I’m sorry but that’s just silly. Intel
Macs will be supoorted for years to come with macOS updates. Big Sur is a disaster on M1 as it is on Intel. If you are on Intel, why not revert to Catalina?
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Apple Releases macOS Big Sur 11.3 With M1 Optimizations, AirTag Integration, Updated Controller Support, Apple Music Updates and More
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Macs will be supoorted for years to come with macOS updates. Big Sur is a disaster on M1 as it is on Intel. If you are on Intel, why not revert to Catalina?
A major issue is fixed in 11.3 on M1 Macs vis-a-vis external displays. In my case, M1 didn’t work with a 5K external display via a direct USB-C to DP1.4 cable in previous versions of 11.x. Now it works beautifully with 11.3. I reported this issue to Apple in December 2020. It only took them 4 months to fix it.
Yes. If you can reference a site where it doesn’t work that would help (or does it not work at all?)
Which monitor? Which resolution? Which cable?
I’ve tried a Cabeconn and Moshi USB-C to DP1.4 cables, and both work perfectly now with my 5K display that has a DP1.4 port. Before 11.3, M1 couldn’t detect the monitor at all via either direct cable (I had to insert an OWC USB-C to dual-DP adapter for M1 to be able to detect the 5K display). The 13” 2020 MacBook Pro (10th generation Intel CPU) could detect the 5K monitor with the Cableconn cable but not with the Moshi cable in any version of macOS 11.x prior to 11.3.
M1 can also properly wake up my monitor now via USB-C to DP1.4 cable with macOS 11.3. I did have issues with an HDMI connection from the M1 to the same monitor’s HDMI interface in the past. It was almost impossible to get the M1 to detect the monitor via HDMI. M1 also couldn’t wake up the monitor. I haven’t tried HDMI to the monitor with 11.3 because the DP connection is working beautifully, and HDMI can’t deliver 5K (as the monitor has HDMI 2.0, which maxes out at 4K @60Hz).
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It doesn't work on Twitter, and various news sites. But font smoothing seems to be disabled across all of Big Sur for me - Apple Mail's fonts are looking very fat.
Right that's possibly a different problem then (although mail does use webkit to render messages).
Does it affect stuff like menus, Pages documents, TextEdit, etc? Or just stuff in web views (i.e. safari pages, mail, App Store/iTunes Store/etc pages... the Messages message pane (they are still webkit based right?) look 'correct' or.. 'fat' ?
I can't compare for myself, I'm not even on Big Sur yet (mostly due to lack of time to do it more than deliberate waiting now, although that was the original reason for not upgrading yet)
Doesn't seem to be menus or other app/OS elements. The fat text in Mail is just in the message contents, not my inbox previews or anything else. No elements in Safari look fat except web pages (although weirdly, as someone else said, not MacRumors).
Text in Pages looks normal. Same with Notes and TextEdit. I did think text in MS Word looks fat, but that might be my imagination.
So perhaps it IS an issue with webkit rendering rather than system font smoothing?
Definitely sounds like that's the case.
So the problem may not be that Safari's defaults have changed (which that stylesheet could override) but that the implementation of font smoothing has changed somehow, so it's not that it doesn't know what you're asking it to do, it's that it's doing the wrong thing (or maybe nothing) to achieve that.
It won't help with Mail/etc but you could try installing either Safari Tech preview, or a Webkit nightly (both linked from https://webkit.org/downloads/) to see if either of them resolves the issue.
It seems that the new default WebKit stylesheet set font smoothing to `subpixel-antialiased`, and since Mail (along with a ton of other apps) is using WebKit, font crappiness sneaks everywhere now.
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Seems WebKit just ignores the system setting for font-smoothing now, which makes sense since it was removed from System Preferences UI.
Still same issue with m1 mbp - https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/676162
update gets fully downloaded then says it failed to download]will try safe mode as suggested at the end of linked thread
update gets fully downloaded then says it failed to download]will try safe mode as suggested at the end of linked thread
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Updated to 11.3 this morning. After the Reboot my 2012 wired Apple Keyboard stopped working on my 2019 iMac. Once connected over a USB-A -> USB-C Adapter to one of the Thunderbolt Ports it works like a charm but on none of the USB 2 Ports... The Keyboard was brand new out of the box like 3 Months old (despite being an old Modell A1243 - the one with USB Hubs left and right and the 10-digit Keyboard). However the Keyboard was untouched during the Update and refuses to work on the 11.3 Mac. SMC and NVRAM Reset did not help. Keyboard does not respond during Boot or in Recovery Mode. Works only when attached via the USB-C Adapter....
Any hints?
Any hints?
I'm using some side loaded apps which I don't understand are not on M1 app store, and I'm sad to see them go:
- Philips hue to control my smart bulbs.
- B&O app to control my speakers and adjust settings which can only be accessed via iOS app.
- Sony app to adjust the settings of their wireless headphones, again an app which should be on app store.
- Tado app to control my termostats and have extra features which the homekit app doesn't include.
- Streaming apps like HBO, Disney app and others which are nice and fast to start for the kids
- Social media apps like Instagram and others.
- Weather & UV Index apps
- Hueparty (a hit with the kids)
And other apps not worth to mention. But I really hope Apple would just let it slide and focus on making it less easy to get the apps sideloaded, not block them completely....
I was wondering if we can tweak default styles for WebKit as we do for Safari, but I'm not sure there are accessible.
Maybe someone with more intimate knowledge of macOS/WebKit can chime in and help as currently, this is a mess.
Affected apps are:
Music (Apple Music interface), Books (books content), Mail (message content).
Even 3rd party apps are affected like Dash.
So the css line above works for safari then? I wasn’t sure from the other commenters reply if it was effective or not.
In theory WebKit has a user agent default stylesheet. But in practice I don’t know if that’s a literal file for the system WebKit or if it’s internalised. I’m waiting for my Mini to install the Catalina security update I’ll see what I can find when it’s done.
Intel apps working fine here on my M1 MBA.
The CSS line seems to work for some people, but not for others. Not sure if this is genuine, or reporting errors. Likewise, some people say the old Terminal tweak works.
I've tried both, and neither make any difference. It IS hard to gauge sometimes, as websites like this one and this forum appear to be unaffected by the fat font syndrome.
One of my Steam games (Northgard) reports the driver version on its menu screen. The version went from 4.2.15 (11.2.3) to 4.4.17 (11.3). Sorry, I don't remember the last number in the updated driver and I am not currently at home. I can check tonight if you would like.
EDIT: Verified and updated version number.
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