Apple Releases macOS Sierra 10.12.3 With Graphics Fixes for 2016 MacBook Pro

[TxExCxH]

Assuming you're talking about Safari? Was a Safari update included in the changes? That might come later.

Yes, forgot to say when using Safari. No Safari update was included and I still get the artifacting. It just happened when I was on YouTube. I guess not a lot of people are experiencing this. Which makes me wonder if it's just my machine.

 

[WeezyWally]

Anyone know if this fixes problems with USB C monitors? Hoping for better compatibility with my LG 27UD88-W. Sometimes the monitor wont wake from sleep and I need to restart both my 2016 15 inch MBP and the monitor.

 

[Guy Clark]

People like to paint a grass-is-greener picture of Snow Leopard, but it's not as though that version was perfect.

Thats because the grass was greener and it still is. Snow Leopard offers so much more by offering less, a lot less. No iOS infiltration, Fast and rock solid stable. OS X 10.6.8 was when the platform was at its pinnacle. Snow Leopard is vastly superior to any other release on older Macs.

iOS infiltration has all but killed the Mac platform.

 

[Grolubao]

Thats because the grass was greener and it still is. Snow Leopard offers so much more by offering less, a lot less. No iOS infiltration, Fast and rock solid stable. OS X 10.6.8 was when the platform was at its pinnacle. Snow Leopard is vastly superior to any other release on older Macs.

iOS infiltration has all but killed the Mac platform.

True story. No other OS reached the level of stability and snappiness as Snow Leopard.

 

[jsw]

I just returned my 15" MBP (stock, low-end 2016) after 13 days because I had numerous issues, including Touch Bar freezes, spontaneous reboots, and this lovely screen of colored static on multiple occasions (which doesn't appear to be listed as an issue or one that's fixed):

and also because of obvious places Apple didn't update the OS to realize the Touch Bar was there. Example from when I restored macOS prior to returning it (note how the user is asked to hit the Escape key for help... and yet the Escape key [and entire Touch Bar] isn't visible - and couldn't be make visible, at least in my attempts):

I hope this update fixed similar issues for others, but I've decided to wait until the next hardware rev before I buy a new 15". I ordered a base 2016 13" (no Touch Bar) cheap at Best Buy this weekend, and I'll use that for now... if I decide it's worth the risk to open it. This 15" was the first Mac I've ever returned after opening it. I'm really disappointed in the number of issues I had over a relatively short period of time using it doing pretty much nothing but software development. These were, in my opinion, pushed out of the factory way before they should have been.

I get that OS updates are needed and that new hardware isn't going to be perfectly supported all the time, but come on. It sounds like, even after this OS bump, there are still going to be a lot of people with issues, and I had far too many different problems on a new system that I barely stressed. I miss the old days when they really did just work.

 

[Foss]

It looks like the this version has broken the ability to unlock my 2016 15 TB MBP with my Apple Watch.

 

[Guy Clark]

I just returned my 15" MBP (stock, low-end 2016) after 13 days because I had numerous issues, including Touch Bar freezes, spontaneous reboots, and this lovely screen of colored static on multiple occasions (which doesn't appear to be listed as an issue or one that's fixed):

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and also because of obvious places Apple didn't update the OS to realize the Touch Bar was there. Example from when I restored macOS prior to returning it (note how the user is asked to hit the Escape key for help... and yet the Escape key [and entire Touch Bar] isn't visible - and couldn't be make visible, at least in my attempts):

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I hope this update fixed similar issues for others, but I've decided to wait until the next hardware rev before I buy a new 15". I ordered a base 2016 13" (no Touch Bar) cheap at Best Buy this weekend, and I'll use that for now... if I decide it's worth the risk to open it. This 15" was the first Mac I've ever returned after opening it. I'm really disappointed in the number of issues I had over a relatively short period of time using it doing pretty much nothing but software development. These were, in my opinion, pushed out of the factory way before they should have been.

I get that OS updates are needed and that new hardware isn't going to be perfectly supported all the time, but come on. It sounds like, even after this OS bump, there are still going to be a lot of people with issues, and I had far too many different problems on a new system that I barely stressed. I miss the old days when they really did just work.

Welcome to the world of the Catwalk Mac. All bling and no substance. Give me a four year old MacBook Pro any day instead of the modern substandard, emojii, touchbar driven offerings.

 

[tywebb13]

Combo - http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1905/en_US/macosupdcombo10.12.3.dmg
Updater - http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1906/en_US/macosupd10.12.3.dmg

Here are some more links.

links for 10.12.3:

delta: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1906?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

combo: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1905?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

itunes 12.5.5 for mac: https://secure-appldnld.apple.com/i...-DF1D-11E6-8CA3-55D3D55B5B9D/iTunes12.5.5.dmg

itunes 12.5.5 for windows 32 bit: https://secure-appldnld.apple.com/i...0-DF1D-11E6-8CA3-57D3D55B5B9D/iTunesSetup.exe

itunes 12.5.5 for windows 64 bit: https://secure-appldnld.apple.com/i...1D-11E6-8CA3-56D3D55B5B9D/iTunes6464Setup.exe

There don’t seem to be security updates for el capitan or yosemite - however safari, xprotect and gatekeeper got updates:

safari 10.0.3 for el capitan: http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...qvy4cocqs4lo2sgbujw/Safari10.0.3ElCapitan.pkg

safari 10.0.3 for yosemite: http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...5f96h4ejdfeg4nw71uoa/Safari10.0.3Yosemite.pkg

Gatekeeper: http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...w4sphi4f3047joyhhtis/GatekeeperConfigData.pkg

XProtect for systems older than el capitan: http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...xl9rgc67t8hdu2gug/XProtectPlistConfigData.pkg

XProtect for el capitan and sierra: http://swcdn.apple.com/content/down...hzb9xcvnl7os/XProtectPlistConfigData_1011.pkg

 

[NufSaid]

Wonder if this will help battery life...

Though, if it's anything like WatchOS 3, it could double/triple battery life on the new MBP but people around here would still find reasons to complain about it.

No kidding. It is becoming MacGripe instead of MacRumors.

BTW I was stunned how much battery life improved with the update to Watch OS3. I can get two days of use out of my watch before charging.

 

[Easttime]

It looks like the this version has broken the ability to unlock my 2016 15 TB MBP with my Apple Watch.

Did you check the setting in preferences? Both my Mac Mini and my MacBook Pro stopped unlocking the other day. Turned out the checkbox was magically unchecked on both of them.

 

[phas3]

after this update I am experiencing a white blurred border when logging in after my MBP sleeps, anyone also having this issue? Any fix?

 

[adnbek]

Does this disable Trim on 3rd party SSDs like the last update did?

 

[dogslobber]

I'm more interested in 10.13.4 betas. I feel uncomfortable running non-beta software on my Macs.

 

[atikalz]

I also returned two 15' Macbook Pro 2016 because of too much issues. And bought the last 2015 model. My first downgrade on Mac ever. Shame on Apple!

I just returned my 15" MBP (stock, low-end 2016) after 13 days because I had numerous issues, including Touch Bar freezes, spontaneous reboots, and this lovely screen of colored static on multiple occasions (which doesn't appear to be listed as an issue or one that's fixed):

View attachment 685132

and also because of obvious places Apple didn't update the OS to realize the Touch Bar was there. Example from when I restored macOS prior to returning it (note how the user is asked to hit the Escape key for help... and yet the Escape key [and entire Touch Bar] isn't visible - and couldn't be make visible, at least in my attempts):

View attachment 685133

I hope this update fixed similar issues for others, but I've decided to wait until the next hardware rev before I buy a new 15". I ordered a base 2016 13" (no Touch Bar) cheap at Best Buy this weekend, and I'll use that for now... if I decide it's worth the risk to open it. This 15" was the first Mac I've ever returned after opening it. I'm really disappointed in the number of issues I had over a relatively short period of time using it doing pretty much nothing but software development. These were, in my opinion, pushed out of the factory way before they should have been.

I get that OS updates are needed and that new hardware isn't going to be perfectly supported all the time, but come on. It sounds like, even after this OS bump, there are still going to be a lot of people with issues, and I had far too many different problems on a new system that I barely stressed. I miss the old days when they really did just work.

 

[mattopotamus]

The official one works fine or it will be a magic patch to kill all the new Macbooks

I meant a rMB charger on the pro. I think he was saying his 3rd party one (low wattage) didn't charge the pro now.

 

[shirogane]

I just updated to Mac OS Sierra 10.12.3 on my MacBook Pro 15" Retina (2015) model and all seems to be working well. Knocking on wood.

 

[MrNomNoms]

Safari still kills entire system on specific websites, with intel 4600 GPU. Apple, what are you doing these days?

Which Mac are you using? do you have Flash installed?

Swimming in the money vault...

Reminds me of:

- Improves automatic graphics switching on MacBook Pro (15-inch, October 2016).
- Resolves graphics issues while encoding Adobe Premiere Pro projects on MacBook Pro with Touch Bar (13- and 15-inch, October 2016).
- Fixes an issue that prevented the searching of scanned PDF documents in Preview.
- Resolves a compatibility issue with PDF documents that are exported with encryption enabled.
- Fixes an issue that prevented some third-party applications from correctly importing images from digital cameras.


Admittedly no version of OSX has been perfect. However, I do not recall any of this being an issue with such as Snow Leopard. Perhaps someone could explain how that once working fine no longer does several versions later?

Snow Leopard was a lot more buggy than Sierra and Snow Leopard was a lot more robust than previous versions - too bad there are too many people who look back with nostalgia and ignore the warts that existed. Reminds me of people who were praising Windows XP as the greatest thing since sliced bread but ignore what a mess it was when it was first released.

With graphics, it's new hardware. In the case of the PDF bugs, Apple rewrote the engine in Sierra because they want it to be on the same foundation as iOS ( https://www.macrumors.com/2017/01/03/macos-sierra-users-avoid-broken-preview-edit-pdfs/) Sometimes Apple rewrites things for seemingly no reason, with disastrous results. The most notable example is the wifi stack in Yosemite. Eventually they just went back to the old version!

The Wifi stack wasn't replaced, it was mDNSresponder which was replaced with discoveryd but then they reversed course in 10.10.4. The Wifi stack was perfectly ok, it was the move to discoveryd which had no discernible improvement over mDNSresponder which resulted in many problems.

Apple never lists all the changes. Only the "important" ones.

I'd hardly call the following light on details: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207483

 

[Plutonius]

Searching in PDFs still doesn't work for me in preview.

edit: If I open the PDF in preview and then export the PDF, I'm able to search the exported PDF.

 

[ckisgen]

I just updated to Mac OS Sierra 10.12.3 on my MacBook Pro 15" Retina (2015) model and all seems to be working well. Knocking on wood.

Let us know how battery life goes for you on this build. I tried Sierra a couple of times on my 2015 15" but reverted back to El Cap both times because the battery life was noticeably worse.

 

[jsw]

Welcome to the world of the Catwalk Mac. All bling and no substance. Give me a four year old MacBook Pro any day instead of the modern substandard, emojii, touchbar driven offerings.

Agreed. I have no issue with tech advancement when it allows me to do my job better or faster, but, even if the Touch Bar had performed perfectly, I found it to be less efficient than genuine keys (volume +/-, function keys, etc). If Apple had added the Touch Bar above all the keys instead of replacing the top row with it, I'd have been a lot happier. I don't really mind the new ports, but I hate the emphasis on "cool" over "useful". Give me a few mm of thickness back so I can run another few hours. Give me 32GB of RAM in 2017, FFS. Give me real keys. Add the Touch Bar if you want, but don't take away things pro users need as pro users.

Also, honestly, the placemat-sized trackpad didn't appeal to me... too many false touches. I'm sure others have better experiences with it, but it too struck me as something done simply because it was different, not because it was better. Maybe OS upgrades will make it more useful.

I also returned two 15' Macbook Pro 2016 because of too much issues. And bought the last 2015 model. My first downgrade on Mac ever. Shame on Apple!

I'm sorely tempted to do the same. I've got that 13" non-Touch Bar 2016 coming in Friday, but I might change my mind. I sort of want my new Mac to work. Crazy, I know.

 

[ckisgen]

Also, honestly, the placemat-sized trackpad didn't appeal to me... too many false touches. I'm sure others have better experiences with it, but it too struck me as something done simply because it was different, not because it was better. Maybe OS upgrades will make it more useful.
I'm sorely tempted to do the same. I've got that 13" non-Touch Bar 2016 coming in Friday, but I might change my mind. I sort of want my new Mac to work. Crazy, I know.

I waited several years to upgrade and after finally getting to check out the 2016s, I decided to pass and picked up one of the last 2015 15" dGPU models they had in stock at my local Apple store (2.5ghz/16GB/512GB) and couldn't be happier.

 

[kevo0822]

The green iSight light turned on in the middle of the update (4K iMac). It's making me uncomfortable.

 

[parapup]

3 times a day my rMBP 2015 will not turn on the display after opening the lid from sleep. (I see framebuffer errors in system logs.) I am not very hopeful that this update will cure it. First time in my history of using Apple devices that wake from sleep doesn't work!

 

[frankmcpartland]

After the latest update tonight my Mac Pro is experiencing browser hangs (Safari and Chrome Canary) --

 

[dan9700]

my 2016 maxed macbook pro is still laggy as hell with this update, cant belive this machine is so powerful but doesnt stop lagging