{"id":47705,"date":"2025-05-13T14:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T18:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=47705"},"modified":"2025-07-29T15:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:14:06","slug":"macos-15-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/13\/macos-15-5\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS 15.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/05\/12\/apple-releases-macos-sequoia-15-5\/\">Juli Clover<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/120283\">release notes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/122716\">security<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/121011\">enterprise<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/macos-release-notes\/macos-15_5-release-notes\">developer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/swcdn.apple.com\/content\/downloads\/51\/28\/082-44432-A_4NJSZXK8G5\/v10fo5dlwd50fja3qbnhj7z9tp1dx41vq2\/InstallAssistant.pkg\">full installer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/updates.cdn-apple.com\/2025SpringFCS\/fullrestores\/082-44534\/CE6C1054-99A3-4F67-A823-3EE9E6510CDE\/UniversalMac_15.5_24F74_Restore.ipsw\">IPSW<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/05\/12\/apple-releases-macos-sequoia-15-5\/\">\n<p>macOS Sequoia  15.5 is light on new features, with Apple listing only a change to Screen Time in its notes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/29\/failing-to-finish-updating-macos-on-an-external-disk\/\">still<\/a> haven&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;d rather not have to do that.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@bshanks\/114463554239322227\">Brendan Shanks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@bshanks\/114463554239322227\"><p>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&rsquo;t supposed to ship until macOS 16.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>They did fix some security bugs with it.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/05\/12\/what-has-changed-in-macos-sequoia-15-5\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/05\/12\/what-has-changed-in-macos-sequoia-15-5\/\">\n<p>large network shares should enumerate correctly in the Finder<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/mrmacintosh.com\/macos-sequoia-15-5-update-everything-you-need-to-know\/\">Mr. Macintosh<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2025\/05\/12\/apple-releases-ios-18-5-macos-15-5-and-other-x-5-os-updates\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appdot.net\/@jgordon\/114484503361390978\">John Gordon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/appdot.net\/@jgordon\/114484503361390978\"><p>Anyone else think there&rsquo;s something flaky about select\/copy actions in Sequoia?<\/p><p>I often think i&rsquo;ve selected and cmd-C copied text to find it&rsquo;s not in the clipboard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/appdot.net\/@jgordon\/114496233305830140\">John Gordon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/appdot.net\/@jgordon\/114496233305830140\">\n<p>The etresoft dev confirmed this is a sequoia bug.<\/p>\n<p>I can imagine ways this bug could cause bad things to happen &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/12\/pasteboard-privacy-preview-in-macos-15-4\/\">Pasteboard Privacy Preview in macOS 15.4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/29\/failing-to-finish-updating-macos-on-an-external-disk\/\">Failing to Finish Updating macOS on an External Disk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/21\/macos-15-4-1\/\">macOS 15.4.1<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"macos-15-5-update-2025-05-14\">Update (<a href=\"#macos-15-5-update-2025-05-14\">2025-05-14<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/derflounder.wordpress.com\/2025\/05\/14\/apple-filing-protocol-client-deprecated-as-of-macos-sequoia-15-5-0\/\">Rich Trouton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/derflounder.wordpress.com\/2025\/05\/14\/apple-filing-protocol-client-deprecated-as-of-macos-sequoia-15-5-0\/\">\n<p>This announcement is providing a end-of-the-road notification for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apple_Filing_Protocol\">AFP<\/a>, which has been included in <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/library\/archive\/documentation\/Networking\/Conceptual\/AFP\/AFPVersionDifferences\/AFPVersionDifferences.html#\/\/apple_ref\/doc\/uid\/TP40000854-CH230-SW1\">Apple&rsquo;s operating systems for the Mac since System 6<\/a> in 1988. The ability to run an AFP server was removed from macOS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/234926\/using-afp-to-share-a-mac-drive-its-time-to-change.html\">as part of macOS Big Sur<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2019\/12\/09\/can-you-still-use-afp-sharing\/\"> it is not possible to host AFP shares from APFS formatted drives<\/a>, so the AFP client has been the final functional part of AFP left as of macOS Sequoia.<\/p>\n<p>This deprecation will affect the AFP functionality available via the Finder and via the <strong>mount_afp<\/strong> command line tool, with the <strong>mount_afp<\/strong> man page also noting that the AFP client is being deprecated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"macos-15-5-update-2025-05-15\">Update (<a href=\"#macos-15-5-update-2025-05-15\">2025-05-15<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/05\/15\/check-your-network-backups-and-shares-as-afp-is-being-removed\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/05\/15\/check-your-network-backups-and-shares-as-afp-is-being-removed\/\">\n<p>Greatest problems come with Apple&rsquo;s old Time Capsules, most of which are still used with AFP, as they can only support SMB version 1, not versions 2 or 3. If you&rsquo;re still using a Time Capsule, or an old NAS that doesn&rsquo;t support SMB version 3, then access to your network storage may well still be reliant on AFP.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cachiporra.bsky.social\/post\/3lp5ubxl5lc2a\">Mooch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cachiporra.bsky.social\/post\/3lp5ubxl5lc2a\"><p>there is still an entire lobe of my brain dedicated to installing XServes and reading &ldquo;AFP client is depreciated&rdquo; is like finding out I am a withered dead mummy and this is the afterlife<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, 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&rsquo;t been able to get this update to install on an external drive. 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