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Apple Releases macOS Big Sur 11.3 With M1 Optimizations, AirTag Integration, Updated Controller Support, Apple Music Updates and More

rickeames said:
Am I the only one for whom it took 4 hours to download the update? I'm on a gig network, over ethernet, and it crawled all day long.
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Quite possibly. You download the update from a Content Delivery Network, not Apple servers. If the CDN you happen to be using - or your connectivity - is playing up, you can get lengthy download times.
 
I don't think APPLE'S next macOS announced in June will run on Intel Chips.
I think Intel Macs will be left with Big Sur half baked and full of bugs on Intel Macs. Leaving Intel Mac users to upgrade to APPLE silicon Macs or be stuck on Catalina which runs much better on Intel Macs
This may have been done on purpose to get people to move to ARM Macs. A forever broken OS.
And all the issues with the current M1 Macs will be ironed out in the next release in June.
 
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Freeangel1 said:
I don't think APPLE'S next macOS announced in June will run on Intel Chips.
I think Intel Macs will be left with Big Sur half baked and full of bugs on Intel Macs. Leaving Intel Mac users to upgrade to APPLE silicon Macs or be stuck on Catalina which runs much better on Intel Macs
This may have been done on purpose to get people to move to ARM Macs. A forever broken OS.
And all the issues with the current M1 Macs will be ironed out in the next release in June.
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I have absolutely NO issues with Big Sur, running a MacBook Pro 13, early 2015.

Freeangel1 said:
I'm waiting for 11.4 update. This is scary. too many people having issues.
Big Sur worse than Windows Vista.
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Did a clean install, coming from Mojave. The only thing that did not work out was using Photoshop CS6. The experience using a modern replacement for this was great, too.

So, for me, upgrading to Big Sur was just a good thing.
 
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macOS 11.3 did not fix disconnecting USB-C Ethernet dongles with M1 Macs.

I'm tired of unplugging and plugging the dongle every time MacBook Air wakes from sleep.
 
Freeangel1 said:
I don't think APPLE'S next macOS announced in June will run on Intel Chips.
I think Intel Macs will be left with Big Sur half baked and full of bugs on Intel Macs. Leaving Intel Mac users to upgrade to APPLE silicon Macs or be stuck on Catalina which runs much better on Intel Macs
This may have been done on purpose to get people to move to ARM Macs. A forever broken OS.
And all the issues with the current M1 Macs will be ironed out in the next release in June.
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Remember kids, don't drink the bong water. Paranoia is real.
 
Aggedor said:
So do you mean we can create a custom CSS sheet as described, and select it from that Safari preference, and it'll solve the font issue?
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You can create a custom css file with whatever rules you want applied, and select it in Safari and it'll be loaded for all pages you visit, yes.

Whether that fixes the problem is another question - but that's down to whether the referenced CSS properties fix what is 'broken', and is unrelated to how the stylesheet gets loaded.
 
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iAssimilated said:
I installed (updated to) 11.3 this morning and so far everything has been working as expected. Bonus: got updated AMD video drivers.
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How do you check if you got updated AMD drivers.

For some strange reason, OS X is now smoother with this update. So I wonder if it is due to updated AMD drivers.
 
So I've updated macOS and iOS for the Xbox Series X controller support... and it only appears to work on iOS and not on macOS. That is both iOS and macOS see the controller and it goes to "Connected" but games (e.g. Butter Royale) says it detects a controller, but it doesn't respond to any inputs at all via macOS, but everything works via iOS.

When I first connected the controller to the macOS, it said the controller needed a firmware update.
So I connected it to Windows, updated firmware OK.
Re-connected; still failed.

So I removed battery from controller, removed connection from macOS, tried again, same issue.
Also tested this on the latest tvOS and it works fine, so it's related to the macOS alone.

Is anyone else having this issue?
Any ideas to try and resolve this?

THINGS TRIED TO NO AVAIL:
- Restarting MacBook
- Resetting Bluetooth Module
- Deleting com.apple.Bluetooth.plist and rebooting
 
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schrodinger_cat said:
So, if someone also can't stand font smoothing, here is how you can disable it on newer Safari versions:

1. Download any app, that allows injecting custom styles for web pages (I'm using Cascadea).
2. Creat a CSS style that applies to all webpages with following:

CSS: 
html {
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}

3. You're good to go.
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I tried that, but it doesn't seem to be working. At least not on all websites.
I put the following in a text file, saved it as .css, and then had Safari use it as a style sheet, right?
html {
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}
 
nmeed said:
I tried that, but it doesn't seem to be working. At least not on all websites.
I put the following in a text file, saved it as .css, and then had Safari use it as a style sheet, right?
html {
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}
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That worked for me.
 
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Soondae said:
I have a 2018 Mac Mini and run Big Sur with no issues whatsoever, and I connect wirelessly to scanner/printer and my NAS drives.
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Thanks. No display issues over any cable that is not HDMI? That has been an issues on Mojave and still is on Catalina... Apple seems to hate the mac mini :p
 
nmeed said:
I tried that, but it doesn't seem to be working. At least not on all websites.
I put the following in a text file, saved it as .css, and then had Safari use it as a style sheet, right?
html {
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}
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It may be getting overridden by site styles. Try changing the `html` bit to `*` (asterisk) and at the end of the second line, put ` !important` just before the semi-colon.
 
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Freeangel1 said:
I don't think APPLE'S next macOS announced in June will run on Intel Chips.
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What in the world? Apple still sells Intel based Macs right now as I type this.
MBP 16", iMac 27", Mac Pro and still the iMac 21".
You can buy the base model iMac 21" right now. Support will not be cut anytime soon.

Remember Power PC to Intel transition? It was almost 4 years before Apple dropped MacOS support on Power PC.
 
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Stephen.R said:
It may be getting overridden by site styles. Try changing the `html` bit to `*` (asterisk) and at the end of the second line, put ` !important` just before the semi-colon.
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So it will look like:

* {
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased !important;
}

Is that correct? I tried the original, but it didn't change anything.
 
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Actually, it's not just Safari - Apple Mail is also ignoring the font smoothing tweak. I've re-applied it from Terminal and restarted, but no luck.

Seems Apple have killed this particular work around.
 
I have weird sound errors with the M1 now when I listen to music, the speakers crackle now with 11.3.

So nothing fixed but couple of new bugs like can't quit Mail it get stuck then...

No response in the nice Feedback Assistant...

And no response by the Apple Support, they closing the tickets without answering or any solution.
 
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