403: New CEO
Third round of 26.5 betas and Apple is getting a new CEO.
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New CEO
Apple has announced some changes to their top management this week: John Srouji is now Chief Hardware Officer. In September, Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board of directors John Ternus, senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple’s next chief executive officer.
Apple is generally conservative and careful when it comes to these kinds of decisions, so none of this comes as a huge surprise. Tim Cook may be stepping back from the CEO role, but certainly not from Apple in general. John Ternus has been successfully running the hardware division and John Srouji the chip design and development and the general consensus is that those are where Apple is currently the strongest.
Will Srouji be able to continue that success to the wider hardware and will Ternus be able and willing to improve the parts of Apple that are struggling to get as much enthusiasm? We will have to see. I believe some change and new vision could be good for Apple.
📰 News and Opinion
Apple Vision Accessibility: The 2025 AppleVis Report Card
The only report of its kind to focus specifically on the needs of people who are blind, DeafBlind, or who have low vision, the Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card provides valuable insights into the lived experiences and opinions of people who rely on VoiceOver, braille, and/or low vision accessibility features on Apple products.
Jamf Training Celebrates 20 Years of Apple IT Education and Certification
Randon Ruggles, Jamf Blog:
Twenty years ago today, on April 24, 2006, seven people walked into a room in Minneapolis and took the very first Jamf training course.
Finding Connection at JNUC Through the Diversity Scholarship: Scooter and Alan’s Story
Scooter Kohler, Alan West, Jamf Community:
the JNUC Diversity Sponsorship awards 10 individuals a full conference registration, a meet-and-greet with Jamf leaders, a networking happy hour and a $500 stipend to help cover expenses. We're looking for passionate people eager to learn and bring fresh perspectives to the tightest community in high tech.
Terraform is dead
Graham Gilbert:
We take something that makes sense to humans and rewrite it into something a tool can execute. That translation step has always been the real work, even if we’ve treated the abstraction itself as the hard part.
⚙️ Apple Updates
🔐 Security and Privacy
Apple fixes iOS bug that kept deleted notifications, including chat previews
Pieter Arntz, Malwarebytes:
Apple has released a software update that deals with an issue that could allow deleted notifications to be retrieved. Something that, in at least one reported case, was used by law enforcement during forensic analysis.
Researcher claims Claude Desktop installs “spyware” on macOS
Pieter Arntz, Malwarebytes:
I don’t think it’s fair to say that Claude Desktop installs spyware, but it does open a system up by expanding the attack surface.
DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit: 3 Lessons for Mobile Security
Jamf Threat Labs:
Jamf Threat Labs analyzes leaked source code of a Safari exploitation kit (DarkSword) and the impact of this disclosure on the mobile ecosystem.
🔨 Support and Tutorials
You Do Not Need to Write Code to Contribute to Open Source
Tony Young, Patch Notes and Progress:
Open source projects need honest feedback loops. They need users who are willing to say: here is what I am seeing, here is what is missing, here is why it matters. Without that, maintainers are left building against incomplete information. Your environment, your use case, your edge case, that is data they do not have until someone speaks up.
The secret life of the xattr
Howard Oakley:
Xattrs are extensions to those that contain almost any other type of metadata, the first notable xattr coming in Mac OS X 10.5, named com.apple.quarantine.
DFU Restore for Mac is now almost 4 times faster!
Tim Perfitt:
The firmware on M4 and M5 Macs supports USB 3 speeds during DFU restores! This will make a huge difference for restoring multiple Mac systems at the same time.
The MACL extended attribute
Howard Oakley:
Apple silently introduced the com.apple.macl extended attribute in macOS Catalina
🤖 Scripting and Automation
My Reporting Stack, Rebuilt
Tony Young, Patch Notes and Progress:
I work in a space that loves reporting. If it can go on a chart, someone wants it. And while Jamf Pro can generate and email CSV reports based on searches, those reports rarely have the polish that makes leadership actually pay attention.
More features, more fun
Mat X:
You need to capture (ingest) camera footage on a lot of different camera cards after a film shoot, and you need to do a lot of it, and copy it everywhere safely and securely. That takes a special kind of software.
JamfDash
A native macOS dashboard for Jamf Pro, Jamf Protect, and Jamf School. Browse your fleet, review security posture, inspect configuration and analytics, and export reports
JamfUploader now supports Jamf Platform Integrations, integrates with jamf-cli
Graham Pugh:
Jamf have now opened the Public Beta of the Plaform API Gateway (1). This provides a new method of interacting with Jamf Pro Cloud instances, Jamf Protect, Jamf School, and Platform Services such as blueprints, compliance benchmarks, declaration services and more.
🍏 Apple Support
Apple enforcing stricter network security requirements for future versions of Apple’s platform operating systems
Rich Trouton:
Apple is going to be enforcing stricter controls on Transport Layer Security (TLS) connections.
Apple is about to enforce stricter TLS standards for MDM. Are you ready?
Arek Dreyer, Iru Blog:
Starting as early as the next major OS release, Apple devices will refuse to connect to any device management service, Mobile Device Management (MDM) server, enrollment endpoint, or app distribution infrastructure that does not meet tightened TLS standards.
♻️ Updates and Releases
- jamf-cli v1.13.0
- AxM Jamf Sync v2.1
- Terraform Provider: Jamf Pro v0.16.2
- MACE v0.1.2-beta
- Contour v0.1.9
- DDM OS Reminder 3.2.0b4
- Munki 7.1 Official Release
- erase-install v42.3
- Workbrew 1.8
- Xcreds 5.9.1
- iMazing Profile Editor 2.2
📺 Watch
Marriott Library, Apple Infrastructure, April 2026
🎧 Listen
Learning new things with Ulrik Aabye-Hansen
Mac Admins Podcast, 458:
Ulrik Aabye-Hansen has made a career by teaching people in the Mac Admins Community, and his conference talks are both education and culture. This week, we’re talking with him about learning philosophy and how he approaches this critical topic, so we can all learn just a bit more from him as well.
The world runs on spreadsheets
Apple @ Work Podcast:
Duncan Barrigan from Lunos joins the show to talk about how AI agents will impact the finance department.
Big Tech can stop scams. They just don't (Lock and Code S07E08)
Lock and Code, Malwarebytes:
DeLiema about who is really susceptible to financial fraud, why victims often describe a scam as a form of betrayal trauma, and why the companies best positioned to stop scam messages from reaching consumers may be the ones least motivated to do so.