John Gruber (Mastodon) has a great post with new details about exactly what’s happening with sharing iPhone Wi-Fi network information in iOS 16.2. In brief, I think this turns the story on its head. The way this has been reported and discussed since November 4 seems to be wrong and almost backwards. First, I want […]

My apps are on sale for Black Friday, and here’s a list of deals that I found and that developers submitted. I’ll add more deals throughout the week as I see them. Apps: Acorn Adobe Creative Cloud Aiko Airfoil (PUMPKINSPICE) AlDente Pro AllTrails Appfigures (BF2550) Astro Audio Hijack (PUMPKINSPICE) Auralog Avalanche BarCuts BasicAppleGuy Stickers Beyond […]

Marcel Weiher: So Tahoe apparently has a new Contacts app.Unusably slow.So slow that you think it has crashed.Why am I not surprised that otool -L shows a SwiftUI dependency?[…]Oh, and it flickers and has visual glitches.Not just when scrolling, also when just sitting there. It really is incredibly slow, especially resizing the window, even on […]

Matt Massicotte (Mastodon): Swift 6.2 gives you the ability make MainActor the default isolation. Unlike the rest of the features introduced as part of “Approachable Concurrency”, this is a long-term mode. It is optional and will remain so. However, this mode is enabled for new app targets in Xcode 26. And many people take this […]

Robert Hart and Dominic Preston (Hacker News, MacRumors): Under intense pressure from industry and the US government, Brussels is stripping protections from its flagship General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — including simplifying its infamous cookie permission pop-ups — and relaxing or delaying landmark AI rules in an effort to cut red tape and revive sluggish […]