Latest issue 19 Jun 2026

411: WWDC Aftermath

One event after another

Second betas for the 26.6 updates

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WWDC Aftermath

I haven’t had much time to process the news from WWDC and neither been able to really experiment with the betas yet. Main reason is that I was at Jamf Nation Live in London earlier this week. We got to show some cool enrollment workflows with Setup Manager, Platform SSO, and Setup Checklist.

Thanks to all who came with questions or comments or just to say “hi!” It was great to see you all!

I will also be at Jamf Nation Live in Berlin next week. Registration is still open. It’d be great to see you there!

📰 News and Opinion

Mac Admins Foundation Awards Charles S. Edge New Speaker Grants for MacAdmins at Penn State

Chris Dawe, MacAdmins.org:

The Charles Edge New Speaker Grant exists to elevate new voices like Katie’s and Jonathan’s, and ensure that those new voices are heard

Fruit Specs Slices and Dices Apple Product Features

Adam Engst, TidBITS:

Glenn Fleishman has created a new website that promises to become a must-visit for anyone trying to make sense of Apple products and features.

Filtering and sorting Apple devices by processor already makes this worth a bookmark.

The Architecture of AI Addiction

SG Mills, Mostly Mac:

The moment it stops feeling like work is the moment you have outsourced not just the synthesis but the judgment. The friction is the difference between actual productivity and abdication.

🔨 Support and Tutorials

Alan Siu:

you may, as administrators in IT and Security, not want to have the menu bar item enabled, for whatever reason.

DDM software update capability available for on-premise Jamf Pro 11.29.0

Rich Trouton:

As part of the release of Jamf Pro 11.29.0, the ability to run software updates using DDM is available for folks using on-premise installations of Jamf Pro.

Simplified Setup for Platform Single Sign-on for Mac (Jamf Pro + Intune)

HCS Technology Group:

The user lands at the desktop already registered for Platform SSO — no separate post-login registration prompt is required.

Find apps that need Rosetta before macOS 27

Josh Roskos, Fleet:

If your fleet runs any Intel-only Mac apps, find them now.

This is a good article, but there are more ways to determine Intel only apps and binaries, which I posted a while back, but—sadly—that issue has been lost with the provider switch, so I will repeat them here:

To find all apps that only have Intel code:

system_profiler SPApplicationsDataType -json | jq '.SPApplicationsDataType[] | select(.arch_kind=="arch_i64") | ._name'

Replace the ._name at the end with .path to get the path to the app instead of the name.

However, command line tools, i.e. binaries that are not apps, can also be Intel-only. These are a bit harder to track down, as they could be installed pretty much anywhere. You can use find to look through a specific folder:

find /usr/local/bin/ -perm +111 \! -type d -exec file {} \;

This command will list the architectures for each binary and you will have to look for those that have just Intel (x86_64).

🤖 Scripting and Automation

OSversions.com: Check Which OS Every Device Supports via API

Marc, EMMPOINT:

OSversions.com turns Apple OS support into a database you can read in both directions

Using Suspicious Package and AI to Build Better macOS Uninstaller

Mac admins are often asked to remove software that was originally deployed by a vendor .pkg or .mpkg, and the uncomfortable answer is usually: “It depends what the installer put on disk.”

The use of the Suspicious Package command line tool here is intriguing. I am wondering why they assemble instructions for an LLM to build the final script, rather than just assembling a script from template pieces?

🍏 Apple Support

If your Mac blocks a Terminal command paste or script

Your Mac shows an alert when it detects suspicious paste activity or known malware in commands and scripts.

♻️ Updates and Releases

FSMonitor 2

a macOS utility that records file system events and shows what changed, when it changed, and which process caused the change.

Some great new features, like reduced “file noise” and a command line tool.

Config as Code for device management: How it works in Iru

Mike Boylan, Iru:

you can run iructl directly on your Mac to interface with your Iru tenant. Pull down current state, create new resources, push changes, review sync status: all from the command line.

ContainerManager - a Mac app for Apple’s container tool

Bart Reardon:

I’ve been tinkering with Apple’s container tool on and off since it was first announced a year ago and with the new features in the 1.0 release, I ended up building a GUI frontend for it and it’s called ContainerManager.

📺 Watch

WWDC26: What's new for security, developers and IT teams

David Starr (Workbrew) hosted Selina Ali, Kitzy, Arek Dreyer, and myself to discuss the device management news from WWDC. (YouTube) We had a lot of fun discussing the news and I really enjoyed the perspectives and opinions of my co-panelists. Thanks a lot for having me!

🎧 Listen

Balancing Security with Speed with Ralph Pyne

Patch Me If You Can:

Ralph Pyne, CISO at Apollo.io, reveals why traditional security approaches are failing in the age of AI and citizen developers.

WWDC Wrap Up

Mac Admins Podcast:

we learned a lot about the 2027 series of releases from Apple. We’ve been testing and exploring since the events of the Keynote, and here’s everything we’ve got so far…