iOS 26.6.1 and macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 Fix Nearly 30 Security Vulnerabilities

Great! And that folks must mean we now never have to worry about any remaining security issues on the OS level. :rolleyes:

I'm confused, are you complaining Apple is fixing security vulnerabilities?

It would be nice if Apple gave details on what these vulnerabilities are or were.

It does: https://support.apple.com/en-us/148282

These vulnerabilities should not have been there. Anyway good to see that it is fixed now.

Tell us you've never developed software without telling us you've never developed software...

At this rate we are headed to weekly updates to every Apple OS.

We are headed to weekly updates to every current OS, likely for at least the next year.

These vulnerabilities should not have been there. Anyway good to see that it is fixed now.

I know this is going to be unpopular but I am tired of having to constantly update all my Apple devices. It feels like a full time job, enough already I wish Apple would get it together or fire the software team and replace them with better a better and more efficient team of software developers. Does anyone know why there are so many damn updates to all of Apple's OS's? At this rate we are headed to weekly updates to every Apple OS.

Ever owned anything with a MS operating system?

But seriously... I think Apple is cognizant of the nuisance that a seeming flood of updates on a short interval basis brings to users...

So for folks troubled by this, a bit of perspective is needed here:
- we are in a new era, one where AI has turbocharged experienced hackers ability to attack, and lowered the bar for clever motivated hackers to enter the arena, i.e. the good become great and the beginners become good.
- platform s/w vendors like Apple, MS, Alphabet, etc., and device manufacturers (think routers, smart home devices, medical devices, i.e. internet of things things) are, and are for awhile, scrambling, playing a game of catch-up.
- AI is a double-edged sword, it boosted the hackers, but also allows the vendors and manufacturers to review, find, debug, and re-code, their s/w at scale, essentially fixing many dormant bugs, and, within a certain platform, bringing uniformity to lots of code that is not uniform because it was built up over time.
- as useful as AI can be for detection and proposing code, no conscientious developer or vendor of s/w is just going to implement the AI suggested changes. Humans will have to review, look for dependencies that have to be managed, possibly modify the suggested code, test, test, test, implement the changes before pushing them out to the world of users.
- Finally, there are not unlimited human resources at these companies to do these things, so the fixes have to be triaged, and then staggered over time to not overload the staffs responsible for handling this work.

In short, folks upset about the seeming flood of s/w updates should: 1. view the situation differently, and see these catch-up changes as a good (and temporary) thing, realizing it is keeping their world safe(er) than if these out-of-band updates were held for a quarterly update.

Finally, folks should take heart that once the backlog of fixes is caught up with, it is pretty likely that we should return to the old pattern of longer intervals between updates and out-of-band fixes for only the worst bugs or 0-days under active exploit.