{"id":50423,"date":"2025-12-12T15:27:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=50423"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:24:24","slug":"macos-15-7-3-and-macos-14-8-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/12\/macos-15-7-3-and-macos-14-8-3\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS 15.7.3 and macOS 14.8.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/120283\">macOS 15.7.3<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/125887\">security<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/swcdn.apple.com\/content\/downloads\/47\/16\/089-70987-A_PWKNKEFQ1D\/sjlq45liw0g5lor3a6i89vz7paml1xpq6w\/InstallAssistant.pkg\">full installer<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/120283\"><p>This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/109035\">macOS 14.8.3<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/125888\">security<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/swcdn.apple.com\/content\/downloads\/32\/47\/089-71265-A_6O6NMLUUUS\/7eoxdv3yggl8rmaz7jicf3wmys68ptjwho\/InstallAssistant.pkg\">full installer<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/109035\"><p>This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2025\/12\/12\/apple-has-released-macos-26-2-tahoe-and-security-updates-to-sequoia-15-7-3-and-sonoma-14-8-3\/\">Howard Oakley<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/macos-15-7-2-and-14-8-2\/\">macOS 15.7.2 and macOS 14.8.2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"macos-15-7-3-and-macos-14-8-3-update-2026-01-26\">Update (<a href=\"#macos-15-7-3-and-macos-14-8-3-update-2026-01-26\">2026-01-26<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/MacOS\/comments\/1npmoyf\/warning_157_update_filevault_permanently_locks\/\">TheRealKenJeong<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/tapbots.social\/@paul\/115958271962886777\">Paul Haddad<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/old.reddit.com\/r\/MacOS\/comments\/1npmoyf\/warning_157_update_filevault_permanently_locks\/\">\n<p>15.7 Update + FileVault Permanently Locks You From Booting From External Drives<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>macOS 15.7.3 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. macOS 14.8.3 (security, full installer): This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users. See also: Howard Oakley. Previously: macOS 15.7.2 and macOS 14.8.2 Update (2026-01-26): TheRealKenJeong (via Paul Haddad): 15.7 Update + FileVault Permanently [&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":"2025-12-12T20:27:47Z","apple_news_api_id":"c5930200-7c35-40e6-92a3-cee914ccc3bd","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-01-26T19:24:28Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AxZMCAHw1QOaSo87pFMzDvQ","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":[706,30,2385,2598,2303],"class_list":["post-50423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-filevault","tag-mac","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-macos-release"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50423","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=50423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50818,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50423\/revisions\/50818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}