Apple for just over a year has had the ability to release something called a “Rapid Security Update” to iOS and macOS devices. The Rapid Security Update is intended to provide important security changes between the regular software updates. For example, Apple may find an actively exploited vulnerability and decide to release one of these to address it. Overall this is a good thing.
Today Apple released a Rapid Security update for iOS 16.4.1 and macOS 13.3.1. On my iPhone I got this:
But when I tried to install it, I get this:
Now I was connected to the Internet on my iPhone the entire time, yet this error message popped up. Now this may be due to server load. Or it may be because Apple’s QA, which hasn’t been all that great for a long time has dropped the ball yet again. Who knows? And for the record, I have not tried this on my Mac as I am concerned that something bad might happen. But I will say this. Apple can’t have a “Rapid Security Update” that nobody can install as that completely defeats the purpose of these updates. Thus Apple needs to sort this out quickly as this really looks really bad on them.
More updates as I get them.
UPDATE: I tested the macOS “Rapid Security Update” which is actually called the “Rapid Security Response Update” and it worked fine. So it seems that only the iOS version is messed up. But the reason behind it being messed up is that it seems that the iOS version is being limited by Apple as per this:
Why Apple isn’t being more forthright about this, I have no idea. Oh wait. It’s Apple. They aren’t forthright about anything.
UPDATE #2: At 3:25 PM EST, I was finally able to get this update installed on my iPhone. I figured that it was a fluke. So I got my wife to try it and she was able to install it right away. So whatever the issue was Apple has appeared to have fixed it.
By the way, the version of iOS you will get after the update is 16.4.1 (a). The version of macOS that you will get after the update is 13.3.1. (a).
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Apple Releases Rapid Security Update For iOS and macOS… But It Doesn’t Work On iOS… #Fail [UPDATE: It Appears To Be Fixed]
Apple for just over a year has had the ability to release something called a “Rapid Security Update” to iOS and macOS devices. The Rapid Security Update is intended to provide important security changes between the regular software updates. For example, Apple may find an actively exploited vulnerability and decide to release one of these to address it. Overall this is a good thing.
Today Apple released a Rapid Security update for iOS 16.4.1 and macOS 13.3.1. On my iPhone I got this:
But when I tried to install it, I get this:
Now I was connected to the Internet on my iPhone the entire time, yet this error message popped up. Now this may be due to server load. Or it may be because Apple’s QA, which hasn’t been all that great for a long time has dropped the ball yet again. Who knows? And for the record, I have not tried this on my Mac as I am concerned that something bad might happen. But I will say this. Apple can’t have a “Rapid Security Update” that nobody can install as that completely defeats the purpose of these updates. Thus Apple needs to sort this out quickly as this really looks really bad on them.
More updates as I get them.
UPDATE: I tested the macOS “Rapid Security Update” which is actually called the “Rapid Security Response Update” and it worked fine. So it seems that only the iOS version is messed up. But the reason behind it being messed up is that it seems that the iOS version is being limited by Apple as per this:
Why Apple isn’t being more forthright about this, I have no idea. Oh wait. It’s Apple. They aren’t forthright about anything.
UPDATE #2: At 3:25 PM EST, I was finally able to get this update installed on my iPhone. I figured that it was a fluke. So I got my wife to try it and she was able to install it right away. So whatever the issue was Apple has appeared to have fixed it.
By the way, the version of iOS you will get after the update is 16.4.1 (a). The version of macOS that you will get after the update is 13.3.1. (a).
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