Apple Releases macOS Ventura, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16 (engadget.com) 21
It's a major Apple update day, as the company is rolling out new versions of its iPhone, iPad and Mac operating systems. While iPhone users at large have already had a taste of iOS 16, this will be the first time that most folks will get their hands on iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura. From a report: Apple delayed the release of iPadOS 16 amid reports suggesting it needed more time to polish up the Stage Manager multitasking feature (which we felt was unrefined in an early iPadOS 16 beta). In fact, Apple said it was skipping a public release of iPadOS 16 and going straight to version 16.1 -- just in time for the company's latest iPad Pro and entry-level iPad shipping this week.
The latest version of the iPad operating system will include many of the same updates as iOS 16, including significant changes to Mail, Safari, Messages and other key apps. There are more collaboration-centric features, while the Weather and Clock apps are finally coming to iPad. External display support for Stage Manager will arrive within the next couple of months. Also later this year, Apple will release a collaborative productivity iPad app called Freeform. It seems like a souped-up whiteboard where users can sketch out ideas with Apple Pencil. The company says you'll be able to attach just about any kind of file to the canvas, including images, videos, audio, PDFs, documents and URLs, and preview the content inline.
The latest version of the iPad operating system will include many of the same updates as iOS 16, including significant changes to Mail, Safari, Messages and other key apps. There are more collaboration-centric features, while the Weather and Clock apps are finally coming to iPad. External display support for Stage Manager will arrive within the next couple of months. Also later this year, Apple will release a collaborative productivity iPad app called Freeform. It seems like a souped-up whiteboard where users can sketch out ideas with Apple Pencil. The company says you'll be able to attach just about any kind of file to the canvas, including images, videos, audio, PDFs, documents and URLs, and preview the content inline.
Mixed machines (Score:1)
I have a 2018 MacMini, which is elegible for Ventura. and an Air that is not.
For concistency's sake (and for my sanity) I'll stay on Monterrey until security pateches run out (in ~2 years time).
Then, and only then (again, in two years time) will I explore what to do with the Air, hopefully, I can "Hackintosh it" to run a more recent OS, before handing it down to someone else dualbooting with Windows + Linux installed (so that the new owner can pich his/her own poison) so that they get Security updates...
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Yeah, I've got a number of back-revved macbooks I'll probably never upgrade.
Honestly, I've been a bit disappointed since, well, probably Mojave. They seem to be moving closer towards lockdown and farther away from self-sustainability. I mean, if I "sudo vi /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd.plist", I want that edit to actually happen.
Maybe they should be releasing the source code for all OSes they stop supporting, and just let others take on self-maintenance.
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I mean, if I "sudo vi /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd.plist", I want that edit to actually happen.
I'm in agreement with you - but you do at least have the option of disabling system integrity protection, which removes the constraints you mention.
(On Intel Macs, anyway - not sure about M1/M2)
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I had to save the "bless" binary from an earlier macos, but I fix it like this:
SPECIAL_DRIVE=$(diskutil list|grep APFS\ Volume|grep -A 1 Data|tail -1|awk '{print $NF}')
mkdir ~/mount
sudo mount -o nobrowse -t apfs
# make changes on ~/mount
sudo
You need to actually do your edits on a different partition for it to persist across boots, regardless of SIP status.
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I'm in agreement with you - but you do at least have the option of disabling system integrity protection, which removes the constraints you mention.
(On Intel Macs, anyway - not sure about M1/M2)
You can indeed disable SIP also on an Apple Silicon Mac. I know because I did it to let SwitchResX add new resolutions to my MacBook Air's display.
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Care to share an address in Venezuela where apple will recycle my machine for me?
Or shall I hag to to that Air until I have the Opportunity to travel to the USoA, Mexico or Spain (my most likely destinations in the next 3 years) to do the deed?
Also, even if there were a TRUE recycling service for apple hw in Venezuela, I'd rather my old mac air be used by someone else (with win or linux) and only one computer being manufactured (my replacement) than recycling (or lanfilling) mine and having 2 computers bei
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Then, and only then (again, in two years time) will I explore what to do with the Air, hopefully, I can "Hackintosh it" to run a more recent OS, before handing it down to someone else dualbooting with Windows + Linux installed (so that the new owner can pich his/her own poison) so that they get Security updates...
Linux does run quite well on Intel Macs*. The only issue I've seen is that, since I want to dual boot macOS and Linux, updates to macOS typically overwrite the rEFInd bootloader - so I have to reinstall it after macOS updates.
* and it's getting there on M1 Macs
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Finally fix thunderbolt docking? (Score:4, Informative)
I'm not holding my breath that they actually fixed hotplugging of Thunderbolt / DisplayPort displays via a docking station without either 1. not detecting a display causing you to have to unplug / replug again; or 2. just giving up and producing a kernel panic. It's seriously below 50% of the time that I plug the devices in, and it "just works" which is what Apple used to be known for. Even fucking Windows 11 does better at this with the exact same displays, cables, and dock when Apple has supported Thunderbolt for years longer than Microsoft.
I'm also not going to upgrade my entire operating system straight away to find out, likely destroying my development environment and causing me to have to figure out what they broke so I can do my job with continued questionable support for hot-plugged thunderbolt-hosted displays.
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Maybe you need a better employer.
1+1=cat?
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Sounds like you are generally clueless and didn't even spend a single second pondering what I wrote.
Why is it my employer's problem that Apple's OS is crashing on Apple's $3000 hardware when I plug in things Apple has supported for years and worked fine with a previous Apple laptop with an Intel processor? Does my IT department have some magic fix for Apple's kernel turning into a twisted flaming wreck because I had the audacity to plug in a thunderbolt device?
Maybe if I phrase it with the word "Apple" in
Clock! (Score:5, Funny)
Who would have thought that Apple could release the Clock App on iPad?
Astounding!
Amazing!
What's next? A calculator?
xcode (Score:3)
I work in the field, so I know that updates are necessary, and so I should (roughly) keep up with them. But when the little red "1" appears on my system icon thing, I leave it and leave it as long as I can. Not least because the update means logging out of all the crap I'm logged into, but mostly because it'll mean I need to download the absolute whopper (and constantly growing) beast called Xcode. I won't be able to delay that part of the process because until I do it, stuff like git won't work.
I've got my old mac as a sort of emergency backup machine. I swear it won't be long before that can't even download xcode because it's too big (and because the OS hogs more and more of the disk).