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Apple Releases macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 With Fix for Messages Bug

DJKillerKeemstar said:
Have you tried submitting this bug to Apple's feedback site? https://www.apple.com/feedback/

The more people that submit bugs like this, the sooner Apple will pour time into fixing them.
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Maybe when Steve Jobs was alive and kicking summiting bugs used to work, not anymore, the cat is gone and the mice ara having a party. Sierra renders PDF documents sharp and clear, High Sierra are blurry. Load a pdf document and see it for your self.
 
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john123 said:
Sorry, what's the issue?
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If you are using High Sierra, just load a pdf with preview and you will see what I'm taking about. It will display a blurry pdf document. When this company speaks of their operating system as being the most modern and advance, this is not aceptable.
 
csurfr said:
I wonder if this update will fix the trackpad on my 2017 15" MbP which seems to become unresponsive (and not clicking) sometimes when waking from sleep. Of course, it could be a hardware issue...
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I don't think that's hardware, there are a few of us with this problem at work every now and again. Some people reckon BetterTouchTool is to blame but I don't have that installed. Hard reset doesn't always bring it back either...
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scott_donald said:
is that a sleep issue???
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It happens for me a lot less after 10.13.2, but unplugging from a LG 4k or 5k, or sometimes opening the screen out of clamshell when still connected crashes the OS (yellow screen on laptop, red screen on LG).

It happened every single time on 10.13 and .1, and the only way around it was to log out before disconnecting or opening the lid.
 
10.13.3 like 10.13.2 ‘s update doesn’t work. My Mac restarts with a black screen. Nothing but a black arrow with white outer lines around the arrow to see. Even when I leave my Mac for hours like that. Nothing changes... any workaround?
 
zorinlynx said:
In the future, to update, open a Terminal, then:

sudo softwareupdate -i -a

And enter your password. When it's done, type "reboot". It's much faster than using the App Store app, and does the same thing.
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This is interesting. 10.13.3 doesn't show up for me yet in the App Store updates. But this downloaded the update.
 
SecuritySteve said:
Thank the developers for the Messages fix. It was driving me nuts every time I texted my buddies from my computer.
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Totally with you on this. I reported this problem in August and they finally fixed it 6 months later. But as they say, better late than never.
 
TokMok3 said:
If you are using High Sierra, just load a pdf with preview and you will see what I'm taking about. It will display a blurry pdf document. When this company speaks of their operating system as being the most modern and advance, this is not aceptable.
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Haven't seen this with any pdf I've opened.
 
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they should rename macOS to randomOS.

Sometime it works - most time it just doesn't...

Same for iOS. The rename would be the final step towards unifying the two operating systems.

Apple randomOS - Doing what its supposed to when you least expect it to !
 
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wonkymouth said:
I don't think that's hardware, there are a few of us with this problem at work every now and again. Some people reckon BetterTouchTool is to blame but I don't have that installed. Hard reset doesn't always bring it back either...
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I'm not using BTT either, so it must be something inherit to 10.13.X. It starts working within a minute or so at the most. More of an annoyance than anything else. hopefully they get it sorted, but no matter what I have to take my machine in before June to have the top case / keyboard / display / whatever replaced because of the infamous "popping" noise when the machine gets warm.
 
My iMac restarts with nothing more than an empty black screen. Nothing more to see than my black mouse arrow with white contour lines around it.. any work around? Previous Spectre update was just the same. Even leaving the Mac unattended for hours. Till then I couldn’t shut down my Mac any more. Need to hard shut down with power button...
 
TokMok3 said:
If you are using High Sierra, just load a pdf with preview and you will see what I'm taking about. It will display a blurry pdf document. When this company speaks of their operating system as being the most modern and advance, this is not aceptable.
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multicore said:
Haven't seen this with any pdf I've opened.
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Ditto. I just tried this to be sure - the text and images were sharp in the PDF preview.
 
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MacRumors said:



Apple today released macOS High Sierra 10.13.3, the third major update to the macOS High Sierra operating system available for Apple's Macs. macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 comes over a month after the release of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 and a little over a week after a macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 supplemental update which brought a fix for the Spectre vulnerability.

macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 can be downloaded directly from the Mac App Store or through the Software Update function in the Mac App Store on all compatible Macs that are already running macOS High Sierra.

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No major outward-facing changes were discovered in macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 during the beta testing period, but according to Apple's release notes, it brings security and feature improvements.

The update offers additional fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities that were discovered and publicized in early January and initially fixed in macOS High Sierra 10.13.2.

We also know that the update fixes a bug that allowed the App Store menu in System Preferences to be unlocked with any password. Aside from those changes, Apple's release notes say that the update "addresses an issue that could cause Messages conversations to be temporarily listed out of order."

For more information on the macOS High Sierra operating system, make sure to check out our dedicated macOS High Sierra roundup.

Article Link: Apple Releases macOS High Sierra 10.13.3 With Fix for Messages Bug
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[doublepost=1516734893][/doublepost]Get ready for all the comments saying “I hope they fixed the (insert random obscure bug with Xcode No one has ever heard of here) by now!!”
 
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zorinlynx said:
I hope this fixes the white bar on the top of the screen when viewing images in Photos.app in full screen mode.

That's really the only High Sierra bug left that's annoying the snot out of me.
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Drives me nuts too. It's gone unfixed for quite a few versions now, so I'm not holding my breath.

I submitted "feedback" about it but for f--- sake, you'd think they would catch that one in normal QA testing. But then again I'm only assuming they do QA testing...
 
zorinlynx said:
I hope this fixes the white bar on the top of the screen when viewing images in Photos.app in full screen mode.

That's really the only High Sierra bug left that's annoying the snot out of me.
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ignatius345 said:
Drives me nuts too. It's gone unfixed for quite a few versions now, so I'm not holding my breath.

I submitted "feedback" about it but for f--- sake, you'd think they would catch that one in normal QA testing. But then again I'm only assuming they do QA testing...
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How do I reproduce this issue? I'm not seeing it...
 
zorinlynx said:
In the future, to update, open a Terminal, then:

sudo softwareupdate -i -a

And enter your password. When it's done, type "reboot". It's much faster than using the App Store app, and does the same thing.
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HELP!!! This worked up till the point where terminal said a restart was required. I typed reboot as you instructed and got the message that was not allowed. Had to exit terminal to get anything to happen, tried a restart and a S/D restart and 10.3.3 is not installed AND not available as an update!!

HELP!!!
 
wonkymouth said:
It happens for me a lot less after 10.13.2, but unplugging from a LG 4k or 5k, or sometimes opening the screen out of clamshell when still connected crashes the OS (yellow screen on laptop, red screen on LG).

It happened every single time on 10.13 and .1, and the only way around it was to log out before disconnecting or opening the lid.
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yes I have similar and so do so many others... frustrating!!!
 
Also fixes the several SMB bugs that were made worse with 10.13.2. (connected default SMB:// you could copy files to or from, but not move files without the finder going into a spinning ball, if you disconnected without moving files, then reconnected as cifs:// then you could move files around - cifs is slower and has problems with very large file copies which is why I couldn't just use it all the time)
I'm still testing the ActiveDirectory bugs I'd seen in 10.13.0, .1 and .2 which take around a week to reproduce - still running the public beta 5 after just over 6 days, will hopefully know by Thursday if the same issue shows up I'd seen in earlier High Sierra versions.
(We use AD network accounts - everything is stored locally, but after around 7 days the computer would "forget" it was setup this way, and you'd start getting things not able to find the keychain and not showing your files when you hit documents or desktop, had to reboot to fix - had not seen this with any macOS versions in the past 5 years)
 
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