And based on Apple's recent release quality I feel like it is going to be years before macOS Catalina is ready for me.
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Apple Releases macOS Catalina With Find My, Screen Time, and No More iTunes
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And based on Apple's recent release quality I feel like it is going to be years before macOS Catalina is ready for me.
I signed out of my appleid/icloud. Rebooted, then signed back in and all was good.
The GM was the first beta I had the guts to install this time around...
It's ok, but I had some REALLY weird things happening after upgrading: Contact photos got mixed up (my own avatar was replaced with that of my wife), and somehow all three family members who are on our "Family sharing plan" were marked as "My card" within contacts.
Currently, I'm fighting a disappearing Dock that refuses to come back after a reboot. Sigh...
Just got a new iMac with Mojave and set up my machine with all the applications I need for my job in motion/graphics design. No way I'm going to install a new MacOS in the foreseeable future now that the system is running as smoothly as it is. Especially not one where 32-bit apps cannot be installed.
It truly is. It's by far the buggiest and messiest macOS update I ever had.
It obviously needs update. Every software does, regularly. Have you heard about software decay? Unless it's constantly maintained, it slowly degrades to the point of unusability. You chose to rely on completely outdated and unmaintained software, of course it was going to fail after a while. It was a train wreck waiting to happen.
It's broader than this - the remote app can't control TVOS 13 devices either. And even old iTunes can't airplay to an older airplay 1 device and a new TVOS 13 device at the same time.
Losing the column browser in Music and TV is a major regression. It's no longer possible to look at all my jazz, pick an artist, and play all their albums. Ditto in TV - can't browse for 'Sci-Fi', then pick a show, a season, and then an episode. Instead you have to scroll through thousands of items to find the one you want (and if you sort by genre in the list, the items are in some random order). Genre doesn't help because it munges cloud and local content together (and there's no list view at all). Downloaded doesn't help because that merges TV and Movies together.
Apple really must hate local content, and really really hate large libraries.
But then why would they continue to sell high-storage iPads? Makes no sense to me.
A sinking feeling has just come over me. Having just now installed Catalina on both my 2018 MacBook Pro (with Touch ID) and my brand new 2019 5K iMac, I turned on the Apple TV app, in both. On the MacBook Pro, there's a sidebar item in the "Library" called "4K and HDR"... on the iMac, there's no such sidebar item. Now, I thought 4K and HDR were gonna be deployed on all desktop Macs with compatible screens... and this would include mine. Was I misinformed on this?
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And every hacker is drooling over the opportunity presented by all those people who refuse to run current software. Time to get over it and get current, or unplug from the internet.
I have tons of audiobooks in iTunes (m4B's). Can someone point me to an article or info about where the audiobooks will go after updating?
Still no column browser.
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That's not the same. It streams to the iOS device, then back out. What the remote app let's you do is stream from iTunes directly to the airplay devices. That let's you start music in multiple rooms (all sync'd), walk out the door, and leave it playing.
It won't install for me. It downloads then says it needs more updates. Another 15 minutes later, the install now button shows up. I click on it and guess what? It needs to download updates again!
Sidecar requires HVEC hardware so only Skylake CPUs and newer. That means 2015 27” iMacs and all 2017 and newer Macs.
I've been running the Catalina betas on my Air, and although the betas were pretty fricken' rough at first, the OS seems solid now. And I generally like it!
But I'm a little nervous about my 2012 iMac -- one with a fusion drive. The machine uses Metal, so it's eligible...but still a little nervous.
Has anyone installed Catalina to a 2012 iMac?
***LATER UPDATE -- I went ahead and updated the old machine to Catalina, and everything is running smoothly. So far I don't see any issues. Nice work! ****
But I'm a little nervous about my 2012 iMac -- one with a fusion drive. The machine uses Metal, so it's eligible...but still a little nervous.
Has anyone installed Catalina to a 2012 iMac?
***LATER UPDATE -- I went ahead and updated the old machine to Catalina, and everything is running smoothly. So far I don't see any issues. Nice work! ****
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May iTunes rest in peace. While in its final form it was not great, iTunes 4 was quite the excellent program. 8 wasn't too bad either from my time with it. Let's see how the Music app goes.
I may be installing this on a partition just to see how they've handled the breakup with iTunes. But if it's as buggy as the betas were, no way will it be my main OS.
I may be installing this on a partition just to see how they've handled the breakup with iTunes. But if it's as buggy as the betas were, no way will it be my main OS.
I see what you mean. "Songs" does have columns, but no column browser. One nifty thing I noticed tho was the option for a "filter field" search bar. You have to type in your parameter but it does make the job of browsing a large library a good easier.
My Catalina experience:
- 45 Minutes from clicking download until I was up and logged on
- Set 10 minutes on the iCloud screen so I rebooted
- Reboot was fast and all looked normal once I logon
- Photos library looked good and up-to-date. Will have to get use to the new format
- Sidecar worked without any problems, yet
- Lost all Reminders list once I upgrade.
- iPhone and iPad were on iOS 13 and waited for Catalina before upgrading Reminders
Lost all but one of the reminders I had set in the default list "Reminders"- List are back on iPhone and iPad, so speculating it is an iCloud sync delay. Will give it a hour or two and check again.
- Podcast were all there
- TV shows that I purchased were missing. This too could just be a "give it time to sync" deal.
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