macOS 15.7.2 and 14.8.2
macOS 15.7.2 (full installer, security):
This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users.
macOS 14.8.2 (full installer, security):
This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users.
To be certain the correct updates will be installed, in the Also Available section of Software Update, click on the ⓘ button to the right of the Update Now button for Other Updates and select the appropriate macOS update and Safari, deselecting the Tahoe update there. That should ensure you don’t inadvertently upgrade to Tahoe.
It’s some kinda bullshit that clicking the info button next to the Sequoia 15.7.2 update selects the Tahoe upgrade in the updates window. I’m sure there’s a few folks out there who will footgun themselves with this.
It’s diabolical that pressing this info button selects the Tahoe update instead of the Sequoia update.
I’m still on Ventura on this Mac. You’d think that under that “Other Updates Available” I would find the option to update to Sonoma in case I don’t want to “ “ “ “upgrade” ” ” ” to Mac OS Tahoe.
But no, it’s just a link to update Safari.
I also ‘love’ how half the preference pane becomes a marketing pitch for Tahoe.
Previously:
Update (2025-11-05): ednl:
The one-click-close of inactive tabs is finally back in Safari 26.1 (for me on MacOS 15.7.2), see quoted post for a little bit more detail.
Remaining annoyance: flash of a completely white page when navigating to a new website, despite dark mode on both MacOS and the old and new websites.
Update (2025-11-12): John Gruber (Mastodon):
Leon Cowle was brave enough to try this out, and, it turns out, just clicking the “Update Now” button next to Sequoia will, thankfully, do the right thing: install the Sequoia 15.7.2 update, not Tahoe. (I followed Cowle’s brave lead and tried it myself, and can confirm that “Update Now” installed the Sequoia 15.7.2 update.) Why the Info panel presented by clicking the “ⓘ” button next to Sequoia in the “Other Updates” section defaults to installing the upgrade to 26.1 Tahoe, I don’t know. But it sure makes it seem like we need to be more careful than we actually do if we want to stick with MacOS 15 Sequoia for now.
The “ⓘ” buttons do not, as I would expect, open a sheet with detailed information about the software updates per each section of the Software Update settings panel. Instead, even though there are separate “ⓘ” buttons in each section of the settings panel, they each open the same sheet that allows exact control over which available software updates to install. That includes the exact same default selections in this sheet.
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I don’t know what the i in the “ⓘ” button is supposed to stand for, but it isn’t intuitive.
What the article does not state explicitly is that in the info panel opened from Also Available, the Upgrade Now button does indeed install macOS Tahoe.
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Another +1
They deserve all the pushback, they (realisticly don‘t) get.
This is so shady, even Microsoft would blush (but only because they didn‘t think of it)
