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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

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Post by nottorp »

altairprime wrote: post #107
nottorp wrote: post #102

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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 the…

At least I don't store anything in iCloud. Unless Apple stealth turns on something on updates.

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

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Post by pjmlp »

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

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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…

Quickly, as measured in a few years.

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

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Post by thisislife2 »

lynndotpy wrote: post #72
RASBR89 wrote: post #59

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Updated my 13 mini. Performance is fine / maybe better.. but battery. Tanked. How true is the ‘it takes days for reindexing’ statement?

Re-indexing does occur after an update, but iOS 26 consumes more battery life than iOS 18 anyways. Just in one example video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eCUkYJ8A98 ) they see the phone get hotter and the battery drops 13x faster during non-static sequences like checking notifications, etc. Just anecdotally, my iPhone 16 Pro seems to last half as long. Before iOS 16, I got from 80% to 20% without a problem. Now…

Planned Obsolescence. Increased battery consumption = reduced battery life + user hostile repairability = new purchases. I've seen so many iDiots purchase a new iPhone when their battery conks out because the cost of repairs and original battery "doesn't justify it".

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

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Post by Towaway69 »

kergonath wrote: post #43
Reason077 wrote: post #22

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> “My hope was that Apple would be forced to course correct in subsequent releases but that doesn't seem to be happening.” I’m optimistic that they will eventually course correct on Liquid Glass, but we’ll have to wait until iOS/macOS 27, or perhaps longer. There are parallels to Apple’s butterfly keyboard fiasco on the hardware side. Sleek looking on the surface but an objective step backwards in usability. Unfortun…

> There are parallels to Apple’s butterfly keyboard fiasco on the hardware side. There are also parallels with the original pinstripes-and-transparency-everywhere aqua UI. I am also optimistic that it will be toned down over time but retaining the responsiveness.

Whatever happened to the magic bar?

The SD card slot on macbooks … not to mention the HDMI slot.

Here’s hoping that the glass effect goes the same way as the Dodo.

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

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Post by Towaway69 »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #73
astrange wrote: post #41

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It's a very complicated system. Performance issues are bad but they're not necessarily caused by how the UI looks. You can report an issue by typing applefeedback:// into Safari if you want.

lol. No. This has been widely reported in mainstream media. The phones sluggishness has wasted enough of my time, I’m not pouring more of it in a feedback black hole.

Are AI agents able to use that feedback Url? Apparently they can now open back accounts, so providing feedback must surely be possible.

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

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Post by Aloha »

niij wrote: post #99
Aloha wrote: post #10

Now if they'd only fix the CarPlay issues, I really miss working navigation in my car. I have called and opened tickets, and I keep hearing it'll be fixed real soon now.

It broke my carplay too. Updating my infotainment system' fixed' it.

There are no known updates for my car unfortunately - annoyingly my wife's iPhone 16 works fine.. in both of our cars.

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

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Post by astrange »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #73
astrange wrote: post #41

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It's a very complicated system. Performance issues are bad but they're not necessarily caused by how the UI looks. You can report an issue by typing applefeedback:// into Safari if you want.

lol. No. This has been widely reported in mainstream media. The phones sluggishness has wasted enough of my time, I’m not pouring more of it in a feedback black hole.

"Widely reported in mainstream media" is not a reproducible bug report with logging.

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

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Post by MYEUHD »

TheDong wrote: post #77
stuartd wrote: post #75

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

> Available for: iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, iPad 7th generation They are explicitly choosing to only release security updates for 18.x to devices which are not eligible for liquid glass. iPhone 14 was deemed capable of running liquid glass, even though it has worse battery life and performs sluggishly. In the past, Apple has usually let you hold back on an older version and shipped security updates for all…

> In the past, Apple has usually let you hold back on an older version and shipped security updates for all devices, not just ones that are incapable of running the new OS, but not this time.

No they haven't been, for the past several years: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/19/ios-18-forced-ios-26-up...

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

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Post by aydyn »

lynndotpy wrote: post #94
aydyn wrote: post #76

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> Just for one instance, bug I ran into a few hours ago (persisting in 26.3!) is that, sometimes, you can't even open the lock screen. It just wiggles. Even if true, which I haven't experienced, that doesn't sound like a problem with glass. > The performance continues to be very poor, rendering far below the 120fps target that iOS 18 hit consistently. This persists with 26.3. Do you realize how tiny of a minority you…

It is true, and it's a problem that only started with iOS 26. I'm not in a minority, this is something that's a new and common complaint among iPhone users. The performance of iOS 26 is very bad. Look at the huge recent spike in "iPhone battery problems" in Google Trends shortly after iOS 26 released, hitting its highest-ever in January 2026. The last peak was in 2011. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=al…

> I'm not in a minority, this is something that's a new and common complaint among iPhone users.

This statement lacks perspective. Currently, there are 1.6 billion iphone users worldwide. People who make any complaints about iphone are already in a tiny minority.

Remember in the past, Apple got away with purposely slowing down old models with very little backlash. I dont know, maybe they still do that. So saying "its a common complaint" is completely missing the forest for the trees.

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