Important rule: third-party apps can’t use your regular Apple ID password to connect to services, but use an app-specific password.
iCloud
Updates recommended for all users. They finally address problems with using 12-hour and other clocks. Log handling code has been refactored to improve performance.
An important feature for many iOS users, this has now appeared in macOS, despite not apparently being exposed to the user. Here’s what I know.
How can you check the integrity of important files you have stored in iCloud, or in a Time Machine backup, such as those made by Big Sur to APFS?
Can you use Big Sur’s Content Caching Server to save and retain updates which can substitute for ‘delta’ and Combo standalone update packages?
Universal App version of a utility to scrutinise your keychains and help diagnose their problems.
Why documents can lose their old versions when moving them around, and what you can do to preserve them.
Now runs native on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, a tiny menu bar tool to download and evict items from iCloud.
Better colour scheme for text in its log window, some other minor fixes, and now runs native on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs.
What happens when you copy a large file to the same volume, or duplicate it, on the same APFS volume? Here are the answers.
