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Apple releases macOS Catalina Supplemental Update with iCloud Login fix

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In conjunction with an iOS update, Apple has also released a supplemental update to macOS Catalina, eradicating a bug that was forcing iCloud logins for some users dozens of times a day.

Apple says that beyond the iCloud Login update, the update will improve installation reliability on computers with low available space, rectifies a Setup Assistant completion problem that was forcing users to restart their machine during the initial login, resolves an iCloud Terms and Conditions acceptance issue, and improves the reliability of iCloud saves of Apple Arcade data.

It does not appear that there are any security updates at all in the update.

Following months of beta testing, Apple's macOS Catalina was released on October 7. Among the most notable changes are Sidecar allowing an iPad to be used as a second screen, the split of iTunes into several applications, and the death of 32-bit applications.



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karmadave 16 Years · 369 comments

Thanks Apple for fixing this annoying ‘feature’ of MacOS Catalina!

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davgreg 10 Years · 1053 comments

Macs are Phoning home like Microsoft or Google these days.

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fastasleep 15 Years · 6455 comments

davgreg said:
Macs are Phoning home like Microsoft or Google these days.

How exactly would iCloud anything work without phoning home?

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lkrupp 20 Years · 10521 comments

davgreg said:
Macs are Phoning home like Microsoft or Google these days.
How exactly would iCloud anything work without phoning home?

He doesn’t know. It just sounded good. You know, the evil corporation surveilling your life meme.

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charlieF 6 Years · 8 comments

karmadave said:
Thanks Apple for fixing this annoying ‘feature’ of MacOS Catalina!

Except it hasn't for me.

I'm still getting this annoying little bug.... every few minutes.

My worst however, is iPad syncing: PDFs don't show up. At all... so they can't be synced. RAW image files aren't syncing to iPad either. And Catalina successfully wiped nearly 370GB of images from my iPad too (They're on my HD of course).

Not very happy right now. :(