PSA: Make Sure to Update Soon, macOS Ventura 13.2.1 and iOS 16.3.1 Address Actively Exploited Vulnerability

Nope! I'm staying on iOS 15.7 with my stability and good battery life. YOU'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!

Were not important security updates meant to be installed automatically by the OS now, without any user intervention?

Updating as soon as I finish posting this. Not visiting any shady marmot porn websites until I do.

What about prior OS versions?

Maybe it will work with Pioneer optical drives again. Or maybe not.

Edit: It does! Yay.

This a great example of why the release cycle for macOS is messed up. I no longer dare to update to the latest version of macOS until like six months or more have passed from the release date. And when I finally do the upgrade, Apple is pretty much already pushing out the next version of macOS. So yeah, I'm always behind on these macOS versions, but that is because I care more about having everything working than being a ginny pig for Apple's new operating system.

Apple needs to go back to releasing macOS every two years or more. These annual updates have been lacklustre for many years now, and I have felt most of them did not even justify the introduction of a new macOS name. Surely, Apple could bring those tiny updates (like send later in Mail) to Monterey with a simple software update, but no. Everyone must update Ventura to get that one cool feature people might want.

I fondly miss the times of Snow Leopard and Yosemite when the macOS updates were actually impressive and were almost bug-free from the start. Now new macOS updates are kind of meh and okay at their best, and like I said, we need to wait a long time until most of us even dare to update. So how about you Tim skip announcing a new macOS this year and just focus on getting Ventura running well?