Apple releases iOS 13.3, MacOS 10.15.2, tvOS 13.3, watchOS 6.1.1, HomePod 13.3

MacDailyNews ^ | December 10, 2019 | MacDailyNews

[Swordmaker]

Apple Releases iOS 13.3

Apple today released iOS 13.3 which includes improvements, bug fixes and additional parental controls for Screen Time.

Screen Time

• New parental controls provide more communication limits over who their children can call, FaceTime, or Message
• Contact list for children lets parents manage the contacts that appear on their children’s devices

Apple News

• New layout for Apple News+ stories from The Wall Street Journal and other leading newspapers
• Easily like or dislike stories with a tap
• Stories from Apple News are now available in Canada in English and French
• Continue reading with links to related stories or more stories from the same publication
• “Breaking” and “Developing” labels for Top Stories

This update also includes bug fixes and other improvements. This update:

• Enables the creation of a new video clip when trimming a video in Photos
• Adds support for NFC, USB, and Lightning FIDO2-compliant security keys in Safari
• Fixes issues in Mail that may prevent downloading new messages
• Addresses an issue that prevented deleting messages in Gmail accounts
• Resolves issues that could cause incorrect characters to display in messages and duplication of sent messages in Exchange accounts
• Fixes an issue where the cursor may not move after long pressing on the space bar
• Addresses an issue that may cause screenshots to appear blurry when sent via Messages
• Resolves an issue where cropping or using Markup on screenshots may not save to Photos
• Fixes an issue where Voice Memos recordings may not be able to be shared with other audio apps
• Addresses an issue where the missed call badge on the Phone app may not clear
• Resolves an issue where the Cellular Data setting may incorrectly show as off
• Fixes an issue that prevented turning off Dark Mode when Smart Invert was enabled
• Addresses an issue where some wireless chargers may charge more slowly than expected

For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website:
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222

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Apple releases macOS 10.15.2

Apple today released macOS 10.15.2 which improves the stability, reliability and performance of your Mac and is recommended for all users.

This update adds the following features:

Apple News

• New layout for Apple News+ stories from The Wall Street Journal and other leading newspapers
• Get links to related stories or more stories from the same publication at the end of an article
• “Breaking” and “Developing” labels for Top Stories
• Stories from Apple News are now available in Canada in English and French

This update also includes the following bug fixes and improvements:

Music

• Restores the column browser view for managing the music library
• Resolves an issue that may prevent album artwork from appearing
• Fixes an issue that may reset music equalizer settings during playback

iTunes Remote

• Adds support for using an iPhone or iPad to remotely control the Music and TV apps on a Mac

Photos

• Resolves an issue that may cause some .AVI and .MP4 files to appear as unsupported
• Fixes an issue that prevents newly created folders from appearing in Albums view
• Addresses an issue where manually sorted images in an album may be printed or exported out of order
• Fixes an issue that prevents the zoom-to-crop tool from working in a print preview

Mail
Addresses an issue that may cause Mail Preferences to open with a blank window
Resolves an issue that may prevent using undo from retrieving deleted mail

Other

• Improves the reliability of syncing books and audiobooks to your iPad or iPhone through Finder
• Fixes an issue where reminders may be out of order in the Today smart list in the Reminders app
• Resolves an issue that may cause slow typing performance in the Notes app

For more detailed information about this update, please visit: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210642 https://support.apple.com/kb/HT210642

For detailed information about the security content of this update, please visit: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222.

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Apple releases watchOS 6.1.1

Apple today released watchOS 6.1.1 which provides important security updates and is recommended for all users.

For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222

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Apple Releases tvOS 13.3

Chance Miller for 9to5Mac:

tvOS 13.3 adds a new setting to revert one of the more annoying changes made to the Apple TV with tvOS 13.

Apple redesigned the Apple TV home screen with tvOS 13 to allow for fullscreen panoramic previews in the Top Shelf area. At the same time, it also changed the content of the Top Shelf for the TV app. The area originally showed your personalized “Up Next” queue, but that was changed to a “What to Watch” selection of video trailers and previews this year. A new setting in tvOS 13.3, however, lets you bring back the “Up Next” queue to your Apple TV Home screen. To change the setting, update to tvOS 13.3 Then, go into the Settings app. Select Apps, then select the TV app.

The new setting is under the “Home Screen” section. You can switch between showing “What to Watch” or “Up Next” in the Top Shelf. Click the remote to switch between the options.

MacDailyNews Take: Ahh!

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Apple Releases soundOS for HomePod

Apple today released audioOS 13.3 for HomePod which provides bug fixes and improvements including:

• Improves the ability of HomePod to recognize the voice profile of family members
• Allows individual family members to enable/disable personal requests
• Fixes an issue that could prevent music playback from resuming on a stereo pair after a phone call

MacDailyNews Take: It’s an update-fest!

[Swordmaker]

Looks like everything in the Apple verse except iPadOS got updated today. . . —PING!

Apple Update Tuesday (except iPadOS) PING!

If you want on or off the Apple/Mac/iOS Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Mark17]

Thanks for all you do bro. 👍

[tubebender]

Sounds like it might ever affect my old iMac....

[tubebender]

or maybe not...

[Swordmaker]

iPadOS 13.3 just dropped as well. . . Not yet up on MacDailyNews, but it just became available on my iPad Pro.

Apple Releases Update for iPadOS 13.3

iPadOS 13.3 includes improvements, bug fixes and additional parental controls for Screen Time.

Screen Time

• New parental controls provide more communication limits over who their children can call, FaceTime, or Message
• Contact list for children lets parents manage the contacts that appear on their children’s devices

Apple News

• New layout for Apple News+ stories from The Wall Street Journal and other leading newspapers
• Easily like or dislike stories with a tap

Apple News

• Stories from Apple News are now available in Canada in English and French
• Continue reading with links to related stories or more stories from the same publication
• “Breaking” and “Developing” labels for Top Stories

This update also includes bug fixes and other improvements. This update:

• Enables the creation of a new video clip when trimming a video in Photos
• Adds support for NFC, USB, and Lightning FIDO2-compliant security keys in Safari
• Fixes issues in Mail that may prevent downloading new messages
• Addresses an issue that prevented deleting messages in Gmail accounts
• Resolves issues that could cause incorrect characters to display in messages and duplication of sent messages in Exchange accounts
• Fixes an issue where the cursor may not move after long pressing on the space bar
• Addresses an issue that may cause screenshots to appear blurry when sent via Messages
• Resolves an issue where cropping or using Markup on screenshots may not save to Photos
• Fixes an issue where Voice Memos recordings may not be able to be shared with other audio apps
• Resolves an issue where the Cellular Data setting may incorrectly show as off
• Fixes an issue that prevented turning off Dark Mode when Smart Invert was enabled

For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222

[mountainlion]

So how do you stop those pop up adds?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Interesting item about iPadOS 13...
“Resolves an issue where the Cellular Data setting may incorrectly show as off”

I have seen this a LOT!

[Swordmaker]

So how do you stop those pop up adds?

. They are as irritating as hell. . . So you try adblockers, then the website complains bitterly about your use of adblockers.

[IncPen]

Have you had a problem with open tabs in Safari (iPad Pro) disappearing? Very strange...

[Swordmaker]

Have you had a problem with open tabs in Safari (iPad Pro) disappearing? Very strange...

For a couple days until I realized I was dragging them and they were becoming separate windows of Safari. You can drag up from the bottom of the home screen and find several instances of Safari windows running. Those are your missing tabs. It’s about the new multi-tasking. You can arrange them to be opened side by side. Great for cutting and pasting between webpages. Takes some getting used to.

[IncPen]

I’ve used the multiple windows, it does take some getting used to.

I’m experiencing something different, where a dozen open tabs will disappear. I’m suspecting that they get killed when you click a link in mail and it opens safari, but not every time. Then when you go back to safari they’re all gone. Weird.

[Swordmaker]

I’m experiencing something different, where a dozen open tabs will disappear. I’m suspecting that they get killed when you click a link in mail and it opens safari, but not every time. Then when you go back to safari they’re all gone. Weird.

I’ve seen that. . . clicking a link in Mail will often open a new untabbed Safari Window. Other times it adds the link to your currently open Safari window. It depends on the script being used. Your original fully tab populated Safari window is still present, it just doesn’t have current focus. It took me a while to catch on to what was going on. I’m not liking that new feature; it feels more like a ‘bug’ to me, but I understand why they chose to do it that way.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“Breaking” and “Developing” labels for Top Stories

If I were paying attention to “News” at all - I far prefer “conservative" commentary - “Breaking” and “Developing” labels would almost entirely disqualify an article in my eyes.

As Donald Rumsfeld put it, “First reports are always wrong.”

“Breaking” news is the “fog of war."

[Biggirl]

Heard from a friend that if you have an older iPhone, you have to trade up for the iPhone 11. Cannot download the OS or it will corrupt the older iPhones.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I need help. My preferred way to peruse FR is to - yes, of course - check for “my comments” and then to check for Latest Articles.

Problem is, somehow I have gotten my setup discombobulated such that when I go for “latest articles” what I now get is a listing of latest posts. This is far less satisfactory. Someone should be able to straighten that out very easily, presumably - but I guess I’m older than I like to think.

The other thing I dislike is that I long ago goofed and reduced the display of latest “articles” to headline only. And I don’t know how to reset it to show summary under the headline of each article.

[Swordmaker]

Heard from a friend that if you have an older iPhone, you have to trade up for the iPhone 11. Cannot download the OS or it will corrupt the older iPhones.

It’s not a matter of corrupting older iPhones, your older iPhone will not download this version at all because it can’t use it. You don’t need to upgrade to an iPhone 11. This version iOS 13.X is compatible with the following iPhones, with varying abilities in the upgrades:

• iPhone 11 Pro Plus
• iPhone 11 Pro
• iPhone 11
• iPhone XS Plus
• iPhone XS
• iPhone XR
• iPhone X Plus
• iPhone X
• iPhone 8 Plus
• iPhone 8
• iPhone 7 Plus
• iPhone 7
• iPhone 6s
• iPhone 6s Plus
• iPhone 5S

If I had any of the last five models, especially if I had not replaced the batteries in them, I would be seriously considering upgrading to a more modern iPhone. They would be abysmally slow in operation with the newer iOS and much of the upgrade would not work on them because they just don’t have the hardware in them to support it. It will load and give them some of the security advantages, but not much of the technical upgrades.

For iPads, the following list are compatible with iPadOS 13:

• IPad 7th Generation
• iPad Pro 12.9-inch Third Generation
• iPad Pro 11-inch
• iPad Air 10.5-inch Third Generation
• iPad Mini 5 7.9-inch Retina
• iPad 6th Generation
• iPad Pro 10.5-inch
• iPad 5th Generation
• iPad Pro 12.9-inch Second Generation
• iPad Pro 9.7-inch
• iPad Pro 12.9-inch First Generation
• iPad Mini 4
• iPad Air 2
• iPad Mini 3
• iPad Air
• iPad Mini 2

Again, if I were to have the loser models of the iPad, they still work fine with the current iOS or iPadOS, but if I were to upgrade, I would also upgrade the device, especially if I had not upgraded the battery in the device.

[Swordmaker]

Problem is, somehow I have gotten my setup discombobulated such that when I go for “latest articles” what I now get is a listing of latest posts. This is far less satisfactory. Someone should be able to straighten that out very easily, presumably - but I guess I’m older than I like to think.

The other thing I dislike is that I long ago goofed and reduced the display of latest “articles” to headline only. And I don’t know how to reset it to show summary under the headline of each article.

That I can help with. . .

• Opening to latest comments: At the top of your FR list of latest comments is a set of tabs on the left, “ARTICLES”, “ACTIVITIES”, “COMMENTS” simply click on “ARTICLES” and you will have your listing by latest posted articles back to being the default.

• The second is on the Left of the menu bar below those tabs. The Choices are in the choices of “Brevity: Headers | Text”. Merely click on the “Text” to change it back to include the text in your listing. It appears to be a toggle switch between on or off for showing the text.

I think you’ll be back to normal FR surfing after doing those two things.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

That I can help with. . .

I think you’ll be back to normal FR surfing after doing those two things.

. . . and it appear that you are exactly correct!

Muchos gracias.