Tether 1.7

🔔 Ring your Mac from your phone

• Tap Ring for your Mac in KDE Connect on the phone, and the Mac plays a ringtone at full volume, even when it's muted.
• A panel with Stop appears on screen. Ringing again from the phone also stops it, and it stops on its own after a minute.
• Your volume and mute setting come back as they were.

🔑 Copy verification codes

• When a notification from your phone has a sign-in code, the banner shows the code and a Copy Code button.
• The Notifications tab and the Overview have a Copy Code button too.
• Turn on Settings › General › Copy verification codes automatically to have codes copied the moment they arrive.

🤝 Pairing fixes

• Pairing follows desktop KDE Connect's rules more closely, so a phone that pairs from the Mac stays paired.
• A phone that forgot your Mac (after reinstalling KDE Connect, say) can ask to pair again.
• Pairing requests time out after 30 seconds, and stale or replayed requests are ignored.

🔧 Fixes

• Checking for updates works on networks that share one public address, such as universities and offices, where GitHub limits requests.

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⬇️ Install

Homebrew (recommended; no Gatekeeper prompt):

brew install --cask subhashhhhhh/tether/tether

Or download the disk image for your Mac:

• Apple Silicon (M1 and later): Tether-1.7-AppleSilicon.dmg
• Intel: Tether-1.7-Intel.dmg

Not sure which you have? Apple menu → About This Mac → Chip (Apple Silicon) or Processor (Intel). Tether needs macOS 15 Sequoia or later.

Tether is open source and isn't notarized by Apple, so the first time you open a downloaded copy macOS blocks it. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to Security and click Open Anyway, or run:

xattr -cr /Applications/Tether.app

Already on Tether 1.5.1 or later? It updates itself from Tether › Check for Updates…

Checksums are in SHA256SUMS-1.7.txt.