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No way in hell I will upgrade my machine after reading all the negative posts, but... like... seriously?
Is there a new option to reactivate it? Or via terminal?
If there isn't that's pure comedy.
It's just estimated time that isn't there, the battery power indicator and percentage are still there.
 
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No problems with USB Audio Device after the update on my 2012 MacMini. Use and external DAC/AMP and it works perfectly.

No issues on my 2016 MacBook also. I've never had problems with updates.

Wow, so glad I read this before installing; have the Bose Companion 5 which are USB based.

Ridiculous - please update with a reply or quote to my post if anything changes.
 
Hey MacRumors, you forgot one last feature: Fixes battery life issues on new MacBook Pros by removing the time remaining estimation. Well, it doesn't fix it, but hey at least you won't notice it so easily.

I was eager to update, even perform an install from scratch of 10.12.2, but as a user who checks time remaining pretty often when on battery, I don't know what to do, as they removed it. Now there is no way to tell more or less how much time you have left until your battery dies. This features has saved me a lot of times.

I am surprised this issue is not getting more airtime. Battery life issues so they remove the time remaining option? Is there anyone else out there who feels this is a pathetic trick?

I use this option all the time as I rarely take my charger with me when I head out each day. I use my Macbook in the car everyday. I find I can go the whole day if I am careful and keep an eye on the meter. Most disappointed Apple is doing stuff like this.
 
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I am surprised this issue is not getting more airtime. Battery life issues so they remove the time remaining option? Is there anyone else out there who feels this is a pathetic trick?

I use this option all the time as I rarely take my charger with me when I head out each day. I use my Macbook in the car everyday. I find I can go the whole day if I am careful and keep an eye on the meter. Most disappointed Apple is doing stuff like this.
So watch the percentage instead. It's like watching the fuel gauge on a car. The power demand of your computer is so dependent upon what you're doing that it's impossible to predict battery life in advance. This wasn't always so, but the modern Intel processors have become so good at managing power consumption based on workload that accurate battery life estimation just isn't possible.
 
So watch the percentage instead. It's like watching the fuel gauge on a car. The power demand of your computer is so dependent upon what you're doing that it's impossible to predict battery life in advance. This wasn't always so, but the modern Intel processors have become so good at managing power consumption based on workload that accurate battery life estimation just isn't possible.

I get that, but does it bother you at all that they are so blatantly trying to sweep this under the rug?
 
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I am surprised this issue is not getting more airtime. Battery life issues so they remove the time remaining option? Is there anyone else out there who feels this is a pathetic trick?

I use this option all the time as I rarely take my charger with me when I head out each day. I use my Macbook in the car everyday. I find I can go the whole day if I am careful and keep an eye on the meter. Most disappointed Apple is doing stuff like this.
How is this a trick by apple? It doesn't change your battery life. It just changes the perception so when people who don't know how it works see you have a lower amount of battery life left when in fact you have more.

Just use your laptop. It's also still available in the activity monitor or a 3rd party app like istats.
 
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I am surprised this issue is not getting more airtime. Battery life issues so they remove the time remaining option? Is there anyone else out there who feels this is a pathetic trick?

I use this option all the time as I rarely take my charger with me when I head out each day. I use my Macbook in the car everyday. I find I can go the whole day if I am careful and keep an eye on the meter. Most disappointed Apple is doing stuff like this.
There's whole separate article and discussion about this. Not sure how removing estimated time that isn't reliable is somehow a trick--if it wasn't accurate then what's the point of having something misleading there? It doesn't change how long the battery lasts or how it's used which the user can still experience just as before and the actual battery power meter and percentage are still there, which is really the main thing to gage it all by. Some cars have estimated mileage left for a tank, but most people still go by the actual fuel gauge to see how much they have and how close they are to running out. Not that much different and certainly not misleading or anything.
 
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I always find it fascinating when Apple does something sneaky like this, people will blindly argue in favor of Apple and rationalize things like third party solutions and make comments like it was not accurate or needed, or a suppliers fault. I admit I should not be surprised that a Mac site would blindly argue in favor of Apple.

I too live in an Apple ecosystem, but the more I read here the more doubts I have about my future with Apple.
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There's whole separate article and discussion about this. Not sure how removing estimated time that isn't reliable is somehow a trick--if it wasn't accurate then what's the point of having something misleading there? It doesn't change how long the battery lasts or how it's used which the user can still experience just as before and the actual battery power meter and percentage are still there, which is really the main thing to gage it all by. Some cars have estimated mileage left for a tank, but most people still go by the actual fuel gauge to see how much they have and how close they are to running out. Not that much different and certainly not misleading or anything.

Why was this misleading and inaccurate feature never questioned until Apple had issues with the claimed battery life of a new product?
 
I always find it fascinating when Apple does something sneaky like this, people will blindly argue in favor of Apple and rationalize things like third party solutions and make comments like it was not accurate or needed, or a suppliers fault. I admit I should not be surprised that a Mac site would blindly argue in favor of Apple.

I too live in an Apple ecosystem, but the more I read here the more doubts I have about my future with Apple.
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Why was this misleading and inaccurate feature never questioned until Apple had issues with the claimed battery life of a new product?
Perhaps the estimates were within tolerance levels before and are outside of them now, or the tolerance levels have been adjusted. Perhaps they were similarly off in various cases before but the issue wasn't as noticeable as not as many people tried to really go by it exactly as perhaps recently which bumped it up. There are fairly reasonable things that explain it, but it seems that considering those things is somehow just blindly defending rather than just considering all reasonable possibilities, while jumping to conspiracy theories is somehow more intellectually honest and realistic.

Whatever the case is it's not like there's anything sneaky happening given that the battery meter and percentage are still there and those are actually things that measure it, and news of this change are all over and noticeable by anyone that would look for this and not see it there. Sneaky would be to adjust the measurements to fake some numbers or something like that, which this isn't.

As mentioned, there's a whole separate article about this with its own discussion here at MR where all of this is being discussed and already has been discussed ad nauseam I'm sure by now.
 
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Does anyone know if they've changed the SMB/AFP connection authentication method yet.

In all previous versions of OSX credentials for connecting to a network drive could be stored in keychain. Sierra completely screwed that and now I have staff complaining because they're getting constant login prompts for their server shares.[/QUOTE
I haven't imstalled the update yet but the Apple release quoted in the article did not mention this bug, which affects all my Macs -so I am not hopeful!
 
My Macbook Pro Late 2011 rebooted twice with the speakers screaming a square wave during installation. Everything looks fine, but I have as nagging feeling it didn't completely install fine.
That was a firmware update for your computer being installed. No need for concern.
 
Have you tried disabling scroll acceleration?
I had similar issue with some no-name mouse - retarded acceleration curves that Apple invents was reporting fraction
lines on slow scrolling, causes no scroll at all. Setting:

defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.scrollwheel.scaling -1

fixed the issue.

Good news! Although I'm not entirely sure if executing that command in Terminal fixed the problem, upgrading to 10.12.2 fixed the problem, or if doing both of those things fixed the problem.

First, I upgraded to 10.12.0 by installing the Sierra upgrade through the MAS. After the upgrade finished, the scrolling issue appeared, as expected. I went into Terminal, executed that command, logged out and logged back in, and while scrolling was slightly more responsive, I still couldn't scroll slowly and have Sierra register the scrolling reliably like El Capitan had.

About that time, I was getting frustrated at the prospect of rolling back to El Capitan and then I realized that the MAS upgrade didn't install the latest version of Sierra, but rather 10.12.0. So, I did the upgrade to 10.12.2 and finally, scrolling returned to being as responsive as it had been in El Capitan!

Part of me thinks that the preference that I added via the Terminal would've been wiped out during the upgrade from 10.12.0 to 10.12.2; but I don't know for sure. I'm just glad I can now use Sierra with my trusty Logitech gaming mouse and have a scroll wheel that performs as expected!
 
This is the first experience I've had with Sierra where everything "just worked"! The update went smoothly on both a mid-2012 rMBP and a hackintosh. Nothing crashed, nothing died, nothing vanished, nothing fritzed or frazzled, my mouse no longer scrolls like it's drunk, my computers compute... I'm actually pleasantly surprised. I was expecting more Sierra-being-horrible shenanigans, but so far so good.

*THUMBS UP EMOJI* Yeah I don't know how to emoji, I'm too old and unfashionable. And it seems like a lot of effort to find the one you want in the millions of tiny icons.
 
Does anyone know if they've changed the SMB/AFP connection authentication method yet.

In all previous versions of OSX credentials for connecting to a network drive could be stored in keychain. Sierra completely screwed that and now I have staff complaining because they're getting constant login prompts for their server shares.

It's not a bug, it's a feature, and it's "fixed":
https://support.apple.com/de-ch/HT207112
 
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I get that, but does it bother you at all that they are so blatantly trying to sweep this under the rug?

I don't think Apple is trying to sweep anything under the rug. They are basically admitting that to a problem that can't be solved anytime soon, so they are recalling the feature while they work on it. This way, people don't get misled by inaccurate usage times.
 
My Macbook Pro Late 2011 rebooted twice with the speakers screaming a square wave during installation. Everything looks fine, but I have as nagging feeling it didn't completely install fine.
Mine did 3 or 4 times. But seems to have installed fine.
 
I just updated mine and got a firmware update as well. No video issues though.

Update: This update turned off my Trim support on my 3rd party drive. Will try to re-enable.
Here Trim was not changed, still on. mbp 15' 2012
 
Pleased to see scrolling issues fixed; a couple of apps (BBedit and TexShop preview window) were not scrolling properly in 10.12.1.
 
I haven't personally used the new touch bar MBPs, but on my 2014 retina I can safely say that the time remaining gauge has not been accurate since Sierra at all. Right now, I'm at 34%, browsing the web, with 1h remaining. I know from experience that with web browsing I get about an hour per 10-12%. so in reality I have around 3h remaining.

I'm not defending Apple here, this is clearly an attempt to sweep it under the rug, but I can see why they've done it. In the infamous "car fuel gauge" example that's floating around, this is more akin to removing the "range" indicator from a car, leaving just the regular fuel gauge, because the range meter underestimates how far the remaining fuel will get you.

That said, I'm basing this on an older MBP, not the new Touch Bar.
 
I like how they announce and then explain why but they are some how being sneaky and sweeping stuff under the rug. This misinformation is how trump was elected.
 
I always find it fascinating when Apple does something sneaky like this, people will blindly argue in favor of Apple and rationalize things like third party solutions and make comments like it was not accurate or needed, or a suppliers fault. I admit I should not be surprised that a Mac site would blindly argue in favor of Apple.

I too live in an Apple ecosystem, but the more I read here the more doubts I have about my future with Apple.
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Why was this misleading and inaccurate feature never questioned until Apple had issues with the claimed battery life of a new product?
Wait, you prefer to have an inaccurate gauge than, let's say, the more accurate percentage (which is still available)?
 
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