Apple’s WWDC announcements will dominate this week’s tech news, and with good reason: the company unveiled a slew of new features and Apple Intelligence, a collection of AI-driven capabilities that will appear over the course of the next year. Along with sharing some of the most compelling upcoming features, Adam Engst examines recent online controversies that could have been avoided with better corporate communications. We also briefly alert readers to upcoming server changes and share the increasingly frustrated texts an iPhone thief sent the victim in an attempt to get her to unlock the iPhone. Notable Mac app releases this week include Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher 2.5.2, BBEdit 15.1.1, Bookends 15.0.3, Fantastical 3.8.17, OmniFocus 4.3, and Ulysses 35.
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In the last few weeks, we’ve seen three examples of companies failing to communicate with their customers effectively and suffering the slings and arrows of online ire.
Apple doesn’t skimp when it comes to adding features to its operating systems each year. Here are the 14 features that most caught our attention.
Watchlist
Maintenance update with several bug fixes and crash resolvers. (Various prices new, free update, various sizes, macOS 10.15+)
Adjusts the default width proportions of new windows to make them a little wider. ($59.99 new, free update, 29.7 MB, macOS 11+)
Adds the Library of Congress as a source in Google Books for ISBN searches. ($74.99 new, free update, 116.5 MB, macOS 10.13+)
Improves the handling of delegated calendars when using the Microsoft Graph API. ($56.99 new, free update, 65.9 MB, macOS 11+)
Introduces support for device Focus Filters and a new Favorite Perspective shortcut. ($74.99 new, free update, 31.5 MB, macOS 13+)
Adds inline linking and full history navigation. ($5.99/$39.99 monthly/yearly subscription, free update, 40.5 MB, macOS 12+)
