{"id":40141,"date":"2023-07-24T16:18:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T20:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40141"},"modified":"2023-08-23T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T14:26:53","slug":"macos-13-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/24\/macos-13-5\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS 13.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/07\/24\/apple-releases-macos-ventura-13-5\/\">Juli Clover<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT213268\">release notes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT213843\">security<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT213327\">enterprise<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/macos-release-notes\/macos-13_5-release-notes\">developer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/swcdn.apple.com\/content\/downloads\/01\/07\/032-69593-A_15V577BH7O\/fau3wbhcg9pmo81cgkb2qjp0gfbp1jxu26\/InstallAssistant.pkg\">full installer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/updates.cdn-apple.com\/2023SummerFCS\/fullrestores\/032-69606\/D3E05CDF-E105-434C-A4A1-4E3DC7668DD0\/UniversalMac_13.5_22G74_Restore.ipsw\">IPSW<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/07\/24\/apple-releases-macos-ventura-13-5\/\"><p>According to Apple&rsquo;s release notes,  macOS Ventura  13.5 introduces important bug fixes and security updates. Apple recommends that all users install the software.<\/p><p>There are no notable feature changes or standout bug fixes in  macOS Ventura  13.5, and work on the operating system is wrapping up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>After several updates that worked automatically, I&rsquo;m back to having to apply the update manually using <code>sudo softwareupdate -irR<\/code> because it kept failing from System Settings.<\/p>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/mrmacintosh.com\/macos-ventura-13-5-update-22g74-whats-new\/\">Mr. Macintosh<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2023\/07\/24\/apple-has-released-ventura-13-5-monterey-12-6-8-and-big-sur-11-7-9\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/24\/ios-16-6-and-ipados-16-6\/\">iOS 16.6 and iPadOS 16.6<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/24\/macos-12-6-8-and-11-7-9\/\">macOS 12.6.8 and 11.7.9<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/22\/macos-13-4-1\/\">macOS 13.4.1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"macos-13-5-update-2023-07-28\">Update (2023-07-28): <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2023\/07\/24\/what-has-changed-in-macos-ventura-13-5\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/howardnoakley\/status\/1684285231061164037\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2023\/07\/24\/what-has-changed-in-macos-ventura-13-5\/\">\n<p>Thanks to Maurizio for pointing out a <strong>serious bug<\/strong> in 13.5: in System Settings &gt; Privacy &amp; Security &gt; Location Services, all third-party apps have been omitted from the list of services you can control.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"macos-13-5-update-2023-07-31\">Update (2023-07-31): <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2023\/07\/30\/last-week-on-my-mac-venturas-lost-location-services\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2023\/07\/30\/last-week-on-my-mac-venturas-lost-location-services\/\"><p>Ever since its introduction in the first betas of Ventura, System Settings has been dogged by inattention to detail. Its most significant omission from the first release of 13.0 was support for network locations, which was belatedly added back in 13.1, camouflaged in a popup menu under an ellipsis so obscure that most don&rsquo;t even notice its existence, and assume it&rsquo;s still missing.<\/p><p>Loss of control over Location Services in apps is the more serious because there&rsquo;s no command tool to act as substitute.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>If experience is anything to go by, Apple now seems to delegate most pre-release testing and checks on macOS to third-party beta-testers, and depends on their reporting of issues using Feedback. When we fly, we expect the pilots and engineers to perform thorough checks on the aircraft and its essential functions before declaring that flight ready for takeoff. If they instead walked through the main cabin asking some of their passengers whether they thought everything seemed OK, would you fly with that airline?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Since updating to macOS 13.5, I get at least one crash of transparencyd per day.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"macos-13-5-update-2023-08-11\">Update (2023-08-11): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/08\/10\/macos-ventura-13-5-location-services-bug\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/08\/10\/macos-ventura-13-5-location-services-bug\/\">\n<p>Since July, <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/13-5-location-privacy-broken.2396788\/\">there have been complaints<\/a> from  macOS Ventura  users who updated to the new software and then were unable to access and control location permissions for first and third-party apps.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"macos-13-5-1-update-2023-08-23\">Update (2023-08-23): <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2023\/08\/20\/last-week-on-my-mac-welcome-back-location-services\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2023\/08\/20\/last-week-on-my-mac-welcome-back-location-services\/\">\n<p>This was just the wrong time for the bug introduced in macOS Ventura 13.5 that effectively paralysed access to Location Services until it was fixed in <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2023\/08\/17\/apple-has-released-macos-ventura-13-5-1-update\/\">last week&rsquo;s update<\/a> to 13.5.1. Although not a crashing bug, memory leak or kernel panic, its effect was disastrous. For over three weeks, every Mac that was kept up to date with Ventura lost all user control over access given by macOS to location and related data.<\/p>\n<p>Those who installed some software like Little Snitch were unable to authorise its access to Location Services, while other apps, notably those already installed, were automatically given access without the user having any say in the matter. For a corporation that places privacy and its protection at the heart of its products, this was surely catastrophic: in the latest release of its current computer operating system, the user had absolutely no control over which apps were given access to their location data.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>No, the root cause was an intentional design choice that makes all privacy protection vulnerable to a single point of failure. [&#8230;] Yet the only tool that works with those privacy settings controlled by TCC, <code>tccutil<\/code>, is deliberately stunted so that all it can do is reset them, and there isn&rsquo;t any tool to work with Location Services.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/18\/macos-13-5-1\/\">macOS 13.5.1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple&rsquo;s release notes, macOS Ventura 13.5 introduces important bug fixes and security updates. Apple recommends that all users install the software.There are no notable feature changes or standout bug fixes in macOS Ventura 13.5, and work on the operating system is wrapping up. 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