If we can’t stay on the subject of these particular updates, I’ll close the topic.
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The false appearance of disagreement is a question of the semantics of “patch”.
When patch means workarounds, what in physical systems is also called “jury rigged”, patches are points of weakness, as bjbear71 notes.
When patch means repair or extension, a patch can strengthen or extend the capacity. This is the sense I intended.
Patching so that it works as intended makes macOS stronger. Unfortunately, the properly functioning system software then reveals the weakness introduced by patches to application software, that has been jury rigged to work around System software failings.
And now it seems that Apple has re-released iOS 17.6.1 and iPadOS 17.6.1, presumably to fix something very small.
I wonder if the fix was to address the Apple Fitness+ issues fixed in watchOS and presumably tvOS.
Interesting … I’m not seeing it in Software Update. I checked that I wasn’t on the beta path as well, no go.
Apparently on some iPhones, the newer build of 17.6.1 is not available OTA (software update), but can be installed via the finder if one connects the iPhone to a Mac directly. Since Apple has not explained what the newer build changed, not sure if it is worth the effort.
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