Apple Releases New macOS 12 Monterey Public Beta

[Fran Frin]

Build number?

 

[RolandGo]

Where did you download it from ? Maybe i am downloading from the wrong resource.
I Used InstallAssistant.pkg

Link to another thread is in post #75.

 

[t0pher]

Look in Applications folder, an installer app can be found there after running the installAssistant.pkg

that was the hint that was missing.

Run the "InstallAssistant beta.pkg" then look in the apps folder and run "Install macOS Monterey beta".

it's straight forward when you know that 1 extra step.

there is nothing, yes I blindly clicked through, that makes it obvious there is an app in the apps folder that also needs to be run.

 

[Killerbob]

Out of interest where do I get a copy of beta 6 from please?

macOS 12 Monterey Full Installer Database. Download Directly from Apple!

Download macOS Monterey full installer with one click straight from Apple! Every version of Monterey Beta & Final available all in one place!!

mrmacintosh.com

 

[shyam09]

I'm not getting this update on my Mac. I'm still on 12.0 Beta (21A5506j) from August, and it keeps saying it's the latest beta.

 

[macpeterr]

I'm not getting this update on my Mac. I'm still on 12.0 Beta (21A5506j) from August, and it keeps saying it's the latest beta.

I never says that it is 'the latest beta' it always reports 'latest version'.
Maybe you removed the beta profile by accident?

 

[shyam09]

I never says that it is 'the latest beta' it always reports 'latest version'.
Maybe you removed the beta profile by accident?

I meant it says "Your Mac is up to date ..."

But I removed and reinstalled the beta profile hoping that would change things. But nada.

 

[RolandGo]

I meant it says "Your Mac is up to date ..."

But I removed and reinstalled the beta profile hoping that would change things. But nada.

Strange. I went back to Beta 6 and Software Update shows me Beta 8 as available.

 

[shyam09]

Strange. I went back to Beta 6 and Software Update shows me Beta 8 as available.

I restarted the Mac and it found Beta 8 *facepalm* LMAO

 

[Dom_]

It never was.
iOS 7: September 18, 2013
macOS maverick: October 22, 2013
iOS 8: September 17, 2014
macOS Yosemite: October 16, 2014
iOS 9: September 16, 2015
macOS El Capitan: September 30, 2015
iOS 10: September 13, 2016
macOS Sierra: September 20, 2016
iOS 11: September 19, 2017
macOS High Sierra: September 25 2017
iOS 12: September 17, 2018
macOS Mojave: September 24, 2018
iOS 13: September 19, 2019
macOS Catalina: October 7, 2019
iOS 14: September 16, 2020
macOS Big Sur: November 12, 2020
So much like all of the recent posts That Apple used to be more user-friendly under Steve Jobs, you are looking at the past with rose tinted glasses.
Hell, who can forget that macOS X leopard was originally supposed to launch in spring 2007, but got delayed till October 2007 because of the iPhone?
Some things never change, and the truth is that A brand spanking new version of iOS and macOS have never launched on the same day, and don’t even launch in the same month more than not.
Hell for the fun of it…
iPhone OS 1.0: June 29, 2007
Mac OS X Leopard: October 26, 2007
iPhone OS 2.0: July 11, 2008
iPhone OS 3.0: June 19, 2009
Mac OS X snow leopard: August 28, 2009
iOS 4: June 21, 2010
Mac OS X lion: July 20, 2011
iOS 5: October 12, 2011
Mac OS X mountain lion: July 25, 2012
iOS 6: September 19, 2012

How does this make it any better though? Almost all Apple OSes these days are released simultaneously, why should macOS be the only exception? Is it that much harder to get a solid release timeline with macOS than with any of the other OSes?

On a side note: It's weird and not really user friendly to have some of the devices of the same ecosystem with newer functions and others aren't compatible with them. (This was especially frustrating when Notes and Reminders etc. had a new sync system and therefore weren't compatible.

 

[zalusky]

How does this make it any better though? Almost all Apple OSes these days are released simultaneously, why should macOS be the only exception? Is it that much harder to get a solid release timeline with macOS than with any of the other OSes?

On a side note: It's weird and not really user friendly to have some of the devices of the same ecosystem with newer functions and others aren't compatible with them. (This was especially frustrating when Notes and Reminders etc. had a new sync system and therefore weren't compatible.

There are new MacOs machines rumored for this month. It makes sense that the release of the MacOS might correlate with those releases. In these days of chip shortages you can't always control who gets what at what time.

 

[socalgecko]

I've had beta 6 (21A5506j) on my mid-2015 MBP for some time now, and multiple attempts to install the beta 7 and 8 updates through software update result in my machine still showing 21A5506j as the installed version. I even downloaded and ran the full beta 8 installer (17.0.24) and I'm still seeing 21A5506j in the system profiler after it completed. Is anyone else experiencing an issue like this?