Are updates released to all users at the same time?

[ArkSingularity]

Hello everyone,

I have been hearing about Monterey 12.5 for a couple of weeks now and always try to keep my system up to date (especially with the buggy nature of Monterey and the memory leak issues that have been progressively improving on each point release). It looks like 12.5 was in fact released a couple weeks ago (July 20), but my system is still running on 12.4 and is not showing any updates available when I manually check for updates.

I know Microsoft usually doesn't release all updates to all users at once, and tends to push them to a percentage of their users at a time to make sure they can catch any issues. Wasn't sure if Apple was doing something similar, or if perhaps 12.5 was released only for specific devices at this time. (I'm running a 2020 M1).

Is anyone still running on 12.4, and if so, has Apple begun pushing update notifications for you yet?

 

[Mike Boreham]

In my experience updates are released to everyone simultaneously, and a manual Software Update check should find them. Automatic updating can be very variable.

Sometimes clicking "Advanced" in the Software Update Pref Pane, then OK, refreshes and finds things. (Cmd+R doesn't seem to work).

You could download 12.5 from the App Store (Monterey in Search box finds it) or there are Terminal commands to force an SU check which might work.

 

[ArkSingularity]

Sometimes clicking "Advanced" in the Software Update Pref Pane, then OK, refreshes and finds things. (Cmd+R doesn't seem to work).

This did the trick. No idea why the normal manual check process failed, but clicking the advanced menu and then closing it caused it to recheck and to find it.

Problem solved, many thanks!

 

[BanditoB]

If you have Automatic updates enabled, then the roll out of updates is varied to keep the load on Apple's servers manageable.

If you manually check for the update or use Mike Boreham's trick, you should get them right away.

 

[bogdanw]

there are Terminal commands to force an SU check which might work.

The Terminal command to check for software updates is:

softwareupdate -l

Close System Preferences before running it.