presentedWindowStyle is not windowStyle

This post is mostly to herald a pretty good Apple bug report response, which as we know is a too-rare event. But it might also help others with this confusing SwiftUI API. What’s the difference between presentedWindowStyle(_:) and windowStyle(_:)? Well, one does something, the other doesn’t, basically. I tried using the former, and observed that… Read more

Sync Now

A macOS button labelled "Sync Now" surrounded by love hearts.

I’m very glad Apple’s Messages team somehow snuck this one little button past the corporate bureaucracy (Apple infamously likes to pretend their software is infallible and therefore doesn’t need things like useful error messages or rectification tools). It’s of course not great that iMessages don’t reliably sync between Apple devices to begin with, but at… Read more

A perfect little feature: Universal Clipboard

Apple product photo for Universal Clipboard, showing an iPhone next to a MacBook Pro, with an image selected on the iPhone and 'Copy' highlighted in the pop-up menu, and that same image in a Pages document on the Mac, implying it was just pasted there.

Perhaps in karmic balance of my previous post critical of one of Apple’s APIs, I want to highlight an Apple OS feature that I use every day, that ironically is so simple, obvious, and reliable that I almost never stop to appreciate it. Universal Clipboard basically just means you can copy something on one device… Read more