Apple Releases macOS Catalina 10.15.4 With Screen Time Communication Limits and Real-Time Apple Music Lyrics

[ignatius345]

Still hoping it fixes how fonts are displayed on non-retina screens

I'm very curious about this too. I have a MacBook Air I'm holding off on updating from Mojave until that's fixed. Please post back if you try it and it's better! Thanks

 

[ivan86]

With so many people working from home, TAKE CAUTION WITH BEING AN EARLY ADOPTER with this update. Clone your system with Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) before installing.

No risk - no fun.

*Updating...

 

[urtext]

Download macOS Catalina 10.15.4 Combo Update: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2037

 

[realpras]

I'm very curious about this too. I have a MacBook Air I'm holding off on updating from Mojave until that's fixed. Please post back if you try it and it's better! Thanks

Will do. Though my issue is with an external 1080p monitor, not an internal display. Have a windows machine and a MBP attached to it, it’s just embarrassing how fonts look so much better on Windows. Anyways, will keep you updated.

 

[vickysud]

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I’m stuck on this indefinitely it would seem.

EDIT it is now installing.

Mine stuck at the same screen and its been 10min.

 

[PBG4 Dude]

Not seeing it yet (I'm in the UK). Might appear later today 🙂

Did you type CMD+R on the update tab? That’s what it took to work for me.

 

[maticore78]

Does the fix the issue with not being able to move the FaceTime audio window?

 

[JonaM]

Half a planet working from home so able to download immediately and lots of surprised people blaming Apple for not handling the load. I'm impressed they released it given the present situation - think I might wait a while before installing given the limited support options!

 

[sugargliderdude]

worlds on a shut down, servers will be very heavily used, try again in a few hours, i am going to update tomorrow

 

[Rocko99991]

Fix the slow boot?

 

[konqerror]

Half a planet working from home so able to download immediately and lots of surprised people blaming Apple for not handling the load.

Apple's CDN fails in this exact same way every time there's a MacOS update, you can see this in previous threads.

It's because their homegrown CDN is too stupid to precache. What appears to happen is that as load goes up, the leaf servers overload the root servers. That's why the early parts of the update download OK since they propagate through the network, but it gets stuck halfway through.

 

[foliage]

Are the huge Mail bugs still there from release date?

Apologies if they have been removed already but I still haven’t updated from Mojave because of these.

 

[macrumors3131]

I didn't know of the head pointer feature before. It's actually pretty cool to try out. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Pointer Control > Alternate Control Methods > Enable head pointer. Enabling this turns on the camera and allows you to move the mouse pointer by turning your head.

 

[Macropanda]

What about all the bugs in Mail.app and Photos syncing to iPhone using the finder? They should already be fixed, but it seems they aren't. What is wrong with Apple?

I tried out the beta a few weeks back and syncing to an iPhone using finder worked like it did a year ago. It randomly re syncs more photos than it needs to but it all happens instantly instead of hanging for hours first. Not sure if it made it into today’s release though as I’m still on Mojave until it’s confirmed to be fixed.

 

[BWhaler]

So is it finally safe to install Catalina? Or does it remain a hard-pass?

 

[sugargliderdude]

Download macOS Catalina 10.15.4 Combo Update: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2037

whats the difference from this and the update on settings update please?

 

[dmoz]

Just updated and my 16” MBP has frozen up after about 5 minutes of use...twice so far, then crashes in a flurry of fans blowing. Proceed with caution.

 

[ElKekoTopo]

My external display stop working. Anyone have this issue?

Edit:
ok fixed, I reset nvram.

 

[dmoz]

My external display stop working. Anyone have this issue?

I have two external displays and both seem to be "working okay" in and of themselves, minus my issue above.

 

[iBug2]

Why is that nowadays Mac OS updates take way too long? They used to take 10 minutes, now it's half an hour at least. Installing the OS for the first time on an empty disk even takes less time than this.

 

[jjudson]

So is Catalina ready yet??? If not, how many more versions do I need to wait through?

 

[zorinlynx]

Guys, be patient with download speeds. Networks are stressed out world wide because of so many people working from home.

 

[boqurant]

What's the chances this contains a fix for the Radeon 5xxx (Navi) GPU 20W overusage in the MBP16?

 

[iTurbo]

I just updated to 10.15.4 on my 2012 iMac and 2013 MBA and they both work great. No problems here at all.

 

[ChrisChaval]

just updated my 2018 MBA

now my keyboard is broken

(just kidding, all fine for now)