<img data-recalc-dims="1" height="778" width="1360" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/sixcolors.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/glenn-shaferbrown.png?resize=1360%2C778&#038;ssl=1" alt="Glenn Fleishman, art by Shafer Brown" data-image-w="" data-image-h="" class=" jetpack-broken-image"/> <p>When the AirTag first shipped five years ago, I glommed right onto writing about it. I already had a section in a book on security and privacy about using the Find My device feature, enabled for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches.&hellip;</p>

<img data-recalc-dims="1" height="778" width="1360" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/sixcolors.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/glenn-shaferbrown.png?resize=1360%2C778&#038;ssl=1" alt="Glenn Fleishman, art by Shafer Brown" data-image-w="" data-image-h="" class=" jetpack-broken-image"/> <p>You might have noticed that, after installing iOS 26.4, your iPhone is behaving differently. Some actions (like changing your password) require a one-hour wait, followed by biometric authentication.&hellip;</p>

<img data-recalc-dims="1" height="778" width="1360" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/sixcolors.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/glenn-shaferbrown.png?resize=1360%2C778&#038;ssl=1" alt="Glenn Fleishman, art by Shafer Brown" data-image-w="" data-image-h="" class=" jetpack-broken-image"/> <p>Time Machine used to be a mess. I would try it with each new macOS release, get frustrated, and give up. My incoming email from readers was sometimes dominated by Time Machine problems, particularly when Apple transitioned from HFS+ to APFS as the Mac’s default startup volume file system.&hellip;</p>

<img data-recalc-dims="1" height="778" width="1360" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/sixcolors.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/glenn-shaferbrown.png?resize=1360%2C778&#038;ssl=1" alt="Glenn Fleishman, art by Shafer Brown" data-image-w="" data-image-h="" class=" jetpack-broken-image"/> <p>I have a mostly “love/not-hate” relationship with the Medications feature in the iPhone Health app. Having accrued and had treated a variety of conditions over the years, I found Medications a welcome addition in 2022.&hellip;</p>

<img data-recalc-dims="1" height="778" width="1360" decoding="async" src="https://i0.wp.com/sixcolors.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/glenn-shaferbrown.png?resize=1360%2C778&#038;ssl=1" alt="Glenn Fleishman, art by Shafer Brown" data-image-w="" data-image-h="" class=" jetpack-broken-image"/> <p>I started seeing pictures in Photos that I was sure I didn’t take recently, but often of locations I knew vaguely. After a few days, I realized the issue: my older child, in college on the East Coast, and currently traveling during spring break, had a Camera setting that caused all their images to blend into a shared family library.&hellip;</p>