6 posts tagged ‘tvOS 18’
Take Control of Apple Media Apps
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Take Control (via Kirk McElhearn): Back in 2019, Apple replaced iTunes for Mac, iOS, and iPadOS with three apps—Music, TV, and Podcasts—with audiobooks handled by the Books app. Take Control of Apple Media Apps is your guide to this post-iTunes world. Covers macOS 15 Sequoia, iOS 18, and iPadOS 18 or later, plus Apple Watch, […]
tvOS 18.2
Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): tvOS 18.2 adds a selection of new Snoopy screen savers that are available as an alternative to the aerial, memory, and portrait screen saver options, plus it includes natural language search support for Siri for looking for movies, music, and TV shows.The update also includes an option that lets […]
The App Store Era Must End
Jason Snell (tweet, Macworld, podcast): To a kid growing up in the 1980s, the idea that the maker of your computer would actively stop you from using software it didn’t approve of would have seemed beyond the pale. It certainly would’ve been a deal-breaker. And yet so many of today’s computing devices are locked down—for […]
Type to Siri
Tim Hardwick: With the introduction of Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.1, communicating with Siri has become more flexible since you can easily type your requests instead of speaking them. It’s a subtle but powerful change that’s perfect for those moments when you need to be quiet or [discreet].Enabling Type to Siri is straightforward. Head to […]
News Explorer 2.0
Ron Elemans (Mastodon): Sidebar filters, or ‘Smart folders’ as Apple likes to call them, are now fully customizable. You can add as many filters as you like, and they are all synced across all your devices. […] Article comments are automatically downloaded and displayed in the Inspector panel when the article has a comment feed, […]
tvOS 18.1
Juli Clover (no release notes, security, developer): tvOS updates are often minor in scale, and tvOS 18.1 doesn’t seem to be an exception.Apple still hasn’t added the 21:9 aspect ratio for projectors or the new Snoopy screensavers that it promised at WWDC, but those features were not in tvOS 18.1 during the beta testing process, […]