Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

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

I'm trying to update on my 2019 27" iMac but after rebooting in order to start the installation I'm just seeing the Apple logo for a while and then a blinking folder with a question mark in it. Scared the hell out of me, but after turning my Mac off and on and holding the Option key I can boot into my macOS 10.15.3 installation again. This however means that I can't install the update in any way at the moment. I tried it both via System Preferences -> Software Update and via the downloaded Combo update.

Update: on my Mid 2015 MacBook Pro the update installed without any problems.

IMG_0586.jpeg
 
  • Wow
  • Like
Reactions: Michaelgtrusa, DinkThifferent and decypher44
Hi all,

I have just updated my 2018 MacBook pro 13" and since the update, it won't charge and when I wake it from sleep it needs to be restarted. Any help would be appreciated as I am concerned when it runs out of juice.

Thanks

Ben
 
Woah - that was weird.. with the forced HDR on in Display settings. Really messed with my external output hahaha.
 
Does the Real-Time Apply Music Lyrics ONLY work if you are a subscriber to Apple Music? I have lots of purchased albums from Apple and many more albums using iTunes Match, and none of them are showing any lyrics. I use Amazon music specifically because I like to read the lyrics, especially for content to don't know or want to sing along too. I really hope they are not locking this down to subscribers of their streaming service :-(
 
I used dosdude1's Patcher to download a full, complete version of OS 10.15.4. In fact, it actually says the version is 15.4.01. After it completed, I quit the patcher program, and then copied the complete installer from the downloads folder to another location on my Mac Mini.

As a little test, I double clicked the installer, but all I got was a bouncing icon for the installer in my doc. After force quitting that, I instead selected the installer, right clicked on my mouse, and selected Open. This time it worked. But I stopped there, as I am going to wait to "upgrade".

I am thinking of doing a fresh, clean installation of OS 10.15.4, then migrate/copy needed files, folders, settings, apps, etc. from a SuperDuper! backup. If I do that, it will be on Sunday, as 1) I recently (within the last 2 days) needed to update some important software (and in particular, Onyx), 2) I will do my usual disk cleanup, maintenance, and repairs with Onyx and Tech Tool Pro on Saturday, along with doing a subsequent SuperDuper! backup (actually 2 of them) for each of my Macs, and 3) I still have on-again, off-again issues with either Brave or Thunderbird launching at start up, even though I do not have them designated to do that. It is not very frequent, but sometimes annoying. Not sure if OS 10.15.4 will clean that up or not.

If I were to just upgrade, I would just download the OS 10.15.4 Combo Updater, and apply it. But, it has been a somewhat good amount of time since OS 10.15.3 came out, so that is another reason why I actually prefer a fresh, clean installation of OS 10.15.4.
[automerge]1585082477[/automerge]
Ben Martin said:
Hi all,

I have just updated my 2018 MacBook pro 13" and since the update, it won't charge and when I wake it from sleep it needs to be restarted. Any help would be appreciated as I am concerned when it runs out of juice.

Thanks

Ben
Click to expand...
Hmm, that's troublesome. I hope when a do a fresh, clean installation of my MacBook Air, that I do not experience any issues.
 
  • Wow
Reactions: Babygotfont
MarkAtl said:
Waiting to see if the eGPU issues are solved...o_O
Click to expand...

No, same problems!
4 Months now ...
I‘m finished with Apple after 20 years.
I upgraded my old Mac Pro 2010 to a Mac mini 2018 with an eGPU from Razor (X).
With Mojave all was fine.
Since Catalina the Music App lost thousands of covers, eGPU won‘t run smooth ....

Every single problem reported, nothing is getting better.
This is crap Apple!
 
  • Like
  • Wow
  • Sad
Reactions: Ecuadorexpat, freedomlinux, snowboarder and 5 others
I'm really hoping Notes is fixed, it's buggy as hell I have so many things wrong with it I even reported one of the bugs to Apple online...

Not to mention so many other bugs. When we pay so much for these devices and Apple's lockdown ecosystem, it at least ought to not have these bugs!

Updating now, because that's how annoying my daily bugs are to my work, I'll actually take the risk.
 
  • Angry
  • Like
Reactions: Babygotfont and martyjmclean
If you're locked down and working from home this is a no-go for my daily driver. Photo's has been broken since the first release and there's nothing to suggest anything is fixed in the release notes. If this is the last release, good riddance, hopefully the next full release will address all the issues a number of people seem to have had.
 
  • Like
  • Haha
Reactions: Babygotfont and jpn
This update is taking an unusually long time and failed on my first attempt. It got stuck early on so I had to do a force shutdown and try again. First time that has happened to me.

Update: Installed and seems good so far.
 
Last edited:
  • Haha
Reactions: Babygotfont
BlueVaraMike said:
No, same problems!
4 Months now ...
I‘m finished with Apple after 20 years.
I upgraded my old Mac Pro 2010 to a Mac mini 2018 with an eGPU from Razor (X).
With Mojave all was fine.
Since Catalina the Music App lost thousands of covers, eGPU won‘t run smooth ....

Every single problem reported, nothing is getting better.
This is crap Apple!
Click to expand...

just forget the egpu fantasy. its expensive and slower. just buy a loaded iMac instead.
 
  • Haha
Reactions: Babygotfont
balph said:
I'm trying to update on my 2019 27" iMac but after rebooting in order to start the installation I'm just seeing the Apple logo for a while and then a blinking folder with a question mark in it. Scared the hell out of me, but after turning my Mac off and on and holding the Option key I can boot into my macOS 10.15.3 installation again. This however means that I can't install the update in any way at the moment. I tried it both via System Preferences -> Software Update and via the downloaded Combo update.
Click to expand...

I'm sorry to hear this man! I just updated my 27" 2019 iMac from Mojave 10.14.6 to Catalina 10.15.4 without any issues. Really strange that this happend, hopefully this will issue will be fixed soon for you!
 
  • Like
  • Disagree
Reactions: balph and Babygotfont
Erehy Dobon said:
It depends on the individual's specific usage case. No one here knows about yours.

The cautious person's approach would be to make a bootable clone of their current system drive to an external drive and upgrade the latter. Then try it out yourself to see if it does what you need it to do.

If you don't like it, you can simply resume booting from your regular drive as though nothing had happened.
Click to expand...

i never even thought of this. if i have a 1tb HDD that plugs in via USB on a mid 2014 Macbook pro i7 (16gb 512gb) ssd - what would my exact process be?
1.) Use CCC to make a copy of my drive from my computers HDD to External HDD
2.) Boot from External HDD
3.) Update to Catalina and test everything out
4.) if okay with update - go back and make a CCC of your old system on the external HDD as a backup
5.) Install Catalina on internal HDD
6.) Celebrate?
 
  • Wow
Reactions: Babygotfont
i4k20c said:
i never even thought of this. if i have a 1tb HDD that plugs in via USB on a mid 2014 Macbook pro i7 (16gb 512gb) ssd - what would my exact process be?
1.) Use CCC to make a copy of my drive from my computers HDD to External HDD
2.) Boot from External HDD
3.) Update to Catalina and test everything out
4.) if okay with update - go back and make a CCC of your old system on the external HDD as a backup
5.) Install Catalina on internal HDD
6.) Celebrate?
Click to expand...
Here is what I always do whenever I want to move to either a new Mac OS, or to a newer version of the present one:

1. Run Onyx and Tech Tool Pro for disk cleanup/maintenance/Repairs.
2. Run SuperDuper! to make two backups to two separate external SSDs (Samsung 850 Pro 512 gig, partitioned into 3 partitions) (The backup also includes the latest full installer file for the "newer" OS I want to get to).
3. Restart my Mac from that just completed backup.
4. Use Disk Utility there to Erase and Format the internal SSD on the Mac.
5. Navigate to the full Mac OS Installation file, launch it, and do a fresh, clean installation onto the Mac's internal SSD.
6. Migrate/copy needed information (files, folders, settings, Apps, etc.) from that just completed SuperDuper! backup.
7. Restart the Mac with that new version of the Mac OS.
8. Do some testing.

Typically, all of that works well for me, and I can continue to use the new version. (I also have to complete one additional task relevant to Tech Tool Pro, but that's to be expected).
 
  • Like
  • Haha
Reactions: Babygotfont, Annv, kemo and 2 others
honestone33 said:
Here is what I always do whenever I want to move to either a new Mac OS, or to a newer version of the present one:

1. Run Onyx and Tech Tool Pro for disk cleanup/maintenance/Repairs.
2. Run SuperDuper! to make two backups to two separate external SSDs (Samsung 850 Pro 512 gig, partitioned into 3 partitions) (The backup also includes the latest full installer file for the "newer" OS I want to get to).
3. Restart my Mac from that just completed backup.
4. Use Disk Utility there to Erase and Format the internal SSD on the Mac.
5. Navigate to the full Mac OS Installation file, launch it, and do a fresh, clean installation onto the Mac's internal SSD.
6. Migrate/copy needed information (files, folders, settings, Apps, etc.) from that just completed SuperDuper! backup.
7. Restart the Mac with that new version of the Mac OS.
8. Do some testing.

Typically, all of that works well for me, and I can continue to use the new version. (I also have to complete one additional task relevant to Tech Tool Pro, but that's to be expected).
Click to expand...

awesome thank you!

Questions:
1.) What are the three partitions for on the external HDD? Are you saying you do the backup on one external HDD with each partition? Or two completely separate external HDD's that are just partitioned for some reason?
2.) Is Onyx and Tech Tool Pro free? If not - is it okay to skip this or do you highly advise it?
3.) For apps - can you just drag and drop them from the App Folder on the SuperDuper! backup or do you have to re-download all of them?
 
  • Wow
Reactions: Babygotfont
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back