Oh please oh please oh please oh please fix Safari oh please oh please oh please fix Safari oh please oh please oh please fix Safari oh please oh please oh please fix Safari.
Not too happy with 26.3 right now. It broke Internxt (a European alternative to Dropbox); my Time Machine backups stopped working after a day and I can’t even kick them off manually; and the login always asks for a password, even though I have the fingerprint sensor and my Apple Watch configured to let me log in with those ![]()
Complaining helps (to Apple, not here):
I have AppleCare, so I started opening support tickets. Spent quite a lot of time with Apple support personell over the last week or so. Time Machine magically started working again on it’s own while the ticket was still open “with engineering”. I see Internxt has equally magically reappeared today.
Now there’s only the TouchID/Apple Watch issue, which has so far entertained 4 support reps and is not resolved yet. But the last one hinted that it may be a known problem to be fixed in 26.4. I’m supposed to get another call about it later this week.
So I guess this is the expensive version (for Appple and for me) of "complain to Apple”.
I suspect the threshold (regarding the number of complaints per issue) is pretty high. That’s why every single one counts. Clearly they are triaging.
Given that the focus and most of the dev resources soon™ shift to macOS 27, I wonder in what state 26 will remain. If it was my product, 26.3 / 26.4 wouldn’t even be a release candidate[1]. Wild.
I’m not claiming I could do better, but I’d feel very humiliated at this point. ↩︎
Twenty-six is two times 13. Leave it behind as soon as possible!
Unfortunately that also leaves behind millions of Intel Macs if they were upgraded to 26. Since Apple is pushing the Tahoe upgrade really hard, this could happen (and is likely intended to happen) involuntarily in a lot of cases.