Shortcuts and Siri actions, clearer Security and connection readings, and figures in your language. - Six actions for Shortcuts, Spotlight and Siri: scan for devices, check whether a device is online, run a speed test, wake a device and create reports. - Each Security check row shows what that check found, in amber for a warning. - The Gateway and Internet tiles turn orange when the connection is slow, and Cert Monitor shows Expired for a lapsed certificate. - Speed figures, units and times read in your language, and the sidebar and columns fit longer translations. - The upgrade screen shows a free trial timeline and a Redeem code button, and Report a Problem sits in Settings. - Plus many smaller fixes and improvements.

A cleaner device list, far less disk use, clearer prices and more private AI answers. - Devices no longer shows duplicate or phantom devices, and ones left by earlier versions are tidied up automatically. - PingKit Agent uses far less disk space over time. - AI answers keep more of your network's details private. - The upgrade screen is clearer and fits every language. - Security Scan describes what it finds in plainer words, now in your language. - Quitting, pairing an iPhone and Forget Device are more dependable. - Plus many smaller fixes and improvements.

Device discovery on macOS 27 and beyond. - Hardware addresses are back on macOS 27: PingKit Agent 3.3.0 can read them again, so every device gets its vendor and address. - More devices get a name, from what they announce on the network. - Sleeping Macs are shown as asleep, not offline, and a device is 'Not seen for' a while rather than silently gone. - Bonjour browsing stays open between scans and follows devices as they come and go. - A scan while Local Network access is off no longer marks your devices offline. - Fewer prompts: the pairing key moved to the device-only keychain, so a new build no longer asks for your password.

PingKit Agent 3.2 finds more of your devices and makes Guardian easier to manage. The device list now includes devices that answer but keep every port closed, such as phones and laptops with a firewall. Two days before a free trial ends, PingKit Agent tells you what Guardian did on your Mac, when the trial renews and at what price. Settings now shows when your subscription renews or, if you turned renewal off, when it ends. Monthly subscribers can switch to yearly from their second month. If a payment fails, a banner in the window, the menu bar and Settings helps you fix it before monitoring stops. The yearly saving on the upgrade screen now uses the prices in your own currency, and reads correctly in every language.

PingKit Agent 3.1.3 finds devices across larger home networks. If your network has more than the usual 254 addresses, up to 1,022, the device list now covers all of it instead of only the part your Mac is on. On a network larger still, it now says that only part was scanned. Scans are quicker on every network too. On a Mac that can't write AI answers itself, setup now asks once whether PingKit's own service may write them. When you ask the AI assistant for something PingKit can do, such as watching a website or waking a computer on a schedule, it now offers a button that takes you there. Error messages in the tools now appear in your language, and a speed test with no connection now says so. Uptime Watch shows whether each site is online in your language.

PingKit Agent 3.1.2 asks for Local Network access after it has explained why, not before. If access is switched off, the device list, the overview and the menu bar now say so and show where to turn it back on in System Settings, instead of a network that looks empty. The permission requests and the free AI allowance messages now appear in your language, and the Guardian screens say plainly what each plan includes. It also fixes what we found after 3.1. When your Mac wakes, the first checks now wait for Wi-Fi to reconnect instead of reporting an outage that never happened. Requests from your iPhone no longer wait up to 15 minutes after a network hiccup. And the SSH key for sleep, restart and shut down now stays in this Mac's own Keychain.

PingKit Agent 3.1 makes the Mac you already leave on the part of PingKit that works while you are away. A morning briefing. With Guardian, your iPhone gets a summary each morning of what changed overnight: devices that joined, devices that went offline, and whether the internet dropped. Wake from anywhere. With Guardian on your iPhone, ask this Mac to wake a computer at home while you are out, and it reports how long the computer took to answer. The same path runs a scan or a speed test from anywhere and sets which devices alert you. Uptime Watch, rebuilt. Guardian checks 10 websites or servers every 5 minutes, including a TCP port or the text a page must contain, keeps 30 days of response times, and keeps checking while your Mac is off. This Mac now raises its own alerts when a site goes down, comes back, or has a certificate about to expire. Cert Monitor watches 1 domain free, 5 with Guardian and 50 with Guardian Plus. New in Guardian Plus: alerts by email, with a summary every Monday, or to a webhook; sleep, restart and shut down for your Macs and Linux machines over SSH, and wake on a schedule; and 90 days of history. Guardian Plus yearly now starts with a 1-week free trial, like every other plan. The network report now lists the cameras on your network, and the assistant can see your monitors.

PingKit for Mac now shares its version number with PingKit for iPhone, so 1.6 is followed by 3.0.0. The assistant is now in the menu bar. Ask about your own network in plain language, and the answer is built from what the Agent actually measures: your Wi-Fi encryption, band, channel and signal, your DNS provider and whether it is encrypted, your devices and the ports they have open, and your last security scan. A new gallery shows every widget the Agent offers, so the ones worth adding are easy to find. Answers are generated on your Mac wherever it can, which costs you nothing. Guardian adds Apple's Private Cloud Compute for the harder questions, and every answer tells you which one produced it. You are asked before anything measured leaves your Mac for PingKit's own service.

Ask the assistant about your network and it now answers from what the Agent actually measures: your Wi-Fi encryption, band, channel and signal, your DNS provider and whether it is encrypted, every device with its open ports and risk score, your last security scan, and how today compares with normal. The assistant remembers the conversation, so follow-up questions work. The suggested questions are new as well, and you only see the ones your own network can answer. The AI insight on Overview and the Network History summary now read from that same picture, so the three no longer describe your network differently. Security Scan results about DNS, certificates and captive portals now appear in your language. They had been English everywhere.

Your Mac finds your devices again. The latest macOS stopped giving apps the hardware addresses of other devices on a network, and PingKit used those to tell one device from another, so after upgrading the device list could come up empty. Devices are now identified by what they publish about themselves: their Bonjour name, the host their services run on, their UPnP identifier and the certificate they serve. Nothing about discovery had stopped working, and the list is full again. The Devices list says when macOS has withheld something, rather than quietly showing you less. Some rows will have no hardware address, and there is now a line explaining why. Wake-on-LAN genuinely needs a hardware address, so devices found since you upgraded are not in its picker. It says so, and you can still type an address in. Devices found before the upgrade kept theirs and still work. Your home network is recognised by several signals now, not one. The old check used a single value macOS no longer provides, so the Agent could decide it was somewhere else while sitting on the same desk, and stop monitoring.

Your history no longer starts over at every launch. The timeline, the latency chart and your speed tests are saved now and kept for 30 days, so a Mac you have run for months finally shows the record it has been keeping. Speed tests you run on your iPhone show up here too. The network summary says what it is actually based on. It was labelled "last 7 days" no matter how much data it had, which shortly after a launch could be a single measurement. It now reports the period the readings really cover, and will not summarise a single reading at all. Device types are translated. "Printer", "Smart Plug", "Router/Gateway" and eighteen others came out in English on every Mac whatever its language, while the same device on the iPhone read correctly. The Devices list, the Overview and the menu bar also agree with each other about what a device is, and the icon beside the name now matches the words. Your Mac has stopped telling you about itself. An address in the 169.254 range means an interface never reached the network at all, and those were being recorded as new devices and pushed to your phone. The Devices list stays still while you read it, instead of re-sorting after every scan, and devices sharing a name show which address they are. Tidier windows: every pane names itself in the title bar instead of falling back to "PingKit Agent", none of them prints its title twice, and the Tools grid no longer repeats three screens the sidebar already lists.

Device Offline alerts now actually fire. The alert waits for three consecutive missed scans, but the Agent only ever counted the first one, so at the shipped threshold it never arrived. A device that goes quiet is now flagged about 25 to 30 minutes later. The alert is still off until you switch it on. Getting PingKit onto your iPhone no longer means hunting for it. The pairing pane and Settings now show a QR code you can scan straight off the Mac. Visual Traceroute no longer sends carrier-grade NAT hops to the location lookup. More of the Agent speaks your language. Wi-Fi quality, port scan results and Wake-on-LAN showed English words even where the translation was already there.

The Mac finally has a report, and every export button finally works. • A new Reports pane in the sidebar. The network report PDF is free; the signed ISO 27001 evidence pack is Guardian Plus. • Every export button in 1.1 did nothing at all. A sandboxed app without the file entitlement gets no save panel rather than a failed save, so nothing happened and nothing said why. • Scheduled speed tests never actually ran on a schedule. They do now, and their history reaches your iPhone. • A scan kept the first sighting of each device and discarded the one carrying its name, so devices showed as bare addresses. Names, makers and device types now survive the scan. Also in this release: • Five translations could crash the Agent on launch in that language. • The Security Scan was English in every language, and checks that could not run were counted as passes. 167 findings are now translated, and a check that could not run says so. • The device pane reported a scan as finished while four more steps were still changing the list. • A Mac on Ethernet was told it was not on its own network. • Bonjour names could land on the wrong device, and a speaker group could take over the name of one of its members. • Uptime Watch refreshes on demand, and says so when the server cannot check. • VoiceOver reads four controls by name instead of by icon. • The device description panel now uses the AI model, and answers in your language. • Bug fixes, including more reliable unlocking when your subscription comes from your iPhone. Device discovery, the timeline, all 8 diagnostic tools and the network report stay free.

Version 1.1 is a correctness release. Four months of fixes from the iOS side finally reach the Mac, and several things the Agent quietly got wrong are now right. FIXED, AND WORTH KNOWING ABOUT: - Wi-Fi details never appeared. macOS hides the name of your network unless an app has Location permission, and the Agent never asked. My Network now asks, explains why, and shows the Wi-Fi section either way. - Battery saving never activated. "Reduce scan frequency on battery" checked Low Power Mode instead of the power source, so an unplugged MacBook kept scanning at full rate. - The paywall opened on the one plan with no free trial while promising one. It now opens on Guardian monthly and describes each plan accurately. - A crash when scanning while connected to a VPN. - The Security Scan could freeze partway through and never finish. - Bonjour discovery only recorded the first service per device, which weakened device identification. - Guardian Plus bought on iPhone now correctly unlocks Guardian Plus on your Mac. - Speed Test falls back to a second server when the first is unreachable. NEW: - Pair your iPhone without typing a code: your Mac appears by name, you tap it, and pairing only reports success once the two devices have really connected. - Wi-Fi diagnostics: signal in dBm, noise, signal-to-noise ratio, channel, band, and transmit rate. - Free AI: 15 AI interactions a week without a subscription, up to 5 a day, with the remaining count shown before you spend one. - Cert Monitor, Uptime Watch, and Network History now have an upgrade button instead of describing a feature you could not buy. IMPROVED: - 66 previously English-only strings are now translated into all 26 supported languages. - The sidebar supports keyboard navigation and VoiceOver properly. - Sharper app icon at every size.