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Apple Releases macOS Sierra With Siri, Apple Pay, Apple Watch Unlock, Universal Clipboard, and More
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Yup this is mostly what it's about for me ahaha.
Although you did just introduce me to a feature I didn't know existed, looks handy!
Go to the App Store and search for macOS Sierra. It should come up.
Learnt my lesson from last week. Will wait to hear feedback....
macOS Sierra's biggest change is probably the naming scheme. Aside from Apple Pay on the web (Safari), universal clipboard, and Apple Watch unlock, I frankly haven't noticed much change from El Capitan.
I don't use Siri and I had a disastrous experience with iCloud Desktop & Documents Folder in earlier beta.
I don't use Siri and I had a disastrous experience with iCloud Desktop & Documents Folder in earlier beta.
You have to search for Sierra in the App Store to find it and there will be no update if you already have the GM.
So is MacOS Sierra going to slow down my MBA like iOS 10 slowed-down my 6+?
Maybe I'm getting old but these updates down't excite as much as they used to.
Maybe I'm getting old but these updates down't excite as much as they used to.
I don't know if this counts for anything but the "Install macOS Sierra" installer reports as version 12.0.49 which is the same as the last GM (16A323) installer.
When I downloaded the GM, I quickly found out that my apple watch does not unlock my late 2012 iMac. seems that you need a 2013 or later to do the unlock. I am not sure what is missing that prevents this, but I am disappointed.
For me the best way to update to a major release is by doing a clean install.
Do we know yet if iWork apps were greatly updated (besides collaboration)?
Has Keynote and Numbers grown up to be real apps again or are we stuck with iOS level crap apps?
Has Keynote and Numbers grown up to be real apps again or are we stuck with iOS level crap apps?
But you can do that with the new storage manager:
Though gotta say I do love that new clean install feeling.
How do you get to this?
I usually upgrade straight away, but i have been caught out too many times now, so i am going to leave it at least a few days before i upgrade.
I remember when they released El Capitan, it was supposed to be bug free as it was and update supposed to be all about reliability and efficiency rather than new features, well it had more bugs than any of Apples recent OSX releases, i couldn't believe how bad it was.
So going to leave it for a while, i was one of the ones that downloaded iOS 10 in the first hour and ended up with a crashed phone, so thats still fresh in my mind. The recent release of iTunes seems to have quite a few problems as well.
So i am not going to be an early upgrader anymore, its not worth the risk as i am very happy with El Capitan, so in no rush to upgrade.
I remember when they released El Capitan, it was supposed to be bug free as it was and update supposed to be all about reliability and efficiency rather than new features, well it had more bugs than any of Apples recent OSX releases, i couldn't believe how bad it was.
So going to leave it for a while, i was one of the ones that downloaded iOS 10 in the first hour and ended up with a crashed phone, so thats still fresh in my mind. The recent release of iTunes seems to have quite a few problems as well.
So i am not going to be an early upgrader anymore, its not worth the risk as i am very happy with El Capitan, so in no rush to upgrade.
cat "/Applications/Install macOS Sierra.app/Contents/Info.plist" | grep -A 1 DTSDKBuild
<key>DTSDKBuild</key>
<string>16A322</string>
edit: ignore this, apparently this isn't a reliable way of extracting the build number..
<key>DTSDKBuild</key>
<string>16A322</string>
edit: ignore this, apparently this isn't a reliable way of extracting the build number..