Time Machine can’t make use of Apple File System (APFS) volumes. This is a significant problem that many Macworld readers want to make sure others know about. This has been known for months, and ...

Apple started shifting Macs from its old HFS+ filesystem to its more sophisticated APFS format with macOS 10.13 High Sierra. In that release, all SSD-based Macs were upgraded to APFS. Fusion Drives ...

macOS High Sierra users are once again impacted by a major APFS bug after two other major vulnerabilities affected Apple's new filesystem format in the last five months. This time around, according to ...

Under certain conditions, macOS may copy data into the void, leading to data loss of important files, all due to a bug in how the operating system handles APFS sparse disk images. The issue was ...

I've been a tech journalist for almost 25 years and started Pocket-lint in 2003. Over the years I've questioned or interviewed leading tech industry figures from Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, Mark ...

Instant reversion of APFS volumes on macOS back to HFS+ has been made possible by Paragon Software Group, the makers of NTFS for Mac and many other fine programs on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android. If ...

Apple will have news on APFS for the Fusion Drives in Macs "very soon," according to the company's software engineering head, Craig Federighi. Fusion Drives combine conventional hard disks with a ...

The first betas of iOS and iPadOS 18 include a new option in the Files app that allows users to reformat external drives when erasing them. Beta testers can currently pick between the APFS, ExFAT, and ...