Another round of betas for dot-five. Also, Apple quarterly reports and very interesting and impactful court orders regarding Apple's App Stores, but if you are interested in those, you probably read about them elsewhere. š
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šø Focus
Apple in the Enterprise: A 2025 report card
Just as in the past two years, Appleās strongest scores came in hardware and in the companyās commitment to security and privacy. But as hardware scores continue to soar, Appleās performance on the software side has dropped precipitously.
I have to admit that I misjudged the trends when I wrote my rant last week. Thanks to Jason Snell and everybody involved in putting this together. I really appreciate the curated shorter comment sections.
Jason Snell and Weldon Dodd also joined Tom and Marcus on the Mac Admins Podcast to discuss the report card.
š° News and Opinion
Celebrating Ten Years of Mac Admins This May!
Nearly 10 years ago, on May 12, 2015, Sabrina Coy and Kitzy fired up a free Slack account with the intention of talking about Apple IT topics with friends.
You can find your first post by searching from:@<username> and switching the sort order to 'oldest first.' I joined in June, but was lurking for a while before I got more active.
Mac Admins Foundation Announces 2025 Charles S. Edge Jr. New Speaker Grants!
Both awardees have been notified and will receive registration for the MacAdmins Conference hosted at Penn State University and have been matched with experienced speakers from the community
PSU MacAdmins Conference has also posted their session schedule this week.
MacSysAdmin in Gƶteborg has opened their registration! (See you there!)
As always, you can find links to all the major conferences for Apple management and security professionals on my conferences page.
Why TidBITS Will No Longer Post to X/Twitter or Facebook
In keeping with our desire to model the behavior we want to see in the world, we have stopped posting TidBITS to X/Twitter and Facebook
I left behind X/Twitter and Facebook a while ago and encourage others to do so, as well. The Mac Admins Slack provides a wonderful forum for Apple IT related discussions.. There are rich and far less toxic communities on Mastodon/Fediverse and Bluesky.
You can follow me on Mastodon and Bluesky. I also have starter packs for interesting MacAdmins accounts for both Mastodon/Fediverse and Bluesky. You can also use RSS or Feed Readers (e.g. NetNewsWire) to subscribe to the RSS Feeds of MacAdmins.news and scriptingosx.com
So...I decided to make a blog
this blog will be focused on Apple and Jamf and my background has been in the Education sphere
Really excited about Ant's new blog because he is a wonderful person, esteemed and competent co-worker and there are very few Apple Admin blogs for the education space.
š Security and Privacy
iOS and Android juice jacking defenses have been trivial to bypass for years
Researchers at the Graz University of Technology in Austria recently made a discovery that completely undermines the premise behind the countermeasure
Millions of Apple Airplay-enabled devices can be hacked via Wi-Fi
newly uncovered security flaws in AirPlay mean that those same wireless connections could allow hackers to move within a network just as easily,
How a Single Line Of Code Could Brick Your iPhone
This is the story of how I found one of my favorite iOS vulnerabilities so far. Itās one of my favorites because of how simple it was to implement an exploit for it.
šØ Support and Tutorials
Remediating DeepSeek Installations in MacOS
ThomM on Jamf Tech Thoughts
keeping users from running DeepSeek models locally on their Macs isnāt as simple as making a Restricted Software title in Jamf Pro because the models arenāt actually apps.
Using sysdiagnose logarchive files to provide access to system logging
The system_logs.logarchive file is a snapshot of the unified system log as of the time that the sysdiagnose was created
Why some apps sometimes launch extremely slowly
I can now try to explain why some apps may launch extremely slowly, occasionally taking more than 30 seconds
š¤ Scripting and Automation
macOS Apps With Embedded Daemons - DEV Community
Bryson Tyrrell on dev.to
I wanted to explore what I consider to be the "most Apple" approach using modern APIs.
Recording mSCP Failed Results Count by Severity in Jamf Pro
Tony Young on Patch Notes and Progress
another Jamf Pro Extension Attribute, which turns mSCP compliance failure counts into categorized counts by DISA STIG severity buckets
š§ Listen
The 2025 Apple in the Enterprise Report Card
Jason Snell and Weldon Dodd are back on the Mac Admins Podcast to discuss this yearās Apple in the Enterprise Report Card.
Boutique Consultancy: Balancing High-Touch Service and Growth
the discussion revolves around the concept of boutique consultancy, highlighting the benefits of providing a personalized, high-touch service over rapid, automated responses.
Adaptiva expands to Mac and Linux
Dr. Deepak Kumar, Founder and CEO of Adaptiva, about their expansion into Mac and Linux patch management.