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iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day

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Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day

#101

Post by nottorp »

dylan604 wrote: post #20
tailnode wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They almost certainly will course-correct in the next release now that the culprit responsible for Liquid Glass is no longer at the company. But they won't chuck it out wholesale; it will be a gradual evolution back to sanity.

They reacted pretty quickly to the butterfly keyboard fiasco. By the time users received the shipping products of the first gen, the second gen were already in the pipeline so there was a slightly modified with only a dust cover being added. There was no third gen. Hopefully iOS 26.x releases will continue to correct Liquid Glass, but I'm guessing iOS 27 is well down the path with it still integrated. Maybe iOS 28 wi…

Yes, some suckers bought the second gen with the dust cover. Because they said the keys are more protected from dust.

It started to break in 3 months, had unusable keys in 6...

Stop defending that idiocy.

Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day

#102

Post by nottorp »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #52
ost-ing wrote: post #47

Maybe they can fix Messages from bugging out all the time. Apple software has gone down the drain. I don’t want a million new features I just want the ones that make a phone a phone actually work 99.5% of the time

No problems with Messages here.

Messages has always randomly stopped syncing between my devices. No matter the iOS and Mac OS versions i run. Happy?

Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day

#103

Post by altairprime »

tailnode wrote: post #2

Why couldn't Apple patch the zero-day using their new Background Security Improvements pipeline? https://support.apple.com/en-us/102657

They've been delivering empty-noop test updates through that new pipeline in the past couple weeks to beta users, which suggests that they considered it.

Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day

#105

Post by urbandw311er »

lynndotpy wrote: post #78
stuartd wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that not 18.7.5 as released yesterday or am I missing something? https://support.apple.com/en-us/126347

Apple used to make minor and patch releases available, but they've stopped doing that so as to increase Liquid Glass adoption. For that reason, iOS 18.7.5 is only available for the iPhone XS / XR series released. Very consumer-hostile behavior from Apple :(

Massively hostile. They have effectively forced me to choose between a less secure phone or one with a terrible UX.

FWIW I’m sticking with the less secure one that doesn’t look like Windows Vista.

Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day

#106

Post by altairprime »

jajuuka wrote: post #5
tailnode wrote: post #2

Why couldn't Apple patch the zero-day using their new Background Security Improvements pipeline? https://support.apple.com/en-us/102657

I imagine scheduling lined up for the 26.3 release and it wasn't considered dangerous enough. They did this with 26.2 as well including a fix for a zero day. I wonder if they are leveraging that to get people to update sooner. Imagine some people might be turned off of updating with the bugs and visual changes in 26. It's not like 26.2 or 26.3 have any major changes that are enticing.

26.4 is likely to have 9 new emoji, as usual for a late-cycle OS release. That may not particularly appeal to the "7bit ASCII for life" subset here, of course, but it's definitely a driver.

Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day

#107

Post by altairprime »

nottorp wrote: post #102
LeoPanthera wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No problems with Messages here.

Messages has always randomly stopped syncing between my devices. No matter the iOS and Mac OS versions i run. Happy?

If you mean "Messages in iCloud":

I ended up having to "delete messages from icloud" on all devices, escalate to support after they weren't deleted 45 days later (the UI shows -15 days in that scenario), reenable sync and then see it still failing to complete a Sync Now, redisable sync and re-delete messages in cloud, wait another 45 days, and then ask them to escalate to the iCloud backend team to run a purge on their end of just my messages in icloud records. It worked, but I don't know if they've had enough time for whatever corruption they found to be patched into their automated ops-repair/cleanup processes (and they wouldn't tell me if I asked), it's only been a couple months.

Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day

#108

Post by 47282847 »

bee_rider wrote: post #92
47282847 wrote: post #86

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I immediately enabled “reduce transparency” and “strong contrast” in the accessibility settings and didn’t really notice much difference to 18 then. Not a big deal at all.

Reduced transparency is somewhat ugly (the giant bars on the top and bottom of the screen in the web browser for example. But it isn’t obviously awful like the giant transparency thing.

I use Orion Browser and don’t know what you are referring to.

Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day

#109

Post by LeoPanthera »

nottorp wrote: post #102
LeoPanthera wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No problems with Messages here.

Messages has always randomly stopped syncing between my devices. No matter the iOS and Mac OS versions i run. Happy?

Why would I be happy?

Your message implied a known issues with Messages affecting everyone. But that is not the case.

Re: iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day

#110

Post by bee_rider »

47282847 wrote: post #108
bee_rider wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reduced transparency is somewhat ugly (the giant bars on the top and bottom of the screen in the web browser for example. But it isn’t obviously awful like the giant transparency thing.

I use Orion Browser and don’t know what you are referring to.

Oh, interesting. Safari just turns the areas that would be transparent solid, instead.
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