26.5.2 Updates Squash Vulnerabilities in macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Safari

[ace (Adam Engst)]

@Simon

I would not have expected it from a simple security update, but sure enough, after installing 26.5.2 on my M4 Pro 14", all the MS-ish auto tiling stuff under Settings > Desktop & Dock > Windows got turned back on.

This is exactly what SetShot is designed to identify. I was hoping to catch macOS doing something like this here, but nothing untoward happened.

Beta testing SetShot

Hey folks, I’ve written a full-fledged Mac app called SetShot that’s designed to take snapshots of nearly everything you’ve configured in System Settings, after which you can compare any two snapshots to see what has changed. I’ll be writing several articles about it and the process of creating it in TidBITS, but before I release it more broadly, I’m hoping a few people here will be interested in taking a look as a sanity check. Why might you want to take settings snapshots? macOS updates: H…