macOS 15.5
Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, no developer, full installer, IPSW):
macOS Sequoia 15.5 is light on new features, with Apple listing only a change to Screen Time in its notes.
I still haven’t been able to get this update to install on an external drive. The former workaround of manually setting the Startup Disk before running the installer no longer helps. With either Software Update or the Installer app, the update seems to install correctly, and there’s a lengthy progress bar after rebooting, but then when I eventually log back in the macOS version is unchanged. Maybe the answer is to erase the external drive and do a fresh install, but I’d rather not have to do that.
End of an era: AFP client support is deprecated in macOS 15.5. Deprecating stuff in an OS months after release is weird, I wonder if this change wasn’t supposed to ship until macOS 16.
They did fix some security bugs with it.
large network shares should enumerate correctly in the Finder
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The new Apple Diagnostics app looks particularly interesting, but appears to attempt a remote connection that is denied, so reports the error and does nothing else.
See also: Mr. Macintosh and Adam Engst.
Anyone else think there’s something flaky about select/copy actions in Sequoia?
I often think i’ve selected and cmd-C copied text to find it’s not in the clipboard.
The etresoft dev confirmed this is a sequoia bug.
I can imagine ways this bug could cause bad things to happen …
Previously:
- Pasteboard Privacy Preview in macOS 15.4
- Failing to Finish Updating macOS on an External Disk
- macOS 15.4.1
Update (2025-05-14): Rich Trouton:
This announcement is providing a end-of-the-road notification for AFP, which has been included in Apple’s operating systems for the Mac since System 6 in 1988. The ability to run an AFP server was removed from macOS as part of macOS Big Sur and it is not possible to host AFP shares from APFS formatted drives, so the AFP client has been the final functional part of AFP left as of macOS Sequoia.
This deprecation will affect the AFP functionality available via the Finder and via the mount_afp command line tool, with the mount_afp man page also noting that the AFP client is being deprecated.
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There’s definitely something flaky about copy/paste these days, and it’s not just a macOS bug.
I’m a heavy iPad user, and something weird is going on where if I want to share a URL from Safari, it seems like two thirds of the time, I can’t just “right-click, copy, go elsewhere, paste”, because what I paste will either be a null string, or will be some other random text that was previously on the clipboard/pasteboard.
In the John Gordon post on the appdotnet Mastodon (which I’m not on, so I can't respond there), I see people talking about whether this could be a Keyboard Maestro bug, but others are saying they see problems without KM being installed. In my case, I’m just on iPadOS itself, with no such “type it for me” widget installed, so that’s not a factor, but I’m definitely seeing the same high-level behavior, so I think something in the shared codebase between macOS & iPadOS isn’t handling pasteboard copy behavior correctly these days.
I’d file a bug for it, but I haven’t been able to reproduce the problem on demand; it’s random, and I just notice after the fact that, wait, that last attempt to copy something didn't work right.
I'm using Paste and have noticed copy paste being weird sometimes. But what I've copied is in the Paste clipboard.
I'm hoping this somehow portends them implementing at least a basic first party clipboard manager, and along with it an official plugin for third party ones.
No. I did not confirm that this is a Sequoia bug. I have experienced this bug, most often in Excel, and more rarely in other situations. But it most definitely did not originate with Sequoia.
I was getting strange clipboard behavior in Ventura, where it seemed like things I meant to copy just didn't, and couldn't be pasted anywhere. However... it may have been because I had "Copy to pasteboard on selection" turned on in iTerm without realizing it.
Copy and Paste has never worked entirely reliably in OS X. This used to be a major differentiator between Macs and Windows in the pre-NT, pre-X days, when Copy and Paste worked 100% reliably on Macs and often didn't work on Windows.
On OS X, there have always been minor issues with Copy and Paste, but they have worsened significantly in recent years. I habitually hammer Cmd-C multiple times whenever I copy something, hoping it will increase the likelihood that the content will be added to my clipboard.
There's a fix in Safari too. In 15.4 scrolling with keyboard arrows up and down didn't work anymore. But in 15.4 shift+up/down worked to change the selection, but that doesn't work anymore in 15.5.
Edit: shift+up/down still can be used to change the selection (did this work before 15.3?), but if there is no selection, in 15.4 you could start the selection with shift+up/down.
Added in 15.5
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/updates/appkit#macOS-pasteboard-privacy:
"Prepare your app for an upcoming feature in macOS that alerts a person using a device when your app programmatically reads the general pasteboard."
