Apple Releases First Public Beta of macOS Catalina to Public Beta Testers

[Cyberpower678]

I’m surprised there’s no iOS public beta. Compared to macOS, iOS 13 seems ready for prime time.

 

[flexiboy1912]

Stay clear!!! I tried and had to revert back on 2 devices. New music and tv app don't work , lots and lots of crashes and restarts. Very unstable at the moment.

 

[dominiongamma]

I’m surprised there’s no iOS public beta. Compared to macOS, iOS 13 seems ready for prime time.

They don’t want a mess up like iOS 11 which had too many bugs in the final release

 

[TMRJIJ]

Thing is, joe public aren’t going to know about this. You need to seek out the PB’s to be able to install them.

You’d think anyway.

The Average Joe knows how to use Twitter and Snapchat and will find themselves on this Beta. Trust me, I've seen it on my College Campus. About 3 out of 10 Joes will take the bait and 1 will complain.
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Stay clear!!! I tried and had to revert back on 2 devices. New music and tv app don't work , lots and lots of crashes and restarts. Very unstable at the moment.

Beta software is Beta

 

[theodorr]

Apple’s Beta Software site is under maintenance rn... I wonder if we’ll see a public beta for iOS today

 

[dominiongamma]

Apple’s Beta Software site is under maintenance rn... I wonder if we’ll see a public beta for iOS today

It’s coming today

 

[Mike Haas]

I hope. My trash bin is way too full. I could really use that emptying function now.

Eh? B2 trash empties just fine for me - I'm sorry you're having an issue. I'm hoping that home sharing works in B3. The option is there but I can't connect on either the iPhone (ios 13 B2) or the Apple TV 4.

 

[jbachandouris]

Not sure if I should try this on my early 2015 rMBP...

 

[ChronicLynx]

I’m not sure how they could launch this given the current state of things. They should have at least waited for another build. Some of you have no issues apparently, but the issues that do exist for some are very bad.

 

[ian-frs]

If I could actually get my second monitor to work with my hub then the beta isn't the worst I've seen, but god help anyone who wants a second monitor to work with a usb c hub.

 

[Realityck]

This is really early. Although Catalina is about to become the best macOS release in years, it's very buggy at this time with some critical bugs still there.

Just for comparison, June 25, 2018 for Apple issues first public betas of iOS 12 and tvOS 12 and June 26 2018, for Apple rolls out first public beta of macOS 10.14 Mojave. So about the same as last year.

 

[chrisdazzo]

For reference, Dev beta 2 build was 19A487l.
Public beta 1 build is 19A487m. Not much of a difference - if you ask me, I'm still waiting for Public beta 2 or 3.

Thanks @Realityck for the build #.

 

[Internet Enzyme]

That graphic, with inverted "atali" is stunningly ugly. I can't believe Apple did that... (assuming that's the official beta testing header - I tried clicking through but all I get is an "We're Busy" on a gray page).

No, that's just a dumb custom MacRumors photoshop blending flub

 

[Realityck]

For reference, Dev beta 2 build was 19A487l.
Public beta 1 build is tbd. Site is back up.

Public beta 1 is 19A487m

 

[iBungie]

Now available in UK
Started download

 

[JilzVT]

Public beta 1 is 19A487m

Wow. Add me to the list of those who thinks it's nowhere near ready for even a public beta release.

 

[justperry]

Now available in UK
Started download

Be careful installing this, it's by no means as stable as last years betas, Mojave was a lot more stable.
Think this one is the least stable one since I started using OS X almost 2 decades ago, well, the first beta wasn't that stable.
It's quite a mess, Time Machine/Finder being the worst ones, lots of services crashes too.
I was losing more and more space on beta 1, the more I deleted the less space I got, a terminal showed me I had just 1 Local backup, disk repair showed 12, got me thinking, but someone told me to switch of automatic ™ backup, I instantly got my space back and now could update to beta 2.
Time Machine takes forever to finish backups, last time before I switched it off it took hours to backup 1 GB, and it was hanging at 160 MB.

 

[GadgetBen]

Here comes the public complaining about battery life and bugs in a beta.

Try and understand, a Beta tester is a developer. A Public Beta tester is an Apple fan that can't wait. Apple will be aware of this trend and it is not going to change as more and more people will want the software early.

Especially now all of the media outlets are publishing articles explaining how the average Joe can get hold of it. Do a Google search for iOS13 and you'll see.

 

[urbanmacUser]

(19A487m)

 

[outskirtsofinfinity]

No, that's just a dumb custom MacRumors photoshop blending flub

OMG, now they just did one for watchOS and iOS as well! Help, how can I ever unsee this...

 

[Realityck]

Try and understand, a Beta tester is a developer. A Public Beta tester is an Apple fan that can't wait. Apple will be aware of this trend and it is not going to change as more and more people will want the software early.

Your looking at this wrong. If you have a fairly complex OS product environment and your trying to capture OS issues expediently or more thoroughly you can make use of external participants to increase the variance of testing platforms against normal workflow usage or third party app usage with a public beta program. Yes you see a large uptick on less experienced Apple enthusiasts participation, but you gain a lot of experienced/enterprise professionals also.

 

[coolfactor]

This is really early. Although Catalina is about to become the best macOS release in years, it's very buggy at this time with some critical bugs still there.

If they haven't incorporated the Finder improvements (Get Info window?), or fixed the slowness of the System Preferences application, I say it won't be the "best". No idea why those oversights keep missing the boat.

And I want Xgrid to return. It was such a promising feature, no idea why it was killed off. We have the networks and processing power now. Let's use it!
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That graphic, with inverted "atali" is stunningly ugly. I can't believe Apple did that... (assuming that's the official beta testing header - I tried clicking through but all I get is an "We're Busy" on a gray page).

It seems to be related to their new advertising campaign .... 'That is iPhone'.... where they are using the stark white-black contrast throughout.

 

[outskirtsofinfinity]

It seems to be related to their new advertising campaign .... 'That is iPhone'.... where they are using the stark white-black contrast throughout.

That could be. To me, it's as unfortunate as that iPhone wallpaper of Jupiter (or is it a soap bubble?) that they use in advertising which makes the iPhone looks really fat, like it's bulging out.

Anyway.

 

[Mike Haas]

Well...I was really hoping for Dev B3. I have to say I'm not digging the separate Music and Apple TV apps even though the separation needed to happen since on the Mac, iTunes was always bloated. I think my issue is with the Apple TV app itself, probably because it represents (yet another) Apple service. On the Apple TV, there is an Apple TV app, for which we show no purchases. There is a separate "iTunes TV Shows" and "iTunes Movies" wherein our purchases are listed. This all seems cludgy and I'm curious if they will discontinue the "iTunes" versions and move our purchases into the Apple TV app/service schema.

I have home sharing turned on in Sys Prefs and the Apple TV recognizes I'm sharing a library but cannot connect to it. Same story on the iPhone (iOS 13). The music library works but not my own TV shows or movies. I know it's early but when something I consider that important (our Apple TV is our Home Theater System) it gives me the collywobbles. Plex works - but only if I use the VLC app to connect to the UPnP Plex service (!!!). Good 'ol Air Video Server HD and client are working wonderfully well. Naturally, it's no longer being maintained...

I installed the public Apple TV OS beta - no change in home sharing connectivity.

 

[ikir]

For those with an Apple Watch set up to unlock the Mac, there's now an option to approve security prompts in Catalina by tapping on the side button of the watch. Macs with a T2 chip in them also support Activation Lock, making them useless to thieves much as it does on the iPhone.

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