A Apple atualizou hoje os apps Pages, Numbers e Keynote com novidades voltadas principalmente aos assinantes do Apple Creator Studio.

Entre os destaques estão um assistente inteligente baseado em linguagem natural, novos conteúdos premium e, no caso do Keynote, suporte à importação e exportação de apresentações em um novo formato de arquivo aberto.

Além disso, os três agora podem aproveitar o maior espaço da tela aberta do iPhone Duo.

Assistente inteligente

Nos três aplicativos, o assistente inteligente — ainda em fase beta e apenas em inglês — permite executar tarefas por meio de comandos em linguagem natural, levando em consideração o conteúdo do documento, da planilha ou da apresentação em que o usuário está trabalhando.

No Pages, a ferramenta pode ajudar a iniciar e revisar textos, reorganizar conteúdos, ajustar o tom da escrita e gerar imagens e formas. Também é possível solicitar informações atualizadas sobre determinado assunto e incorporá-las ao documento.

Já o Numbers utiliza o recurso para ajudar a interpretar dados, criar tabelas, sugerir gráficos e elaborar fórmulas, além de pesquisar informações que possam ser incorporadas às planilhas.

No Keynote, o assistente pode gerar slides, criar notas para apresentações, produzir imagens e formas e ajudar a aprimorar o conteúdo e as animações. Assim como nos outros apps, também é possível pesquisar informações atualizadas para enriquecer o material.

Conteúdos premium

Os três aplicativos ganharam ainda novas coleções de conteúdos premium, incluindo modelos profissionais para documentos e planilhas e temas para apresentações. Os usuários também podem explorar o Content Hub, que reúne vídeos selecionados para adicionar elementos visuais e movimento aos seus projetos.

Novo formato de arquivo aberto

Uma novidade exclusiva do Keynote é o suporte, também ainda em versão beta, à importação e exportação de arquivos no formato KEYX. Trata-se de um formato aberto de intercâmbio que busca facilitar o uso de apresentações e de seus conteúdos fora do aplicativo da Apple.

Suporte ao iPhone Duo

Para completar, embora não tenha mencionado isso nas notas de versão, a Apple implementou suporte ao iPhone Duo nos três aplicativos, como notou o MacRumors.

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Vale reforçar que o assistente inteligente — além de estar disponível apenas em inglês e exigir um dispositivo compatível com a Apple Intelligence — e os novos conteúdos premium são exclusivos para assinantes do Apple Creator Studio.

Para quem não é assinante, os updates incluem apenas melhorias gerais, correções de bugs e aprimoramentos de desempenho.

Anunciado no final de 2024, o documentário do Apple TV sobre a lendária banda anglo-americana Fleetwood Mac ganhou hoje uma data de estreia: 29 de janeiro de 2027 — coincidindo com o aniversário de 50 anos do álbum “Rumours”, vencedor do Grammy.

Intitulada “Fleetwood Mac: The Chain”, a produção será dirigida pelo cineasta Frank Marshall, cinco vezes indicado ao Oscar, e contará com “as vozes, memórias e perspectivas” de todos os membros da banda (Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham e Stevie Nicks), segundo a Maçã.

Com roteiro de Mark Monroe, o documentário busca refletir o profundo significado do hit “The Chain”, que “personifica uma família forjada por uma paixão compartilhada”, além de ser a única música do álbum “Rumours” creditada a todos os cinco membros.

A canção captura perfeitamente o vínculo complexo, porém duradouro, no coração do Fleetwood Mac, e sua letra icônica tornou-se um poderoso símbolo do respeito e da conexão que persistiram durante a tumultuada jornada da banda rumo ao estrelato.

Espectadores podem esperar reflexões sobre o álbum, os recordes batidos pela banda e suas turnês, bem como imagens nunca antes vistas e entrevistas inéditas realizadas ao longo das últimas décadas. O documentário promete ainda explorar a “resiliência pessoal e destreza musical” dos membros e levar os assinantes do Apple TV pelos altos e baixos da banda.

Além de dirigir, Marshall também produz pela The Kennedy/Marshall Company ao lado de Nigel Sinclair, Nicholas Ferrall, Jeanne Elfant Festa e Aly Parker. Cassidy Hartmann e Tony Rosenthal atuam como produtores executivos junto com Monroe.

O Apple TV está disponível no aplicativo Apple TV em mais de 100 países e regiões, seja em iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs, Macs, dispositivos Android, smart TVs ou online — além de estar em aparelhos como Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast com Google TV, consoles PlayStation e Xbox. O serviço custa R$34,90 por mês, com um período de teste gratuito de 7 dias. Por tempo limitado, quem comprar e ativar um novo iPhone, iPad, Apple TV ou Mac ganha 3 meses do Apple TV. Ele também faz parte do pacote de assinaturas da empresa, o Apple One.

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Se você é daqueles usuários que não costumam deixar seus aplicativos do Mac abertos continuamente e têm uma rotina de abertura e fechamento bem definida, então o Cybokron Dock Groups pode ser uma mão na roda no seu workflow.

De código aberto, o app mora na barra de menus do sistema e permite, como seu próprio nome bem indica, agrupar programas para abri-los, ocultá-los e encerrá-los todos de uma vez — algo bem simples, rápido e prático.

Caso você tenha aplicativos que costuma abrir sempre que começa o trabalho e fechar no final do expediente, basta um clique no grupo correspondente para realizar uma ação. Inclusive, cada grupo pode ter seu próprio ícone no Dock.

Se você curtiu a proposta, o Cybokron Dock Groups pode ser baixado gratuitamente por essa página. Você também pode conferir o código-fonte no repositório oficial do app, no GitHub.

Since its initial release in 2011, Bethesda’s popular role-playing game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has reached multiple generations of gaming consoles. It never officially landed on macOS, though. Players have relied on various complex workarounds over the years just to run it. Now, a fresh open-source project named SkyrimMT aims to bring the complete […]

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On October 21, 1991, Apple launched its lightweight PowerBook 100 series Macs, the most important line of laptops in company history.

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Perplexity is giving its Computer feature a major update for Apple users today. You can now use the app in a completely new local-first mode that processes everything directly on your device. This means the system no longer needs a constant internet connection to get things done. The upgrade gives people a practical way to […]

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Owners of the newest Apple devices can now fix their own hardware at home. The tech brand has officially added the iPhone 18 Pro, the M6 Mac mini, and the latest Mac Studio to its Self Service Repair program. This allows handy users to order official parts and tools directly from the company to perform […]

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Apple’s macOS 27.2 release candidate notes say Macs with a clean install of the build might not prompt you to allow notifications for some apps, including Calendar, Maps, Find My, Home and Weather. Apple also lists a second known issue where display settings might not be restored correctly when an external display is connected, and […]

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Howard Oakley:

Now move the pointer to the right edge of the list of folder contents, just far enough to the left to avoid moving the window divider, but not so far as to fully select items from within that folder. Click there and the item will be selected, but in grey, the same as would appear if it had been fully selected but its window was no longer in focus. At this stage, the original folder will still be fully highlighted, as if nothing had been selected inside it, but you can drag that grey unfocussed selection to include other items inside the folder.

On my Mac, if I click on a file icon in the second column, the first column retains focus. The second column only gets focus if I click on a filename (or even farther to the right).

Now using the up and down arrow keys doesn’t move within the items inside that folder, but back with the fully highlighted folder. With a few of the items inside that folder in grey, so they’re selected but not in focus, press the spacebar for a QuickLook preview, and you’ll see the greyed items, not the folder that’s still fully selected to the left.

[…]

In other situations, this becomes infuriating.

In my log browser LogUI, separation of selection from focus can leave you clicking wildly without being able to select log entries.

Previously:

• Tahoe Broke Resizing Finder Column View
• Viewing Metadata in the Finder
• Mojave Finder’s Preview Column Shouldn’t Prioritize Thumbnail Size

Update (2026-10-21): Philip Savoulidis:

I too was wondering if there was something peculiar with my Mac. Focus seems so broken in Golden Gate that I was expecting macOS reviews to mention it. In this regard, I am glad to see focus problems mentioned here.

The behaviour seems inconsistent. For example, in Finder and Mail the sidebar does not gain focus on click, but it does in Contacts and NetNewsWire (a third-party app). The Passwords app seems like the worst offender: the password list itself does not gain focus on click (e.g. click the search field then click an item and focus remains in the search field).

I spent some time investigating this, and I think it comes down to a SwiftUI bug. List and Table in SwiftUI are affected. Both use NSTableView under the hood, but they never become first responder on click.

But I don’t think NSBrowser is built on SwiftUI, so there are probably multiple issues here.

Artem Novichkov (via Fatbobman):

Xcode also ships two command-line tools for the new format:

• xcprojformatter came with the format in beta 2. It’s a formatter for project files, like swift-format for code: it checks that a project.xcproj file is valid and rewrites it with sorted keys and consistent layout.
• xcodeproj arrived in beta 3. It reads and edits projects from the terminal: targets, build phases, groups, build settings, xcconfig files, and Swift packages.

Neither is on your PATH, so run them with xcrun.

Previously:

• Xcode’s New .xcproj Files Are JSON

Seth Willits (2024, bug):

There’s a deprecation warning in Xcode for URL.path that reads:

WARNING: path will be deprecated in a future version of macOS: Use path(percentEncoded:) instead

The problem is something like this:

Bundle.main.url(forAuxiliaryExecutable: "tool")!.path

… which returns the expected file path (ex: /Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/tool)

would be quickly rewritten as suggested to:

Bundle.main.url(forAuxiliaryExecutable: "tool")!.path(percentEncoded: false)

… which simply returns tool, because the URL returned is relative to a base URL.

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I’ve always found it not-completely-obvious to newcomers how to get a standard file path string from a file URL and this only makes it more confusing.

There are at least three issues here:

1. url.path returns an absolute path, but url.path(percentEncoded: false) returned a relative path as of his writing. I tested this on macOS 26, and now it returns an absolute path. The documentation now says, “This function will resolve against the base URL.” It seems the behavior of the method changed without it being documented when, so be careful if you’re deploying to a mix of OS versions.

2. percentEncoded has a default value of true, whereas path did not return an encoded string. In other words, url.path() and url.path are completely different. So this is another case where Apple updated the API but flipped the default—a good way to introduce bugs.

3. It’s not obvious how to get the full file system path out of a URL. With NSURL, url.path was natural and did the right thing. Now, the URL equivalent is deprecated.

   The natural replacement, url.path(), is wrong. So is Xcode’s recommendation of url.(percentEncoded: false).

   url.absoluteURL.path(percentEncoded: false) is correct but verbose.

   url.absoluteURL.standardizedFileURL.path(percentEncoded: false) is possibly better but even more verbose.

   FilePath(url)?.string uses a newer API but gives you an optional, even though for a file URL it should never fail.

   This seems like such basic functionality, but there’s no API that’s the obvious right choice, concise, and ergonomic.

Previously:

• The Switch From File Paths to URLs
• Swift URL Improvements at WWDC 2022
• Proposed Foundation URL Improvements
• URL Path Retrieval Cheat Sheet
• NSURL Path Handling

The M5 MacBook Air is Apple’s best notebook for most people. It's speedy and lightweight, and a deal knocks off up to $150.

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On October 20, 2009, Apple went big with its iMac redesign, introducing the world to the first 27-inch display in a unibody iMac.

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Giovanni Colantonio:

Seven years later, Apple Arcade hasn’t gone anywhere, and Apple itself hasn’t slowed its broader gaming efforts either. Between courting major publishers like Capcom to release their games on Mac to launching a proper gaming app, it’s clear that Apple still has its sights set on being a major player.

The latest example of that came this week as Apple launched an App Store event dubbed Indie Games Week. The week-long initiative saw Apple welcoming games like Vampire Crawlers to iOS and announcing an ambitious mobile version of No Man’s Sky. At the center of that push was Carson Oliver, the new head of App Store Worldwide following Phil Schiller’s sudden departure from the role this past August. The fact that one of his first acts in the role was spearheading an indie gaming showcase hints at where Oliver’s priorities might lie.

[…]

While Oliver sells the narrative with carefully worded precision, questions still linger around Apple’s wider gaming efforts. Continued investment in mixed reality gaming is uncertain given that Apple has reportedly cut down production of its Vision Pro headset due to underwhelming sales. And though Apple continues to court publishers and get games on iOS, we haven’t seen the full-throated support from major players like Capcom and Ubisoft in 2026 that was crucial to raising Apple’s gaming profile in 2023.

Previously:

• Apple TV 4K 2026
• App Store Moves From Phil Schiller to Eddy Cue
• Apple Games App
• Testimony on External Purchase Fee and Scare Screens
• App Store Business Reorg
• Monument Valley 3 in Netflix Games
• Inside Apple Arcade
• Hearing for Apple Violating Epic’s Injunction
• Apple Arcade’s Uncertain Future
• Apple’s Mac Gaming Push

Brent Simmons:

We’ve released NetNewsWire 7.2 for Mac with a new column view layout: choose View > Use Column Layout to switch.

I really missed this feature from the old NetNewsWire, so I was happy to see its return. Now that I’m using it, I have mixed feelings. I love the columns, how I can scan the titles without the feed names and dates getting in the way. But some titles aren’t very informative, so I miss how the iOS-style view shows a little preview of the article’s body. I wish I could see that, either appended after the title itself or in a second line below it.

We’ve also added a second long-requested feature: you can now hide unread counts or replace them with a •, so you don’t have to deal with the anxiety of an ever-increasing unread count and the feeling like you have to get caught up.

Here are the other changes.

Previously:

• NetNewsWire 7.1

DropDMG 3.7.2 is a maintenance update of my app for disk images and archives.

• It still works back to macOS 10.13, but this will probably be the last such release. There’s no reason the code can’t continue to run there, but soon I will be switching to Xcode 27, which deploys back to macOS 12.

• From some reason, this build was hard to submit to the Mac App Store. altool kept retrying, or something, right at the end of the upload. There’s usually a delay before a build shows up in App Store Connect, but this time I saw it there before altool had finished running.

• I also ran into trouble submitting the app for review. It kept showing a spinner or reporting errors when I tried to save the build, and also when adding it for review.

• The actual review was pretty quick by modern standards—three days including a weekend. It warned me ahead of time that review “can take up to 48 hours.”

• When I was approving the build for release, it asked if I was “enjoying” App Store Connect and wanted me to rate the app.

Previously:

• Ending the Golden Era for Backward-Compatible Apps
• Mac App Store Review Times Increasing
• DropDMG 3.7.1

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Apple's October 28 event goes from rumor to real with a “Pro and Tell” invitation. A touchscreen MacBook Pro should steal the show.

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In a post by Greg Joswiak on X, Apple has said it will hold an ‘Pro and Tell’ in Los Angeles, California on Wednesday, October 28 at 10:00 am Pacific.

Judging from the ‘Pro’ in the tagline, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see the much rumored touch-screen MacBook Pro at the event. Other rumors point to a possible refresh of the iMac and the iPad mini.

Our very own Federico will be there in person to cover the event, and of course we’ll have written coverage here on MacStories and later on AppStories.