Max Seelemann: There are only three ways to create a concurrently running operation from the standard library, Task being the first. The other two are async let and TaskGroups — which happen to be the structured ones. […] In my words, it’s a direct, inescapable dependency relationship. You can always start a task and forget […]

Glenn Fleishman: Note that this remains an iPhone-only feature, even though an iPad could be exploited the same way. I have to infer either that Apple has had almost no reports of exploitation via iPad passcode theft, or that they are balancing the needs of the average iPad user who is out and about with […]

Brent Simmons: The big new changes are to iCloud syncing: there’s a new setting to not sync the content of unread articles, since that’s the biggest part of your iCloud database and what takes the longest to sync. NetNewsWire: We’ve added a new weekly background iCloud storage cleanup. This happens automatically, but there’s also a […]

Juli Clover (release notes, security, no enterprise, no developer): According to Apple’s release notes, the software updates contain unspecified bug fixes and security updates. Apple also released iOS 18.7.8 for older iPhones that are not updated to iOS 26. Juli Clover (Hacker News): A flaw with notification services allowed notifications that were supposed to be […]

Connor Jones (Hacker News, Reddit): A university student in the US is in data limbo after Apple removed a character from its Czech keyboard, preventing him from entering his iPhone passcode. […] This is because iOS 18 was the last operating system version that allowed iPhone users to enter the special character – in this […]