Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Friday, November 7, 2025.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored this week by Backblaze.

Leading off today, Apple released macOS 26.1 Tahoe this week, with changes to things like liquid glass and some new icons.

As it turns out, the update also

adds new tools for Spotlight. Spotlight in MacOS Tahoe became a lot more powerful,

with features like Quick Keys, new supported actions, and more relevant results. One of the

tent pole changes, however, was clipboard history. You can enable this by going to system settings, choosing Spotlight, then toggling on the clipboard history setting.

It basically then gives you a way to view everything that you've copied onto your clipboard over a set period of time.

In the initial release of MacOS 26 Tahoe, however, this feature didn't have an option for how long you wanted that clipboard history to be maintained.

It was an all-or-nothing eight-hours system.

With macOS 26.1, however, Apple has added new options.

You can now choose how long you want your clipboard history saved, between 30 minutes,

eight hours, or seven days.

So if you want the benefits of accessing your clipboard history and spotlight but are especially

privacy conscious, the 30-minute option is nice to have.

Eight hours, again, was the default before.

But if that wasn't enough time for you, the new seven-day option should

meet your needs. And complementing these new time settings, MacOS Tahoe 26.1 also adds a clear

clipboard history button, so if you want to start from scratch, you can easily do so in system

settings. Next up today, Apple's ongoing efforts to comply with the Digital Markets Act in the

European Union might soon bring the removal of another key feature. A new report says that iOS

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