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OS updates coming soon

macOS, iOS, watchOS and tvOS Apple have hel d their developer conference, and as expected have announced the next versions of the operating systems for all of their major platforms. The new versi ons are expe cted around September or October. See inside for a preview of the new features and supported devices.

Volume 33.06 - June 2016

Wellington

Monday, 27 June

7.10pm - 9.30pm

Subject: WWDC

Announcements

Kapiti

Monday, 4 July

7.10pm - 9.30pm

Subject: WWDC

Announcements

iPad Group*

TBA - August (Kapiti)

Help Desk*

Saturday 15 July

1pm - 4pm (Kapiti)

See page 2 for more

details of meetings *Please register by emailing vp@welmac.org.nz

The President Writes p2

Cut, Copy, and Paste p6

Committee Contact Details p8

Where to find us

Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings are held at MacKenzie room of the conference centre at St John's church, corner of Dixon St and Willis St, Wellington. Kapiti meetings are held at the

Kapiti Uniting Church, Raumati Road, Raumati.

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David Empson

president@welmac.org.nz

Hi folks.

Wellington Meeting

Our main meeting in Wellington will be held on

Monday 27 June, in th e MacKen zie room of the

conference centre at St John's in the City, 129 Dixon

St, Wellington, from 7.10pm.

The meeting will start with a Q&A s ession for

those who have any technical issues. It would be appreciated if questions could be emailed in advance to president@welmac.org.nz so we can plan ahead. Following Q&A we will have a light supper then the main topic.

Tonight we will be discussi ng the announcements

from Apple's developer conference: new features expected in OS versions later this year, and compatibility for older devices.

Kapiti Area Meeting

The Kapiti meeting will start at 7.10 pm on

Monday 4 July, at the Kapi ti Uniting Parish, 27

Raumati Rd.

The topic of this meeting is the same as the

Wellington main topic, i.e. Appl e developer

conference announcements.

If you wo uld like to receive e-mail

announcements about upcoming Kapiti meeti ngs, please contact Hamis h Turnbull hamish@turnbull.co.nz.

Kapiti Help Desk

Subject to final confirmation, the help desk will be held from 1 pm to 4 pm on Saturday 16 July at the

Kapiti Uniting Parish, 27 Raumati Rd.

The help desk is an opportunity to get assistance with any topic you would like to cover, assuming we can find a tutor who can help you. W e can often arrange one on one tuition, but sometimes need to organise people into small groups if we have several people wanting to cover the same topics and not enough tutors to go around.

Topics can range from basic use of the Macintosh

or iPad through general technical assistance to specific help with some advanced software. Registration is required, and space is limited so get your booking in early.

To regi ster, please email Shane Gord ine at

vp@welmac.org.nz. Pl ease include details about what you would like help with, and tell us what computer or other devices you would like to bring.

Apple News

Developer Conference

Apple's 2016 developer conference has finished,

and as expec ted the main announcements in the opening keynote address were the next versions of the operating systems for the Mac, iPhon e, iPad, iPod Touch, Apple Watch and Apple TV.

The new OS versions are expected to be released

around September or October, but releases may be staggered: last year iOS 9 was in mid September, and

OS X 10.11 El Capitan on the cusp of October.

There were no hard ware announcem ents, in

particular no new Macs. I'm now thinking the earliest we are likely to see signi ficant model changes will be coinciding with the new operating system around September.

We will be discussing the announcements at our

upcoming meetings in Wellington and Kapiti.

I've already sent a preliminary report to most

members via email, in w hich I cover ed naming, compatibility and upgrade planning. I'll summarise the key points here, but if you didn't receive a copy and would like one, please email me. Those who did read my email may like to skip ahead to page 4 for my notes on major new features. If you would like to see the keynote address (just over two hours), it is available via Apple's web site: http://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2016/

It can al so be viewed on an Apple TV via the

Apple Events app/channel, and is available in the

Apple Keynotes podcast via iTunes.

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The new name: macOS Sierra (10.12)

Apple have changed the Mac operating system

name again: it is now "macOS" instead of "OS X".

The next ver sion will be n umbered 10.12

(continuing the established pattern), and named "macOS Sierra". macOS Sierra drops support for older Macs

Mountain Lion (10.8) in late 2012 was the last

version which dropped support for some Mac models. In that case, the unsupported models were introduced between late 2006 and late 2008.

Mountain Lion (10.8) through El Capitan (10.11)

support all 2009 and later models, plus selected models introduced in 2007 and 2008 (including all iMac and MacBook Pro models from those years). Sierra (10.12) is dropping support for remaining

2007 and 2008 models, and most 2009 models.

The models that will be able to run macOS Sierra

are the Late 2009 iMac and MacBook, plus all models introduced in 2010 or later.

The cutoff point coincides with the models which

came with Snow Leopard (10.6) preinstalled: all Macs which were able to run Leopard (10.5) are not able to run Sierra (10.12).

If you aren't sure which model you have, you can

find out via About This Mac under the Apple menu.

The model name is shown there if you are running

Lion (10.7) or later.

For those running Snow Leopard (10.6), it is

possible to find a "Model Identifier" via the Mor e Info button. An Internet search should produce the model name, or I can assist.

Apple's usual support policy for Macs means that

the unsupported models will still get security updates and Safari updates for another two years, as long as they a re running OS X El Capitan (10.11). After that, they w ill get increasin gly insecure, particularly for web browsing. iOS 10 drops support for older models

The following models will not be able to upgrade

beyond iOS 9: • iPad 2 • iPad (3rd generation) • iPad mini (original) • iPhone 4S • iPod Touch (5th generation) If you have one of these devices, it will continue to work on iOS 9, but you should be aware that it may have known security issues after iOS 10 is released, and they may never be fixed. This means it will be increasingly risky to use for web br owsing, but should be fine for running existing apps for a while yet. An increasing number of new or updated apps require iOS 10 or later, limiting your choices.

If you aren't sure which model you have, see one

of the following pages. iPad !https://support.apple.com/HT201471 iPhone !https://support.apple.com/HT201296 iPod !https://support.apple.com/HT204217

Analysis of reasons for dropped support

iOS 10 is easy to explain: it drops support for all models with A5 or A5X processors, w hich sets a higher performance baseline.

The macOS cutoffs seem to be an arbitrary choice

to reduce the number of older Mac models Apple needs to support, possibly related to the maximum hardware support cutoff of seven years (Californi a and Turkey only). This results i n oddities like the

Late 2009 MacBook being supported, but not the

more powerful Mid 2009 MacBook Pro.

There are no technical reasons for dropping 2007

to Mid 2009 models, apart from no longer needing to support a few older grap hics processors. A future cutoff which drops support for pre-2012 models would have technical benefits. That might be in two or three years.

Predicted support for later models

These cutoffs allow me to set expectatio ns for

later models, ass uming Apple sticks to th e same patterns, and doesn't further extend the support windows. They may have one or more gap years then do a catchup, resulting in temporary extensions to the support windows.

From model introduction, Apple devices should

be able to run the latest OS for at least the following: • iPhone: five years for leading models with the latest processor. Models with earlier processors will be supported as long as the leading model with the same processor: iPhone 5C should get four years, iPhone SE four and a half years. • iPad: five years for models released at the same time as leading iPhones with the same processor, four years for models with earlier processors. • iPod Touch, Apple TV: four years. •

Apple Watch: no data yet.

•

Mac: six to seven years.

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New Features

I'll summarise major new features for each

platform first, with links to Apple for details, then cover a few new features which apply across multiple platforms. macOS Sierra (10.12) http://www.apple.com/macos/sierra-preview/ Siri is coming to the Mac at long last, allowing the option of talking to your Mac to ask questions or do searches. The web page above shows sever al examples. It appears to be more flexib le than the iPhone/iPad, e.g. easy to invoke while continuing to work on something else, and easy to copy data from

Siri search results.

Siri can be accessed via an icon in the dock or a near the top right corner of the menu, and can be configured to be activated by a keyboard shortcut.

We don't know yet if New Zealand will get Siri

for the Mac, but I think it will be supported.

Those who have an Apple Watch will appreciate

the auto unlock feature: wake up your Mac while wearing your Watch and i t instantly unlocks - you don't need to type your password. iCloud Drive has a new option to automatically store your Desktop and Documents folder, allowing documents in those locations to be easily accessed from multiple Macs or iOS devices. (This would require paying for iCloud storage space, and I can imagine it being a probl em for a pplications like Microsoft Office which still have large "User Data" folders there instead of in Library, in some cases containing large databases such as Outlook email.) A related feature (also optional, thank goodness) is that iCloud can automatically stor e rarely used files in the cloud to free up space on your computer. They are still available on demand - as long as you have an Internet connection.

Potentially more useful are automatic cleanup

features such as deleting old application installers, duplicate downloads, caches, etc., and automatically deleting items from the trash after 30 days.

Tabbed document win dows will be supported

across a much wider range of application s, as a standard feature of the OS.

Picture-in-picture support allows you to watch

video from Safari or iTunes in a floating window while using other applications. iOS 10 http://www.apple.com/ios/ios10-preview/

There are major changes to the lock screen, with

rich notifications that do things like show photos and videos, and you can r espond to messages without unlocking. (I assume Apple has thought carefully about the security implications.) An additional feature for iPhone 6S or 6S Plus is "raise to wake" - the screen wakes up when you lift your phone, so you don't need to touch the home button (which may unlock the phone).

Predictions on the keyboard get even smarte r,

including things like contact lookup. If you ne ver use some of the built-in apps (e.g. Stocks), you can delete most of them, and get them back later from App Store if you change your mind. Siri will be able to interact with third party apps (in a range of domains, but not universal yet.)

Messages has major enhancements - see below.

Maps adds the ability to call up other apps

without leaving the map, e.g. for things like restaurant bookings. Its direct ions show traffic conditions and suggest alternate routes, and can find options along the route for petrol or food stops.

Notes adds a collaboration feature so people can

share modifications to notes. Think shopping lists!

Mail supports threaded conversations, and on the

12.9-inch iPad Pro gains a more Mac-like three pane

view (mailboxes, messages and content). There is also a filtering feature, e.g. to only show unread or flagged messages.

Home is a new app to co ntrol smart home

devices using Apple's HomeKit system. Third party apps which offer "Voice over IP" (e.g. Skype, WhatsApp) will be able to have a Phone-like full screen display for incoming audio calls. For recent iPad models, Safari will be able to use

Split View to show two web pages side by side.

There was no mention of more general multi-user

support for iPads (already supported for education use in iOS 9.3). We'll have to keep waiting. watchOS 3 http://www.apple.com/watchos-preview/

The new watchOS version is rather major rethink

of how users interact with the watch. From what I've seen, this will be a massive improvement. It looks like Apple has examined how people actually use the watch, and rearranged features to better fit usage patterns. continued over page CAPITAL APPLE - JUNE 2016!!! !!! ! PAGE 5

Watch faces are even more customizable, with a

wider range of complications, and you can now set up multiple custom watch faces and easily swipe between them. There are several new watch faces.

The side button is redefined to call up a "dock"

with up to ten apps. This replaces the "gla nces" feature of earlier watchOS vers ions. Apps on the dock update in the background and instantly launch (in earlier versions, going from a glance to a full app could be a multi-second wait).

The swipe-up gesture from the watch face now

brings up a control centre similar to the iPhone.

Fitness tracking improvements include a wider

range of workout options, sharing activity rings with friends, a dedicated activity watch face, special support for wheelchair users, and a Breathe app to encourage breathing exercises to reduce stress.

A new Home app provides HomeKit support.

There is a new emergency call feature by holding

the side button. This dials the local emergency number (with automat ic adjustment for country) and can notify your emergency contacts.

Apple TV

http://www.apple.com/tvos-preview/ (These only apply to the 4th generation. 3rd generation Apple TVs are not getting new features.)

There was no news about Siri or other features

coming to more countr ies, so many of the new features may not apply to New Zealand.

A da rk theme can be chosen if you prefer to

operate your TV in a dark room.

An update d Remote app for the iP hone will

provide full functionality of the Apple TV remote from an iPhone.

Games for the Apple TV will no longer be forced

to support the Apple TV remote, so more advanced games can be written which depend on having a compatible game controller.

Apps you get on your iPhon e or iPad wi ll

automatically be available on your Apple TV, if the same app is available there.

Messages

iOS is getting a lot of new features in Mess ages. Some of these are also coming to the Mac and Watch.

Handwriting for a personal touch (w ith live

display at the receiver). Different styles of message bubbles. "Invisible ink" to hide a surprise message until the recipie nt swipes ov er it. Full screen animations. Quick responses. Sketches on photos and videos. Text can be replaced with emoji. Emoji displayed much bigger. A major feature is support for third party apps to extend Messages, e.g. for adding special photo effects or attaching stickers to messages.

Photos

A si gnificant new feature for iOS and M ac is

Intelligent Search in photos, e.g. detecting types of scenery (mountains or beaches), animals or people, and providing quick access to photos according to their content. This is all done on the device so has excellent privacy - no data is shared via iCloud.

Memories is a new feature which detects events

and creates a nice presentation from related photos and videos, including creating a short video.

Photos on the Mac gains a new "Places" album

which has thumbnails of photos on a map.

Universal Clipboard

It will be even easier to copy data between iOS devices and/or Macs. An extension to existing

Continuity features means that y ou can use the

existing "copy" and "paste " to transfer data between nearby devices. For Macs, this will require a model new enough to support Handoff, i.e. a 2012 or later model. All iOS devices able to run iOS 10 will support this feature. The universal clipboard is smart: pasting between devices only happens if the copy was done recently. iTunes and Music

The Music apps on iOS and Apple TV, and iTunes

on the Mac, will see a major user interface redesign which looks like a big improvement over the current confusing layout. Section titles are bigger, your music library is easier to access, and lyrics will be supported on iOS.

New File System "APFS"

Apple has a new file system in the works which is expected to replace HFS+ at some point in 2017, for use on all devices from the Apple Watch to the Mac. For now it i s available as a Mac -only dev eloper preview with some features not yet enabled.

That's all, folks!

David Empson

To c ontact me, email president@welmac.org.nz, or you can ring me at home (976 9755). CAPITAL APPLE - JUNE 2016!!! !!! ! PAGE 6

Cut, Copy, and Paste

by Josh Centers & Adam C. Engst

Copy and paste may be the most important

computing technology of the past 30 years. That may sound odd, but just think how much you rely on it.

Most of us use the Copy and Paste commands

multiple times every day, probably hundreds of times per week, without even realizing it.

However, surprising as this may be, some people

still don't understand the basics. And many people are missing out on advanced techniques with copy and paste, not to mention related ways of moving data between documents and apps.

Cut, Copy, and Paste Basics

To under stand what the Cut, Copy, and Pa ste

commands do, you first mus t understan d the concept of the clipboard, a virtual container that holds whatever data you copy or cut. Although the clipboard is generally invisible to the user, you can view its contents in the Finder - just choose Edit >

Show Clipboard . A small window appears,

displaying whatever text or imag e is currently on the clipboard.

Before you can use Copy or Cut, you must first

select some data. That might be text ranging from a character to an entire book, an image or a portion of an image, a file in the Finder, a column of data in a spreadsheet, or a chunk of an audio recording. How you select varies with the situation and the data, but it usually involves clicking once, or clicking and dragging over an area. (An d don't forget the Command-A shortcut for Select All!) Once you have something selected, you can copy or cut it.

When you copy selected data, OS X duplicates it

on the clipboard for later pasting. You might copy a street address to paste into a mapping app, copy a photo from Safari to share with a friend, or copy a file in order to move it to another folder.

Closely related to Copy is Cut, which combines

the copy action with a delete action. When you cut selected data, it disappears from its original location and moves onto the clipboard. Cut is thus handy for rearranging things. For instance, if you're writing a report, and you decide that you wan t to move a paragraph higher up, you can select that paragraph, cut it, and paste it in the new place.

How do you c ut, copy, and paste? Once you

select the content you wish to cut or copy, choose Edit > Cut or Edit > Copy. To paste the clipboard's contents, make sure the desti nation documen t or folder is active, and then choose Edit > Paste.

But navigating to the menu bar every time you

wish to cut, copy, or paste is mind-numbing. Every

Mac user should memorize these commands'

keyboard shortcuts - invoking them should be as second-nature as typing: •Cut: Command-X •Copy: Command-C •Paste: Command-V

Paste with Style, or Style with Paste

Copying and pasting of text is simple, but it can get tricky when font styles are involved. You won't have any problems when copying from or pasting into a plain-text editor like BBEdit. But let's say you copy some text from a Web page and paste it into Apple Mail - it will transfer the typeface, text color, and even background color! All this style info can be useful in some cases, but mos t of the time, you probably just want the text to take on the look of the text around it, or to use the app's default style.

In most apps, the command to paste text without

any additional formatting is Edit > Paste and Match

Style (Command-Option-Shift-V). Some apps might

call it Paste Text Only or Paste Without Formatting.

Unfortunately, not all apps have such a

command, even when it might be useful. To work around that limitati on, turn to ut ility software, which you may alre ady own. Ma cro utilitie s like

Keyboard Maestro, launchers like LaunchBar, and

clipboard utilities like Copy'em Paste can all remove formatting from text when pasting. For more details on these and other clipboard-related tricks, see Joe

Kissell's "Take Control of Automating Your Mac."

Some apps (like Pages, TextEdit, and Messages)

let you do the opposite, and copy and paste not the actual characters but instead the style of the source text. This capability is less common, and the location of the necessary commands varies widely.

In Pages, for instance, the Format menu contains

Copy Style and Paste Style commands. In TextEdit, they're in Format > Fonts. And in Messages, they're in the Edit menu. Happily, the keyboard shortcuts remain the same, at least in App le's apps:

Command-Option-C for Copy Style and Command-

Option-V for Paste Style.

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OS X's Little-Known Secondary

Clipboard

Whenever you copy or cut something, the new data overwrites whatever is on the clipboard. That can be annoy ing at times, forcing you to shutt le back and forth to move dis crete chunks of d ata between apps. We don't want to get sidetracked away from our focus on built-in capabilities of OS X here, but know th at if you w ant access to y our clipboard history, all the utilities mentioned just above provide those feature as well. You won't go wrong with any of them, and if you want to work with multiple named clipboards, Keyboard Maestro and Copy'em Paste can help.

However, back in OS X, there is a secondary

clipboard that's accessible only via keyboard shortcuts: Control-K performs a kill, while Control-

Y does a yank.

"Kill" and "Yank" are odd terms, but they come from the venerable command-line Emacs text editor. In practice, Kill and Yank are largely equivalent to the Cut and Paste comma nds, but wit h a few differences. Most notably, they have t heir own clipboard, which is known as a "kill ring" in Emacs, so cutting something with Control-K doesn't replace whatever is on the main system clipboard.

There are other n otable diffe rences. Unlike

Command-X, if you press Control-K when no text is selected, it affects everythi ng from t he insertion point to the end of the paragraph. If you perform multiple kills in this fashion (with no text selected), each bit of killed text is appended to the kill ring, such that a yan k pastes all of them back at once. Finally, when you paste with Control-Y, all styles are automatically stripped from the pasted text. Kill and Yank work in most OS X apps, but not all. Plus, some apps, particularly word processors and text editors, implement the Kill and Yank keyboard shortcuts in slightly different ways. For instance, in BBEdit, they seem to use the system clipboard, so you can kill text with Control-K and then paste with

Command-V. And in Nisus Writer P ro, Yank ca n

paste the text in the kill ring multiple times, and it pastes with styles.

Copy and Paste in the Finder

So far, we've focused on copying and pasting

text, but many people don't realize that you can also copy and paste files and f olders in the Fin der. Dragging is often easier, but ther e are situations where copy and paste can be more efficient. To copy a file or folder, select it and choose Edit >

Copy filename ( Command-C). Make sure you' re

selecting the icon and not text in its name. Using Shift-click or Command-click, you can select and then copy multiple items at once. Next, open the window showing your desired location and choose Edit > Paste (Command-V) to paste the items in that spot.

While you can't use the Cut command on files or

folders to move them, the Finder enhances the Paste command to enable you to move items instead of copying them. First, copy one or more items normally and, once you've navigated to t he destination, press and hold the Option key, and then choose Edit > Move Item Here (it r eplaces Paste).

The keyboard shortcut for Move Item He re is,

unsurprisingly, Command-Option-V.

Remember, if you make a mistake and pa ste in

the wrong pl ace, regardless o f whether you're copying or moving the items, you can always press

Command-Z to undo the action.

One final tweaky Finder tip. Sometimes you need

to tell someone where to find a file or folder that's nested deeply within the directory structure. Rather than type all the path, you can copy the item's pathname. With a file or folder selected, press and hold the Option key and choose Edit > Copy

Filename as Pathname (Command-Option-C). This

copies, as text, the full pathname to the file or folder. If you're copying a pathname to paste it into the Terminal app as part of a command line invocation, there's an even faster way to do that: just drag the item into the Terminal window.

Copying from Safari

Although we've focused prim arily on uses of

copy and paste that work anywhere, many apps use the commands in particular ways as wel l. In particular, Web browsers make it possible to copy a variety of things. The details vary slightly between browsers, but in Safari, there are a few dif ferent things you can copy from a Web page: •Text •Destination URLs from hyperlinks •Images •Image URLs

Copying text works just as in any othe r app.

However, for the other types of data, you need to Control-click (or right-click, or however you usually bring up a context ual menu) the link or image.

Depending on what you've clicked, you can copy a

URL or the entire image.

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