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Apple Issues 'Device Support Update' for macOS Big Sur

MacinMan said:
No, as I mentioned in an above post, it showed up on my Late 2013 13" MBP running 11.6, but not my iMac. The only difference between the two was the version of XCode installed. The MBP had 12.5.1, the iMac had 13. I updated the MBP to 13 yesterday after installing the latest updates.
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I’ve also got Xcode b5 and Xcode 13 installed, so maybe it was included with that?
 
gank41 said:
I’ve also got Xcode b5 and Xcode 13 installed, so maybe it was included with that?
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I'm still trying to figure that out because I checked in system information under installations, the manual installs show up from the packages I downloaded through this thread, but the Device support update does not. Since I'm not the only one here that it didn't show up for consistently at least, there must be some kind of state our systems are in to prevent it, if it's not just a bug on apple's end. XCode 13 includes all the new SDKs, etc, so maybe having it installed confuses software update.
 
When I check System Information / Installations, I see Command Line Tools for Xcode as being installed on Sept 29 and the 30th. No Device Support Update, though. Strange..
 
gank41 said:
When I check System Information / Installations, I see Command Line Tools for Xcode as being installed on Sept 29 and the 30th. No Device Support Update, though. Strange..
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Well, apple has their support page on twitter, have you considered reaching out to them? I was going to, and still may, but since the downloads for the update were posted here, I just installed manually.
 
MacinMan said:
Well, apple has their support page on twitter, have you considered reaching out to them? I was going to, and still may, but since the downloads for the update were posted here, I just installed manually.
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Apple's Twitter Support page tends to reply more like a bot than an actual person that cares. I'm sure it's not meant to be like that, but I've never gotten far with them there.
 
I wasn't prompted to install the update. But after noticing the discussion here, I went to System Preferences, Software Update, and it found the update and I had it installed.
 
Do you really need it if you are still with Mojave and iOS 14.xx and no new devices in the horizon?
Is it going to mess up with everything working and reduce it to ashes?!
 
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DominikHoffmann said:
Separate comment: I am hoping that this will fix the issue I had already seen in Catalina. What happened was that, when I was updating a device, including during the download of update content, I would be unable to enter any text anywhere from my keyboard. Mouse functionality continued to be available.

I had documented this in Feedback Assistant. It’s FB9434787. No response from Apple this far. I’ll just have to wait for the next iOS or iPadOS update to see, whether this issue is no longer there.
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So, with yesterday’s iOS 15.0.1 update, which I installed on my iPhone 12 Pro today I lost keyboard and some curser functionality, while the update was downloading. In other words, this was not fixed.
 
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tywebb13 - THANK YOU for the links :)​


I had the "software update is needed ..." problem for a half year now, which was, thanks to Your links now solved - I don't know why, but this update didn't show up, maybe it has something to do with my Appstore settings (i am on El Capitan and my account is set to my country), but everything works now fine :) on my reaaaly old but reliable workhorse (MBP 15" Late 2007, "slightly upgraded" :-D)

So Again - THANK YOU - i was not able to find links to the .pkg files before.
 
LucniKonik said:

tywebb13 - THANK YOU for the links :)​


I had the "software update is needed ..." problem for a half year now, which was, thanks to Your links now solved - I don't know why, but this update didn't show up, maybe it has something to do with my Appstore settings (i am on El Capitan and my account is set to my country), but everything works now fine :) on my reaaaly old but reliable workhorse (MBP 15" Late 2007, "slightly upgraded" :-D)

So Again - THANK YOU - i was not able to find links to the .pkg files before.
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That's OK. But there are new ones now as of March 10, 2022. The links I posted before were an older version. Here are the new links. I think they were getting ready for the new devices they just released.



That's probably what organicCPU saw.
 
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