Apple’s updated Find My service crowdsources the location of a missing device by letting other Apple equipment identify its unique Bluetooth signals and transmit them to Apple anonymously and securely. | Continue reading
Tired of never knowing which streaming service has the show you want to watch? Reelgood and JustWatch can help. | Continue reading
Maintenance update to the personal finance app provides improvements to the Welcome window and fixes a bug in OFX parsing. ($49.99 new, free update, 122 MB) | Continue reading
Monthly maintenance release brings new features to Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. ($149.99 new for one-time purchase, $99.99/$69.99 annual subscription options, free update) | Continue reading
Patches several security vulnerabilities on AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule base stations with 802.11n Wi-Fi. (Free) | Continue reading
Brings several improvements and bug fixes to the recently resuscitated graphics suite. ($199.99 annual subscription, free update, 2 MB) | Continue reading
Maintenance update with several improvements and added support for Cardhop for iOS 1.1. ($19.99 new, free update, 12.1 MB) | Continue reading
Major new version of the text expansion tool with a long list of new features and improvements including a statistics mode and Magic Keys feature. (€24.99 new, free update, 6.9 MB) | Continue reading
Apple has issued a recall for certain 15-inch MacBook Pros sold between 2015 and 2017 due to a fire hazard caused by overheating batteries, and Apple even says to not use affected computers until they’re repaired. | Continue reading
Apple has expanded its repair partnership with technology superstore Best Buy to include every Best Buy store in the United States. But if you have a choice, is Best Buy the best place to go for Apple repairs? | Continue reading
Optimizes performance for the new Mac Pro with support for up to 56 threads. ($199.99 new, free update, 1.5 GB) | Continue reading
We’ve known since the beginning that TidBITS readers are an unusual and fascinating group, but George Jedenoff stands out. As an infant, he escaped the Russian Revolution with his parents, and after picking up a Stanford MBA and serving with the US Navy Reserve during World War I … | Continue reading
Photos boasts non-destructive editing of photos, even when you use a Photos extension to make changes. While the basic non-destructive feature works well, there are some snags that can result in undesirable outcomes, particularly with RAW images and when using multiple editors. | Continue reading
Tired of the Apple TV’s Home button taking you to the Apple TV app instead of the Home screen? Here’s a quick and easy fix. | Continue reading
Removes support for sharing videos to iMovie Theater. (Free, 2.2 GB) | Continue reading
Third public beta for the recently upgraded information management app. ($99/$149/$499 new, upgrades available, 88.0 MB) | Continue reading
Macworld veteran Jason Snell has penned a column explaining what Catalyst and SwiftUI are and how they’ll change app development across the entire Apple ecosystem. | Continue reading
If you’d like to while away some hours getting the latest details from Apple from the proverbial horse’s mouth, Apple employees appeared on an unprecedented six community podcasts during WWDC. | Continue reading
Apple gave nine apps an Apple Design Award this year, but Mac apps didn’t get much representation. | Continue reading
Apple has quietly pushed out an iOS 12.3.2 update for the iPhone 8 Plus to fix a depth effect bug in Portrait mode. Owners of other iOS devices need not worry about it. | Continue reading
“Take Control of Apple TV” author Josh Centers offers a sneak peek at what’s to come in tvOS 13, the most consequential tvOS update in years. | Continue reading
Open-source file transfer app adds a new multi-segmented download feature and simplifies sharing files from file sharing services. (Free, 93.6 MB) | Continue reading
Last year, Apple sued a small Norwegian repair shop over 63 unauthorized iPhone screens and lost, but Apple is appealing the case anyway. We worry that lutefisk may be involved. | Continue reading
Josh Centers wasn’t a fan of Qi charging until his iPhone X’s Lightning port died while he was on vacation. A Qi charging stand let him recharge wirelessly instead of taking a lengthy side trip to an Apple Store. | Continue reading
It has been a long time coming, but Apple’s new highly configurable Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR monitor raise the bar—and the price—of a high-end Mac workstation. Well-heeled creative professionals who need maximum performance will be delighted. | Continue reading
With watchOS 6, Apple has made the Apple Watch more self-reliant and more versatile. It gains an App Store with a library of apps that are, in some cases, iPhone-independent. As a health device, it helps protect users’ hearing and assists women in their menstrual and fertility tr … | Continue reading
At WWDC, Apple predictably announced iOS 13 with a slew of new features. In a no one was expecting, the company also announced a new, iPad-specific operating system called iPadOS that’s essentially a superset of iOS 13. | Continue reading
At WWDC, Apple threw back the curtains on macOS 10.15 Catalina, bringing the Mac ever closer to iOS without losing sight of what makes the Mac unique. We’re particularly impressed with the work the company did on accessibility features. | Continue reading
Investigative journalist Geoffrey Fowler of the Washington Post has discovered that numerous iOS apps include trackers that constantly send information about you back to data brokers. | Continue reading
Apple has created a PR page for the App Store aimed at responding to criticism from competitors and politicians. | Continue reading
Patches several security vulnerabilities on AirPort Extreme and AirPort Time Capsule base stations with 802.11ac Wi-Fi. (Free) | Continue reading
Redesigned 1Password mini analyzes Web pages to show only items that can be filled in on a Web page. ($64.99 new, free update, 50.4 MB) | Continue reading
Maintenance update to the recently refreshed sound utility with several enhancements and critical bug fixes. ($29 new, free update, 13.7 MB) | Continue reading
Tweaks the snippet editor with a number of bug fixes and usability improvements. ($40 annual subscription, free update, 20.9 MB) | Continue reading
Maintenance update brings improvements and bug fixes to the graphic conversion and editing utility. ($39.95 new, free update, 194 MB) | Continue reading
Adds support for direct publishing to the Ghost publishing and blogging platform. ($39.99 annual subscription, free update, 23.5 MB) | Continue reading
Improves the speed of export when publishing to a RAM disk and ensuring lists in styled text areas behave better. ($89 new, free update, 78.9 MB) | Continue reading
Apple has pushed Dark Mode hard in Mojave, and rumors suggest that it will appear in iOS 13 as well. If Apple thinks Dark Mode is such a good idea, should you switch to it? Only if you’re more interested in being trendy than productive, since the science behind human visual perce … | Continue reading
Enables you to use Outlook rules to organize messages into folders when running Office 365. ($30 new, free update, 14.3 MB) | Continue reading
Update to the personal finance app brings a new reconciling mode and a Memorized Transactions feature, along with other minor features and bug fixes. ($39.99 new, free update, 28.7 MB) | Continue reading
Second public beta for the recently upgraded information management app. ($99/$149/$499 new, upgrades available, 88.0 MB) | Continue reading
Maintenance release for the synchronization and backup app. ($49.99 new for ChronoSync, free updates; 66.8 MB) | Continue reading
Fixes a bug that could lead the drive-cloning and backup utility to conclude incorrectly that a Google Drive volume is not mounted. ($39.99 new, free update, 15.7 MB) | Continue reading
Continuing to clear the decks before next week’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple has updated the iPod touch with a faster CPU and the option for a larger storage configuration. Everything else remains the same. | Continue reading
Just 11 days after the release of iOS 12.3, Apple has pushed out iOS 12.31 to fix bugs with Voice over LTE calling and unknown senders in Messages. | Continue reading
Once a promising avenue for teaching kids to code, App Camp for Girls has announced that it will not hold any camps in summer 2019. | Continue reading
Address a firmware issue involving the T2 Security Chip on 15-inch MacBook Pro models from 2018 and 2019. (Free, 952.9 MB) | Continue reading
Maintenance updates with enhancements and bug fixes for the calendar and contacts apps. ($49.99 new for each, free update, 21.2/11.4 MB) | Continue reading