Apple today released macOS Sierra 10.12.3 which:
• Improves automatic graphics switching on MacBook Pro (15-inch, October 2016)
• Resolves graphics issues while encoding Adobe Premiere Pro projects on MacBook Pro with Touch Bar (13- and 15-inch, October 2016)
• Fixes an issue that prevented the searching of scanned PDF documents in Preview
For more detailed information about this update, please visit: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT207462
For detailed information about the security content of this update, please visit: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222
MacDailyNews Take: Yeeesss, it’s snappy!
Snappy though it may be, as you say, but does it do anything for my anemic battery life on this 13″ MBP w/TB?????
Good luck with that one returned mine with its whopping 5.5 hour battery life. God awful.
Not showing up in Software Update nor in Apple Support downloads as of 3:06 pm EST – was it pulled already?
Just checked again, it’s there now. Never mind!
Apple did a lousy job of quality assurance in Sierra’s PDFKit code, making changes that were not ready for prime time and that caused serious problems for people who scan and OCR digital copies of documents, or edit existing copies of searchable PDFs. Still another nasty bug was introduced in Sierra 10.12.2 (editing a searchable PDF made it nonsearchable), which I’m pleased to see corrected in 10.12.3.
I’m really critical of Apple for not considering the comments of developers and beta users about these PDF issues, which were horrendous, and pushing ahead with their release of Sierra.
Bricked my mid-2011 Mac mini. Beware!
@Allen Any update on this? Are you sure it’s the 10.12.3 update that did it? We you able to recover?
So far, no good. I keep booting up to a white screen with a mouse pointer. I even talked with Apple on the phone and they were unable to fix it over the phone. Going to have to take it to the Apple Store. Though the Mac mini I have is somewhat older, they’ll fix it for free since this is a MacOS problem
Also I only updated from 10.12.1, so this wasn’t a massive update for the Mac or anything. Yeah, this was updating to 10.12.3
When exactly did Apple adopted the “get it out and fix it later” philosophy? I never know any more whether an update is going to fix a problem or brick my desktop. The odds seem to be 50/50.
Updated yesterday. This morning got a message my machine was running out of application memory and asking what apps I wanted to Force Quit. Have not see that message in decades. I have 8 GB in a MBP 2016. Have to admit this is the least impressive new Mac I have ever purchased. Issues waking after sleeping overnight, freezes, black screen non-responsive, etc. Was hoping the OS upgrade would help and it does seem to lessen the flashing monitors when awakening, but now the memory issue!
That summarizes the current state of the Mac very well. Bad leadership has not been doing right by its users. Mac owners deserve much better products especially after enduring the last several years of Apple’s price gouging for disposable products that are not class leading anymore.
No night shift yet on Sierra?