Mac Delete App Best Practices

Until Apple delivers a better solution (Apple IDs for companies, or a way for a company to centrally manage several Apple IDs, please!) the solutions outlined above will work best. If you have any additional tips or experiences surrounding best practices for creating Apple IDs, please share them! By default, many apps in Mountain Lion try to save your files to iCloud. I personally don't like to use iCloud, and find it annoying that you have to change the save location every time I create a new file. To change the default save location to your Mac, type the following into Terminal and hit return.

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We design Mac hardware and software with advanced technologies that work together to run apps more securely, protect your data, and help keep you safe on the web. And with macOS Big Sur available as a free upgrade, it’s easy to get the most secure version of macOS for your Mac.*

Apple M1 chip.
A shared architecture for security.

The Apple M1 chip with built-in Secure Enclave brings the same powerful security capabilities of iPhone to Mac — protecting your login password, automatically encrypting your data, and powering file-level encryption so you stay safe. And the Apple M1 chip keeps macOS secure while it’s running, just as iOS has protected iPhone for years.

Apple helps you keep your Mac secure with software updates.

The best way to keep your Mac secure is to run the latest software. When new updates are available, macOS sends you a notification — or you can opt in to have updates installed automatically when your Mac is not in use. macOS checks for new updates every day and starts applying them in the background, so it’s easier and faster than ever to always have the latest and safest version.

Protection starts at the core.

The technically sophisticated runtime protections in macOS work at the very core of your Mac to keep your system safe from malware. This starts with state-of-the-art antivirus software built in to block and remove malware. Technologies like XD (execute disable), ASLR (address space layout randomization), and SIP (system integrity protection) make it difficult for malware to do harm, and they ensure that processes with root permission cannot change critical system files.

Download apps safely from the Mac App Store. And the internet.

Now apps from both the App Store and the internet can be installed worry-free. App Review makes sure each app in the App Store is reviewed before it’s accepted. Gatekeeper on your Mac ensures that all apps from the internet have already been checked by Apple for known malicious code — before you run them the first time. If there’s ever a problem with an app, Apple can quickly stop new installations and even block the app from launching again.

Stay in control of what data apps can access.

Apps need your permission to access files in your Documents, Downloads, and Desktop folders as well as in iCloud Drive and external volumes. And you’ll be prompted before any app can access the camera or mic, capture keyboard activity, or take a photo or video of your screen.

FileVault 2 encrypts your data.

With FileVault 2, your data is safe and secure — even if your Mac falls into the wrong hands. FileVault 2 encrypts the entire drive on your Mac, protecting your data with XTS-AES 128 encryption. Mac computers built on the Apple M1 chip take data protection even further by using dedicated hardware to protect your login password and enabling file-level encryption, which developers can take advantage of — just as on iPhone.

Designed to protect your privacy.

Online privacy isn’t just something you should hope for — it’s something you should expect. That’s why Safari comes with powerful privacy protection technology built in, including Intelligent Tracking Prevention that identifies trackers and helps prevent them from profiling or following you across the web. A new weekly Privacy Report on your start page shows how Safari protects you as you browse over time. Or click the Privacy Report button in your Safari toolbar for an instant snapshot of the cross-site trackers Safari is actively preventing on that web page.

Automatic protections from intruders.

Safari uses iCloud Keychain to securely store your passwords across all your devices. If it ever detects a security concern, Password Monitoring will alert you. Safari also prevents suspicious websites from loading and warns you if they’re detected. And because it runs web pages in separate processes, any harmful code is confined to a single browser tab and can’t crash the whole browser or access your data.

Find your missing Mac with Find My.

The Find My app can help you locate a missing Mac — even if it’s offline or sleeping — by sending out Bluetooth signals that can be detected by nearby Apple devices. These devices then relay the detected location of your Mac to iCloud so you can locate it. It’s all anonymous and encrypted end-to-end so no one — including Apple — knows the identity of any reporting device or the location of your Mac. And it all happens silently using tiny bits of data that piggyback on existing network traffic. So there’s no need to worry about your battery life, your data usage, or your privacy being compromised.

Keep your Mac safe.
Even if it’s in the wrong hands.

All Mac systems built on the Apple M1 chip or with the Apple T2 Security Chip support Activation Lock, just like your iPhone or iPad. So if your Mac is ever misplaced or lost, the only person who can erase and reactivate it is you.

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Best App Description Practices From the Top 100 Apps

Following up on an earlier study of the top 100 app screenshots, today we analyzed the trends in descriptions of the top 100 apps in the Apple App Store. Below are our summarized & detailed findings, along with additional observations and examples of descriptions lastly. If you have any questions, would like to see the raw data or have an idea for a future app store study, please let us know by sending an email to hello@incipia.co.

Being more efficient with the description was the big takeaway, as putting less into the description was correlated with a much better rank across multiple data points:
1. The longer the app's description, the worse its rank was. It may be that efficiency leads to a better rank, or that the higher ranking apps simply chose to use fewer characters.
2. Furthermore, it seemed that apps which listed their features out (which can take up a lot of space) did not do too much better than those that did not bother.
3. Apps that used more contiguous lines in their opening before giving users some white space for breathing room also saw lower average ranks.
Overall, apps that had custom backgrounds did not see a higher rank than those without custom backgrounds.
1. Editor's Notes-annotated apps which had custom backgrounds ranked worse than those that didn't, but non-Editor-annotated apps with custom backgrounds saw a slightly better rank.
There was a high frequency of, and a higher correlation in ranking for Editor-annotated apps.
Apps that listed quotes from users or PR saw some of the worst ranking differentials.
Including social media links or support contact information were both negatively correlated with rank.

The Data

Count of description characters vs average rank. More apps used fewer characters, and these apps had a better ranking than those that opted for longer descriptions.

Count of description characters by category. Music and shopping apps used more than half of their allotted description characters, while shopping apps came close; social, productivity and utilities used less than 1,000 characters on average.

Editor's Notes? A full 44% of apps had Editor's Notes, which could either be a requirement to be highly ranked, or a function of it. 19/44 Editor-annotated apps had custom backgrounds (average rank 48), while 25 did not (average rank 43). 11/56 apps had a custom background, yet did not sport Editor's Notes (these apps ranked better than non-annotated, non-custom background apps: 53 vs 56).

Uses custom background?While 30% of the apps had a custom background, there was no difference in average rank.

Opening description type.E.g. sales-y vs branding oriented.

Most non-game apps did not see any correlation between opening types, unless they were shopping apps (selling points did best) or games (questions > branding > main value proposition > selling point).

Length of opening before white space. When it came to the first five lines of the description (before the 'more' button), there appeared to be value in brevity, up to a point. If apps used three or more lines, they were better off using up all five lines.

Bullets types. E.g. Using dots vs dashes.

There didn't seem to be a correlation between using bullets or not (50 with bullets vs 51 without); however, there did seem to be some difference between the types of bullets used, with more and higher-ranked apps choosing classic dots or dashes, vs other bullet types.

Features described? Surprisingly, most apps that detailed their features in a manifest way (e.g. 'features list' or listing features of the app without the section header) did not see a better average rank than those that did not (50 with, 51 without). When filtering for non-games, though, feature-descriptive apps saw a small improvement, with an average rank of 47 for describing features vs 50 for not.

Provides a 'how it works' section? 9 apps explained how their app worked, yet in vain (average rank 52 with vs 50 without).