Archive for September 15, 2026

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Opting Into Training Siri AI and Apple Foundation Models

Amber Neely:

A new section in the iOS 27 privacy policy shows that Apple has reversed its stance on using customers’ data to train its AI models. Previously, the company assured customers that it had no need for customer data, and would figure out how to make Siri AI work well without it.

Apple maintains that it “takes steps to ensure that personal data is not stored or used by Apple.” But as Heise points out, and Apple has said in the terms of service for a few years now, the audio material may be listened to by Apple employees after anonymization.

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It also admits that data collected may be reviewed by “review personnel.” It is unclear if “review personnel” are Apple employees or a third-party company contracted to read conversation transcripts, as it has historically been.

Chance Miller:

Starting today, when a user enables Siri AI, they will see a setup screen asking whether they want to opt in to “improve Siri and Apple Intelligence,” with two options: “Share Audio and Text” or “Not Now.”

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What’s important to note here is that nothing is changing about the type of data Apple collects if you opt in to this setting. What’s changing is that Apple will now use the data to train and refine its Foundation Models, as well as Siri and Dictation like before.

nunez:

iOS 26 had a toggle you could select to disable all Apple Intelligence features.

That toggle was removed for iOS 27. Every AI feature has to be turned off individually.

Previously:

Xcode 27

Apple (xip, downloads):

Xcode 27 includes Swift 6.4 and SDKs for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, macOS 27, and visionOS 27. Xcode 27 supports on-device debugging in iOS 17 and later, tvOS 17 and later, watchOS 10 and later, and visionOS. Xcode 27 requires a Mac running macOS Tahoe 26.6 or later.

Peter Witham:

Is this new in Xcode 27? Pretty sure it as and I approve whole heartedly! I really hate setting up Xcode settings more than once.

Christian Beer:

Building with Xcode 27 doesn’t work because of some intransparent XCStrings error… and I even can’t check with Xcode 26 anymore because Apple decided to not let me run it on macOS 27…

Steven Woolgar:

After all these years Apple has finally broken cmd-e in Xcode 27.

Previously:

Update (2026-09-18): Jesse Squires:

Xcode 27 seems to have broken UI appearance vs Editor appearance. They used to be separate settings.

For example, previously, the app could be light mode while the editor theme was dark.

But now, you choose a dark editor theme and the whole app goes to dark mode.

I hate this.

Me, too.

Update (2026-09-24): Christian Beer:

  • generate stubs for protocol: uses wrong class names
  • fix for missing parameter: inserts it at the wrong position
  • generating init with Bindings, State, etc.: mostly wrong

Update (2026-10-01): Steve Troughton-Smith:

AI code completion was such a nothingburger, for all of that investment. I don’t even have it turned on in Xcode anymore. If you’re into code completion, you’re into using Codex and Claude, so why would you ever use it now.

The built-in Xcode stuff has pretty much never worked at all for me. I either get errors or it does nothing.

macOS 26.7 and macOS 15.8

macOS 26.7 (security, no enterprise, no developer, full installer):

This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users.

macOS 15.8 (security, full installer):

This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users.

See also: MacRumors, Mr. Macintosh, and Howard Oakley.

Previously:

Update (2026-09-22): Wade Tregaskis:

Yesterday I tried doing the 15.8 update (from 15.7.9) inside one of those VMs. It hanged, midway through the post-reboot install process. I had to ‘power-cycle’ the VM. Which booted it back into 15.7.9, except… shockingly slow. Like, I can watch the individual elements of the GUI render like it’s the 1980s again.

I eventually figured out that my 16 GiB VM could only “see” 1.75 GiB of RAM, and was therefore swapping all to hell.

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In hindsight, the simplest solution might be – I have not tested it – to just run:

sudo nvram -d boot-args

That should clear the boot args, eliminating whatever insane stupidity Apple’s updater enacted there.

me22 (via david_blanchard):

Apple’s camera raw support seems to be broken here since updating to macOS 15.8.0.

Update (2026-09-23): Brian Webster:

I can corroborate there being a problem with RAW files on macOS 15.8. I’ve had two customers run into problems trying to copy RAW images with PowerPhotos, it appears that photolibraryd ends up deadlocked somewhere in the RawCamera library, and you have to kill it to get things moving again.

Update (2026-09-25): Norbert M. Doerner:

Apple was able to completely break the essential RawCamera system framework, and macOS 15.8 is now unable to use Nikon, Canon, and other RAW files anymore.

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Spotlight will hang for CR2, NEF, or DNG and other files, Preview.app can no longer open RAW files and will hang forever. The Finder can no longer display thumbnails of RAW files and will hang trying to do so. As will all other applications that can open these RAW files directly, like Apples own Pages.

iOS 26.7 and iPadOS 26.7

Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer):

According to Apple’s release notes, iOS 26.7 includes security fixes, but it does not have any other features.

Apple will eventually show iOS 27 as the main update for the iPhone, but that likely won’t happen for a few weeks. Users who want to stay on iOS 26 for the time being can do so by opting for iOS 26.7 instead of iOS 27 .

Mysk:

The iCloud Private Relay bug that leaks the IP isn’t mentioned, although it had been fixed.

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