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Apple Releases First macOS Sequoia Public Beta With iPhone Mirroring and More
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It's all fun and games until your banking app doesn't work on the beta!
The only thing is, the firmware is part of the beta. So you're installing beta firmware on the Mac even if you use a second APFS container.
It's probably fine, but if that's your one and only Mac that you rely on, it's risky.
Honestly you may as well. Sonoma fixes lots of Ventura bugs and doesn't seem to have introduced any big ones, especially at this point.
Anyone seeing anything good or bad with VS Code, Docker Desktop, Onedrive, Teams, or Zoom?
I have three Macs and run beta stuff on a separate volume on one of them, so it's not a big deal, but it's more fun to play with the public beta when my main apps work.
I have three Macs and run beta stuff on a separate volume on one of them, so it's not a big deal, but it's more fun to play with the public beta when my main apps work.
And you can't roll back without wiping your machine and starting from scratch or from a backup you did 6-months ago!
Anyone running the public beta - with iPhone screen sharing what happens if it needs Face ID, can you use Touch ID on the Mac or have you actually got to go and physically access the phone. If it's the latter it makes the thing a bit useless for me.
So tempted to install this to try out the phone mirroring. But I'm also scared it'll break World of Warcraft. I reckon I'll just make a time machine backup and risk it for the biscuit. I have a backup machine if it all goes wrong.
iPhone mirroring is a bit of a joke - it works via Bluetooth so if your phone is in another room of your house the chances are it won't connect...
The best I can get is approximately 20' away...
The best I can get is approximately 20' away...
I'm honestly not sure what is the benefit of iPhone mirroring. Back in my Windows Phone and Android days, I mirrored the phone to get calls and texts on my laptop, but this works already without mirroring. I can't think of any phone apps that I'd like to run on my Mac.
For starters it provides another way to multitask applications. If you have iPhone display showing as a fixed resolution for some portion of your desktops screen it allows one to have a superior way to use some common apps in place of the Mac application. Take Music for example, you have a choice of a large window interface or the very small miniplayer. The iPhone allow you to see a much more useful interface for using Music while taking up far less screen. Classical is a variation of that only exists currently for iPhone and iPad more recently. Anyone with a Mac knows that you have to specifically search for Apple Classical to arrive at its interface. So using the iPhone mirroring presents more choices on how to setup your desktop screen using the iPhone as a 2nd ARM computing device with different app interfaces at the same time on your Mac desktop.