How to access Apple-formatted APFS & HFS drives on Windows
It's easy to read your Apple APFS and HFS hard drives or SSDs on your Windows PC with the right format, or the right software. Here's what you need.
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Andrew O'Hara
APFS changes affect Time Machine in macOS Big Sur, encrypted drives in iOS 14
Apple is increasing its support for APFS on its computing platforms, bringing the ability to use Time Machine with an APFS-formatted disk to macOS Big Sur, while enabling the ability to view external drives using encrypted APFS in iOS and iPadOS 14.
Malcolm Owen
Apple's Federighi promises APFS boot support for Mac Fusion Drives 'very soon'
Apple will have news on APFS for the Fusion Drives in Macs "very soon," according to the company's software engineering head, Craig Federighi.
Roger Fingas
Video: How to downgrade from macOS High Sierra to Sierra
MacOS High Sierra is Apple's newest operating system for Mac, but some users might have issues with applications or home server setups not working correctly. AppleInsider shows you how to downgrade, if you must.
Vadim Yuryev
Apple releases macOS 10.13 High Sierra with APFS, Metal 2, new Safari, Photos improvements
High Sierra has arrived for all users, and brings the Apple File System to the Mac for the first time, while introducing support for a variety of other standards such as HEVC video, HEIF image encoding, and Apple's Metal 2 graphics platform supporting technology like external GPUs.
Mike Wuerthele
Google Drive's Backup & Sync app adds support for APFS in macOS High Sierra
Google has made a small but crucial update to the Google Drive Backup and Sync client for the Mac, introducing Apple File System compatibility for systems running macOS High Sierra.
High Sierra's APFS optimized for flash storage & SSD, incompatible with legacy HDDs and possibly Fusion Drives
The new APFS brings notable enhancements to High Sierra and iOS, but on the Mac it appears that legacy hard drives are completely incompatible with the technology and at least at launch that Fusion drives may not be either.
Inside macOS 10.13 High Sierra: APFS benefits end users with space, speed
Apple's next-generation APFS has made its way to macOS High Sierra after an official debut on iOS 10.3, and with it comes essentially instant file copies, better efficiency for greater overall speed, and fine-tuning of read and write operations boosting system performance.
Lengthy iOS 10.3 install time likely due to conversion to new Apple File System
Early adopters of the full iOS 10.3 release are seeing lengthy install processes, with multiple device reboots — probably as a result of the shift to Apple's new APFS.
