Apple Releases macOS Big Sur 11.5 With Podcast App Updates and Bug Fixes

[SantaFeNM]

It has been pretty much impossible to play music from my library in Music to my stereo-paired, original HomePods using my M1 MacBook Air. It might start playing on both HomePods and then one would quickly drop out, or they'd both drop out, or just not play at all. Fingers crossed that between the HomePod update and this one, they've solved it.

UPDATE: The issues I outlined above seem to now be gone. HomePods are now playing nice with my M1 MacBook Air.

 

[nwcs]

Call me crazy but I miss the days of the tick tock for major OS releases. One to introduce new features then one to improve performance and security but introduce less. I’d like that approach more than major features every year for the sake of having something for marketing to float about every year.

 

[greenbreadmmm]

Call me crazy but I miss the days of the tick tock for major OS releases. One to introduce new features then one to improve performance and security but introduce less. I’d like that approach more than major features every year for the sake of having something for marketing to float about every year.

Let's go a step further and not force a yearly release of a major OS.


It clearly hasn't been working for apple

My gosh IOS is on .7 already?!

I remember when .3 meant it was perfect and done till next year.

 

[dspdoc]

Will there be a 11.6?

 

[MauiPa]

Will there be a 11.6?

likely as some devices, like my 2014 MBP sadly, cannot be upgraded to Monterey. They will keep supporting BigSur for years

 

[eas]

I hope they've fixed the Apple Music Lossless 15 second bug (static and/or silence 15s into a track).

My bet is that this does not fix the overall level of slow in Big Sur.

 

[deef]

I've got this on my M1 but I'm not seeing it on my 2016 MBP.

 

[allan.nyholm]

Indeed! I’ll reiterate my usual complaint that Apple provides totally deficient documentation for these updates.

I don’t expect an exhaustive set of release notes detailing every single fix, but the docs they release these days are almost nonexistent. There must be dozens or even hundreds of bug fixes in these point releases and they don’t document any of them.

Why is everything just a black box?

I agree with you.. especially when the update is nearly 3 GB in size. It's 3 GB to download, but if you keep track in Disk Utility on the actual size of the installation while it's unpacking and mounting - you'll see the size escalate to at least twice the size because of the compression used.

 

[jz0309]

Hopefully the Finder high CPU usage will be fixed… will be installing ASAP on my imac

installed and been running for like an hour now, and Finder CPU usage still shows at just under 40%
gonna monitor for the next day and if it doesn't resolve will try the full installer ...

 

[nt5672]

Indeed! I’ll reiterate my usual complaint that Apple provides totally deficient documentation for these updates.

I don’t expect an exhaustive set of release notes detailing every single fix, but the docs they release these days are almost nonexistent. There must be dozens or even hundreds of bug fixes in these point releases and they don’t document any of them.

Why is everything just a black box?

Because Apple thinks most of its users are too stupid to require anything more. And it would have to be vetted by Apple's marketing department and they, for sure, are too stupid to understand any release notes.

 

[onf]

Lucky guys.
In 8 hours I will have downloaded the full installer and then it only takes 3hrs to install (MBP 2015).
The main positive part is that my MBP is a lot more stable since big sur, but I hate that IPhone control center (when you stop the service, your clock disappears ...)

 

[Squuiid]

installed and been running for like an hour now, and Finder CPU usage still shows at just under 40%
gonna monitor for the next day and if it doesn't resolve will try the full installer ...

You need to COMMAND OPTION R your Mac, open disk utility, wipe the disk, and reinstall macOS my friend.

 

[Westside guy]

likely as some devices, like my 2014 MBP sadly, cannot be upgraded to Monterey. They will keep supporting BigSur for years

You're using a 7-year-old computer?! Quick, someone call Phil Schiller!

(says the guy whose own computer is a 2015 13" MacBook Pro... the best computer Apple's ever made)

 

[Feyl]

WOW, a whole OS update of 3.84GB to fix Apple Music, Podcast App and a Smartcard function.
/me shakes head

Yeah. And they said that the updates will be smaller.

 

[MauiPa]

I hope they've fixed the Apple Music Lossless 15 second bug (static and/or silence 15s into a track).

My bet is that this does not fix the overall level of slow in Big Sur.

I guess they did, cause it’s never happened to me.

 

[Xanderhoff]

Does it fix the kernel panics? That's all I need to know. What a POS.

 

[jwdsail]

Hopefully this will fix the Mail app deciding to randomly change the column width (really likes to double the date column width and cut the subject column to accommodate the remaining screen width.. been a PITA for a few people I know for while now...)

 

[jwdsail]

You're using a 7-year-old computer?! Quick, someone call Phil Schiller!

(says the guy whose own computer is a 2015 13" MacBook Pro... the best computer Apple's ever made)

I'd argue that my 2012 15" MacBook Pro (non-retina) may have been the true high-water mark in fit, finish, weight/feel in your hands, keyboard feel and durability, and serviceability/upgradability? (at least of all the Intel Mac laptops?) (I'm typing on it right now..)

I'm still on the fence between a used 15" 2015 and a new Intel 16" before the M1BookPro 16 ships?

Mainly because they'll pry my Aperture from my cold dead hands ... more than anything else? Also the TouchBar.. F the f'in TouchBar... and the Magic KB still isn't as good as the KB I'm typing on? So hard to justify spending so much money on something I'm going to hate using?

 

[Unsupported]

Hopefully this will fix the Mail app deciding to randomly change the column width (really likes to double the date column width and cut the subject column to accommodate the remaining screen width.. been a PITA for a few people I know for while now...)

It hasn't fixed the Notification bug(s) in Mail.app, ie: no or delayed alert sounds, etc.

 

[coldwaves]

Keep getting the error message "An error occurred while downloading the selected updates." Not sure what caused this as the download seems to be pretty fast.

 

[Westside guy]

Hopefully this will fix the Mail app deciding to randomly change the column width (really likes to double the date column width and cut the subject column to accommodate the remaining screen width.. been a PITA for a few people I know for while now...)

Oh wow - so I’m not the only one this is happening to!?

 

[AppleMad98004]

Lost the battery indicator in the menu bar.... Even with the check box ticked in System Preferences. Anyone else?

 

[jwdsail]

It hasn't fixed the Notification bug(s) in Mail.app, ie: no or delayed alert sounds, etc.

sigh...

Nt sounding promising.. but, thanks ..

sigh...

 

[jwdsail]

Oh wow - so I’m not the only one this is happening to!?

Nope, my Dad who just went form a 2014 MBP running Catalina(?) to a new 16 running Big Sur is ready to throw it into the Gulf of Mexico for this issue alone?
(Trackpad palm rejection issues also seem to be a problem? seems to be getting a lot of false inputs and he swears that there must be "Some F'in gestures still turned on" even though I've turned them all off because he hates them ...)

Says it's worse the the POS Dell a former employer made him use?

I have at least a few customers also seeing the issue, but they're... less swear-y?

 

[sdf]

macOS Big Sur 11.5 is likely to be one of the final updates to the macOS Big Sur operating system as Apple shifts its attention to macOS Monterey, which is set to be released this fall.

List of Catalina updates after Big Sur was released:

• 19G73
• 19G2021
• 19H2
• 19H4
• 19H15
• 19H114
• 19H512
• 19H524
• 19H1030
• 19H1217