Yeah I’m honestly not sure why macOS updates seem to be so huge. Often gigabytes. Do they actually have thousands of changes, so they basically ship out new versions of almost all system libraries? Or is it that they don’t have good diffing in place? Or is it a BSD thing where you basically ship everyone at once since it’s all sort of “one version” of the base system?

> Yeah I’m honestly not sure why macOS updates seem to be so huge.

An update to macOS 26.5 contains all the necessary code to update a Mac from 26.0 to 26.5 for both x86_64 and arm64 architectures.