Niléane: Now, in the app’s redesigned Hashtags tab, you can create a list that contains up to four hashtags, and you can even exclude specific hashtags if you’re looking to fine-tune the resulting timeline. […] The other big improvement in Ivory 2.0…
Lees meerSignal: Storing messages outside of your active Signal device is not supported. Messages are only stored locally. An iTunes or iCloud backup does not contain any of your Signal message history. This makes it private on iOS because other apps can’t a…
Lees meerEpic Games: Apple has informed us that our previously rejected Epic Games Store notarization submission has now been accepted. Eric Slivka (Hacker News): Apple today said it has approved the third-party Epic Games Store in the European Union, allowi…
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry: This site now supports Dynamic Type on iOS and iPadOS. If you go to System Settings on your iPhone or iPad, and change the setting for Display & Brightness > Text Size, you’ll see the change reflected on this website. This is a bi…
Lees meerJason Snell: Here’s a thing I noticed today. macOS Sequoia changes how non-notarized apps are handled on first launch. I couldn’t override by doing the control-click > Open > yes really Open dance. Instead, I had to go to the Settings app, to the Se…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy (Slashdot): Epic Games has accused Apple of deliberately delaying its attempt to launch its own iOS games store in Europe, and has filed a further antitrust complaint with the EU. Epic Games: Apple has rejected our Epic Games Store notar…
Lees meerWilliam Gallagher (Mastodon): Apple’s App Store team has been notifying VPN developers that their apps are being removed “per demand from Roskomnadzor.” This the state media watchdog that previously forced both Apple and Google to remove a political…
Lees meerHartley Charlton: Apple’s deal with Google that makes it the default engine on Safari faces uncertainty as the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit looms, The Information reports. Chance Miller: Google pays Apple upwards of $20 billion per…
Lees meerThomas Claburn: Bastian helped create the word processing application that became WordPerfect while still a graduate student at Brigham Young University, working with Alan Ashton, his computer science professor.They formed Satellite Software Interna…
Lees meerTim Hardwick: OpenAI has issued an update to its ChatGPT app for Mac, after a developer discovered the app was locally storing users’ conversations with the chatbot in plain text.Pedro José Pereira Vieito told The Verge’s Jay Peters: “I was curious …
Lees meerBrandon Vigliarolo: CocoaPods, an open-source dependency manager used in over three million applications coded in Swift and Objective-C, left thousands of packages exposed and ready for takeover for nearly a decade – thereby creating opportunities f…
Lees meerJonas Dreßler (via Hacker News): There’s a security vulnerability (CVE-2024-27867) in the firmware of Apple AirPods. Anyone who knows the Bluetooth MAC address (which is somewhat public) can connect to your AirPods and listen to the microphone or pl…
Lees meerChrome Security Team (via Jeff Johnson, Hacker News): Over the past six years, we have observed a pattern of compliance failures, unmet improvement commitments, and the absence of tangible, measurable progress in response to publicly disclosed incid…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: In a WWDC 2024 coding video last week, Apple highlighted a recently-introduced API that allows developers to offer built-in Translate app capabilities in their own apps on iOS 17.4, iPadOS 17.4, macOS Sonoma, and later. Apple: Discove…
Lees meerRyan Jones: Deleting any iMessage media from your device storage (i.e. Mac or iPhone) also deletes it from the cloud forever.Even when:Messages in the Cloud is OnKeep Messages is ForeverYou’re in local storage managementApple you gotta clarify these…
Lees meerGreg Pierce: FB14170572: Add “Date Deceased” field to Contact records Louie Mantia: When I worked on iTunes, we briefly discussed inheriting purchased music, but we didn’t build anything for it. Product teams may never prioritize legacy-related feat…
Lees meerArno Gourdol (2006, via Lobsters): However, we soon started realizing that the Finder backend would be useful outside of the Finder. Therefore, a plan was hatched to someday make it available as a public API. Since I had previously been responsible …
Lees meerEmanuel Maiberg (tweet, Hacker News): The design tool Figma has disabled a newly launched AI-powered app design tool after a user showed that it was clearly copying Apple’s weather app. Figma disabled the feature, named Make Design, after CEO and co…
Lees meerGarrett Murray: I had no idea the “filter unknown senders” setting for Messages did much more than it implies. It actually creates a root-level menu that gives you several filter views that are very useful… why isn’t this enabled by default? The fil…
Lees meerSpamSieve 3.0.5 is a maintenance release for my Mac e-mail spam filter. It seems to work great with the current macOS Sequoia beta, though I expect another update will be required when Apple releases the AI-enabled beta of Mail later this summer. Un…
Lees meerNathan Manceaux-Panot: Haven’t seen this mentioned yet: in macOS Sequoia, you can open a context menu by pressing ⌃⏎, for the current selection. Very nice—Windows has had this for ages! The shortcut is Control-Return. I’m looking forward to this, si…
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