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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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It's much easier to downgrade rsr updates than point releases. This is especially so for iOS and iPadOS when they cease signing previous versions.
If I do not delete yesterday's update will it be replaced automatically with the corrected update Apple releases?
"... it broke certain apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Zoom.."
Now do Twitter!
Now do Twitter!
Ah yes, the classic "you're holding it wrong" defense. If Apple has to pull the update because it broke compatibility with commonly used sites and services, then it's absolutely on Apple to have tested this before deploying.
Certainly I'd test all of the popular ones before deploying!
"Apple" and "regulated convention" seldom go in the same sentence.
What an incompetent software team. This aside, I can’t believe the amount of random bugs I have on a damn .5.1 release. iOS has become a joke. I can’t believe my secondary android is more stable now.
We don't know for certain why Apple pulled the update. I heard 13.3.1(a) had the same "problem" with the user-agent and it wasn't pulled...
Why did it need to change the user agent?
I mean the update only solved a bug...
I mean the update only solved a bug...
That would go against semantic versioning which pretty much every company would use.
The user agent has the browser version number. All updates change the version number. This one happened to have a slightly weird version number that some websites didn't expect.
If there was a problem with 13.3.1(a), I for sure didn't notice a thing. And I use Facebook on Safari every day. And I always install every update as soon as they arrive.
Oh well I spent a couple hours trying to get on Facebook and cleared history and all the other things and still unsupported software not thinking it could be the update. Oh well deleted the update and it worked. The only reason I am even on Facebook is my wife's family is in the Philippines and that is how we can communicate.
If you are using an app, rather than a browser, you won’t be sending a user agent string to the affected websites, so would not be affected.
For those who don’t know about these things, your browser sends (along with cookies) a description of the kind of browser you’re using, whenever you contact a website. It’s common for individual websites to analyse that description, called a user agent string, to tailor the user experience. If the analysis goes pear-shaped, as seems to be the case here, all bets are off.
Apple rapidly pulled the rapid security response. So now there’s no response.
Hooo boy..... this will go down as the Anti-Zuckerberg-Gate.
Apple patch breaks Mark Zuckerberg's apps, breaks his social media empire. 😆
Apple patch breaks Mark Zuckerberg's apps, breaks his social media empire. 😆
Nonsense, it didn’t break “compatibility”. The websites would work fine, if it weren’t for them failing to properly parse the user agent and them hard blocking the browser if they don’t recognize the user agent, which they have no business doing to begin with.
At best they should suggest that they suspect your browser won’t work but allow you to try, not actively sabotage it based on lazily implemented conditional.
I take it you’re the CTO at one of the MANGA companies with your level of foresight?
Because I can guarantee you that no engineer will ever think to check if websites stop working on the basis of a version bump in a user agent of all things.
This is the equivalent of a merchant refusing you to let you use Apple Pay because they don’t recognize the new model of iPhone you’re trying to pay with.
For those saying the devs at Apple are idiots you clearly not used Windows 10 for a while. I have tons of little irritating issue here and there for absolutely no reasons. On another hand, macOS is running almost flawlessly for years without any/or very little issues over the years. Stop crying because a rapid security update have a problem that can easily be fixed by changing the user agent or just using another browser on macOS for now or just uninstall the update that will take you a big 2 minutes to do.
Same for users saying Android is better now, they clearly forget apps on Google play store containing malware elements. Android is known for not being as good in security so the complaints are a total non sense there.
I'm not saying Apple is perfect, but there's definitively some situations were complaints are totally absurd, and this one is one of them.
Same for users saying Android is better now, they clearly forget apps on Google play store containing malware elements. Android is known for not being as good in security so the complaints are a total non sense there.
I'm not saying Apple is perfect, but there's definitively some situations were complaints are totally absurd, and this one is one of them.
Works fine for my iMac using Safari. Latest Safari, latest Ventura, and this latest RSR installed.... "works fine" meaning I just went to my Instagram page via Mac Safari browser. Everything is working fine.
Like my entire IG feed is full of Tiktok reposts. And dozens of BlendJet ads. So yeah, Instagram is working perfectly normal, exactly as Mark Zuckerberg intended. 🤷♀️
Like my entire IG feed is full of Tiktok reposts. And dozens of BlendJet ads. So yeah, Instagram is working perfectly normal, exactly as Mark Zuckerberg intended. 🤷♀️
🤣 Apple strikes again with a
rapid f’up of iOS.
rapid f’up of iOS.
Thinking about this, I'm not sure a withdrawal of the RSR is the right thing to do. I get it that millions of people who (sadly) still use Facebook et al will see compatibility warnings in their browser when visiting these sites after installing the RSR, but the problem here isn't with Apple, it's with the crappy parsing of user agent strings on those websites. Meanwhile, those of us who want the RSR and don't care about Facebook or whatever, now can't get that update. I've installed on macOS and iPadOS but I didn't install it on my phone in time. Now I have to wait until a new RSR is released because of a (knee-jerk?) reaction by Apple. Probably won't have to wait long, I know. But maybe give users a choice - tell them about the effect of the RSR and let them decide.
on macOS I do have an alert on Facebook saying that my browser isn't compatible and show me a mobile version of it. Facebook were always picky when you try to change user agent so I'm not surprised for this issue. It can be fixed by changing the user agent for chrome, or simply just using...chome itself.
I rather have a quick security patch that fixed a webkit vulnerability being actively used than no patch at all. And at least Apple retired the update relatively quick and the issue isn't really Apple's fault and its nothing that will break the OS,