Sill 0.6.1 brings fixes, most of them from your reports. On iPhone Duo, half open, the on-screen keyboard no longer covers Sill's keys. Apple Pencil strokes no longer end with a line back to where they began, and your iPhone or iPad stays awake while it shows your Mac. On the Mac, a tap on the Desktop's black picture only wakes a sleeping display, macOS's own windows stay out of the window strip, a firewall that holds connections no longer keeps your device out once it lets go, and you can let your devices see your own account while another user has the Mac's screen.
One version for both apps. This is Sill for Mac 0.6.1 (1388), and it goes with Sill for iPhone and iPad 0.6.1 (1366), built from the same app code (commit 2a3b720, which differs from this release's only in words and tooling). Each half works with the other's 0.6.0: the iPhone and iPad fixes are the app's own, and the Mac's need only Sill for Mac 0.6.1. Seeing your own account while another user has the Mac's screen needs both at 0.6.1. Sill for iPhone and iPad 0.6.1 is on its way to the App Store (https://apps.apple.com/app/id6816359860), which has 0.6.0 until then. If you build it from source, build it from this release's tag.
New for the iPhone and iPad
- iPhone Duo, half open: the on-screen keyboard no longer covers Sill's keys (#215). While it's up, the row of keys (esc, tab, the modifier keys, the arrows and a Keyboard key that puts the keyboard away) sits between the fold and the keyboard. A taller keyboard, such as emoji or Chinese Pinyin, leaves no room for the row, so a Keyboard button at the picture's bottom left corner puts it away instead. Opened flat, the row moves up above a keyboard that would cover it.
- Fixed: lifting Apple Pencil no longer draws a line from the end of a stroke back to near its start in drawing apps on your Mac, such as Notes and Affinity (#322). Only a Pencil that hovers did it.
- Your iPhone or iPad stays awake while it shows your Mac: it no longer locks by itself until 10 minutes after you last used Sill, and then its own Auto-Lock setting applies. What Sill does by itself, such as reconnecting, doesn't count as use.
- Away from home, when a VPN looks off, Sill now says it may be off on either end ("Tailscale looks off on this iPhone or on ‹Mac›. Turn it on for both, then tap ‹Mac›."), where it blamed your iPhone or iPad alone (#309).
- Your own account while another user has the Mac's screen: with the Mac's switch on (below), your iPhone or iPad shows your account's own desktop and windows, with a note that it isn't the Mac's screen. It needs Sill for Mac 0.6.1.
New for the Mac
- A tap that wakes the display clicks nothing. While your Mac's display sleeps and the Desktop's picture is black, a tap on it wakes the display and moves the pointer there; the click and its release are held back, so nothing you can't see is clicked.
- Your own account while another user has the screen, as an option: Show this account while another user is on the screen, in Settings › Devices (off by default), is for a Mac you reach only through Sill. While another user, or the login window, has your Mac's screen, your devices see your account's own desktop and windows instead of nothing. Nothing they tap or type reaches your account until it's back on the screen, and its sound and the clipboard wait too (#316).
- macOS's own windows stay out of the window strip: Stage Manager's, the Dock's, Control Center's, Notification Center's and the screenshot tools', and untitled windows of tools that aren't apps, no longer show as thumbnails. Sill's log names each one it leaves out, once.
- A connection a firewall holds is no refusal. A connection that never finishes its handshake, as a firewall or a content filter on your Mac can hold them, no longer counts as a device that isn't paired, so once the filter lets your iPhone or iPad through, it connects then and not five minutes later. While the filter holds the connections, your device still can't connect (#314 is still open). Sill's log says when it happens, once a minute.
Known in 0.6.1. On iPhone Duo, half open, the emoji keyboard's search closes as soon as it opens once you have put the keyboard away since opening Sill.
Requirements. A Mac with Apple silicon or an Intel processor, on macOS 14 or later, and an iPhone or iPad with iOS 17 or iPadOS 17 or later.
Good to know. Remote Access, over Tailscale or another VPN you run, is still off by default. Once a day Sill asks GitHub whether a newer version exists and never downloads anything by itself.
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