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Apple Pulls iOS 16.5.1 and macOS 13.4.1 Rapid Security Response Updates Due to Safari Bug

I've started writing code professionally in the 1970s and I have to admit, I'm of two minds about this..

Apple - What, did NONE of your testers log on to Facebook with Safari?

Websites - Are you THAT fragile that an extra byte in a VERSION NUMBER causes your site to fail COMPLETELY?

My god, if a website that *I* wrote crashed because of an extra tag on the END of a version number.... I'd be embarrassed beyond belief. I've had some stupid bugs in my code over the course of almost 50 years but... Really???
 
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SoYoung said:
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.
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But Apple is held to a higher standard by its users for better, or for worse and yes, when something as dumb as this happens even though it's "small print" "technically" "actually" not Apple's doing we expect better. Like someone, or at least a decent AI, to run through the major doc media apps for glitches. This is so murky it makes my skin crawl. Were any of Apple's prop apps like mail, messages, iMove, FCPX, etc. affected? And if so will we ever see that info?
 
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Will Co said:
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.
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That's just it, a "knee jerk" reaction messing us all up one way or another or not all but pointless and easily avoidable if someone at Apple had just run through a few major web apps! Instead here we are feeling aftershocks way high up on the RSR scale, thinking should I have dived out the window? ran to stand in a door? crawl under a table? A huge self-inflicted instability in the Force. LOL.
 
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TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️ said:
Too bad I already downloaded it. Dang it! Suprisely the update was downloaded too fast. A little sus! 💨
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I have not noticed problems yet. But I was surprised to find that you can uninstall it.

Go to Settings > General > About > iOS Version, from there you can uninstall the rapid response update.

I am keeping it for now though.
 
dpfenninger said:
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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why would you use Facebook via Safari instead of Facebook app?
 
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Just proves you should never immediately install any update. Allow the testers (customers) discover the bugs. I wait a month for before installing a update and four months or 2 updates before installing a base release.
 
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ifxf said:
Just proves you should never immediately install any update. Allow the testers (customers) discover the bugs. I wait a month for before installing a update and four months or 2 updates before installing a base release.
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That isn't always possible.
In the enterprise, where government regulations mandate these zero day fixes be applied immediately, and you manage thousands of Macs, pushing an update via MDM then pulling it back only to push an updated update is an absolute nightmare. Especially where reboots are involved.
 
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tywebb13 said:
I think if apple pulled it it would be a bigger issue than just Meta. Things like Zoom and WhatsApp for example.
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I don’t intend to remove the update because I value the security patch more than visiting Facebook and all the routine websites I visit regularly are just fine. I’ll wait for the redone version to show up.
 
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jaworq said:
why would you use Facebook via Safari instead of Facebook app?
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One site I use, very well known but not Meta, I keep reading about the huge number of adverts. But never see them - just the odd post that is advertising.

From my perspective, that seems a good reason to use a browser (Firefox rather than Safari).

But I have no idea whether the app that is available works on macOS - or not. Lots of apps at the least seems to say they don't work even if they do.

And, also from my perspective, I'd shorten your question. why would you use Facebook?
 
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