Apple legend Bill Atkinson has passed away at 74 from pancreatic cancer. His development of QuickDraw, MacPaint, and HyperCard influenced everything from Photoshop to the World Wide Web and directly ...

A peculiar iOS mystery has been cracked: why audio messages mentioning “Dave & Buster’s” disappear into the digital ether. Guilherme Rambo’s investigation reveals the ironic twist that Apple’s ...

Are you constantly fighting with macOS over your external disks, either forgetting to eject them before unplugging their ...

Apple has now added recent iPad models to its Self Service Repair program, giving people access to repair manuals, Apple parts, and rental toolkits. But how many are actually taking advantage of the ...

Mark Gurman of Bloomberg reports that Apple will switch its operating system version numbering scheme from the current mess to identifying them by years. It’s about time.

The results of our poll about how you use VPNs reveal widespread VPN usage, with most respondents using VPNs for security, privacy, and bypassing access restrictions.

Have you been considering upgrading to an iPhone 16? Worries about extreme tariff hikes forcing Apple to raise prices recently triggered both Tonya and Lauri Reinhardt, who does support for TidBITS, ...

As TidBITS marks its 35th anniversary, I find myself reflecting on our core mission of explaining technology in an increasingly fractured and fractious world. We live in an era of remarkable ...

Every time I travel, I vow to figure out exactly how time zone support works in calendar apps, and every time, I get caught up in whatever I’m doing and forget. Now it’s time to buckle down and see if ...