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Matching files to apps: how UTIs work

Summary by eclecticlight.co
If you’ve arrived here expecting to read about urinary tract infections, this article may come as a surprise, as it’s about Uniform Type Identifiers in macOS. Associating file types with apps is one of the fundamental requirements of the GUI in macOS, and has been since the first Macintosh. It’s most obvious when you double-click a document to open it in the app you expect, and pervades other features of the GUI. However, this only applies to th…
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eclecticlight.co broke the news on Wednesday, July 29, 2026.
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