Michael Tsai

Blake Brittain (PDF, patent 1, patent 2, Hacker News, 9To5Mac): A US jury ruled that Apple owes San Diego-based Taction more than $5.7 billion for using its patented technology to power the haptic feedback in iPhones and Apple Watches.

Nicolas Seriot: // "<a>" in UTF-16 LE + a single dangling byte const UInt8 bytes[] = {'<', 0, 'a', 0, '>', 0, 'X'}; […] The whole bug is a confusion between bytes left versus UTF-16 characters left.

Juli Clover (release notes, no security, enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW): Apple says macOS Golden Gate 27.0.1 fixes unspecified bugs.

macOS 26.7.1 (security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer): This update provides bug fixes and security updates for your Mac. macOS 15.8.1 (security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer): This update provides bug fixes and security updat…

Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, no security, iOS/iPadOS enterprise, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, iOS 27.0.1 addresses an issue that could cause Face ID not to work properly on the iPhone 18 Pro.

Jeff Johnson: The Muse from Meta app description says at the beginning, “Muse is your personal AI agent that gets things done, always working on what matters to you.”

Zac Hall: The new Meta AI desktop app is version 1.0 beta at launch and weighs just 16MB once installed.

SpaceXAI (MacRumors): Grok Bot is in beta and available today for SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, and SuperGrok Heavy; Cursor Pro, Pro+, and Ultra; and Cursor Teams Standard and Premium subscribers on desktop and iOS.

Juli Clover: OpenClaw for iOS can be used alongside an existing gateway as a secure node for chat, voice approvals, sharing, and device-aware automation.

Rosyna Keller: FruitMenu Redux revives a utility (FruitMenu) that brings lost Mac OS Classic features to Mac OS X.

I haven’t seen it documented, but it looks like Flickr went back to shipping its rewrite of the app.

Hartley Charlton: A 47-minute video of the Q&A session from Apple’s 2010 iPhone 4 “antennagate” press conference has surfaced on YouTube, showing Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, and Bob Mansfield answering reporters’ questions. […] Jobs used his prepared presentati…

Jason Snell: Apple has added some light menu-bar management, specifically to deal with items that overflow the notch on some MacBook models.

I remain unhappy with Apple’s passkey backup story.

Apple: Siri AI is a completely reimagined version of Siri that is more personal and powerful.

Ken Case: OmniFocus 4.9 adds support for Siri AI, optional new date parsing assistance via Apple Intelligence, and a range of new and updated App Intents exposed as Shortcuts actions. […] In our testing we’ve found that the new Siri AI hasn’t yet learned…

Apple: iPhone Handoff lets you use one phone number between two devices, so you can switch between them whenever you want.

Alexander Cohen: The Post reported that UK security officials had issued such a TCN, in secret, in January 2025, requesting that Apple create a way to access encrypted iCloud data belonging not just to UK users, but to Apple users worldwide.

Alex Blake (Hacker News): The ‘ads’ in question appear in the Settings app in iOS.

Juli Clover: The iPhone 18 Pro Max has a battery capacity over 20 watt-hours, which means there are additional shipping requirements.

Mike Bombich: I remember seeing this one way back in Big Sur; you’d create a perfectly functional bootable copy of the system, but it wouldn’t show up in the Startup Disk Preference Pane.

HarperCollins (Amazon): When Steve Jobs hired Ron Johnson to create the Apple Store in 2000, conventional wisdom said that the internet would put stores out of business.

Today, Apple sent me an e-mail about the Airmail Mac e-mail client: Thank you for subscribing to Airmail Pro Yearly.

SpamSieve 3.3.2 is an update of my Mac e-mail spam filter that improves remote training, can export more rule information, and improves uninstallation, help, and more.

Andrew Cunningham: The Golden Gate update to Liquid Glass solves a fair number of the most common criticisms through both design changes and customizable settings.

Apple: Xcode now supports a JSON-based project format (.xcproj) that’s more readable, merge-friendly, and easier for coding agents to edit.

Joe Rossignol: Apple just seeded the first beta of iOS 27.2 to developers for testing.

Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): Our solution hinges on splitting the Apple Reference Image process into two phases: creating a secure digital negative, and developing that negative into a reference image.

Jonathan M.

David Smith: Here’s the 17 family data as a percentage of overall usage for Widgetsmith.

Amber Neely: A new section in the iOS 27 privacy policy shows that Apple has reversed its stance on using customers’ data to train its AI models.

Apple (xip, downloads): Xcode 27 includes Swift 6.4 and SDKs for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, macOS 27, and visionOS 27.

Apple (security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users.

Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, iOS 26.7 includes security fixes, but it does not have any other features.

Apple (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): Explore what’s new for macOS 27.

Apple (release notes, guide, security, enterprise, developer): Explore what’s new for iOS 27.

Apple (release notes, guide, security, enterprise, developer): Explore what’s new for iPadOS 27.

Apple (release notes, security, developer): Explore what’s new for watchOS 27.

Apple (release notes, security, enterprise, developer): Explore what’s new for visionOS 27.

Juli Clover (no release notes, security, developer): tvOS 27 features a redesigned Podcasts app, options for larger text and customizable subtitles, and a more responsive Control Center.

Juli Clover (no release notes): HomePod Software 27 adds AirPlay improvements and support for AutoMix when listening to Apple Music.

Juli Clover: The release candidate is the final version of macOS Golden Gate that developers and beta testers will get before the software sees a public launch.

Craig Hockenberry: It looks like Xcode 27.1 is needed to test the iPhone Duo resizability - and that hasn’t been uploaded yet.

Joe Rossignol (iOS/iPadOS release notes, no security, enterprise, no developer): Apple today released iOS 26.6.2 with a fix for “an issue that prevents downloading a software update over a cellular connection.”

Apple: Audio Intelligence is a brand-new class of Apple Intelligence features that use the microphones of Apple Watch, the power of Apple silicon, and on-device and cloud-based AI models to help you detect sounds, identify music, and stay present and enga…

Apple (MacRumors): The new Health Sensing System on Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 features new optical and electrical heart sensors, enabling higher-frequency heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV) measurements, a new readiness score,…

Apple (video, MacRumors, Hacker News): Engineered with the new Health Sensing System and S11 chip, Apple Watch Ultra 4 delivers the most accurate heart rate sensing in a wearable, higher-frequency heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV) measurements,…

Apple (video, MacRumors, Hacker News): With the new Health Sensing System and S11 chip, Apple Watch Series 12 delivers higher-frequency heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV) measurements, which power an enhanced suite of health and fitness features…

Apple (video, MacRumors, Hacker News, Slashdot): Apple today introduced iPhone Duo, the first foldable iPhone.

Apple (video, MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today announced AirPods 5, delivering the industry’s best Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) in an open-ear design and even better sound quality, at an outstanding value.