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Apple Releases Its First Rapid-Fire Security Updates for iPhone, iPad and Mac -...

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Apple Releases Its First Rapid-Fire Security Updates for iPhone, iPad and Mac

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Apple promised faster turnaround times for security patches with iOS 16 and macOS Ventura, and it's now delivering on that claim. From a report: The company has released its first Rapid Security Response updates for devices running iOS 16.4.1, iPadOS 16.4.1 and macOS 13.3.1. They're available through Software Update as usual, but are small downloads that don't require much time to install. MacRumors says the fix is deploying over the course of 48 hours, so don't be surprised if you have to wait a short while.

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      That's for a regular operating system update. I just installed this set of updates on three different devices (M1 Studio, M2 iPad, iPhone 12) and each installation was blindingly fast.

    • on top of that my phone gets nuclear hot while doing it.

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    I just tried this on my iPhone. The update was much smaller that usual and quick to install. Still required a device restart. Without the restart this would be perfect.

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      Also: after the IOS update, no "Hello" screen, no need to do any setup, and it didn't turn BlueTooth back on (I usually have BlueTooth off but updates always turn it on again.)

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        That is (one of) my bitches with Apple and my iPhone. I turn BlueTooth off for a reason yet they feel compelled to turn it back on with updates. The first check after an update is BlueTooth status.
  • It only takes a "leftpad" or a an expired cert and the whole card stack falls down. I hope Apple doesn't end up bricking a billion devices by rushing out "rapid updates". Windows 10 1809's file deletion bug is still fresh in my memory.

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        +1 Funny...if I had mod points.

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      This did happen with a rushed Apple update years ago, bricking all of the machines that installed it in the initial hours before the problem was discovered. The employee responsible is probably managing a Cinnabon location in Ohama today under Witness Protection.

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        No way, the laws of corporate fuckups says that any big enough fuckup to get noticed is going to result in a promotion.

        How else do you get incompetent front line staff out of a position to destroy shit?

        You make them a manager.

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        Was it really bricking if it was fixable withe an ota/tethered update with no need to go to a repairer shop? I'm just asking it seams the the word bricking is used a bit to frequently

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      To apples credit, they still do offer user-friendly option to disable automatic updates so that people concerned precisely about this sort of thing can install em manually.

      Both Android and Windows have a deliberate dark pattern of jumping through hoops to make it impossible for an average joe to disable forced auto-updates (dev mode on android and gpedit on windows respectively).

      • Someone's on the ibandwagon today. Nobody is forcing any updates on android, and you can simply set your home internet as metered to prevent updates... or upgrade to pro... since turning off updates is apro move

  • Apple says "New Rapid Security Responses are delivered only for the latest version of iOS, iPadOS and macOS — beginning with iOS 16.4.1, iPadOS 16.4.1, and macOS 13.3.1."

    Traditionally they've offered patches for the most recent three versions of macOS / OS X - although they've been markedly slower about updating the older OSes for the past year or two. I hope their declaration (that I quoted above) doesn't mean they're no longer going to patch even one OS back...

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      I hope that is not the case. Too many bad design decisions in Ventura so I want to keep it off the Mac as long as possible. If not RSR updates, then hopefully they will continue offer the updates for older OS's as a 1.5-3GB blob, at least.

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        I imagine the "rapid response" updates make use of some new internals that the older OSes don't have. But yeah, hopefully the larger old-style updates will still happen for Monterrey and Big Sur.

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      Apple says "New Rapid Security Responses are delivered only for the latest version of iOS, iPadOS and macOS â" beginning with iOS 16.4.1, iPadOS 16.4.1, and macOS 13.3.1."

      Traditionally they've offered patches for the most recent three versions of macOS / OS X - although they've been markedly slower about updating the older OSes for the past year or two. I hope their declaration (that I quoted above) doesn't mean they're no longer going to patch even one OS back..

      Chances are it just means the older OSes

  • Totally killed my connection on an M1 Mac Mini running Ventura 13.3.1. Luckily I could roll back and all is well. Worked fine on my iPhone 13 though.

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