EagleFiler 1.9.15 is a maintenance release for my Mac information organizer app. This version greatly improves the quality of imports from X/Twitter and expands the import-tweet-via-hotkey support to more browsers. Preserving the selected text when capturing whole Web pages also works in non-Safari browsers now.
Some interesting bugs were:
macOS Sequoia has changed the way filename extensions are parsed. The documentation still says “The path extension is the portion of the last path component which follows the final period, if there is one.” However, invisible files with no basename (e.g. ..tiff) are now reported as having no path extension (and thus no file type) at all.
Recent versions of Safari include the profile name in the document name (not just in the window title), which seems like a bug to me, but now we work around that. (Safari also sometimes does this when printing a page to PDF.)
For several years, a small yet significant percentage of my customers have been unable to download and install my apps because macOS incorrectly reports them as damaged. The disk image’s checksum, the code signature on the app, and the notarization all check out. It’s not actually damaged. Yet macOS insists, and Gatekeeper can’t be overridden using the contextual menu or System Settings. I had been recommending that such customers redownload the app using Terminal and curl, as that avoids the file quarantine. However, there’s now an easier solution: a Download Fixer tool that will “fix” an already installed app that’s “damaged” after verifying the code signature.
Sandbox testing of Mac App Store receipts seems to be broken again, and the usual cache resetting didn’t work, either. I was able to test it on a fresh macOS installation, though. I’ve seen some reports of Sequoia-specific problems but haven’t seen them myself.
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Juli Clover (no release notes, no security, no developer):
We do not yet know what’s included in the update.
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Juli Clover (no release notes, no security, no developer):
According to Apple’s release notes, the watchOS 10.6.1 update fixes an issue that could prevent access to the Apple Fitness+ service.
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Apple (Hacker News):
Today, Apple Maps on the web is available in public beta, allowing users around the world to access Maps directly from their browser.
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All developers, including those using MapKit JS, can also link out to Maps on the web, so their users can get driving directions, see detailed place information, and more.
Juli Clover:
Maps on the web is available in English at the current time, and it works with Safari and Chrome on Mac and iPad, and Chrome and Edge on Windows PCs. Apple plans to add support for additional languages, browsers, and platforms over time.
Niléane Dorffer:
Apple Maps on the web seems to be rather limited so far. The web app supports panning and zooming on the map, searching and tapping on locations, looking up directions, and browsing curated guides. However, it isn’t currently possible to tilt the map to view 3D building models or terrain elevation, and directions are limited to Driving and Walking. Look Around (Apple’s equivalent to Google Street View) is not available on the web either, but Apple says the feature will arrive in the coming months.
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In my testing, performance across Apple Maps on the web isn’t stellar in Safari. I’m observing stutters in transition animations, as well as when panning the map. In Google Chrome, however, the web app feels significantly smoother.
Adam Engst:
However, it worked poorly in my testing in Microsoft Edge running in Windows 11 on my M1 MacBook Air via VMware Fusion.
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With the beta of Maps on the Web, when you share the URL to a location from the browser’s address bar, the recipient gets a more full-featured mapping experience regardless of platform.
Daniel Andrews:
While I don’t anticipate this is going to put Google out of business any time soon, I’m hopeful that this does a few things. First, having this available on the web will hopefully drive more visibility into the hit-or-miss nature of some of the POI data on Apple Maps. I’m crossing my fingers that we see an improvement in the quality of data on the platform.
Joe Rosensteel:
There’s something funny about reading these stories on your iPhone and tapping the link to get an error that Safari for iOS is an unsupported browser. I know the app is a better experience, but this should be a little more graceful if you want to get the word out about Apple Maps on the web …
Juli Clover:
Apple updated its Apple Maps on the web feature to add support for the Firefox browser this week.
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Ryan Christoffel:
Building on the existing Guides feature, Maps in iOS 18 lets you save places with a quick tap of the + button on their Maps listing.
Saved places are accessible from the new Library menu, where you’ll also find your Guides, Pinned locations, and more.
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A great component of saving a place is that you can then add a personal notes to it.
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A big focus of iOS 18’s Maps update is better serving hikers.
It will be interesting to compare this with the more specialized hiking apps, but I can’t see why I would prefer Maps. It’s not going to have the navigation features or the community.
Juli Clover:
Apple Maps supports custom routes in iOS 18, so you can plan out a specific hiking route that you want to take. At a trailhead, you can tap on the “Create a Custom Route” option to initiate the custom routing experience.
From there, you tap on the map to begin setting points for your route, and the Maps app will provide length and elevation details. You can also have the Maps app finish a route automatically by tapping on the Reverse, Out and Back, or Close Loop options.
Joe Rossignol:
These features are mostly limited to the U.S., but topographic maps are also available in Japan, according to fine print on Apple’s website.
John Gordon:
Apple blew away the saved places I set when Maps was young. They have a long record of destroying user data. Why would I trust their new “saved places”?
Chance Miller:
Hidden in iOS 18 is much-needed, long-requested update to Apple Maps. There’s finally a “Search here” button that makes it far easier to find what you’re looking for in places that aren’t your current location.
Tim Hardwick:
In earlier versions of iOS, if you search nearby for, say, gas stations or restaurants in Apple Maps, and then drag the map to another location with your finger, it will usually (but not always) auto-populate the new area with search results for the same request.
Norbert Doerner:
Did anyone watch WWDC 2024 session 10097 “Unlock the power of places with MapKit”?
Am I the only one who thinks that this was more of a really weird sales pitch, with very little actual developer value, and much less usable technical details?
Saagar Jha:
I think this is an iOS 18 thing but Maps actually has a very low-resolution offline map of the entire world stored on your phone. You might ask what a map that doesn’t work on viewports smaller than 100km would be useful for. Well, it gives you your own little flight tracker[…]
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