169 posts tagged ‘iOS’
Data Tracking and Notifications in Core Data and SwiftData
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Fatbobman (Mastodon): [prepareForDeletion is called] when the managed object is about to be deleted, typically used for cleaning up resources or manually managing relationships. Note that this method is triggered before validateForDelete. If the deletion operation fails due to validation failure, changes made in this method may be rolled back.[…]However, because these operations are extensions […]
How to Highlight Text Fragments When Linking
Paul Kafasis: In recent months, I’ve begun to notice that results from web searches often highlight specific text on the page to which they’re linking. The web page is also scrolled to the relevant content. It’s quite helpful! A quick investigation showed this is accomplished by appending a bit of code, #:~:text= to the URL […]
How to Use Cursor for iOS Development
Thomas Ricouard: Recently, there’s been much talk and fuss about AI, and whether or not it can improve your development workflow. I wanted to touch base about how AI and its implementation in Cursor have been significantly improving my speed and efficiency. In short, Cursor is a fork of VSCode with many code editing AI-assisted […]
Fantastical 4 and Windows Version
Flexibits (MacRumors): We’ve spent the last 4 years making Fantastical better than ever across Apple devices, and with version 4.0 we decided to go even bigger by finally bringing the world’s best calendar app to a Windows PC near you. For the Mac and iOS versions, it adds a Control Center widget and support for […]
Apple’s Q4 2024 Results
Apple (transcript, MacRumors, MacStories): The Company posted quarterly revenue of $94.9 billion, up 6 percent year over year, and quarterly diluted earnings per share of $0.97. Diluted earnings per share was $1.64, up 12 percent year over year when excluding the one-time charge recognized during the fourth quarter of 2024 related to the impact of […]
iOS Apple Intelligence in EU in April 2025
Romain Dillet (Hacker News, MacRumors): Remember when Apple blamed EU tech rules — and more specifically the Digital Markets Act — to justify the fact that Apple Intelligence wouldn’t be available in the European Union? Maybe that was just an attempt to turn EU users against their regulators as Apple Intelligence is coming to the […]
iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1
Juli Clover (iOS/iPadOS release notes, security, enterprise, developer): Apple Intelligence is the main draw in iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1, and some of the first Apple Intelligence features are available on the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, any iPhone 16 model, or any iPad with an M-series or A17 Pro chip. Note that […]
Security Research on Private Cloud Compute
Apple (tweet, Hacker News, MacRumors): In the weeks after we announced Apple Intelligence and PCC, we provided third-party auditors and select security researchers early access to the resources we created to enable this inspection, including the PCC Virtual Research Environment (VRE). Today we’re making these resources publicly available to invite all security and privacy researchers […]