While attending WWDC and MacDevOps YVR last week – or at least attempting to – I realized that you can get real jet lag from virtual conferences.
Many people are catching up to the news from WWDC last week with many posts reacting to and/or summarizing the news. We also a patch for iOS 12 and and new macOS 11.5/iOS 14.7 betas.
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News and Opinion
- The Talk Show Remote From WWDC 2021 – John Gruber, Craig Federighi, and Greg Joswiak
- Last Week on My Mac: The elephant at WWDC – Howard Oakley
- Virtual is not “the same” as in-person – John Welch
macOS 12 Monterey and iOS 15
- Coming Soon: Add Mac to Apple Business Manager with Apple Configurator – Kandji Blog
- WWDC 2021 Takeaways – Jamf Blog
- The Real System Requirements for Apple’s 2021 Operating Systems – Josh Centers
- What isn’t changing in macOS Monterey – Howard Oakley
- Meet My New Friend: Declarative Device Management – Jon Towles
- WWDC21 highlights for Apple admins – Richard Mallion, dataJAR
- Is it Now Time for iOS User Enrollment? – Jon Towles
- Trick to get old tab bars in Safari 12 – zhuowei
- How iOS 15 transforms the way we think of iPhone updates – Jason Snell, Macworld
- macOS 12: Localized Keyboard Shortcuts – Michael Tsai
- Apple Bringing Erase All Content and Settings to Mac – Kandji Blog
- Add Mac to Apple Business Manager with Apple Configurator – Kandji Blog
- Apple’s New Declarative MDM: What It Is, How It Will Help Mac Admins – Kandji Blog
macOS and iOS Updates
MacAdmins on Twitter
- Morten Just: “Go To Folder – ⌘⇧G in Finder got its first update in ~15 years with Monterey. Spotlight-style UI, and you can search for any folder https://t.co/jfGe1Z1RAw” (video)
- Rich Trouton: “The more I look at macOS Monterey, the more that I’m convinced it is kindred to Mac OS X Snow Leopard – an OS focused on fixing existing issues and beneficial improvements to previously introduced features. This is a Good Thing and I look forward to the fall release.”
- Anthony Reimer: “Reminded of the model-specific features of macOS Monterey by @howardnoakley and @TidBITS, I’ve updated my Mac Hardware/Software Obsolescence Chart (yes, for the 3rd time in a week) with info on support for Universal Control and AirPlay for Mac.”
- mikeymikey: “Almost every scripted language in macOS provides a warning if you execute it interactively. Tcl, ruby, perl, you name it.”
Security and Privacy
Support and HowTos
- Microsoft to end Windows 10 support on October 14th, 2025 – Tom Warren, The Verge
- Inside the Content Caching server: performance and troubleshooting – Howard Oakley
- A primer to deploying Cisco AnyConnect for macOS with Microsoft Intune – Mac Lovin’
- Jamf Pro deprecating the ability to issue a Tomcat certificate from the Jamf Pro built-in certificate authority – Rich Trouton
- Jamf Unlock (and Azure iDP) – Frederick Abeloos
Scripting and Automation
- Quickly generate random serial numbers – Emily Kausalik
- Demystifying SwiftUI for Macadmins Part 1 – Creating a hero image with ZStack – Erik Gomez
- Scripting with SwiftUI (III) – Forms – Alexis Bridoux
- Empty Loops in Bash – Twocanoes Software
- Demystifying SwiftUI for Macadmins Part 2 – Passing State through multiple views with ObservableObject and friends – Erik Gomez
Updates and Releases
- Theile/montereyblocker: Block Monterey installer app from launching
- erikng/hello: an onboarding app built in SwiftUI
- MonitorUI Tool
- Jamf Pro 10.30
- Unlocking passwordless Mac authentication – Jamf
- BBEdit 13.5.7
To Watch
To Listen
- WWDC Roundup – Mac Admins Podcast
- Nana-Technology or Sitting In A Bubble Of Time — Command-Control-Power
- Jaron Bradley’s Holistic Malware Detective Agency – Jamf After Dark
Just for Fun
- Jordan Singer: “original Apple logo in SwiftUI “
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