Apple Launches All-In-One 'Manuals, Specs, and Downloads' Website

Apple has launched a new "Documentation" page to its website that provides links to user guides, repair manuals, tech specs, software downloads, and more for a variety of its products. MacRumors reports: Some of this information was previously found across separate pages on Apple's website, and it has now been combined in one place for convenient access. The page includes categories for the Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro, Apple Watch, Apple TV, AirPods, HomePod, displays like the Studio Display and Pro Display XDR, accessories like the Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard, and software. There is also a search tool on the page that provides links to support documents and other relevant information based on the keywords entered.

Almost full circle

[Anonymous Coward]

In addition to Apple publishing whole books on their hardware (including schematics), firmware and software back in the 1980s and 90s they also used to publish Tech Notes and Tech Advisories for all of the oddities that the developer community needed to know about on their kit. If you were in the Professional System Consultants program you'd get monthly email updates and dead tree editions to add to your Apple Information Exchange binders.

It works!

[Klync]

Sounds like a "Tech Info Library" of sorts

Re:It works!

[drinkypoo]

No, the Tech Info Library had information on stuff like the B&W G3 logic board being shit so you had to slow down your disks or buy a new ATA card with the apple tax (literally the same card would cost five times as much for Mac, with different ROMs on it and no other changes) in order to not have data corruption. That document didn't even make it into the Knowledge Base (KB) which followed the Tech Info Library (TIL).

Why yes, I am still bitter that Apple didn't provide logic board replacements for their outrageously overpriced POS in a pretty case, then later buried the evidence, why do you ask?

revolutionary!

[awwshit]

Wow, Apple caught up with the rest of the world. Such Courage!

Re:revolutionary!

[Anonymous Coward]

Apple have done it again! - Sent from my iBrowser.

I don't see disk images

[waspleg]

and everymac has more detail.

News

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, because this is the most important Apple news story of the day.

Time to request useful additions.

[couchslug]

This is an opportunity for the user community to request useful additions to that tech library.

I don't see repair or service manuals

[Busman85]

I still do not see the service manuals that I had to find in shady places online but haven't seen the pdfs for newer machines.

Wow

[oh-dark-thirty]

Since the Vision Pro was received with overwhelming returns (to the store), seems they have to tack - the spinnaker has lost the wind. Next up - smaller bezel.

It could have been awesome, but . . .

[indytx]

I don't see the manuals for my B&W G3. I was about to be REALLY impressed if Apple had a site for ALL the old manuals. That would have really been something.

Re:It could have been awesome, but . . .

[drinkypoo]

Apple regularly eliminates old documentation like Microsoft has started to do recently. Since the very beginning of the Macintosh line, they have always tried to deprecate old models to get people to buy new equipment even though the old stuff was working fine for them. The B&W G3 in particular was an embarrassment due to the IDE data corruption bug, they would like us all to forget about that model entirely.

not far enough

[hawk]

The red book for Apple ][, or it didn't happen . . .

hawk