Rapid Security Response: how Apple wants to fix your Mac or MacBook at lightning speed

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Do you use a Mac or MacBook? Then according to Apple, you would do well to download a specific update as soon as possible. Namely, this update includes Rapid Security Response. Although such an update has come out before for iPhone (twice, even), this is the first time we’ve encountered it on macOS.

The update is now available to anyone with a Mac or MacBook, in beta form. So this is the first time such an update has reached this platform. And as a result, we don’t know for now whether it actually addresses problems. It may also be that Apple is testing the functionality once through the macOS beta.

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By the way, as a beta tester, you don’t have to do much to download the update. Because it automatically installs your Mac or MacBook the moment you start your computer. In addition, it is good to know that Safari also automatically updates when you start that application afterwards.

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Apple previously released the Rapid Security Response twice for iPhone. Fortunately, in both cases that was a test, so it has not yet been needed to address critical issues. Apple is doing this to make sure the feature works when it would actually be needed some day.

Apple addresses issues

And that’s nice to know. Because until now, Mac and MacBook users had to wait for Apple to address issues with major software releases. The company previously wasn’t really able to respond quickly to critical issues. But now it seems that so it can, allowing users to work safely.

Exactly what Rapid Security Response means is now beyond guessing. This functionality allows Apple to release important updates to Mac, MacBook and iPhone incredibly quickly, fixing problems just after they pop up.

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