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Apple Releases New macOS 12 Monterey Public Beta

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Apple today seeded a new public beta of the macOS 12 Monterey beta to public beta testers, allowing non-developers to test the new macOS Monterey software ahead of its public release. The update comes just a few day after Apple provided the eighth beta to developers.

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Public beta testers can download the macOS 12 Monterey update from the Software Update section of the System Preferences app after installing the proper profile from Apple's beta software website.

macOS Monterey introduces quite a few major updates for the macOS operating system. When released, Universal Control will let a single mouse, trackpad, and keyboard be used across multiple Mac or iPad devices, and it's now possible to AirPlay directly to a Mac from an iPhone, iPad, or even another Mac.

Safari has an updated tab bar and support for Tab Groups to keep tons of tabs organized, and FaceTime now features support for spatial audio, Portrait Mode (M1 Macs only) and Voice Isolation for cutting out background noise. A SharePlay FaceTime feature (coming in a Monterey update) will let Apple TV users watch TV, listen to music, and share their screens with one another.

Shared With You, another new feature, keeps track of the music, links, podcasts, news, and photos that people are sent in Messages, highlighting it in the relevant apps. Notes has a new Quick Note feature for jotting down thoughts, and the Shortcuts app is now available on the Mac.

A dedicated Focus mode helps people stay on task by cutting out background distractions based on what's going on, and there's an updated Maps app with a whole slew of new features. With Live Text, Macs can now detect text in photos or provide details on animals, art, landmarks, plants, and more in images. The new beta adds Live Text support for Intel Macs.

Mail Privacy Protection hides IP and prevents tracking through invisible pixels, and iCloud Private Relay keeps Safari browsing protected. There are many other new features in ‌macOS Monterey‌, with a complete overview available in our macOS Monterey roundup.

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I was honestly expecting Monterey and iOS 15.1 to release on October 12 along with a MBP event.
Now that October 12 is less than two weeks away and we’re only on 15.1 Beta two and Monterey is far from public release, I’m not expecting that until late October at the earliest, most likely mid November like Big Sur.
 
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Downloading onto my M1MBA… beta has been quite stable for me for the past 2+ months…
 
Lounge vibes 05 said:
I was honestly expecting Monterey and iOS 15.1 to release on October 12 along with a MBP event.
Now that October 12 is less than two weeks away and we’re only on 15.1 Beta two and Monterey is far from public release, I’m not expecting that until late October at the earliest, most likely mid November like Big Sur.
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The comparison to Big Sur time line is reasonable, especially if there is hardware coming late November into December. Knowing that you’ll have several more betas to further improve some issues before then. Still it’s quite usable IMHO with my M1 iMac, using it a day now for anyone worried about stability. :)
 
polee said:
Wow should I install this? Maybe I should wait till 12.5?
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Very smart recommendation. I would love to update, but Big Sur has been pretty solid for nearly year now. The only reason why even got to Big Sur it’s because came with my M1. My Intel Mac is still on Mojave for app compatibility reasons.
 
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I have been using public beta 2 on my only main computer since release, the one I'm doing all my critical work on. Works fantastic. So quite surprised to hear that according to you two even beta 9 is far away from the final public. LOL :oops:
 
What's the latest on the expected release ? October or more like november?
 
Lounge vibes 05 said:
I was honestly expecting Monterey and iOS 15.1 to release on October 12 along with a MBP event.
Now that October 12 is less than two weeks away and we’re only on 15.1 Beta two and Monterey is far from public release, I’m not expecting that until late October at the earliest, most likely mid November like Big Sur.
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I was expecting it on September 20. I miss when macOS was in sync with the rest of the ecosystem. These arbitrary delays with no ETAs for macOS to catch up to everything else are becoming quite frustrating.
 
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Mr. Dee said:
Very smart recommendation. I would love to update, but Big Sur has been pretty solid for nearly year now. The only reason why even got to Big Sur it’s because came with my M1. My Intel Mac is still on Mojave for app compatibility reasons.
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what apps aren't compatible with Big Sur? I've never not updated my OS every year.
 
Hopefully with this beta release we can get some more info as to when the 14 inch macbook is going to be released
 
Hopefully it fixes the trackpad issues on my M1 MacBook, zooming in with 2 fingers in safari doesn’t work from time to time, have to keep putting my MacBook to sleep.
 
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I was expecting it on September 20. I miss when macOS was in sync with the rest of the ecosystem. These arbitrary delays with no ETAs for macOS to catch up to everything else are becoming quite frustrating.
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MacOS is no longer only x86 so its can't be in sync with iOS/iPadOS/tvOS/WatchOS, its supporting two different computer processing architectures now. That was likely the reason why they broke the naming convention of 10.x finally. If you add the possibility of this MacOS working with even newer AS processors, then sync won't happen for some time. ;)
 
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Realityck said:
MacOS is no longer only x86 so its can't be in sync with iOS/iPadOS/tvOS/WatchOS, its supporting two different computer processing architectures now. That was likely the reason why they broke the naming convention of 10.x finally. If you add the possibility of this MacOS working with even newer AS processors, then sync won't happen for some time. ;)
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That shouldn't make any difference. If anything, the AS builds of macOS should be even faster to keep pace with the other ARM architecture CPUs Apple is using in their phones, watches, and other products.
 
Anyone ran into issue with installing Monterey OS Dev Beta 8 on Mac Pro 2013 ? after applying the Beta 8 update, the Mac Pro 2013 boots but progress bar stops abit 1/4 of way. Nothing happens afterwards.. When force reboot, there is no boot information, Macintosh HD is gone , only drive remain in apfs is Macintosh HD -Data and update .. I am able to repeat the process and same result
 
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