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macOS Tahoe 26 Developer Beta 3
Juli Clover (Mr. Macintosh, 9to5Mac): Right now, there is a bit of a bug with the beta that is preventing Apple silicon Macs from being able to download it. Intel Macs can be updated with no issue, but Apple will need to address the server side bug before it will be available to everyone. I […]
Menu Bar Madness in macOS 26 and iPadOS 26
Craig Grannell: In beta 2, Apple added an option to restore the menu bar background. Which is good. Except it also makes me question Apple’s confidence in its design work. When Apple starts hedging its bets, it signals that it knows something is wrong, but lacks the conviction to course-correct. Or perhaps such settings are […]
The Curious Case of the Responsible Process
Tor Arne Vestbø: As it turns out, permissions are inherited by child processes. And when a process is about to access some protected resource, the TCC subsystem figure’s out which process is the responsible one, and uses that as basis for requesting and persisting the result.[…]In the case of an application embedding and launching helper […]
Fixing mediaanalysisd Storage and CPU Use
OSXDaily: If you have discovered your Mac disk space has reduced since installing or updating to MacOS Sequoia, the inordinately large com.apple.mediaanalysisd cache file issue could be to blame. A variety of Mac users have reported the directory being filled with 15GB+ of data, with some users noting 50 GB, 80 GB, even 140GB of […]