Juli Clover:
App Store Connect 2.0 includes a refreshed UI throughout the app, as well as new capabilities. Developers are able to promote their apps by generating marketing assets for app launches, version updates, featured placements in the Today tab, and more.
These marketing assets that are generated for special moments can be shared on various social media channels for app promotion purposes.
The app is still super slow and doesn’t stay logged in. It’s unable to auto-fill my password even though it’s in iCloud Keychain and Safari can. The text on the marketing assets is generic (not based on the release notes) and can’t be customized. It suggests “Improved with New Features” for my bug-fix update that doesn’t have any new features.
John Voorhees:
App Store Connect, the web app that developers use to submit their apps to Apple’s App Store and manage them, was updated yesterday with new tools developers can use to promote their apps.
Developers have been able to submit promotional requests to Apple for quite some time, but the new Featuring Nomination process is now baked right into App Store Connect. Developers can submit nominations from App Store Connect where they will be asked for information about their app. Nominations can be made for events such as a new app launch or adding in-app content and features. When an app is chosen by the App Store editorial team for a feature, developers will be notified in App Store Connect, too.
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Norbert Heger:
Apple’s built-in firewall is causing troubles when used together with third-party firewalls that are based on Apple’s Network Extension framework (which is actually the only way for third-party developers to create such firewall products for the Mac).
While one of the issues related to DNS lookups has been fixed in macOS 15.1, a new, even more serious one was introduced.
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For the time being, until Apple fixes this serious bug in macOS, we therefore highly recommend to turn off the built-in firewall of macOS when also using Little Snitch or Little Snitch Mini.
Previously:
Bug Extensions Firewall Little Snitch Mac macOS 15 Sequoia Network Extensions Networking
Hartley Charlton:
The European Commission, in conjunction with the Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Network, today announced that it has formally notified Apple regarding potential breaches of the EU's anti-geo-blocking rules.
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According to the CPC Network, consumers using Apple Media Services, such as the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple TV+, encounter different interfaces and content depending on their country of registration. This regional segmentation allegedly makes it difficult, if not impossible, for users to switch between country-specific versions of Apple's services, which may be in violation of the EU's Geo-blocking Regulation enacted in 2018, designed to protect the Digital Single Market.
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The EU maintains that consumers should be able to access and download apps offered in other EU/EEA countries when traveling or staying temporarily in another member state.
See also: Steve Troughton-Smith.
Previously:
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Sergiu Gatlan:
“Opening or saving files within Desktop or Documents folders can cause the file’s app to freeze. This occurs on macOS 15,” the company said in a Friday update to a support document tracking the recent issues in OneDrive.
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Until a fix is available, customers should force quit the OpenAndSavePanelService process that hangs because of this issue and save their files to a location other than their Desktop, Documents, or OneDrive folders.
I have a customer who’s seeing a different OneDrive issue on macOS 15.1, where macOS will report that a file exists but trying to read it will fail saying that the file doesn’t exist.
Sidenote: It seems that, lately, NSURLIsUbiquitousItemKey will be set for files that are backed by a file provider extension even though the documentation say it’s specific to iCloud storage.
Previously:
Bug File Provider Extensions Mac macOS 15 Sequoia Microsoft OneDrive
