Juli Clover (release notes, security, no developer):
Apple today released tvOS 18.5, the latest version of the tvOS operating system.
The tvOS 18.5 update that Apple released yesterday adds support for synchronizing Dolby Atmos playback to speakers over AirPlay or Bluetooth, according to Apple’s release notes for the update.
The feature could help address some persistent syncing issue that some Apple TV users have encountered when trying to play audio with Dolby Atmos.
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Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW):
macOS Sequoia 15.5 is light on new features, with Apple listing only a change to Screen Time in its notes.
I still haven’t been able to get this update to install on an external drive. The former workaround of manually setting the Startup Disk before running the installer no longer helps. With either Software Update or the Installer app, the update seems to install correctly, and there’s a lengthy progress bar after rebooting, but then when I eventually log back in the macOS version is unchanged. Maybe the answer is to erase the external drive and do a fresh install, but I’d rather not have to do that.
End of an era: AFP client support is deprecated in macOS 15.5. Deprecating stuff in an OS months after release is weird, I wonder if this change wasn’t supposed to ship until macOS 16.
They did fix some security bugs with it.
large network shares should enumerate correctly in the Finder
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The new Apple Diagnostics app looks particularly interesting, but appears to attempt a remote connection that is denied, so reports the error and does nothing else.
See also: Mr. Macintosh and Adam Engst.
Anyone else think there’s something flaky about select/copy actions in Sequoia?
I often think i’ve selected and cmd-C copied text to find it’s not in the clipboard.
The etresoft dev confirmed this is a sequoia bug.
I can imagine ways this bug could cause bad things to happen …
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Update (2025-05-14): Rich Trouton:
This announcement is providing a end-of-the-road notification for AFP, which has been included in Apple’s operating systems for the Mac since System 6 in 1988. The ability to run an AFP server was removed from macOS as part of macOS Big Sur and it is not possible to host AFP shares from APFS formatted drives, so the AFP client has been the final functional part of AFP left as of macOS Sequoia.
This deprecation will affect the AFP functionality available via the Finder and via the mount_afp command line tool, with the mount_afp man page also noting that the AFP client is being deprecated.
macOS 14.7.6 (full installer, security):
This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users.
macOS 13.7.6 (full installer, security):
This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users.
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Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, enterprise, no developer):
iOS 18.5 and iPadOS 18.5 are on the smaller side, featuring a limited number of new features. There’s an update to Screen Time that lets parents know when a Screen Time passcode is used on a child’s device, and there is support for carrier-provided satellite features on iPhone 13 models.
According to Apple’s security support document for iOS 18.5, there’s a fix for a vulnerability with the C1 modem. Apple says that it addressed a baseband security flaw that could allow an attacker “in a privileged network position” to intercept network traffic. Basically, a hacker that had access to cellular network infrastructure could potentially exploit the vulnerability for surveillance or to employ a man-in-the-middle attack.
Would really like being able to talk to that Apple engineer who clearly believes that every minor iOS update is a good opportunity to nag iPhone users who have NOT signed up for Apple Pay with a red badge that it takes a very special (and stupid) UI dance to get rid of.
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Juli Clover (release notes, security, no developer):
The watchOS 11.5 update adds a new Pride Harmony watch face and it fixes an issue that could prevent the iPhone from showing a notification when the Apple Watch battery is fully charged.
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Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, developer):
With visionOS 2.5, Apple added a Vision tab to the Apple TV app to make it easier for users to find content created for the Vision Pro.
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