Oh man, I wish I had read this a couple hours ago...have spent a good chunk of the night cleaning caches, browser history, cookies, etc. trying to figure out why Facebook on Safari was so messed up. Removing the RSR did the trick. Thanks, MacRumors!
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Apple Pulls iOS 16.5.1 and macOS 13.4.1 Rapid Security Response Updates Due to Safari Bug
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Is there no quality control at that company anymore?
No, it seems there is no quality control at Facebook anymore and their site breaks from a harmless change to the browser version number 🙃
Rapid Security Response updates are as easy to uninstall as throwing away a file, which is what they are. I offer myself up to test all of them. Meanwhile you can test the processed foods in the supermarket. That's more of a scary risk you take.
I didn’t install the update, but the notification was already pushed to my phone, so now the Settings app has a badge that I can’t get rid of. 🙃
Breaks Facebook and Instagram? Sounds like a feature to me!
What a total hassle, Apple! Boo. Get the software fixes solid before you release them in the future. This is a "black eye" for the company.
Have you read anything in here, this is not the fault of Apple, it is the fault of Meta and Zoom on how they manage user agent strings.
At Zoom and Meta? Probably not in case they cannot write a valid user agent parser to accommodate such as simple structural change. This has nothing to do with Apple.
They will most likely publish it again once Zoom and Meta review their code written by junior devs to accommodate for the user agent string change. So you should be able to get rid of it once it's live again.
Has there actually been a problem-free RSR release yet? That’s assuming of course that you count breaking Facebook as a problem.
Hmmm yes, sure…. When you do a change you will test all possible sites how they parse your user agent 😀
This is why the important things are following a regulated convention and thus parsers are made based on these conventions specifications.
macOS 13.4.1 is 22F82, except for the new M2 Macs released during WWDC, where 13.4.1 is 22F2083.
With the RSR installed, they are 22F770820b and 22F770830b respectively.
This is not "just" all websites but one of the most used websites/apps.
Just had warning on website I use all the time that the browser is out of date :-(
I did update last night.
I did update last night.
Well id rather have a bug and than get malware or worse on an iPhone, Mac or iPad because you know security kinda comes first, also it does not effect Firefox and I can handle not going near meta forever with pleasure.
The update killed my battery/charging performance:
Post in thread 'Apple Releases Rapid Security Response Updates for iOS 16.5.1 and macOS 13.4.1 to Fix Actively Exploited Vulnerability [Updated]'
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...d-vulnerability-updated.2395527/post-32310069
Removed the RSR and the battery is now climbing back up again as usual.
Post in thread 'Apple Releases Rapid Security Response Updates for iOS 16.5.1 and macOS 13.4.1 to Fix Actively Exploited Vulnerability [Updated]'
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...d-vulnerability-updated.2395527/post-32310069
Removed the RSR and the battery is now climbing back up again as usual.
“it broke certain apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Zoom”
That is a feature not a bug
That is a feature not a bug
Might be another reason they pulled it.
And notwithstanding troublesome things like facebook and zoom, this could be a better reason to remove it.
Websites should not break before a user agent changes, clearly this is a fault of the Meta/Zoom stack doing browser sniffing to detect features etc..
Sadly, because these sites are SO well used, the average joe wont understand that and blame Apple.
Hence the rollback
Sadly, because these sites are SO well used, the average joe wont understand that and blame Apple.
Hence the rollback
I wonder why Apple don’t just call the version 16.5.1.1. We use that version number format in work all the time for emergency fixes.