How to check your Mac is booting in Full Security, and how to read its log to verify all the key steps involved in that process.
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How to discover which apps were launched, which appexes were run, and life cycle events for executable bundles, and map waypoints and events in the log.
A meta-search for Apple’s patents on search, and turning the incessant log chatter of RunningBoard to our advantage in following uninstrumented apps.
How a close reading of the assertions acquired by RunningBoard can tell you a great deal about the life cycle of an app.
These updates feature overhauled windows, new app icons for compatibility with Tahoe, and have been rebuilt. LogUI gets a minor tweak that should improve its window controls in Tahoe.
Apple silicon Macs (and iPhones and iPads) with AI enabled load 23 cryptexes to support that. This explains how that works, and how you might see an odd volume named Creedence….
Wrangle Unicode normalisation, discover all the app extensions in your Mac, browse the log with nanosecond times, and preserve documents versions when moving them.
To avoid your app’s icon going into the sin bin, replace it with one generated by Icon Composer. But that in turn requires overhauling some windows, and there’s a catch in NSLog waiting to get you.
Security services including TXM, Core Crypto, AMFI, Credential Manager and the SEP Key Store, Gatekeeper and AppleSystemPolicy, tracked during startup.
There are substantial differences in the structure of the internal disks in macOS, iPadOS and iOS, as shown here. And there are at least 24 cryptexes now used to support AI.
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