Ipad IOS 18 Cursor Jumping in external display

 Updating to IOS 18 causes your cursor in external display to jump around as shown in the reddit posts below:

https://www.reddit.com/r/iPadOS/comments/1fklddv/external_monitor_cursor_problem_after_updating_to/

https://www.reddit.com/r/iPadOS/comments/1fiya3j/external_monitor_with_mouse_issues/

The only working way to prevent this is to disable assitive touch

Ipad IOS18 Software Update

%AppData%\Apple Computer\iTunes\iPad Software Updates

iPad_Pro_Spring_2021_18.0_22A3354_Restore.ipsw

Update iPhone / iPad thru Itunes Windows Store without backup

Original discussion is here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7640010?sortBy=rank

However there are no methods for Itunes Downloaded from Windows Store

To disable backup for Itunes on Windows Store

Goto to this folder:
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\AppleInc.iTunes_12133.2.3006.0_x64__nzyj5cx40ttqa

Open CMD, run this command:

defaults.exe write com.apple.iTunes AutomaticDeviceBackupsDisabled -bool true

Open Itunes as normal

Apple Shortcuts Get Contents of Web Page vs Get Content of URL

 

Get Contents of Web Page

Get Contents of Web Page Will trigger two requests on server. One with the backgroundShortcutRunner agent and the other with safari user agent. The output results will be from the safari

Requests 1:
BackgroundShortcutRunner/2610 CFNetwork/1498.700.2 Darwin/23.6.0

Requests 2:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 17_6_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/15E148

Get Contents of URL

Get Contents of URL will only trigger a single requests with the user agent  backgroundShortcutRunner

Requests 1:

BackgroundShortcutRunner/2610 CFNetwork/1498.700.2 Darwin/23.6.0

Gemini vs Copilot Test 1

Prompt : "write javascript dictionary for color id and classic value"

Image Attachment:

Image is a screenshot from : https://google-calendar-simple-api.readthedocs.io/en/latest/colors.html

Copilot Output:

Gemini Output:

Verdict:

Copilot have a lot of typo, in the values, Gemini responded weird but giving correct results.

MinGW Windows

 So hard to get MinGW on windows

Just take this, unzip and add to path

https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds-binaries/releases/download/12.2.0-rt_v10-rev0/x86_64-12.2.0-release-posix-seh-rt_v10-rev0.7z

Git Reset