If you last backed up an iOS/iPadOS device to iCloud over 6 months ago, or backed up to a WD My Book Live, those backups have probably vanished. How to safeguard them.
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WWDC this year again featured a session on notarization. Here’s a summary of its status in Big Sur, and details of what’s next.
macOS 12 Monterey promises consolidation and improvement, even truth and reconciliation perhaps. But Shortcuts and Universal Control promise strongly.
Overnight, Apple has pushed an update to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
Apple has today posted standalone updaters for its Security Updates released for Catalina and Mojave over a week […]
macOS 11.4 brought major changes to the way M1 Macs handle external bootable disks. This explains how this works during the boot process.
Soon after Apple started delivering M1 Macs, users found that they couldn’t boot them from external disks. Six months later, this has largely been fixed. What went wrong?
Overnight, Apple has pushed two updates, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number to […]
For some, inability to clone to the internal SSD of an M1 Mac seems disastrous. In reality, it could achieve little, and there are better solutions.
What are a new kernel extension and a private framework doing in macOS 11.4? Here are some details, and suggestions for further research.
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