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macOS 26

What has changed in macOS Tahoe 26.2?

A largely routine update, with a few interesting new features such as Edge Light, a security enhancement to AirDrop, and two important security fixes that have already been exploited in iOS.

December 12, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Apple has released macOS 26.2 Tahoe, and security updates to Sequoia 15.7.3 and Sonoma 14.8.3

Apple has just released the update to bring macOS Tahoe to version 26.2, and security updates to Sequoia […]

December 12, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Did you know your photos are being syndicated?

Where are all those photos and videos that are shared in Messages being stored? Where to find the Syndication Photos Library, and some of its puzzles.

December 12, 2025 Macs, Technology

Create a bootable external disk for Apple silicon Macs in Tahoe

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Apple silicon Macs were designed to boot almost as securely from external disks as from their internal SSD. That makes macOS installation a little more complicated. Here’s how to do that.

December 9, 2025 Macs, Technology

Does Preview write PDF/A?

Preview offers PDF/A as an export option, intended for PDFs that are to be relied on long into the future, for archives. Do they comply with one of the PDF/A standards, though?

November 21, 2025 Macs, Technology

Which local file systems does macOS 26 support?

A survey of support for APFS, HFS+, FAT and ExFAT, NTFS, ZFS, Linux file systems, and MacFUSE with its potential for file systems running in user-space.

November 18, 2025 Macs, Technology

How to save web pages using Safari

There are now 5 options, saving to HTML, webarchive, PNG image, and two variants of PDF. Which should you use to keep a record of a web page?

November 17, 2025 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Five Tahoe bugs

Normally, the x.1 update fixes many of the bugs from the first release. But in Tahoe, a crop of fresh bugs have been included. Here are some of them, and how they have arisen.

November 16, 2025 Macs, Technology

How the Clock hoards timers until it breaks

If you use Timers in the Clock app a lot, after a while the app may stop working and show a blank view. This is the result of a service hoarding old timers to its property list.

November 14, 2025 Macs, Technology

Big guns for Tahoe problems: which radical fixes still work?

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Which problem-solving techniques are still available in macOS Tahoe? While Intel Macs still have a few, Apple silicon Macs don’t have many left.

November 11, 2025 Macs, Technology

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