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Apple Releases macOS Catalina 10.15.6 With New Apple News Features and Fix for USB Issue
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Don't want to jinx it this early, but it seems it has been fixed. Finally…
I removed my Gmail Account from Mail and tada: no mail pestering me any longer - I'm using the Gmail website if I need mails from my google address.
For the Kernel Panic I installed KeepingYouAwake (github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake) to prevent the machine from going into standby. Since then: 0 crashes - not the best option, but as long as I'm working from home and the MacBook is hooked to an external display it is a stable workaround.
I have just noticed that my 2018 15" MacBook Pro battery management seems to be not stopping around 80% as it did previously. It has been charging to 100% for a few days now. I'm not sure that even after this update things have changed.
Is this normal? Is it now somehow in a cycle of: 'lets do a few 100% charges then go back to 80% charges'
Has anyone else noticed this?
Is this normal? Is it now somehow in a cycle of: 'lets do a few 100% charges then go back to 80% charges'
Has anyone else noticed this?
I haven't had any issues with Catalina on three different MacBook's (12", MBA 2020 and 13" 10th gen MBP).
I installed 10.15.6 on the MBP 13" last night and so far so good. I do notice that while running on battery, average core temps in MenuMeters are running ~33.0C. Before the update that system ran closer to ~39C on battery. Fanny reports CPU 34.57 and GPU 37.00.
I installed 10.15.6 on the MBP 13" last night and so far so good. I do notice that while running on battery, average core temps in MenuMeters are running ~33.0C. Before the update that system ran closer to ~39C on battery. Fanny reports CPU 34.57 and GPU 37.00.
Wow this sounds like good news and is tempting me to upgrade to 10.15.6. So far Mac OS Catastrophina is not my favourite and I have had no choice but to use this because I recently purchased a 13 MacBook Pro 2020.
Hey Big Ron, can you please look at my Post #35 here: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...re.2234627/page-2?post=28665645#post-28665645
I've been trying to find out if anyone has been getting different results from the 10.15.5 BHM feature and it looks like you have been getting the exact result that I thought was supposed to happen with this feature - So your '18 MBP was holding at 80%? As you can see by my post, my '17 MBP did not do that. Please let me know anything else you witnessed in detail, so I can finally get a "senior" engineer at apple to believe me when I explain to them that what you experienced is what that feature should accomplish, not what is happening to my rig. Thanks (I haven't yet updated to .6)
Hi FrakeTrain
Thanks for the reply - I will study your other post at home when I can give it the due attention it deserves.
It is a strange one indeed, after all the scaremongering by others on this forum I was initially quite pleased that the charging behaviour was what had been predicted. I would say that if this charge cycle to a 100% charge level is 'normal', I will start to count the days until I see any change back down to a charge level of 80% or so. I will start my count at approx. 7 days just be on the safe side, so today would be day 8 since am 80% cut off.
I will report back when/if it changes.
Once again thanks for the reply.
Does it appear that the desktop picture of Catalina, the island, is dark with stars at night with 10.15.6?
I didn't notice it did with 10.15.5.
I didn't notice it did with 10.15.5.
Only updated to Catalina last week after weeding out old 32-bit apps. All good so far apart from one irritating Mail problem.
When using Column Layout, I am unable to change the Message list font (under Prefs> Fonts & Colours) from the ugly default typeface. Very annoying.
Anyone know how to fix this?
When using Column Layout, I am unable to change the Message list font (under Prefs> Fonts & Colours) from the ugly default typeface. Very annoying.
Anyone know how to fix this?
Have had major issues with any USB—C dock/hub I’ve tried. Eventually I just resorted to using 3 dongles all around the laptop to connect 2 screens and an old-school USB-A hub.
Gonna try again. The issue usually surfaced after some time and it seemed to result in no output to screens after sleep, in combination with a kernel panic.
Also, with a fitfort hub I ended up not being able to even boot the Mac while the hub was plugged in! Wonder how much the hub is at fault.
Gonna try again. The issue usually surfaced after some time and it seemed to result in no output to screens after sleep, in combination with a kernel panic.
Also, with a fitfort hub I ended up not being able to even boot the Mac while the hub was plugged in! Wonder how much the hub is at fault.
I hope it fixes SAFARI extension so I can toggle them on/off again.
careful what you wish for! Not all that glitters is gold you know
melt Apple push these security & big foxes and small features introduced working correctly first before goigg big to a major OS overhaul in Big Sur. I rather these situations known now before going to a hybrid OS release in fall (intel & AppleSilicon)
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it’s still OSX to me
What - I think you need to turn off your prodictive toxtcareful what you wish for! Not all that glitters is gold you know
melt Apple push these security & big foxes and small features introduced working correctly first before goigg big to a major OS overhaul in Big Sur. I rather these situations known now before going to a hybrid OS release in fall (intel & AppleSilicon)
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it’s still OSX to me
that doesn’t sound like a bug without knowing what your settings are??
sleep time is it enabled at all?
Turn off Display after - is this enabled?
Turn off disks - is this enabled?
I have both off on my 217 MBP connected via TB adapter to HDMI to my TV and never goes to sleep. Unless an update is installed an reboots and I haven’t logged on then it’ll stay awake on locked screen with screen saver, even if I switch to another hdmi input on my TV (to AppleTV).
ideally I’d love Apple to either integrate wake from sleep with a USB keyboard &/or mouse and also their USB keyboards have the option to wake & power on the laptop/desktop line robs ago when it could.
For a while now. Why can't people bother to read?
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Just put in a forward from GMail to whatever your normal email address is. If your client is configured correctly, you can send mail as the GMail identity should you need to. No one should ever be forced to use the disaster that is the native GMail web UI.
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Let's not. Do you really want to bother with a .0 release from Apple of *anything*? And the whole release cycle of Big Sur is likely to be a .0, no matter what version numbers they apply to it. Big Sur will be completely skippable.
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My early 2013 rmbp is still on Mojave. Can’t do Big Sur; is Catalina worth upgrading to? I’m leaning towards yes via clean install. 7 great years.
Is there something on the Catalina feature list you need? Unless there is, don't bother. Mojave has security updates for at least another year yet.
Actually JosephAW is correct in asking that question. Apparently 10.15.5 did break the ability for 3rd party programmers to create a "firmware link" in order to create a bootable clone. That issue did not affect anyone who was just updating their clone using SuperDuper! (Dave Nanian) or Carbon Copy Cloner (Mike Bombich), but did affect people creating a fresh clone. I am using SuperDuper! and sent Dave an email when this was reported after .5 dropped, and he replied that if I needed to create a new clone, he would send me a command line patch (as he did not update his software). Mike apparently issued a point release to his CCC software that addressed this new .5 apple "bug".
Yesterday, I responded to briloronmacrumo from here who suggested that this was addressed in .6, so I sent an email to Dave asking if 10.15.6 has "fixed" the firmware link issue and I received a response today saying: "Yes, if you use SuperDuper normally after installing 10.15.6 you should be all set."
If anyone has any factual evidence from Dave or Mike that .6 did not fix that issue, please provide. Telling someone that they 'don't bother to read' is just not helping most of us that are here spending our time doing one thing: trying to troubleshoot our Macs efficiently, so we don't have to spend more time... here.
Apparently there used to be a Catalina issue with 4K displays (and definitely with LG ones, which is what I have). IIRC, after the Catalina update, Macs would no longer recognize the display (or maybe it was that it could only use one resolution). Does anyone know if that's now been fixed? Thanks!
Pointing out that I didn't, and won't, make any claim about what 10.15.6 does or doesn't patch. I was replying to the cluebie who couldn't take the time to notice that Bombich had responded to the *Apple* bug within a week after it was revealed, and dealt with it in his own software (on May 29th, more than a month ago). That's all.
I found out after the update that you can't run unverified apps anymore. All you can do is move them to the bin or cancel running. Now I can't run Gimp until they get themselves verified
That "Battery Management" feature on my new MBP 16" hasn't worked yet...I have mine enabled and still charges it to 100% in clamshell mode.
I noticed later that these apps can be enabled in the system preferences>Security