{"id":48703,"date":"2025-07-29T15:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48703"},"modified":"2025-08-08T12:11:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:11:28","slug":"macos-15-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/29\/macos-15-6\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS 15.6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/07\/29\/apple-releases-macos-sequoia-15-6\/\">Juli Clover<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/120283\">release notes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/124149\">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_6-release-notes\">developer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/swcdn.apple.com\/content\/downloads\/05\/14\/082-08661-A_R3LJXRMIED\/4ifxu7v20f45p4qectnt7r52qwt9vuzfw1\/InstallAssistant.pkg\">full installer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/updates.cdn-apple.com\/2025SummerFCS\/fullrestores\/082-08674\/51294E4D-A273-44BE-A280-A69FC347FB87\/UniversalMac_15.6_24G84_Restore.ipsw\">IPSW<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/07\/29\/apple-releases-macos-sequoia-15-6\/\"><p>According to Apple&rsquo;s release notes, the update provides important bug fixes and security updates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/07\/29\/apple-has-released-macos-15-6-sequoia-update-and-14-7-7-13-7-7\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mrmacintosh.com\/macos-sequoia-15-6-update-everything-you-need-to-know\/\">Mr. Macintosh<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/13\/macos-15-5\/\">macOS 15.5<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"macos-15-6-update-2025-07-30\">Update (<a href=\"#macos-15-6-update-2025-07-30\">2025-07-30<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/07\/29\/what-has-changed-in-macos-sequoia-15-6\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/07\/29\/what-has-changed-in-macos-sequoia-15-6\/\"><p>macOS Sequoia 15.6 is likely to be the last scheduled general update before Sequoia enters its two years of security-only support, with the release of macOS 26 Tahoe most probably in September. It&rsquo;s notable for the number of security fixes it delivers, about 81 in all, some of which look very serious, although Apple hasn&rsquo;t reported that it&rsquo;s aware of any of them being exploited in the wild.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>There is a single entry in Apple&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/macos-release-notes\/macos-15_6-release-notes\">developer release notes<\/a>, possibly the most important of all. This reports that 15.6 fixes a bug in which &ldquo;Finder and Apple Configurator may be unable to successfully restore some devices from DFU mode.&rdquo; I don&rsquo;t understand why that never made it to notes intended for the public.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"macos-15-6-update-2025-07-31\">Update (<a href=\"#macos-15-6-update-2025-07-31\">2025-07-31<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/07\/30\/ios-18-6-chrome-zero-day-fix\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/07\/30\/ios-18-6-chrome-zero-day-fix\/\"><p>The iOS 18.6, iPadOS 18.6, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/macos-sequoia\/\">macOS Sequoia<\/a> 15.6 updates that Apple released yesterday address a major zero-day attack that targeted Chrome users, according to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/apple-patches-security-flaw-exploited-in-chrome-zero-day-attacks\/\">Bleeping Computer<\/a><\/em>.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The flaw could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code using HTML pages created for that purpose, escaping Chrome&rsquo;s sandboxing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/29\/ios-18-6-and-ipados-18-6\/\">iOS 18.6 and iPadOS 18.6<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"macos-15-6-update-2025-08-08\">Update (<a href=\"#macos-15-6-update-2025-08-08\">2025-08-08<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/08\/08\/macos-sequoia-end-of-cycle-report\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/08\/08\/macos-sequoia-end-of-cycle-report\/\">\n<p>With the next scheduled update to macOS Sequoia likely to be released in September or October, macOS 15.6 officially marks the end of its year-long cycle of full support. This article looks at its updates and how it has changed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover (release notes, security, enterprise, developer, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple&rsquo;s release notes, the update provides important bug fixes and security updates. See also: Howard Oakley and Mr. Macintosh. Previously: macOS 15.5 Update (2025-07-30): Howard Oakley: macOS Sequoia 15.6 is likely to be the last scheduled general update before Sequoia enters its two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-07-29T19:19:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"68099a0d-63d2-4bd1-848b-abad94c7560a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-08-08T16:11:31Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AaAmaDWPSS9GEi6utlMdWCg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2806,456,30,2598,2303],"class_list":["post-48703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dfu-mode","tag-googlechrome","tag-mac","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-macos-release"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48830,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48703\/revisions\/48830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}