Adam Engst walks you through Apple’s OS 26.2 updates, highlighting new alarms in Reminders, auto-generated chapters in Podcasts, Enhanced Safety Alerts, and Edge Light for Mac video calls—along with ...

Was it a sophisticated iPhone hack, a pickpocketing distraction, or just a weird coincidence? After a TidBITS reader’s suspicious encounter with a lost tourist, we examine the security of modern ...

David Lerner, remembered by many for his “May You have 1000 Backups and Never Need One” email signature, has died at 72. Read Sam Roberts’s obituary in the New York Times; we revisit his and ...

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If you look forward to receiving TidBITS each week, please become a member—we rely almost entirely on reader support. In this week’s issue, Adam Engst remembers Tekserve’s David Lerner, suggests that ...

Apparently, humor columnist Dave Barry’s brain is full, causing him to leave his iPad in public places—well, one public place ...

Apple’s hectic week of executive transitions could have more profound impacts than just reshuffling the org chart. With John Giannandrea retiring and Alan Dye departing, Apple has an opportunity to ...

We’re taking the next email issue of TidBITS off to celebrate Thanksgiving, although we’ll continue to publish articles on our website. You can look forward to the next email issue on 8 Dec.

Last week’s Do You Use It? poll about contact posters received relatively few votes, largely because I merely mentioned the poll in “How to Set Contact Avatars and Posters on the iPhone” (17 November ...

I coach weekly indoor track workouts for the Finger Lakes Runners Club from November through April. Somewhere between 40 and 70 people show up every Tuesday to follow my instructions while running in ...