Apple Releases macOS Big Sur 11.2.2 to Prevent MacBooks From Being Damaged by Third-Party Non-Compliant Docks

[menneke]

macOS Big Sur 11.2.2, the fourth update to the macOS Big Sur operating system that launched in November

I counted:

• 11.2.2 20D80 25-feb-21
• 11.2.1 20D74 09-feb-21
• 11.2 20D64 01-feb-21
• 11.1 20C69 14-dec-20
• 11.0.1 20B50 19-nov-20
• 11.0 20B29 12-nov-20

 

[ChrisChaval]

3 GB, M1 MBA

 

[iL15hts]

Appears on my M1 MacBook Air

 

[G5isAlive]

How about p*rnh*b?

If it takes you an hour you are holding it wrong

 

[HiVolt]

Post circa 1998: “Give us back the floppy drive and SCSI ports so that we don’t need hubs and dongles in the first place.”

USB-A and Thunderbolt 2 are ports of the past. The USB-C / Thunderbolt 4 connector can do literally everything that the old ports did, but with an industry standard connection.

Except there are still a metric sh*t ton of USB-A accessories being sold, and still will be for a long while.

The uptake on USB-C has not been as fast as it should be, and it will be years before that changes, by then there will be some new connector.

And the amount of USB-C accessories is still small in comparison to USB-A.

 

[diego.caraballo]

Just 2.17GB Probably 1/6 of the Big Sur installer is just for third-part non-compliant docks support

 

[poematik13]

I'm at the point where I just don't see the reason of upgrading to a new macOS (and dealing with the constant bugs, incompatibilities, and 3rd party devs playing catch up for a year) unless you're forced to with new hardware

 

[farewelwilliams]

Give us ports back so we don't need hubs and dongles in the first place.

that doesn't solve the issue.

 

[KaliYoni]

How about p*rnh*b?

Apple does not recommend spraying liquids onto your screen or any other parts of your computer.

 

[richard371]

Apple does not recommend spraying liquids onto your screen or any other parts of your computer.

Good point. Classical music it is then haha

 

[SidricTheViking]

View attachment 1735137

Still nada on M1 air.

Why are you not even seeing 11.2.1?

 

[technole]

Apple's update page says it only affects:

MBP 2019 or later
MBA 2020 or later

Available to all on Big Sur.

 

[TMRJIJ]

If you don’t see the update here are instructions:

Launch Apple Music.

Play classical music for one hour.

Launch Software Update.

The update will appear now.

I recommend Dance of the Knights:

 

[Mick-Mac]

I'm seeing this update as available for my mid-2015 MacBook Pro (downloading it now, although I don't know why...)

 

[dpfenninger]

Maybe no M1s

Showing on my M1 Air here...

...but downloading VERY slowly (been going for about 15 minutes here, and I have almost 500Mbps DL), so I'm guessing the servers are having issues.

 

[deeddawg]

Nothing available for my M1.

Showing as available for my M1.

 

[DominikHoffmann]

So, is this only being made available for 2019 and 2020 MacBooks? What about older MacBooks? And are there any other bug fixes in this release?

As usual, it'll probably be several hours before this shows up in System Preferences despite refreshing. Just want to know whether I need to check for this at all, or not.

It’s available on my 2017 MBP.

 

[keifer123]

So, is this only being made available for 2019 and 2020 MacBooks? What about older MacBooks? And are there any other bug fixes in this release?

As usual, it'll probably be several hours before this shows up in System Preferences despite refreshing. Just want to know whether I need to check for this at all, or not.

I have 2017 MBP 13 - and it shows (2.17GB)

 

[DominikHoffmann]

A 2.17 GB download for an update that supposedly only adds code that can detect and disable bad USB hardware is a bit much. What else does this update do?

 

[deeddawg]

Except there are still a metric sh*t ton of USB-A accessories being sold, and still will be for a long while.

The uptake on USB-C has not been as fast as it should be, and it will be years before that changes, by then there will be some new connector.

And the amount of USB-C accessories is still small in comparison to USB-A.

If the device you buy comes with an A to micro-B cable either stick a C-to-A adapter on it or replace the cable with a C to micro-B cable (in either 2.0 or 3.x flavor as appropriate). Easy peasy.

There's not a lot of stuff that comes with a male USBA port built into it - those are also easily handled if necessary, either via buying the USBC version of the device or using an adapter

 

[wur10]

If you don’t see the update here are instructions:

Launch Apple Music.

Play classical music for one hour.

Launch Software Update.

The update will appear now.

Does this also work with 80s Glam Rock?

 

[deadcantdance]

Yet another update that hangs at Preparing, 10 minutes remaining. C'mon Apple, this can't be serious

 

[technole]

Knowing Apple they like to put security updates in these things, but aren't quick to mention them. 11.2.1 had a few beyond Sudo as they made a page for it awhile later disclosing they had some Intel graphics security fixes.

 

[pray2crom]

apple releases new 14 and 16 inch MacBooks with actual ports rendering docks useless.......there I fixed it.

 

[AttoA]

Just for people's reference, if you want to force a refresh to check for a software update you can run:

softwareupdate -l

In terminal.