As far as I can tell, there were no Catalyst sessions this year. Apple hasn’t talked about it much since 2021. The Mac developer page says: Choose your app-builder technology Another early choice to make is which app-builder technology to use for yo…
Lees meerAndrew Cunningham (Hacker News): But up until now, you haven’t been able to sign into iCloud using macOS on a VM. This made the feature less useful for developers or users hoping to test iCloud features in macOS, or whose apps rely on some kind of s…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Earlier this year, we reported that “Apple ID” would be renamed to “Apple Account,” and this change has now been officially announced.
Lees meerBig Nerd Ranch: It is with a mix of emotions that we announce the upcoming sunsetting of some key aspects of Big Nerd Ranch and the transition of others. For over 23 years, we’ve had the privilege of empowering aspiring programmers through our immer…
Lees meerAllison Johnson (Hacker News): The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices. The move come…
Lees meerWilliam Gallagher: Now with macOS Sequoia, it’s having a third go — and this time it’s mimicking third-party window management apps. There are very many of these, including perhaps the most popular, Moom.All of them, including Apple’s new window til…
Lees meerApple (preview, Hacker News, MacRumors, 9To5Mac): Writing Tools help users feel more confident in their writing. With Rewrite, Apple Intelligence allows users to choose from different versions of what they have written, adjusting the tone to suit th…
Lees meerApple (preview, MacRumors, 9to5Mac): macOS Sequoia makes Continuity even more magical with iPhone Mirroring, which allows users to fully access and engage with their iPhone — right from their Mac. A user’s custom wallpaper and icons appear just like…
Lees meerApple (preview, MacRumors, 9to5Mac): With iPadOS 18, Calculator comes to iPad with Math Notes, along with new handwriting tools in Notes — all designed for Apple Pencil. […] An all-new Math Notes calculator allows users to type or write out mathemat…
Lees meerApple (preview, MacRumors, 9to5Mac): The new Vitals app surfaces key health metrics and context to help users make more informed day-to-day decisions, and the ability to measure training load offers a game-changing new experience when working out fo…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, 9to5Mac): With tvOS 18, intelligent new features like InSight — and updates to Enhance Dialogue and subtitles — level up cinematic experiences, while new Apple Fitness+, Apple Music, and FaceTime capabilities get even better on use…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, 9to5Mac): Users will be able to arrange apps and widgets in any open space on the Home Screen, customize the buttons at the bottom of the Lock Screen, and quickly access more controls in Control Center. Photo libraries are automati…
Lees meerApple (preview, MacRumors, 9to5Mac): With visionOS 2, users can revisit past memories by creating spatial photos directly from their library in the Photos app. visionOS uses advanced machine learning to transform a 2D image into a beautiful spatial …
Lees meerApple: From the Keynote to the last session drop, here are the details for an incredible week of sessions, labs, community activities, and more. Juli Clover: The updated version of the Developer app will host 2024 session videos, 1-on-1 labs with Ap…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon): Mail app on macOS has a privacy setting Block All Remote Content that prevents downloaded emails from connecting to the internet. For example, HTML emails frequently include image links, which can be used for tracking: when …
Lees meerJohn Gruber: I worry that import and export aren’t priorities for Apple. Apple Notes can import RTF and plain text files, but its only option for exporting is, bizarrely, PDF — which is a file format Notes can’t import. A good system for import/expo…
Lees meerAlexander Martin (via Damien Petrilli): Apple declined to issue a bug bounty to the Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab after it disclosed four zero-day vulnerabilities in iPhone software that were allegedly used to spy on Kaspersky employee…
Lees meerI always want releases focused on bug fixes, but we all know that isn’t going to happen. If we’re dreaming big, how about something like virtual memory for iOS so that it stops losing my Safari tabs? Cihat Gündüz: From a SportsKit API and .zoom modi…
Lees meerBen Lovejoy (via John C. Randolph): A change to Adobe terms & conditions for apps like Photoshop has outraged many professional users, concerned that the company is claiming the right to access their content, use it freely, and even sub-licence it t…
Lees meerMysk: Several iOS apps installed from alternative marketplaces stopped working after some time. Some are grayed out and can’t be opened or deleted. Others crash on launch because MarketplaceKit can’t renew the license. How would users recover their …
Lees meerLaura Pippig (via Hacker News): Before PC users can enjoy everything Windows 11 has on tap, they must first enter an e-mail address that’s linked to a Microsoft account. If you don’t have one, you’ll be asked to create one before you can start setti…
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