hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and yesterday apple released mac os monterey 12.5 to the public
this is available to all mac os monterey supported devices so if you were able to
install it before you'll be able to install this update as well and as you can see this
came in at 2.2 gigabytes that's on an m1 macbook pro and that's not a huge install and it does
have some updated features and changes now along with this apple released ios 15.6 ipad os 15.6
watch os 8.7 tv os 15.6 and homepod os 15.6 however they also released mac os big sur 11.6.8
so if you're not using mac os monterey you'll be able to install the updates at least for security
on mac os big serve now let's go ahead and close this we'll take a look at the build number and
talk about what's new so we'll click on the apple click about this mac and as you can see here's
the version click on the version and this is build number 21g72 this just tells you which version you
have and if it's the latest version or not so this is what you should be on if you're already updated
now as far as new features in this update well there's a couple to mention the first one is
if we go into system preferences and then we go to our desktop and screen saver section
under desktop and screen saver if we scroll down a little bit you'll see that we have some
new wallpaper these go along with the all new macbook air wallpaper so if we go into safari
go to apple under apple if we go into the macbook air section here and click on buy
you can see these wallpapers so you'll see here's the wallpaper and they correspond with
the different colors such as midnight starlight space gray and silver so as you can see here
we have the different wallpaper available let me close safari so you can see and they're
just built in now so these came with the mac the macbook m2 and now they're available for everyone
so those are available now now aside from that apple also updated their tv app specifically very
similar to what they did with ios so if you're using tv and if we scroll down here and you're
watching live sports you'll now have the option to either restart a live game pause it rewind
it or fast forward and this is basically like having a built-in dvr so we're going to have not
just major league baseball but soccer as well as nfl it looks like maybe later this year with the
following season it's hard to say if that's 100 but it looks like something that could be coming
soon so if you're watching live sports on apple tv that could be incredibly helpful now as far as new
features that's about it but there are some bug fixes as well and the first thing has to do with
safari so if you're in safari and maybe you had a tab open that tab could sometimes revert back
to a previous page so that's something that would happen from time to time and that's actually been
resolved there's also no other known remaining features according to apple in this particular
update so every time they update their notes if we go to apple's current release software update page
you can go to the release notes and you'll see there's nothing here there are no new release
notes for this software update so they fixed all of the issues that were in the previous betas
and we should be good to go as far as that goes however there are a bunch of security updates
in this update as well and if we go to apple's security website you'll see here if we scroll
down you can see all the current releases so the security update for mac os catalina and
big sur as well so we have both of those i didn't mention the catalina update but mac os monterey
12.5 and we have 50 different security updates so there's quite a bit in this update as far as
security is concerned so they've patched a ton of different things everything from applescript audio
automation and i believe this is more than double what we get with apple watch os with security
updates and even ios as well so you'll see intel graphics driver the kernel's been updated
and as we continue down you'll see smb software update subversion webkit and more so wi-fi and
you'll see here the way you read this is it says what it's available for its impact is the problem
it had an app may be able to cause unexpected system termination or right kernel memory in
order to fix it that's the description this issue was addressed with improved checks and then you
have the person that submitted the issue and so you can read each one of those like that even
windows server has been updated as far as security updates there's also additional recognition below
of people that added assistance or helped apple with assistance of some of these issues
so lots of updates and that leads me to should you install mac os 12.5 well if you're already
on mac os monterey absolutely install it due to the security updates alone if you're on a previous
version mac os catalina just make sure you get that security update installed that i showed you
on the previous page here so if you're on catalina you you can see the same sort of security updates
the same is true if you're on mac os big sur so just make sure you install the recent updates
for either one of those versions if you're not going over to mac os monterey now we're
getting closer to mac os ventura's release which is expected sometime in usually around september
so september or october is typically what they do so mid-september maybe early october
and before then we can also expect probably another update whether that be mac os 12.6 or
12.5.1 that's typically what apple does and then they release it either in august or september
as we have a bunch of betas so we could see a beta as soon as today or it could be next week
but usually there'll be another set of betas with a final release usually late august or september
with additional security updates and maybe some minor features but most of those features should
be released with mac os ventura where they added things such as continuity camera and much more
and so that's everything in this particular update not a ton but a lot of important security updates
so again i highly recommend installing it if you haven't already if you found anything else
i haven't mentioned i'd love to hear from you in the comments below and of course if you'd
like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link the iphone version in the description below
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