How a wider laptop ban could threaten your safety and dataĮmail Rob at follow him on Twitter at. How Google is trying to make the mobile web less uglyĪndroid O: Google tries to fix Android’s biggest weakness Why you shouldn’t be loyal to just one tech company YouTube thought a giant American flag wasn’t ‘advertiser friendly’ How Washington is throwing away its shot at protecting your privacy It’s an unnecessary pain.īut Apple did announce at WWDC that iOS will now get its own file-management app, so maybe High Sierra can make progress on this front. Now if you want to add an image to a Facebook comment or attach it to a Google Hangouts message, for example, you have to go to the File menu in Photos and choose Export. Īnd when Apple killed off iPhoto in favor of its newer Photos, it also eliminated that long-neglected app’s option of taking you directly to an individual image in the Finder. Then Apple launched iCloud online file storage but took a few years to provide Finder-level access to it. That made many routine troubleshooting tasks more difficult. This started with Lion making the Library folder, the home of most of your application settings and a lot of app-specific data files, invisible by default. Some of these changes have been positive, but Apple’s habit of making individual files inaccessible from the Finder, the Mac’s traditional file-management app, continues to bug me. Since 2011’s OS X Lion, Apple’s desktop operating systems have borrowed increasingly from its mobile releases. If you want grounds for optimism about a reborn iTunes at some point, look to the retooled iOS App Store introduced Monday –a welcome move for another Apple product that had begun to sink under its own weight. Instead, Apple announced its HomePod, a $349 Siri-powered smart speaker that costs almost twice the Amazon Echo. Once installed, you can enable Messages in iCloud by going to Messages > Accounts and selecting Enable Messages in iCloud.Alas, the big news about music playback at WWDC was not any sort of rebuild or breakup of iTunes, and early tweets from developers point to High Sierra including the same old bloated beast of an app. However, I discovered that Messages in iCloud in iOS can actually free up iCloud storage since iCloud won’t have to back up your messages on each individual device (see “ iOS 11.4, tvOS 11.4, HomePod 11.4, and watchOS 4.3.1 Finally Bring Airplay 2 and Messages in iCloud,” ). Also, if you delete a message on one device, it’ll disappear from the others.īefore enabling Messages in iCloud, be aware that it counts against your iCloud storage quota and could take a significant amount of space if you have a lot of attachments in your messages. The upside is that your messages should sync perfectly between devices and be available instantly on new devices. If you enable Messages in iCloud, conversations in the Messages app will no longer be stored on your Mac but instead in iCloud. The macOS 10.13.5 update includes 31 security fixes. Configuration profiles containing a Wi-Fi payload and SCEP payload install as expected when the KeyIsExtractable key of the SCEP payload is set to false.Variables used in SCEP payloads now expand properly. The macOS 10.13.5 update also includes a couple of enterprise-specific tweaks: Given how problematic that update was-see “ macOS 10.13.4 Causing Installation Log Failures” (13 April 2018)-we recommend waiting before installing macOS 10.13.5 to see if the update has any problems. Unfortunately, there’s nothing in the release notes mentioning a fix for third-party dual-display systems, which were broken with the macOS 10.13.4 update. This update brings to the Mac the Messages in iCloud feature, which already arrived on iOS with the iOS 10.4 update (see “ iOS 11.4, tvOS 11.4, HomePod 11.4, and watchOS 4.3.1 Finally Bring Airplay 2 and Messages in iCloud,” ). #1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in VenturaĪpple has released macOS 10.13.5 High Sierra: a 1.56 GB update you can install from Software Update, as a 2 GB standalone delta updater, or a 2.3 GB standalone combo updater.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD.#1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors.
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