This week brings two highly focused operating system updates from Apple: macOS 13.5.1 Ventura, which restores location services permissions, and watchOS 9.6.1, which fixes a bug affecting Parkinson’s disease apps. If you’ve ever wanted to…
It’s easy to take spreadsheets for granted, but as Adam Engst writes, modern spreadsheets can do far more than perform calculations. By way of illustration, he explains how he built a budgeting tool in Google…
This week’s feature article comes from Julio Ojeda-Zapata, who reviews the new Studio Pro headphones and Studio Buds+ earbuds from Apple subsidiary Beats. Michael Cohen rejoins us to examine Apple’s Q3 2023 earnings, which dropped…
The innovative Web browser Arc has reached 1.0 and is now available for free with no waitlist. Adam Engst looks at the new features Arc has acquired since his 7000-word review of the app in…
It’s time for another round of security updates for Apple’s active operating systems. Two of the fixed vulnerabilities have been exploited in the wild, so install soon. Also this week, Adam Engst explores the cautionary…
This week, we have several small bits of news about Apple’s operating systems. First and most importantly, the company pulled and then re-released the Rapid Security Response updates for iOS 16.5.1, iPadOS 16.5.1, and macOS…
Apple has released Rapid Security Response updates for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to address a severe WebKit vulnerability that’s actively being exploited—update soon. Continuing in the security vein, Adam Engst explores the question of whether…
Heading into the Fourth of July holiday here in the US, we have two articles for you. First, Adam Engst shares The Password Game, an amusing Web puzzle that pokes fun at password requirements while…
This issue’s biggest news comes in our shortest article. Last week, Apple updated nearly all recent versions of its operating systems to block serious security vulnerabilities that are actively being exploited by malware. Update everything…
Happy Juneteenth! We have two articles for you this week. One focuses on a recent change in Siri that causes timer commands to create alarms instead. Read on for workarounds. The other explores the system…
After last week’s WWDC coverage of new Macs and compelling features in the next versions of Apple’s operating systems, TidBITS publisher Adam Engst goes deep on Apple’s Vision Pro mixed-reality headset. He describes what it…
Apple’s whirlwind WWDC keynote led off with a new 15-inch M2 MacBook Air, new M2 Max and M2 Ultra models of the Mac Studio, and the long-awaited Mac Pro with Apple silicon—read on for the…
This week’s issue kicks off with Adam Engst figuring out how to restart automated posting of TidBITS headlines to Twitter after WordPress was forced to pull that feature by Twitter’s exorbitant pricing changes. As a…
In what may be the final feature release of its 2022 family of operating systems, Apple rolled out iOS 16.5, iPadOS 16.5, macOS 13.4 Ventura, watchOS 9.5, tvOS 16.5, and HomePod Software 16.5 with sports-related…
If you’ve ever been late to an appointment due to missing a notification, you may want to sign onto Adam Engst’s proposal that Apple add persistent alarm-style notifications to its operating systems. Jeff Carlson joins…