iCloud Photos Downloader: Weekly Recap - Apple Auth Compatibility & Infrastructure Updates
The team addressed breaking changes in Apple's 2026 authentication flow with coordinated fixes across both CLI and WebUI interfaces. Infrastructure updates modernized build dependencies and CI runners.
Duration: PT2M15S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from iCloud Photos Downloader.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: iCloud Photos Downloader
- Published: 2026-06-01T16:06:30Z
- Audio duration: PT2M15S
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Welcome to the iCloud Photos Downloader weekly recap for May 25th through June 1st, 2026.
Three pull requests merged and eight additional commits this week, centered on a critical compatibility issue with Apple's updated authentication system.
The dominant theme was restoring two-factor authentication functionality after Apple changed their auth flow in 2026. Pull request 1335 identified two specific problems: Apple now requires a PUT request to verify trusted device security codes instead of the previous POST approach, and phone number data moved to a…
This wasn't a one-and-done solution. Pull request 1344 followed immediately to apply the same push notification fix to the WebUI code path, ensuring both CLI and web interfaces work with Apple's new requirements. The coordinated approach prevented users from experiencing different authentication behaviors depending…
Infrastructure modernization formed the second theme. Pull request 1345 updated GitHub Actions workflows from macOS 13 to macOS 14 runners after GitHub deprecated the older environment. Additional commits bumped Alpine Linux from version 3.18 to 3.23 and updated build dependencies for Python 3.13 compatibility,…
The week…