Apple addresses macOS Big Sur issue with upcoming fixes

SAN FRANCISCO: Apple has aimed to address and prevent a glitch in its macOS Big Sur release that resulted in server-side issues and failed third-party app launches for users owing to a bug.

The company last week officially released macOS Big Sur as a free software update which is the biggest Mac update in years and brings new design enhancements to Safari, Messages, Maps, and privacy, and is engineered for Apples powerful in-house M1 chip.

Afterwards, third-party apps failed to launch as Mac couldn't check the developer certificate of the app.

macOS includes a technology called Gatekeeper, that's designed to ensure that only trusted software runs on your Mac.

"Gatekeeper performs online checks to verify if an app contains known malware and whether the developer's signing certificate is revoked," Apple said in a security update.

"We have never combined data from these checks with information about Apple users or their devices. We do not use data from these checks to learn what individual users are launching or running on their devices". (IANS

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