hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today apple released mac os 12.2.1 to the public this
is available to all mac os 12 supported devices or mac os monterey so if you have that version
installed you should see this update and it's available at the same time everywhere around the
world so if you're not seeing it you can just go to your system preferences go to software updates
and you can find the update there so you can see it's 12.2.1 and this came in at 1.04 gigabytes
that's on my 16-inch macbook pro with the m1 max processor now again this came out alongside other
updates as well such as ios and ipad os 15.3.1 as well as watch os 8.4.2 now let's go ahead and take
a look at the build number and talk about what's new so we'll go to the apple click on about this
mac and as you can see it says version 12.2.1 if we click on that you'll see the build number here
and i go over the build number just so that you understand that you're on the latest version
if you have the matching build number so that lets you know which version you're actually on
where it says 21d62 so that's the current version with this particular update so in this update
they fixed a major bug that quite a few people were having and quite a few messaged me about
and that has to do with battery so this update fixes the issue many had with battery draining
when the mac is sleeping and not plugged in at night so if you had it sleeping and then
also connected to bluetooth accessories when you put it to sleep it actually would cause problems
where it would drain the battery so maybe you have bluetooth accessories like me here you'll see it
could be a trackpad it could be a magic keyboard or anything else that would cause that excessive
battery drain and cause you to maybe wake up when you're ready to go and not have any battery life
now if you're leaving it plugged in like i am with an external monitor then you wouldn't notice this
problem however it's only on intel macs that have this problem so if you've noticed it on an m1 it
doesn't seem to resolve it however i haven't had that issue on the m1s it seems to be just related
to intel now other than that they haven't mentioned any other fixes in this particular
update so they're probably leaving most of those for mac os 12.3 that's currently in beta however
they did address some security updates as well so if we go to safari and we go to apple's security
website in the security website if you scroll down you can see the current versions of updates
so we have a safari update mac os monterey watch os and ios click on mac os monterey scroll down
and you can see what they've actually resolved it has to do with webkit which affects safari
so you'll see here it says processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code
execution apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited to fix
it or the description a use after free issue was addressed with improved memory management
and it was reported by an anonymous researcher this is the exact same issue that they resolved in
ios 15.3.1 so they've patched it here as well as far as any additional fixes or features or changes
or anything else they have not mentioned anything else in this update so there could be additional
security updates but we're not aware of any specific updates within this update now if you're
wondering if you should install this update well if you were having that battery drain issue then
absolutely also when it comes to security updates i highly recommend you install this update however
if you're a beta tester you won't see this update but you'll be able to use those new features such
as universal control and more so if you wanted to try those features out you could but the beta is
still a bit buggy i'd probably hold off if you were thinking of trying to install that however
if you're wondering when the final release will come out or when the betas will be out i would
expect the beta as soon as next week with beta 3 maybe a beta 4 the following week and then in
the first week of march maybe a release candidate and then a final release sometime around the 8th
when we expect a new apple event that's typically when we expect apple to release different things
and we can expect that then so we'll have universal control some additional features as well
and it looks like ios 15.4 and mac os 12.3 are really ramping up to have a lot of features but
we won't see a huge amount of features until wwdc in june usually within the first or second week
of june we'll have wwdc or the worldwide developer conference where we'll have ios 16 and mac os 13.
and we're not exactly sure of the actual name yet but many have said that it might be called mammoth
so we'll have to wait and see what they call that but we'll expect that along with watch os
9 and more hopefully a few surprises as well also in that beta is mention of reality os so it looks
like that's apple's new vr or ar headset os so maybe we'll see that as soon as wwdc but as far as
this particular update there's not a whole lot in it so we're just waiting for those final versions
where we can try out universal control that was promised last june now as far as overall battery
life battery life should be about the same as it was before where if you were not having that issue
with the battery drain it should be the same if you were well this should be greatly improved so
definitely worth installing to fix that specific issue and i typically leave this mac plugged in
so you're not going to see a whole lot of battery i wouldn't expect it to affect performance either
basically expect performance to be exactly the same no issues there and so that's everything in
mac os 12.2.1 of course i'm looking forward to that final version of 12.3 where we have
additional features such as universal control more control over our keychain with notes and
much much more i'm looking forward to that and hopefully we find even additional features that
we weren't expecting in the final release if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course
i'll link one in the description below it will be for the iphone so you can try that out yourself
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