Apple Releases macOS Sonoma 14.4

[bousozoku]

Gosh I hope they have a "you kids get off my lawn" emoji soon.

I need a Lard emoji, and perhaps, a Manteca macOS release.

 

[Mother Nature]

Sheesh folks, get a grip. ENOUGH with the emoji bitching. Its been explained way too many times that this 1) isn't how standards work -apple isn't creating these, just adding them as approved, and 2) certainly do NOT have folks pulled off systems development teams to do this.

Out of 13 comments so far.. EIGHT (?!) have been about whatever deal you have with emojis pushing your buttons or something. take a break please. please. seriously. not funny anymore.

I'm guessing most of us would much rather read actual feedback and comments about the system changes... I'm especially interested in photos, music & the changes in the printing system.

Music (doesn't seem to have much in terms of changes here, still have an issue with importing mp3s to a new playlist and having them disappear until i do it a 2nd time, then its fine)

Photos - would love a way to search for unnamed faces, but found a nice script that helps with that finally. Recognition seems better all the time though of faces and objects. I did notice for the first time that when browsing the photos you get a little 'i' for 'info', normally the photo meta details, place and so on. and if the app finds something of interest in the photo it adds a pulsing star to the icon. for me, a cat picture when i clicked that, not only did it pull up info about cats, but correctly identfied the breed of my cat!

You are asking people TOO MUCH, their brains already do an overexhausting effort to try to put a few words together to b!tch about emojis.

 

[Someirishguy]

Once again, emojis take the lead on release notes.

Apple should just rebrand macOS to toyOS now, the transformation is nearly done.

What are ya like - macOS is great. I can work way more efficiently on my Mac vs my PC.

 

[Glideslope]

Updated to 17.4. Min 2 Pro. No issues with external devices, or workflow.

Didn't look at the emojis.

 

[Hornby]

But you’re making an excellent case for why it’s bizarre apple leads press releases with emoji announcements.

There’s a reason why they continuosly
do it, and as a student of marketing, I’m curious as to why that is…. That’s all !

That’s what I find so strange. Why are Emojis given the attention in the Apple PR?

 

[Ilde]

iOS 17.4 had to be release before the DMA deadline, I think that threw the cycle off ...

Indeed. Unusual release dates for all of the xxOS.

 

[Ilde]

Just done is not good enough for a Prosumer company... although increasingly with all sorts of companies... just done, is good enough.

Games, Cars, Laptops.... Everything.

You can always send out an update post consumer release. That wasn't really possible not that long ago... and would result in expensive recalls and defective products... but now it's the normal, sadly.

....We need the product released next month... think of the quarterly. But it's not finished, it's not ready. Just get it out... we can update it/patch it later...

I don't care about the customer, I care about my KPI's my KPI's that spreadsheet needs to be green... My KPI's. The spreadsheets need to be good, not the product.

 

[pp_amorim]

Case in point

They ship bug riddled software on all their devices these days

I have three different devices on 14.4 where the continuity camera is broken. We tried everything.

 

[n-evo]

Calendar asks for location permissions every time it opens after being quit when typing in an address for a new event. Has been doing that since the original release.

 

[pp_amorim]

The 3 bugs I have been reporting since macOS 14 beta are still there. Uff...

could you please share those?

 

[Mikeske]

My27" iMac 5K with Ventura was absolutely will not start with Safari, Opera and Firefox just the beach ball now going through the process to erase and reload the computer what a hassle absolutely bricked all the different browsers.

 

[hoodafoo]

🍄‍🟫 <-- shiitake (brown mushroom)

are you guys seeing it?

 

[ThatSomeone]

All my open Safari tabs & pins were wiped after updating, but my private window and its tabs were all left untouched🙃

 

[coolfactor]

Oh.. so MacOS has the same build number as the RC?

Isn't that what the RC (Release Candidate) is ... the build version to be released?

 

[turbineseaplane]

I have three different devices on 14.4 where the continuity camera is broken. We tried everything.

Sweet!
Love this software polish and quality testing!

 

[coolfactor]

🍄‍🟫 <-- shiitake (brown mushroom)

are you guys seeing it?

🍄‍🟫 Shoom, dude! 🐦‍🔥

 

[coolfactor]

I have three different devices on 14.4 where the continuity camera is broken. We tried everything.

Have you tried unplugging and plugging back in? 😇

 

[Ethosik]

Not if you work enterprise. Sonoma has been a mess.

Every OS since the history of time is a mess in enterprise. Windows XP -> Windows 7 wrecked havoc when I dealt with it. And those are the two best OSes ever made.

 

[Minato1990]

Sheesh folks, get a grip. ENOUGH with the emoji bitching. Its been explained way too many times that this 1) isn't how standards work -apple isn't creating these, just adding them as approved, and 2) certainly do NOT have folks pulled off systems development teams to do this.

Out of 13 comments so far.. EIGHT (?!) have been about whatever deal you have with emojis pushing your buttons or something. take a break please. please. seriously. not funny anymore.

I'm guessing most of us would much rather read actual feedback and comments about the system changes... I'm especially interested in photos, music & the changes in the printing system.

Music (doesn't seem to have much in terms of changes here, still have an issue with importing mp3s to a new playlist and having them disappear until i do it a 2nd time, then its fine)

Photos - would love a way to search for unnamed faces, but found a nice script that helps with that finally. Recognition seems better all the time though of faces and objects. I did notice for the first time that when browsing the photos you get a little 'i' for 'info', normally the photo meta details, place and so on. and if the app finds something of interest in the photo it adds a pulsing star to the icon. for me, a cat picture when i clicked that, not only did it pull up info about cats, but correctly identfied the breed of my cat!

Yes man.
I mean god damn emojis 🐦‍🔥🙂‍↕️🙂‍↔️😱 are really setting them off like this?
🤣
Stop crying about emojis cry babies 😂🫵🏿

 

[drewhess]

Anyone else get prompted to log in to “Set up iCloud‘ after the last reboot in the update?

I was prompted to log into iCloud, but only on one of my Macs; and this also happened to my wife, also only on one of her Macs. We were also both informed by macOS that our FileVault recovery keys were being rotated, but only on the Macs that prompted us to log into iCloud again.

The only theory I can come up with is that both of the Macs that prompted us to login to iCloud and had their FileVault keys rotated were originally set up on macOS 14 (Sonoma), whereas the others were upgraded to macOS 14 from macOS 13.

 

[g-7]

14.3.1:

14.4:

Big upgrade

 

[blackh0le]

I was prompted to log into iCloud, but only on one of my Macs; and this also happened to my wife, also only on one of her Macs. We were also both informed by macOS that our FileVault recovery keys were being rotated, but only on the Macs that prompted us to log into iCloud again.

The only theory I can come up with is that both of the Macs that prompted us to login to iCloud and had their FileVault keys rotated were originally set up on macOS 14 (Sonoma), whereas the others were upgraded to macOS 14 from macOS 13.

Had the same happen to me on my M3 Max 16". FileVault Key to AppleID sync not activated. So it can't be only macOS 14 Sonoma the trigger

 

[citysnaps]

What is their deal with emojis? Seriously.

People like emojis. Apple provides them. Simple.

 

[docbop]

The fact they even list Emoji's are something of importance in a OS update is a joke. Emoji's are for kids they aren't a serious computing item.

 

[bousozoku]

🍄‍🟫 <-- shiitake (brown mushroom)

are you guys seeing it?

Thank you for spelling it correctly.

I'm not seeing it but I'm currently on Windows 11 and they won't update it until they have more crappy AI to force on us. I'll switch to 14.4 on my MacBook Air soon. I hope it's buttery smooth now.