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macOS 16 set for major clipboard privacy update, mirroring iOS alerts and adding new controls

Apple has updated the AppKit documentation to inform developers about a significant change coming to the macOS pasteboard, the system-level mechanism for transferring data between applications and Apple devices. Here’s how it’s going to work: Currently, macOS apps can programmatically read from the pasteboard (Apple’s term for the clipboard) without the user’s knowledge or...
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This reader says his Apple Watch saved his life—make sure yours is set up too

A 9to5Mac reader, Mike Taylor, recently shared a powerful account of how his Apple Watch may have saved his life—echoing a similar story we reported earlier this week. What started as mild shortness of breath turned into a life-threatening emergency. After leaving work one evening, Taylor collapsed in a nearly empty parking lot on the...
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