digidude23:
Is Apple creating updates for 3rd party apps now?
This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included.
iSan4eZ:
Apple inserted this text into my app and issued an update with the same version.
I’m sure about it as I update the app on my phone as soon as I publish it. Imagine my surprise seeing another update a day later with the same release notes, but this prefix added.
Matt Neuburg (via David Deller):
VLC is also showing this. Moreover, I already updated XScreenSaver to this version, yet now I am seeing this modified listing to update to. […] Personally I'm kind of afraid to download those updates just in case the App Store has been hacked and evil payloads injected somehow.
This has happened twice before, and it’s probably nothing to worry about, but it’s weird that I don’t think we ever got an official explanation from Apple.
Previously:
App Store iOS iOS 26
This weekend, I helped my non-techie father migrate to a new iPhone 17e and MacBook Air:
Device Transfer initially couldn’t find the old iPhone SE. It turns out that years ago he’d read some article that said Bluetooth was unsafe and so he’d turned it off.
The setup assistant repeated the new age verification question at least four times. Any time we’d go back a step on subsequent screens to change a setting it would jump back to age verification.
This was his first phone with an eSIM. The transfer ended up going quickly and smoothly, but the flow was confusing. The setup assistant led to an AT&T Web site that (on the small screen) was almost entirely a cookie banner. I don’t know why the assistant can’t show you the IMEI or send it to the carrier directly. You have to understand multitasking (and Copy/Paste) to get it from Settings. After pasting the IMEI, it got both the capacity and color of the iPhone wrong. (Hopefully someone wasn’t trying to steal the phone number.) AT&T sends a text message to the old phone that you’re supposed to reply to to confirm, but tapping the notification didn’t allow a reply because the old phone was locked to the Device Transfer screen. After approving the transfer, it sounded like we’d just get a notification on the new phone that it was done, and then it would work. The notification arrived, but the phone still had no service. Tapping the notification didn’t do anything. You need to go back into the Cellular settings. At that point you have the choice of using an eSIM or transferring from another phone. Initially, you had to pick Transfer, but this time you have to pick eSIM. There’s no indication that this eSIM just arrived on your phone or even which carrier it’s associated with.
It did not opt him into Stolen Device Protection Instead, there was an informational screen saying that he could go to Settings to enable it.
Migration from the Intel MacBook Air to the new one using a Thunderbolt cable was quick and easy. The fans on the old MacBook Air ran the entire time, while the new one was silent.
Then we got stuck. Signing into the Apple Account brought up the “Enter iPhone passcode” prompt. It said the password was incorrect. There were three iPhones and two Macs attached to the account. We know what all of the passcodes are—and confirmed by actually logging into those devices—but no matter which one we picked using “Choose a Device” the new MacBook Air kept saying the password was wrong. Of course, I checked the Caps Lock and, based on prior experience, the keyboard layout. (The iPhone passwords were numeric, so I wouldn’t even expect those settings to matter.) It still wouldn’t accept any of the passcodes, either saying that the password was incorrect or showing an infinite progress spinner so that we had to hard-restart the Mac. After a few hours, without doing anything different, suddenly it worked.
It added an unwanted Weather widget to the desktop that didn’t show any weather because it didn’t have permission for Location Services. I couldn’t figure out how to grant this. The Weather app itself did have access. I ended up just removing the default Calendar and Weather widgets, which he couldn’t read on top of the wallpaper, anyway.
He asked why Apple “got rid of the Tab key.” Every other keyboard has always had a key that says “tab”; this one just has the arrow glyph (⇥), which he didn’t recognize. He assumed this was a new key that did something different and so wasn’t going to press it—instead reaching for the trackpad to move between text fields—until I explained the situation.
He was really happy to have MagSafe back and to no longer have to juggle cables to plug in two USB devices at once.
Previously:
Apple ID Design iOS iOS 26 iPhone 17e Keyboard Liquid Glass Mac MacBook Air macOS Tahoe 26 Migration Assistant Stolen Device Protection
John Gruber:
Pogue interviewed Scott Forstall and got this story, about just how far Steve Jobs thought Apple could go to expand the iPhone’s software library while not opening it to third-party developers:
“I want you to make a list of every app any customer would ever want to use,” he told Forstall. “And then the two of us will prioritize that list. And then I’m going to write you a blank check, and you are going to build the largest development team in the history of the world, to build as many apps as you can as quickly as possible.”
Jesper:
Scott Forstall both arranged for the covert development of app, sandbox and profile infrastructure, as well as talked Steve off the idea of killing jailbreaking and letting it be as long as it was just a fun community experiment.
Indeed, it was Steve catching wind on the latest app developments that ultimately made him change his mind on officially supporting app development, at which point Scott could unveil his skunkworks and presumably shave months off the effort.
[…]
Apple has had a bipolar attitude towards developers for at least the last 40 years, never quite deciding whether we are indispensable or insipid.
[…]
Apple is at its best when the openness of the Woz strain is coupled with the determination and focus of the Jobs strain.
Previously:
App Store History iOS Jailbreak Scott Forstall Steve Jobs
