, typed in Terminal: […] defaults write com.apple.dock slo…
Lees meerChristian Selig (tweet, Mastodon, Hacker News): For those not aware, a few months ago after reaching out to me, YouTube contacted the App Store stating that Juno does not adhere to YouTube guidelines and modifies the website in a way they don’t appr…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: The reason for this bizarre and annoying interface is the way that pinning is implemented. When you pin files individually or in groups of up to ten, each file gains its own pinning extended attribute, of com.apple.fileprovider.pinned…
Lees meerCihat Gündüz: And this summer at WWDC 2024 the longest session of them all was migrating your app to Swift 6 for a reason. This major new update to the language brings a new level of safety – namely data-race safety – which is awesome news for more …
Lees meerCollin Allen: Running into a Sequoia bug where third party binaries running under a launchd agent are denied local network access despite approving the privacy prompt. This has the effect of making my iOS app’s CI unable to deploy successful builds,…
Lees meerRyan Christoffel: Hurricane Helene has caused massive damage and taken over 100 lives across several US states. Many thousands of people are without power and/or cell service. But in the wake of the storm, reports have surfaced about a key iOS 18 fe…
Lees meerPaul Haddad: Anyone know why calling the following in a MainActor class/func MyTest.increment(1) { result in NSLog("result=\(result)") } crashes (asserts) when building with Swift 6? I get that its not happy that the completion is coming in on anoth…
Lees meerAnthony Ha (Hacker News): Apple faces a looming deadline to produce what it says are more than 1 million documents related to recent App Store changes.On Friday, Judge Thomas S. Hixson denied the company’s attempt to extend that deadline, describing…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon, Hacker News): Does this prompt appear monthly? No, that would be far too convenient. So how often? Every. Single. Time. You. Try. To. Disable. Bluetooth.Have I mentioned that Apple re-enables Bluetooth on every OS update on p…
Lees meerKeith Harrison: In iOS 18, SwiftData can make use of Foundation’s new #Expression macro to make it easier to build more complex predicates. From the WWDC session: Expressions allow for reference values that do not produce true or false but instead a…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Although the poll received relatively low participation because it was limited to TidBITS readers who own one of the iPhone 15 Pro models, the results still suggest that the Action button hasn’t been a runaway success. The most common us…
Lees meerRoderick E.J.H. Gadellaa (Hacker News): As noted elsewhere, a developer-lamented but regulator-overlooked aspect of Apple’s monopoly on iOS browser engines has been the prevalence of show-stopping bugs.We define “showstoppers” here as bugs that caus…
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