Apple will be cutting support for encrypted Mac OS Extended drives from macOS 28 onwards, but HFS+ will still function — for ...

Apple is officially retiring encrypted Mac OS Extended (HFS+) volume support in macOS 28. Here’s how to make sure your old ...

Mac computers segment their hard disks in a format called HFS plus, which is the most recent version of Apple's Hierarchical File System. This file system is different from the NTFS system used by ...

With macOS 27, Intel support is dropped, and soon the ability for Apple Silicon Macs to run Intel apps will also be gone.

The HFS and HFS+ file systems have served Apple well for years, but it’s time to make a clean break from the past. That break from tradition is coming in the form of the Apple File System (APFS), ...

Recently released with the iOS 10.3 beta, APFS will soon replace your Apple device’s thirty year old file system. This means your Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV will all see upgrades ...

Many users will remember that hard drive "journaling," now standard on Panther installations, was originally introduced in OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) as a "Mac OS X Server-only" feature; however, since the ...

Some changes are big for users: Siri on the Mac, fireworks in the Messages app, a new Breathe app on the watch! Others are a more seismic shift that end users may or may not notice. Apple’s operating ...

The new Apple File System announced at WWDC highlights how the company is planning for the future. Here's a look under the hood at what the company will use to replace HFS+ on Macs, iOS, Apple Watch ...

Continuing our previous coverage of the "Apache and Case Insensitivity security issue," Robert Dotson suggests that the problem is not really a bug, but more an inherent part of using UNIX on HFS. He ...