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tvOS 18.5

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/13/tvos-18-5/

Published: May 13, 2025 18:23

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no developer): Apple today released tvOS 18.5, the latest version of the tvOS operating system. Juli Clover: The tvOS 18.5 update that Apple released yesterday adds support for synchronizing Dolby Atmos playback to…

macOS 15.5

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/13/macos-15-5/

Published: May 13, 2025 18:16

Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): macOS Sequoia 15.5 is light on new features, with Apple listing only a change to Screen Time in its notes. I still haven’t been able to get this update to install on an…

macOS 14.7.6 and macOS 13.7.6

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/13/macos-14-7-6-and-macos-13-7-6/

Published: May 13, 2025 18:16

macOS 14.7.6 (full installer, security): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. macOS 13.7.6 (full installer, security): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. Previously:…

iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/13/ios-18-5-and-ipados-18-5/

Published: May 13, 2025 18:15

Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, enterprise, no developer): iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 are on the smaller side, featuring a limited number of new features. There’s an update to Screen Time that lets parents know when a Screen Time passcode is…

watchOS 11.5

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/13/watchos-11-5/

Published: May 13, 2025 18:15

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no developer): The watchOS 11.5 update adds a new Pride Harmony watch face and it fixes an issue that could prevent the iPhone from showing a notification when the Apple Watch battery is fully charged. Previously:…

audioOS 18.5

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/13/audioos-18-5/

Published: May 13, 2025 18:15

Apple: This update includes performance and stability improvements. Previously: audioOS 18.4.1

visionOS 2.5

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/13/visionos-2-5/

Published: May 13, 2025 18:15

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, developer): With visionOS 2.5, Apple added a Vision tab to the Apple TV app to make it easier for users to find content created for the Vision Pro. Previously: visionOS 2.4.1

Pasteboard Privacy Preview in macOS 15.4

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/12/pasteboard-privacy-preview-in-macos-15-4/

Published: May 12, 2025 18:38

Apple (via Jeff Nadeau): Prepare your app for an upcoming feature in macOS that alerts a person using a device when your app programmatically reads the general pasteboard. The system shows the alert only if the pasteboard access wasn’t a result of…

AI and Google Search Volume in Safari

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/12/ai-and-google-search-volume-in-safari/

Published: May 12, 2025 18:38

Hartley Charlton: Apple is looking at reworking Safari to directly support AI-powered search services, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports.[…]Cue said that searches on Safari dipped for the first time in April 2025—a change which he attributed to users…

iPhone 16 Bluetooth Issues With Toyota RAV4

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/12/iphone-16-bluetooth-issues-with-toyota-rav4/

Published: May 12, 2025 18:38

Adam Engst: Lauri returned her iPhone 16 Plus, replacing it with an iPhone 15 Plus. She was driven to such a seemingly nonsensical move by insurmountable problems getting the iPhone 16 Plus to pair via Bluetooth with her 2019 Toyota RAV4. The iPhone would…

Apple Appeals Epic Anti-Steering Injunction

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/12/apple-appeals-epic-anti-steering-injunction/

Published: May 12, 2025 18:37

Under the Radar (David Smith): I maintain a sense of optimism that this situation could ultimately lead to a meaningful reset in the developer relationship. Maybe that is naive optimism but I think it is the best chance we’ve had in a while. Bruce: This…

Apple Acquires Mayday Labs

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/09/apple-acquires-mayday-labs/

Published: May 9, 2025 21:17

Joe Rossignol: Apple acquired Canadian startup Mayday Labs in April 2024, according to a European Commission listing, spotted by French blog MacGeneration.[…]Mayday Labs founder Jeremy Bell confirmed that his company had been acquired in a since-deleted…

The Macintosh Repository

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/09/the-macintosh-repository/

Published: May 9, 2025 21:17

Davo: The Macintosh Repository is a community driven effort to preserve old software from the classic Mac OS era.It has ~18k entries of software images from floppys & cds, scans, fonts, icons and everything in between. The Macintosh Repository: If you’re…

Mac Themes Garden

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/09/mac-themes-garden/

Published: May 9, 2025 21:17

Damien Erambert (via Hacker News): Mac Themes Garden is dedicated to showcasing schemes made for Kaleidoscope and celebrating the customization and expressiveness it enabled on Classic Mac OS.[…]What I call “recording” here involves taking “live”…

NSCache and LRUCache

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/09/nscache-and-lrucache/

Published: May 9, 2025 21:17

Christian Tietze: Is NSCache still a thing we like to use? I’ve discussed this several times, but I don’t think I ever blogged about it. The problem I have with NSCache is that its eviction strategy is not defined, and it’s definitely not LRU. When I tried…

Optional Values in SwiftData Predicates

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/08/optional-values-in-swiftdata-predicates/

Published: May 8, 2025 18:36

Fatbobman: In the process of creating predicates for Core Data, the predicate expressions do not have a direct link to the type code. The properties used in these expressions correspond to those defined within the model editor (data model), and their…

curl Takes Action Against AI Bug Reports

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/08/curl-takes-action-against-ai-bug-reports/

Published: May 8, 2025 18:35

Connor Jones: Stenberg said the amount of time it takes project maintainers to triage each AI-assisted vulnerability report made via HackerOne, only for them to be deemed invalid, is tantamount to a DDoS attack on the project.Citing a specific recent…

AltStore PAL 2.2

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/08/altstore-pal-2-2/

Published: May 8, 2025 18:35

Riley Testut: Guess what — you can now self-publish your apps on AltStore PAL completely FREE! Just connect your Apple Developer account with PAL and make an AltStore source. Then you can distribute notarized apps by simply uploading them to your web…

Pure Sweat Basketball v. Apple

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/08/pure-sweat-basketball-v-apple/

Published: May 8, 2025 18:34

Thomas Claburn: A developer of mobile sports apps has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Apple, seeking to recover commissions iBiz allegedly collected in violation of a federal injunction intended to allow developers to use alternative payment…

Free With In-App Purchase Is a Sham

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/07/free-with-in-app-purchase-is-a-sham/

Published: May 7, 2025 18:20

Jeff Johnson: The problem is that what Apple means here by “free” as opposed to “paid” is simply that you don’t have to pay before downloading the app, but Apple’s counterintuitive definition tends to obscure what is most important to consumers: how much…

External Payments From the Patreon App

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/07/external-payments-from-the-patreon-app/

Published: May 7, 2025 18:18

Sarah Perez: Creator platform Patreon has rolled out an updated version of its app that now allows users to make purchases via the web, in the wake of the Apple-Epic court ruling that forced Apple to allow app developers to include links to alternative…

Fortnite Coming Back to the App Store?

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/07/fortnite-coming-back-to-the-app-store/

Published: May 7, 2025 18:18

Juli Clover: Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said over the weekend (via The Verge) that Epic will use its Epic Games Sweden account to submit Fortnite to the App Store in the U.S. Apparently, Sweeney has spoken to Apple about the issue, and based on his…

iOS 19 More Like macOS?

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/07/ios-19-more-like-macos/

Published: May 7, 2025 18:17

Joe Rossignol: Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman today said that iPadOS 19 will be “more like macOS.”Gurman said that iPadOS 19 will be “more like a Mac” in three ways:Improved productivityImproved multitaskingImproved app window management Previous discussion of…

External Purchasing From the Kindle App

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/06/external-purchasing-from-the-kindle-app/

Published: May 6, 2025 20:51

Andrew Liszewski: Contrary to prior limitations, there is now a prominent orange “Get book” button on Kindle app’s book listings.[…]Before today’s updates, buying books wasn’t a feature you’d find in the Kindle mobile app following app store rule changes…

PayPal Contactless iPhone Payments

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/06/paypal-contactless-iphone-payments/

Published: May 6, 2025 20:50

Juli Clover: PayPal today announced that it is planning to debut contactless payments in Germany, allowing German iPhone users to make tap-to-pay purchases in stores using their PayPal accounts.PayPal is able to offer this feature because Europe’s Digital…

Retrospective on Reverse-Engineering a Tiger Bug

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/06/retrospective-on-reverse-engineering-a-tiger-bug/

Published: May 6, 2025 20:50

Rosyna Keller (Mastodon, tweet): At the time, Apple only allowlisted specific menu extras by class name (checked in -[SUISStartupObject _canLoadClass:]). Any attempt to load a menu extra that advertised a different class name in its Info.plist’s…

Sharon Zardetto Aker, RIP

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/06/sharon-zardetto-aker-rip/

Published: May 6, 2025 20:50

Adam Engst: Sharon started writing professionally about the Macintosh at its inception in 1984, with articles in the earliest issues of Macworld and the premiere issue of MacUser. She contributed to The Macintosh Bible for its second edition in 1989,…

MailMaven Public Beta

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/05/mailmaven-public-beta/

Published: May 5, 2025 19:50

Scott Morrison: For a number of years we have been working on MailMaven: A new macOS email client that picks up where we left off after Apple killed Mail Plugins. Today we are opening access to a wider audience than our small group of private beta testers.…

Hyperspace 1.3

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/05/hyperspace-1-3/

Published: May 5, 2025 19:50

John Siracusa: The first release of Hyperspace mitigated these risks, in part, by entirely avoiding certain files and file system locations. I knew lifting these limitations would be a common request from potential customers. My plan was to launch 1.0 with…

Folder Preview 1.6

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/05/folder-preview-1-6/

Published: May 5, 2025 19:50

Anybox: Quick look extension for folders. […] USD$1.99 to get the app and all of it. […] Preview ZIP files as folders. It does what it says on the tin. This is a new-style Quick Look extension, so it uses a real outline view and a real path bar, rather…

Xcode + Claude

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/05/05/xcode-claude/

Published: May 5, 2025 19:49

Juli Clover: Apple is working with Anthropic on an updated version of Xcode that will support AI code writing, editing, and testing, reports Bloomberg. Anthropic is best known for its “Claude” large language model and chatbot that competes with OpenAI’s…