October 2026

22 items.

-- Friday, October 23 --

Pages, Numbers and Keynote 15.4.1 Are Out With an Intelligent Assistant--The Beta Drafts, Builds Formulas and Generates Slides for Creator Studio Subscribers at $12.99 a Month in US English Only, Apple Pulled All Three Apps Within the Hour on October 22, and a 15.4.2 Followed That Night Saying Only "Bug Fixes"Macs Only!

-- Thursday, October 22 --

WARNING--eMudhra's Eight Cracked Certificates Have Been Blocked on Apple Devices Since October 19, but the Mac's Built-In curl, git and python3 Still Trust Them Until /etc/ssl/cert.pem Is FixedMacs Only!

-- Wednesday, October 21 --

Apple Added the M6 Mac mini and M5 Mac Studio to Self Service Repair--Logic Boards, Power Supplies, Fans and Ports Sold With Apple's Manuals in the U.S., Canada and Europe From October 20Macs Only!

-- Tuesday, October 20 --

macOS 27.2 RC is Out--Build 26B118 Adds Siri AI in Five More Languages and New Keyboard Sliders, Carries Touch Gestures for a Mac Apple Has Not Announced, and Lands Nine Days Before the October 28 Pro and Tell EventMacs Only!

-- Monday, October 19 --

iPhone Duo Pre-Orders Slipped to January 25 in Half an Hour--Apple Calls the Demand "Nothing Short of Extraordinary," Its Stores Expect No Walk-In Stock on October 23, and the Price Stays $1,999 to $3,199Macs Only!

-- Sunday, October 18 --

Mac Shipments Fell 11 Percent in Q3 2026 While Apple's PC Market Share Rose--IDC Counts 5.9 Million Macs and a 9.5 Percent Share, Omdia 6.8 Million, in a PC Market Down 20 Percent on Memory Prices, With Apple's Own Number Due November 2Macs Only!

-- Saturday, October 17 --

Apple Published "Minions," a Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Macs--Six Apple Researchers Cut Ten-Hour Inference Queues to Minutes With the Macs Already on the Network, and Say Training Is NextMacs Only!

-- Friday, October 16 --

Apple's October 28 Launch Experience--Bloomberg Says Media Are Invited to Los Angeles for the Touch-Screen OLED MacBook Pro, an M6 MacBook Pro and iMac, and an OLED iPad mini, and a Reported November 6 Store DateMacs Only!

-- Thursday, October 15 --

Apple Marked the 12-inch MacBook (2017) Obsolete--The Two-Pound Notebook Gets No Apple Repairs but a Battery, Stops at macOS Ventura, and Nothing Under 13 Inches Has Replaced It Since 2019Macs Only!

-- Wednesday, October 14 --

Apple Announced Apple HomeView--A 7-Inch Siri AI Home Hub on an A18 Chip That Recognizes Six Faces, Tabletop or Wall-Mounted at $299 Either Way, Shipping November 13Macs Only!

-- Tuesday, October 13 --

-- Monday, October 12 --

Epson WorkForce Pro WF-5930--25 ppm in Black and Color, AirPrint and a macOS 27 Driver for $399.99Macs Only!

-- Sunday, October 11 --

Apple Q4 2026 Financials Preview--Guidance of 9 to 11 Percent Growth Means $111.7 to $113.7 Billion, Macs and iPhones in Short Supply, and the First Report Under John TernusMacs Only!

-- Saturday, October 10 --

Game--Transport Fever 3 for Mac, $49.99 the Same Day as the PC, and It Needs an M2 Pro and 16GBMacs Only!

-- Friday, October 9 --

From the Dark Side--Windows 11 26H2 is a 174KB Switch, and Microsoft Sets October 13 as the End of Updates for 24H2 Home and ProMacs Only!

-- Thursday, October 8 --

Wi-Fi 8 Routers Are on Sale--TP-Link's Archer 8 Ultra and ASUS's ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Arrive Ahead of a Standard Due in 2028, and Apple Lists No Mac With Wi-Fi 8Macs Only!

-- Wednesday, October 7 --

Tip--Replace Time Capsule Backups in macOS 27Macs Only!

-- Tuesday, October 6 --

WARNING--Parallels Desktop CVE-2026-90894 Gives Any Local User Root on a Mac; the Fix Is in Version 27, Which Intel Macs Cannot InstallMacs Only!

-- Monday, October 5 --

Logic Pro 12.4 is Out--One New Key Command Option, 53 Fixes and Changes Including Four Crash Fixes, and Apple Pages That Name Three Different macOS FloorsMacs Only!

-- Sunday, October 4 --

OLED Touch-Screen MacBook Pro Reported for October or November--Gurman Says Apple Is Testing It on macOS 27.2 With M5 Pro and M5 Max Chips, Above the Models Apple Sells From $1,999Macs Only!

-- Saturday, October 3 --

macOS 27.0.1 is Out--Build 26A434, 3.3GB of Unnamed Bug Fixes and One Platform SSO Fix, While Tahoe 26.7.1 and Sequoia 15.8.1 Patch an Exploited CoreGraphics BugMacs Only!