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Quick tip for fellow Slack power users: macOS 27 has a hidden command for Slack-style inline Emoji search. A dropdown with Emoji suggestions appears when you type colon (:) and a keyword. Enable the feature in the Terminal:

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• The feature is quite reliable in AppKit text editors such as TextEdit, Notes, and Calendar. • It works in Catalyst apps like Messages and Books, but there’s a refresh bug. Press an arrow key after typing a few letters to make suggestions appear.

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• It doesn’t have a WebKit implementation, so this new command will not work when drafting emails or reminders. Emoji suggestions appear in search fields. Restore to defaults with: sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/Stickers InlineEmojiSearch

sudo mkdir -p /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain && \ sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/Stickers InlineEmojiSearch -dict Enabled -bool true and restart your Mac.

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Apple’s “second-party” LG accessories will debut another Home feature: Proximity Control. As with HomePod, tapping or bringing iPhone near the accessory shows a hint in the Dynamic Island. An “Open Controls” button opens the accessory’s controls. Cameras and doorbells show a camera viewer.

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In the current implementation, the enabled state is equivalent to Ask to Launch. Home’s helper text reads: “Show controls when you bring your iPhone near your [accessory].” The feature is still in active development across beta releases, so the final behavior may change.

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The Dynamic Island proximity control code in iOS 27.2 was first reported by Aaron Perris.

The feature appears in code since iOS 27.0. In earlier versions, Apple showed three presentation options instead of the on/off toggle in iOS 27.2:

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• Never: Suppresses proximity controls. • Ask to Launch: Shows Dynamic Island hint or notification, which deep links the control card. • Launch Automatically: Shows control card.

An iPhone without a Dynamic Island or an iPad will show a 30-second notification instead. You can disable this behavior in the Home app after setup. You’ll also see feedback in the Dynamic Island as iPhone launches setup when you first tap the accessory to pair it.

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Behind the scenes, the accessory writes an “apple-deviceid” in the Matter payload stored on its NFC tag that helps iOS identify it when tapped. It also broadcasts a Bluetooth Low Energy advert for Apple Proximity Control.

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LG home accessories are set to debut with HomeKit-exclusive “tap to set up without power” feature, according to iOS 27 code and device firmware. (Shown here: Setup instruction asset for the LG lock)

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• Apple’s HomeKit-over-NFC implementation is separate from Matter NFC Commissioning. • Firmware for the LG lock and thermostat identifies an NXP SE051H Secure Element.

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• While iOS 27 supports standard Matter NFC commissioning, LG’s firmware replaces NXP’s Matter NFC applet in the secure element with a HomeKit applet. This suggests that NFC provisioning will be a HomeKit exclusive. You can still pair the accessories over Matter once they’re powered on.

When you tap your iPhone on the accessory, HomeKit pairing happens over NFC. Your iPhone’s pairing identity and network credentials are stored in the accessory’s NFC secure element. Once powered on, the accessory joins your Wi‑Fi or Thread network, and your home hub completes the Matter setup.

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The “second-party” partnership includes accessories from Schneider: • Schneider Home Smart Thermostat • Schneider Electric Temperature/Humidity Sensor Only the Thermostat shows (placeholder) setup assets. Its setup configuration mentions Proximity Settings.

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First look at home accessories Apple has co-developed with LG. 🧵 LG Smart Deadbolt Lock • The keypad rotates to open. You can use the included swivel pin to limit the rotation on one side so it doesn’t touch a wall. • Settings for Touchpad Light Ring, Door Left Audio Alarm and Lock Sound Volume.

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Matter VID/PIDs: LG: • Smart Thermostat: 4142/8864 • GEMS Smart Thermostat: 4142/12273 • Smart Deadbolt Lock: 4142/8896 • GEMS Smart DoorLock: 4142/12274 • Temperature/Humidity Sensor: 4142/8192 • GEMS Smart Remote T/H Sensor: 4142/12272

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Schneider: • Thermostat TP: 4190/17645 • Thermostat QA variant: 4190/17644 • Temperature/Humidity Sensor: 4190/17647 • Unidentified accessory, perhaps a Sensor QA variant: 4190/17648

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In total, iOS 27.2 includes 10 accessory IDs in its _secondPartyProducts table in HomeKitMatter. These receive special treatment by the OS, including the setup assets reported. Many represent different variants of the same item.

LG Smart Thermostat • Settings for Far Sight Display, Humidity Display, Brightness, Language. • Calibrated Temperature/Temperature Offset options.

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LG Temperature Sensor • Temperature and humidity sensing. • The sensor has a magnetic back to attach to metal surfaces. Comes with a metal plate with adhesive for attaching to other surfaces. • Replaceable battery and replacement alerts.

LG Smart Deadbolt Lock (Cont’d) • Supports automatic unlocking, tap to unlock, emergency power and master codes. • Fits 2.375 in (60.3 mm) and 2.75 in (69.9 mm) brackets. • Comes with 2 mechanical keys.

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Quick Look on iPhone Duo has a new two-page layout in the open book position.

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Four-HomePod surround is almost here, and Apple is adding more capabilities to its Home software. Highlights from audioOS 27.2 beta 3: • Siri can match a speaker to its surround system: “Accessory [X] is a speaker in surround system [Y].” Relies on HomeKit exposing the surroundSystem interface.

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• When HomePod is part of a Home Theater group for an eligible Apple TV, it can now use a new proxy-activation path to pass Siri requests to Apple TV. A separate, older path still forwards microphone audio to Apple TV. (AFSiriActivationOdeonProxyVoiceTrigger)

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• There’s a new light animation for rejecting touch events on HomePod. As an example, here’s a demo of HomePod rejecting touch events while Siri AI is in thinking mode. It’s not clear yet when the new touch rejection may activate. (ShakeCircleAnimation)

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Apple is working on granular controls for Suggested Actions in Messages, based on iOS 27.2 beta 3 code.

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You’ll soon be able to choose characters from the Apple TV catalog as profile pictures for local Apple TV profiles. “Choose a character from Apple TV or an emoji.” The server endpoint continues to serve only emojis, as in previous releases.

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Safari on iPhone Duo already supports the Device Posture and Viewport Segments APIs. In the simulator, you can enable both under Settings > Apps > Safari > Advanced > Feature Flags.

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Apple has also raised the number of email addresses supported per Custom Email Domain from 3 to 10. support.apple.com/en-us/102540 The documentation change happened quite recently (after Sep 16) according to Wayback Machine. web.archive.org/web/20260917...

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Apple Quietly Triples iCloud Mail Alias Limit to Nine

macrumors.comApple Quietly Triples iCloud Mail Alias Limit to NineApple appears to have quietly tripled the number of iCloud Mail aliases users can create, increasing the limit from three to nine. The increase was first noticed last week by a Reddit user, and picked up shortly after by a member of the MacRumors forums. MacRumors can confirm the change is live at iCloud.com. The increased limit has not been mentioned by Apple, so it could conceivably be a test, but that seems unlikely. It's a nice perk to have, but as of this writing, Apple's iCloud User Guide still says the maximum number of aliases is three.Tag: iCloudRelated Forum: Apple Music, Apple Pay/Card, iCloud, Fitness+ This article, "Apple Quietly Triples iCloud Mail Alias Limit to Nine" first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums

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You can control which poses will enter StandBy on iPhone Duo. You can also have iPhone enter Standby only while charging.

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Here’s the new StandBy onboarding for iPhone Duo. The Duo illustrations will show animated previews of StandBy faces, customization, and adding new faces, including a localized “Customize” button. The assets are stripped from the Duo simulator runtime.

New on iPhone Duo: redesigned Focus controls on the Lock Screen. When a Focus mode is active, a button above the bottom controls lets you turn Focus off and back on until you leave the Lock Screen. When unlocked, the active Focus appears in the status bar above the clock.

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Fun fact: you can make Safari’s Notify Me poll a website every minute or every few seconds with a database edit on macOS 27. gist.github.com/pdfux/91941e...

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macOS 27: How to use the new ‘Notify Me’ feature in Safari

9to5mac.commacOS 27: How to use the new ‘Notify Me’ feature in Safari9to5Mac is brought to you by CleanMyMac by MacPaw. With the release of macOS 27 Golden Gate, use CleanMyMac first to free up space, optimize your system, and ensure your new Mac runs at 100% on day one. Learn more. One of the many new features included in macOS 27 Golden Gate is Safari’s new “Notify Me” feature, which lets users get alerted when a website updates content they’re interested in. Here’s how to use it. more…

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Apple’s Home device may come in four finishes: Silver, Space Gray, Starlight, and Rose Pink. The Photo Face setup screen picks its preview art based on the hardware color the device reports. The device’s housing may also show in setup screens once device assets are available.

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Setting up Apple’s upcoming Home device includes a new step: creating a Photo Face. It’s the same Photo Face coming to StandBy on iPhone Duo. That might explain why Apple hasn’t officially made StandBy available in the simulator.

Photo Face requires iCloud Photos. During setup, iPhone sends a few full-resolution “cold-start” photos so the face can display immediately. The device then downloads the rest from iCloud. (“Apple device” is a fallback because CoreTypes doesn’t know the new device’s name.)

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iPhone Duo supports Tap to Pay on both screens, featuring an adaptive interface.

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Here’s a deep dive into StandBy mode on iPhone Duo. Rushmore, the app meant to host the redesigned faces, is missing from the iOS 27.1 simulator. But its localization strings reveal unreported faces, and I got some new faces running in the current renderer. 🧵

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2. Digital Clock Options for font, color, and three widget slots. The code defines 5 layouts: StandBy, Stacked, Top, Middle, and Bottom. The last four may be intended for the two-page “Book” configuration in the new Rushmore renderer.

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3. Calendar Options for style, font, and color. One widget slot in the Date style.

Here’s the new face editor. Its design closely matches the Apple Watch face editor. You can swipe between settings, then scroll through available options. Next, a closer look at three faces I managed to get running:

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1. Analog Clock Options for style, color, and two widget slots. Across these faces, the Duo simulator has no widget registry, so I couldn’t explore alternative widgets. You can also customize numerals: Arabic, Western / Arabic, Eastern / Devanagari.

Code reveals five more StandBy faces supported by the new renderer: • Home Camera: Single camera view or a grid of up to nine. • Home Modular: Perhaps a Home accessory-focused Modular. • Flow (ResponsiveArt): Possibly an animated, abstract face. • Fade: No design details. • Snoopy

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Apple is working on bringing Call Context to the Dynamic Island. Currently hidden behind a feature flag in iOS 27.2 (ConversationKit / CallContextCardExpansion).

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Good things are about to unfold. Apple is preparing an “Opened or Closed” automation in Shortcuts for iPhone Duo. Here it is switching between the Light and Night Dunes wallpapers.

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Apple is preparing sound effects for the Snoopy screen saver on Apple TV. Hidden controls in tvOS 27 will let you turn screen-saver audio on or off, with a third “Reduced” option. None of the Snoopy content packages include audio yet.

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A new screenshot experience is coming to Apple Watch, inspired by iPhone. Hidden behind a defaults preference in watchOS 27.2, it lets you preview, share, or delete a screenshot right after taking it. It’s controlled by ScreenshotSharingEnabled in the com.apple.Carousel preferences domain.

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Siri AI is coming to HomePod. audioOS 27 includes Linwood, the system behind Siri AI, plus a new look and sound for Siri on HomePod. May require new hardware. The new status lights emphasize white, blue and orange, matching Siri AI’s palette on other devices. 🔊 Sound on