macOS Sonoma 14.6 is likely to be released next week, rather than as expected in September. How does this change future updates and which version you should be running?
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A brief reference to excluding items from being backed up, from Spotlight indexing their contents, and for them to be copied up to iCloud Drive.
Digging for buried treasure in the Unified log isn’t easy, but has a fine track history of bringing plenty of silver and gold. Here it’s about batteries.
Introduced in macOS Ventura, these monitor for potentially malicious behaviours, according to 12 Bastion rules. Detections are recorded in its local database and reported to Apple as security intelligence.
Two watersheds that could occur in macOS 15: that it only supports Macs with Apple chips including an Arm processor, and that it opens access to older versions of macOS on Apple silicon.
When Apple opens WWDC on 10 June, it will release the first beta of macOS 15 to developers. By September, support for Monterey will be withdrawn. Now is the time to start planning your upgrades.
Help has been in steady decline since macOS 10.13. More recently, when you open a Help book on an Intel Mac it may get buried, but it doesn’t on M-series Macs. Why?
Swift source code implementing drag and drop and more, to accompany the main article.
Implementing a basic drag-and-drop app for macOS using SwiftUI: the DropDelegate protocol, and working with NSItemProvider. With full source and notarized example.
Although some are still experiencing the issue of new FileVault security keys, Sonoma 14.5 looks the best release yet, and fixes some troublesome bugs.
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