Some examples of what are often dismissed as ‘cosmetic’ bugs resulting from macOS upgrades, including lasting QuickLook rendering problems, and upside down mirror writing.
macOS 10.14
After years of limited controls, in Mojave (2018) Apple unleashed TCC and greatly enhanced privacy settings, that have come to dominate System Settings.
Which single folder in /System/Library contains the most bundles? Why did the number of kernel extensions in macOS soar from 535 to 788 in less than 2 months?
It’s exactly 5 years since Apple released Mojave, with its many major changes. macOS 14 should bring fewer shocks to the system than 10.14 did.
For 34 years, Macs were known for rendering black text on a white background. Then came Dark mode, and five years later some apps still can’t cope with it.
From High Sierra’s four-volume group to macOS 12 on Apple silicon with three containers and 11 volumes, and both regular and fallback Recovery volumes.
If you’re still running macOS Mojave or earlier, now is the time to take action to ensure your Mac maintains protection against malware.
A brief summary of major new features in each version from El Capitan, some of their remaining problems, and future support.
If you believe that ‘the pioneers take the arrows, settlers take the land’, you need to reassess macOS now.
As Apple silently drops Mojave’s support, it releases a security update to iOS 12, which was originally released a week before Mojave. And its entire AirPort range also seems unsupported now.
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