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@subhashhhhhh subhashhhhhh released this 12 Oct 10:15
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v1.4
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What's New in Tether 1.4

⬇️ Pick your download

  • Apple Silicon (M1 and later): Tether-1.4-AppleSilicon.dmg
  • Intel: Tether-1.4-Intel.dmg

Not sure which you have? Apple menu → About This Mac → look for Chip (Apple Silicon) or Processor (Intel). Both need macOS 15 Sequoia or newer.

🌍 Tailscale: use Tether from anywhere

If Tailscale is running on your Mac and your phone, Tether now finds your phone on your tailnet automatically, so notifications, messages, files and the clipboard keep working when you're not on the same Wi-Fi.

  • Only Android and iOS devices signed in to your own Tailscale account are contacted. Devices shared with you by other people are never contacted.
  • Tether reads your tailnet from the local tailscale app on your Mac and never talks to Tailscale's servers.
  • Turn it on or off, and see what it found, in Settings › General › Tailscale.
  • Connect by Address… now accepts Tailscale names such as phone.tailnet.ts.net, as well as IP addresses.

📥 Files from your phone now arrive

  • Fixed: files shared from the phone were downloaded and then silently discarded, so the phone said "sent" while the Mac showed 0%. They now land in Downloads, with progress in Files and a "File Received" notification. Album art and SMS attachments had the same problem and now work too.

🔌 Steadier connections

  • Your phone no longer reconnects every 45 seconds. Each reconnect used to re-sync all of your SMS conversations.
  • A phone that connects without being discovered first, or one whose KDE Connect was reinstalled, now appears under Nearby so you can pair it.
  • Removing a pairing is now always logged with the reason, and saved pairings that can't be read are backed up instead of overwritten.

📦 Installation & Gatekeeper Note

Tether is an open-source indie app and isn't notarized with a paid Apple Developer account, so macOS may say the app "cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified".

  1. Drag Tether.app to /Applications and open it.
  2. If macOS blocks it, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to Security and click Open Anyway.
  3. Or, in Terminal: 
    xattr -cr /Applications/Tether.app

Checksums are in SHA256SUMS-1.4.txt.

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