Last week, Adam Engst described an unnamed piece of software as “the most transformative app I’ve used in decades,” a bold statement that demands robust support. That app is The Browser Company’s Arc, a Mac-native…
Wall Street Journal tech reporters Nicole Nguyen and Joanna Stern are back with more details about how passcode thieves can ruin digital lives by locking victims out of their iCloud accounts, possibly permanently. Adam Engst…
After 33 years of publishing TidBITS, Adam Engst is more enthused about the work than he has been in years, thanks to spending less time editing news coverage and more writing about personal tech solutions.
To address two severe security vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild, Apple has released updates to its current iPhone, iPad, and Mac operating systems, plus the previous versions of iOS and iPadOS and the last…
At long last, Apple has released Apple Music Classical, a free app for Apple Music subscribers that seeks to address the challenges posed by classical music. Kirk McElhearn has written more about dealing with classical…
It’s update day again, with Apple releasing minor feature updates to all its current operating systems with improvements in iPhone voice quality and crash detection, duplicate checking in iCloud Shared Photo Library, notifications for Web…
After having a holiday card returned as undeliverable due to an inadvertently truncated ZIP code, Adam Engst investigates the knotty problem of how spreadsheets handle data with leading zeroes. He also shares the story of…
Cloud storage services like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive have either switched to or are in the process of switching to Apple’s File Provider extension. The new approach is more coherent but requires…
If you have experienced problems with your Siri Remote on a third-generation Apple TV 4K, update to the just-released tvOS 16.3.3. Password management service LastPass has released significantly more information about its 2022 data breaches,…
After the Wall Street Journal’s chilling account of how iPhone thieves obtain users’ passcodes and proceed to take over their digital lives, Adam Engst offers guidance on protecting yourself from such attacks. He also reviews…
Is Messages telling your friends that your notifications are silenced when they shouldn’t be? Adam Engst ran into this recently and tracked it down to a shared Focus getting stuck on a device that wasn’t…
Another week, another set of OS updates to plug a serious WebKit vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild—update soon! We also announce a new community-built list of Apple-related conferences. Intrigued by the…
This week’s issue leads off with Adam Engst’s Christmas story of how he used thousands of dollars of Apple technology to locate a dead mouse. Not a computer mouse, but a flesh-and-blood mouse that had…
With Twitter awash in controversy surrounding pretty much everything Elon Musk does, millions of people are decamping to Mastodon. But, as Glenn Fleishman explains in a pair of in-depth articles, Mastodon is only superficially a…
It has been a week of unexpected Apple releases, and we have lots of details for you. First, the company announced new M2 models of the Mac mini and the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro,…