iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited

Pro tip for anyone wanting to avoid liquid [gl]ass and install iOS 18.7.3: Apple is actively hiding 18.7.3 on most iPhones, despite the update showing on iPads. Perhaps a mistake, perhaps an attempt to force 26 onto users.

Simply select "iOS 18 Developer Beta" under beta updates (might need a developer account) and it will allow you to install it. The update currently offered is the production release.

It's unfortunate that Apple has taught me (and I assume others as well) over the last 15 years that the best practice is to never install a major OS update.

It seems clear to me that they use OS updates as a way to eventually slow your device down so the lag becomes so annoying that you want to purchase a new device.

(Edit: And the really obnoxious part is that they force you to receive upgrade prompts every single day and you can't disable it.)

> Apple today released iOS 26.2, iPadOS 26.2, and macOS 26.2

For those as confused as me, I'm on macOS 15.6.1, and it seems for the next version they aligned everything and I do indeed see an update for "macOS Tahoe 26.2". However, I also see a Sequoia 15.7.3 update dated at the same time and together in the same upgrade blog post (and for Sonoma 14.8.3, kudos), so for those that doesn't seem to want to do the jump now into Liquid Glass, that seems available:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/100100

Note: I had to click the [i], then unselect the "macOS Tahoe 26.2" and select the "macOS Sequoia 15.7.3" manually to avoid a full upgrade.

Somehow my phone auto-updated to iOS 26. My advice is don't do it. Litreally everything is worse.

Apple use to put function first, then form followed, then polished till it was a natural experience.

I have a powerful MacBook Pro M2 Max with 32 GB of RAM. I updated it to macOS 26 since that it became a lot slower than my MacBook Air M1 with just 16 GB of RAM that I left on macOS Sequoia 15.7.x… What an irony given that my MacBook Pro has way better hardware specs.

So far all of the comments are about the glass ui...I'm glad the bugs were squashed. Nice! But am curious what the metric is for determining when to push out security updates. Did they have 19 accumulated and were like "hey let's just wait til 1 more comes through"?

Backport please? I don’t want glass ui

I don't have one of these devices.

Do I understand correctly that they just switched to calver, but called the 2025 release "version 26" for marketing reasons (like year numbers for car models)?

You will not think about liquid glass after a day, especially if you turn on the new options. There's no need for everyone here to contort themselves into not installing these updates. The new features in all the OS upgrades are very much worth it.

You're not going to add text message spam filtering to your phone because they changed the border radius or blur or whatever?

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Liquid Glass is now mandatory if you care about security. Sigh.

I wanted to like it too, but some of the new UI modals of iOS 26 are just awful.