Apple Releases macOS Catalina 10.15.1 Update With New Emoji and AirPods Pro Support

[Ethosik]

10.15.1 for AirPod Pro support? eeesh.

Yes. Apple is disappointing me so much lately. Meanwhile my $4,500 2019 iMac gets 4+ kernel panics a day. But let’s release an update for AirPods and emojis. Great work Apple.

 

[chucker23n1]

Unfortunately that did not work for me

It told me there were no updates available

It's possible you're simply behind a CDN that's taking a few more hours to cache the update.

What does

defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate CatalogURL

say?

 

[ElectricPotato]

4GB of the 4.5GB update is bug fixes.

The other 500MB is emojis.

 

[Fiachers]

I find it comical that Apple takes the time to point out that "over 70" new emoji's have been added to the release (and even give said update its own section in the announcement!).

It really gives you a sense of where Apple's priorities are these days... is there an emoji for that?

OMG Would you people STOP? They are only implementing unicode updates. It's the same idiotic posts about "emoji's" every single update.

 

[Macintosh1984]

The recently released 10.15.1 update solves, at least for me, the problem of incorrect icons!

 

[TTTedP]

OMG Would you people STOP? They are only implementing unicode updates. It's the same idiotic posts about "emoji's" every single update.

My theory is tech article writers get paid by the word so it’s easy money to list each new emoji every article. Thereby skewing the content of articles and triggering our rage.

 

[AjTee]

VEEEERy slow download...

 

[posguy99]

Download was quick. Install is taking FOREVER. Please let this resolve my kernel panics. Please!!! I am getting 4+ a day where Mojave and Windows 10 have zero issues...

So run Mojave? Wow, that was hard.

 

[yockster]

Still no support for Egpu with the white screen of death or fix?

 

[ElectricPotato]

... triggering our rage.

I would call it exasperated laughter. It's like watching people arrange throw pillows while the house is on fire around them.

 

[LV426]

Wrong. As an example, the new gender-neutral emojis require handling additional Unicode sequences.

Unicode Brings Forward Gender Neutral Timeline

Originally planned for release in 2020, a number of new gender neutral emojis have been moved into a late-2019 update from the Unicode Consortium, following support from 'at least two' major vendors. The creation of Emoji 12.1 [https://emojipedia.org/emoji-12.1/] means an additional 168 emojis...

blog.emojipedia.org

Emoji are a special case that use complex Unicode sequences, compared to normal scripts, because they didn't want code points to balloon (e.g. implementing skin tone and couples), and due to geopolitical issues (flags).

UTF encoding needs no modification to accommodate codepoints of up to 4 byte blocks. There’s nothing magical about these emojis. All are represented by simple codes.

 

[gmanist1000]

Slowest download ever

 

[posguy99]

I think the real question here... is whether there's any reason to bother installing this, same as whether there was any reason to install the .0.

 

[GuilleA]

Emoji updates have nothing to do with Apple, they're Unicode standard updates that Apple has to support, unless you want to see "☐" whenever someone's send you a new emoji from a device that did have the updated Unicode. Everyone chill the **** out.

 

[meson]

Just out of curiosity, did you do an update from OS 10.15.0 to OS 10.15.1? I myself will want to do a full, clean, "virgin" installation of OS 10.15.1 (but still in testing for me).

It was an upgrade from 10.15.0. I don't think I've done a clean install on this drive since 10.11 or 10.12. I just don't have the time and patience to download and install all of the software I use as well as tweak my preferences if I don't have to these days. Because, there's no point in the exercise if I am just going to migrate my Library folder back in and likely any conflicting files with it.

 

[garaig]

After resetting PRAM and SMC the color profiles don't work. It is terrible, after the boot there is a totally unfamiliar colour schema, and if I change the color profiles, it works totally uncertain. What happened??????????????
Update: If I start the Photoshop, it switches to correct color profile.
Update 2: I found the color profile named Display which has deleted and the phenomenon disappeared...
Update 3: unfortunately doesn't work again...

 

[haddy]

I think the real question here... is whether there's any reason to bother installing this, same as whether there was any reason to install the .0.

Nope....10.14.6 seems to be running pretty well with no problems.

 

[BrooklynAl]

I don't know if anyone has run first aid on the macos catalina data disk but I am getting some errors.........Any thoughts????

Checking the extent ref tree.

Checking the fsroot tree.

warning: drec_key: invalid hdr.obj_id (0x7)

warning: drec_val object (oid 0x7): invalid flags (0x804)

warning: directory valence check: directory (oid 0x7): orphan directory record

warning: drec_key: invalid hdr.obj_id (0x7)

warning: drec_val object (oid 0x7): invalid flags (0x804)

warning: directory valence check: directory (oid 0x7): orphan directory record

warning: drec_key: invalid hdr.obj_id (0x7)

warning: drec_val object (oid 0x7): invalid flags (0x804)

warning: directory valence check: directory (oid 0x7): orphan directory record

warning: drec_key: invalid hdr.obj_id (0x7)

warning: drec_val object (oid 0x7): invalid flags (0x804)

warning: directory valence check: directory (oid 0x7): orphan directory record

warning: drec_key: invalid hdr.obj_id (0x7)

warning: drec_val object (oid 0x7): invalid flags (0x804)

warning: directory valence check: directory (oid 0x7): orphan directory record

warning: drec_key: invalid hdr.obj_id (0x7)

warning: drec_val object (oid 0x7): invalid flags (0x804)

warning: directory valence check: directory (oid 0x7): orphan directory record

warning: drec_key: invalid hdr.obj_id (0x7)

warning: drec_val object (oid 0x7): invalid flags (0x804)

warning: directory valence check: directory (oid 0x7): orphan directory record

warning: drec_key: invalid hdr.obj_id (0x7)

warning: drec_val object (oid 0x7): invalid flags (0x804)

warning: directory valence check: directory (oid 0x7): orphan directory record

warning: drec_key: invalid hdr.obj_id (0x7)

warning: drec_val object (oid 0x7): invalid flags (0x804)

warning: directory valence check: directory (oid 0x7): orphan directory record

warning: drec_key: invalid hdr.obj_id (0x7)

warning: drec_val object (oid 0x7): invalid flags (0x804)

warning: directory valence check: directory (oid 0x7): orphan directory record

warning: drec_key: invalid hdr.obj_id (0x7)

warning: drec_val object (oid 0x7): invalid flags (0x804)

warning: directory valence check: directory (oid 0x7): orphan directory record

warning: drec_key: invalid hdr.obj_id (0x7)

warning: drec_val object (oid 0x7): invalid flags (0x804)

warning: directory valence check: directory (oid 0x7): orphan directory record

error: Cross Check : Mismatch between extentref entry reference count (0) and calculated fsroot entry reference count (1) for extent (0x3cdcfd1 + 1)

Verifying allocated space.

Performing deferred repairs.

warning: found physical extent corruption but repairs are disabled

The volume /dev/rdisk6s1 appears to be OK.

File system check exit code is 0.

Restoring the original state found as mounted.



Operation successful.

 

[flexiboy1912]

VEEEERy slow download...

Yes both mine started ok then got stuck and stopped for ages before eventually finishing the download. I was on the beta so now on the official release. New beta soon I imagine

 

[Clix Pix]

The MBP finished downloading and it didn't take all that long to install, so then I moved on to the MacBook and it downloaded a lot faster and also has now completed the installation. Now I'm doing WatchOS6.1 -- I'd forgotten, though, that we can now do that entire process on the watch instead of needing to use the app on the iPhone -- a few minutes of confusion ensued until I checked the Apple Support documents and was reminded of the right way to do things now! Watch is busily working away on the installation now....

 

[jlocker]

Wonder how many of these problems are "oh a buddy of mine built me a hackintosh and now i am having problems with the OS running on my machine".

 

[Peter_M]

I find it comical that Apple takes the time to point out that "over 70" new emoji's have been added to the release (and even give said update its own section in the announcement!).

It really gives you a sense of where Apple's priorities are these days... is there an emoji for that?

Couldn't agree more. After the tech industry started pushing emojis with different skin tones, the whole thing became laughable, but maybe "the kids" love that stuff. Too much stupidity in these times, with social media, Twitter, emojis, slofies etc..

(Edited.)

 

[ElectricPotato]

slofies etc..

Slofies. I had to look that up. The new world order is passing me by.

 

[stiligFox]

Wonder how many of these problems are "oh a buddy of mine built me a hackintosh and now i am having problems with the OS running on my machine".

I’m actually having more issues on my MacBook Air than my hackintosh

 

[jlocker]

I’m actually having more issues on my MacBook Air than my hackintosh

Sorry about that, remember Apple has the feedback page to report such issues. I would do that right away so they know of issues with your system. Make sure you put the model of the Mac so they will know to test one of the computers in the lab.