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Apple Releases macOS Monterey 12.3.1 With Bluetooth and Display Fixes

I have avoided 12.3 because it cripples AMD 5000 series graphics cards, does this fix that? Can someone confirm on this?
 
After the update my system hung at the login prompt. Neither mouse nor keyboard worked. Had to do hard reset.

After reset I was given a prompt indicating a password problem with various options to reset or recover my password. I continued on and then was prompted to turn off file vault. Hadn't turned it on to my knowledge but turned off anyway. After the decryption was done after a second or 2 the system booted normally.

After boot got a crash report that system had restarted due to a problem. Watchdog service had hung.
 
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Update showed up on my MBA M1 several hours after I had already updated my iPad, iPhone, Apple TV 4K and 2 HomePod Minis.

No issue updating, but I don’t know why it takes like 10 minutes to update an iPhone and 45 minutes for a Mac.
 
HDFan said:
After the update my system hung at the login prompt. Neither mouse nor keyboard worked. Had to do hard reset.

After reset I was given a prompt indicating a password problem with various options to reset or recover my password. I continued on and then was prompted to turn off file vault. Hadn't turned it on to my knowledge but turned off anyway. After the decryption was done after a second or 2 the system booted normally.

After boot got a crash report that system had restarted due to a problem. Watchdog service had hung.
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which device?
 
JippaLippa said:
Yeah for real!

Despite its cost, I'm actually interested in the studio display as it is a true 10-bit panel (not an 8-bit with FRC), and it's very hard to find a panel like that below 1200$.
All the "so called 10 panels" that are around 600-800$ are emulated 10-bit.

I can tolerate a high price for the excellent build quality and additional features, however such features must work as intended, and the webcam surely doesn't...

Anyway I fail to understand the inclusion of center stage to the webcam, as you almost never need to move the view to include other people (while on desktop), and lots of apps crop the middle of the ultrawide (an other thing I fail to understand for a webcam mostly used for work calls).

I would have rather had the same camera as the front facing one on the iPhone, which is excellent.
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Why do you think that Studio Display has a true 10bit panel? Only XDR version has it. Or I missed some info?
 
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JippaLippa said:
What, specifically?
I use Adobe myself, however I haven't noticed anything different from 12.2
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In macOS 12.3 Apple broke some scripts so eg. Photoshop did not open smart objects made in Illustartor. It was very, very frustrating, but it's solved in 12.3.1.
 
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yukari said:
TLDR;
It seems for those on beta program the update does not show.

Only deleting beta program, does my Mac Studio show this update.
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Wonder if they are preparing a new beta to be released any other day?
 
markgpearse said:
Apple is worse than Microsoft ever was at its worst with constant updates.
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LOL

I’ve actually had two forced reboots on my corp windows 10 laptop this week. One of them broke HyperV and MiniKube which means I’ve been unable to do anything for three days. The first set of updates failed and had to be run in again.

Just in updates this week I’ve lost three entire days of productivity on windows.

On a positive note it has left me plenty of time to do some Udemy courses on my MacBook which hasn’t been rebooted since 12.3 came out mid march.
 
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Great... updated....

Till now, external monitor detection worked fine. Now I have to turn of and on the monitor to be detected....
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12.3.1 in a MBP M1 Max with a Caldigit TS4 connected to an external display doesn't fix the bug of screen blanking after login.
 
HDFan said:
After the update my system hung at the login prompt. Neither mouse nor keyboard worked. Had to do hard reset.

After reset I was given a prompt indicating a password problem with various options to reset or recover my password. I continued on and then was prompted to turn off file vault. Hadn't turned it on to my knowledge but turned off anyway. After the decryption was done after a second or 2 the system booted normally.

After boot got a crash report that system had restarted due to a problem. Watchdog service had hung.
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I got the same issue on my mac mini M1, but i switched it off/on and has booted-login normally.
 
CarlJ said:
Yep. It's a process, not a binary state. I seem to recall that some of the software that NASA has flown on some of their unmanned remote probes (things like Voyager) has come close, because there's often no chance for updating after launch, and I have a vague recollection of some non-trivial software system where they went to the effort to formally prove it mathematically correct, but I don't recall what it was for.
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I worked on a dev project, once, where our QA manager was a former NASA QA manager. He wrote a quality manual that was thicker than a phone book - and this was for a (pre-iPhone) phone project!
 
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tmoerel said:
An operating system contains millions of lines of code. It will never be perfect and there will always be some memory leak somewhere. But the major ones seem to be under control.
I work in software Quality Assurance and I can guarantee you that perfect software does not exist!
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That sounds like a Low Quality Assurance ?
(Sorry - couldn't resist. As a dev I know exactly what you meant)
 
My old iMac 27 late 2015 running mojave was unable to print to my hp 5030 5ghz WiFi , my new Mac mini m1 running Monterey had no problems .

Impressed
 
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MacFin said:
I hope this also fixes the issue with Quick Previews. After a while, hitting the space bar only shows a tiny thumbnail instead of previewing the file as it should. The only way to fix this is to restart Finder which is frustrating since it will usually close all Finder windows.
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This has been genuinely driving me insane! It's a bigger part of my workflow than I ever realised.
 
FCX said:
I've got an Areca 8050T2 (Thunderbolt 2) 8-bay hardware RAID connected to an M1 Mini via TB2/TB3 adapter. No connection issues of any kind. Been staying current, but this update doesn't show for me yet.

You running SoftRAID? Could be sw vs. hw setups...

EDIT: RAID 6 for me, not 0. Been burned once that way, never again! ;^)
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I have found that a wired connection from an M1 Mini, running Big Sur, to two QNAP NASs has been stable, with no disconnects and connects without issue, versus an M1 MacBook Air and M1 Max MacBook Pro, both connecting over Wifi, which often fail to see either NAS (or indeed the M1 Mini or the Time Capsule) and even when it does see them it fails to mount a share unless I use the Finder 'Connect to'. It will then at some point just lose connection and eject.

Seems to be the same over AFP and SMB. Fairly annoying.

The Quick Look bug is also annoying - having to keep Activity Monitor so I can kill the crashed Quick Look thread every few hours is a pain.

My fingers are crossed that both issues are fixed with this release, but somehow I doubt it. I really miss Big Sur, which was I found a surprisingly solid release.
 
Rychiar said:
12.3 is the first update that's caused me any major issues. it killed my work around for viewing EPS files in finder and it killed the ability to open smart objects in photoshop
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What was your work around for viewing EPS files in the Finder?
 
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