Juli Clover: Apple today provided developers with the sixth betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple seeded the fifth betas. The release notes don’t call out any changes in beta 6. Juli Clover: The Lock Screen clock has been updated with additional transparency, allowing […]

Juli Clover: Apple today provided developers with the sixth beta of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the update coming a week after the fifth beta. The release notes don’t call out any changes in beta 6. Previously: macOS Tahoe 26 Developer Beta 5 Update (2025-08-12): BasicAppleGuy: Apple recently added several new aerial wallpapers […]

David Barnard (John Gruber): On the podcast I talk with John about the fascinating 40-year history of Apple’s developer relations, how almost going bankrupt in the 1990s shaped today’s control-focused approach, and why we might need an ‘App Store 3.0’ reset. […] As the App Store became a services giant, the partnership vibe faded. Developers […]

John Siracusa: Looks like Tahoe/Xcode beta 5 no longer lets me show my pre-Tahoe app icons in pre-Tahoe OSes. This is a bummer. I filed FB19437407 asking for the ability to do this. I was also looking into how to do this. I had read that you could just keep your old icon in the […]

Steve Troughton-Smith: “Are you merging iOS and macOS?” “…No! Of course not”Yet seven years later it is incredibly clear that there is a point of convergence coming in the very near future where iPadOS and macOS look effectively identical and run basically the same apps — and at that point, why do you need two […]