Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released mac os big sur 11.5 this is
available to all mac os big sur supported devices so if you have big sur already on your device you
should see this update as well and as you can see it came in at 2.93 gigabytes that's on my m1 imac
and it will vary depending on the device you're actually using now along with this a few days
ago apple also released ios 14.7 watch os 7.6 tv os 14.7 and homepod os 14.7 along with mac os big
sur 11.5 today apple also finally released ipad os 14.7 so all of those are finally available for
everyone now let's take a look at the build number and talk about what's new so we'll go to the apple
then we'll click about this mac and as you can see it says version 11.5 and if i click on it
it gives us the build number of 20g71 and in this build this is mostly a security fix update
but let's take a look at what's new first and the first thing has to do with podcasts
so if we go into podcasts and then we go to shows under shows you'll see there's a new
option for followed and all this carries across not just mac os 11.5 but also ios and ipad os
so they've updated all of them with this option so now you have the option under your shows to
see followed or all so maybe you want to subscribe to a few people and then sort of remember other
shows as well that way you can go back to them without deleting them for maybe something you
don't listen to or watch as much so that's been updated in podcasts nothing else in podcasts at
all now one thing that's working on ios 14.7 but not mac os is in the home app if we go in
the home app and we option click or right click on one of our home pods or homepod mini go to
show controls on ios we cannot only set alarms we can also set timers we can't do that with mac os
11.5 for some reason so they didn't include it here but it is included on ipad os and ios now
now as far as new changes that's it there's not a whole lot in this update but there are some
significant fixes as well and the first one has to do with music so if we go into music and within
music one of the issues they've fixed is music may not update your play count and last play
date in your library so maybe you're listening to different music it's not updating the last played
dates properly so that's something they've fixed also if you're using smart cards to log into your
mac have them on a local network smart cards were not previously working properly when logging into
mac computers if you had an m1 chipset just like this one so that was an issue for some people
that's been resolved in this update and as far as known fixes they've also fixed a wi-fi bug that
carried across to ios and ipad os where you had odd characters in the network and it could cause
problems now this has a huge amount of security updates in this update so let's go ahead to the
apple security website and i'll show you now i'll link this website in the description below
but as i scroll down you'll see here we have different security updates that they released
and here are the mac os big sur updates so we click on this and you can see all of the updates
everything from the amd kernel to audio if we go down a little bit further you can see core text
font parser and we'll keep going intel graphics drivers kernel and the way you can read this is
that you can see the impact here an application may be able to execute arbitrary code with
kernel privileges description a logic issue was addressed with improved state management so this
was fixed and any credit that was given is listed here to anyone that helped them find it or help
them fix it so as you can see we can keep going there's a bunch of them webkit which has to do
with safari processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to code execution this issue
was addressed with improved checks and so all of these things have been updated in mac os 11.5
and so i would highly recommend you install this if you're on mac os big sur this will fix any of
the vulnerabilities you might have as well as have those extra little bug fixes and improved
stability overall and keep you better protected against any of these problems as far as security
goes so all of those things have been updated and if you're on a prior version mac os catalina or
mac os mojave there's also security updates for those as well so if you want to see everything
from ios to ipad os all of the security updates are listed there so that's everything in mac os
11.5 now i would not expect any major changes until mac os monterey is released usually in
mid to late september alongside the next version of ios but sometimes they release it a little bit
later so it could come out as late as october if they do what they do every year so from now
until the release of mac os monterey i would not expect any major updates possibly security updates
or additional bug fixes if anything are found so that's what i would look forward to in any
future updates monterey will have the major ones in the future with all of their features and i've
done separate videos about that and if you want to check those out they're in the description below
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