Apple Releases Second Public Beta of macOS Catalina to Public Beta Testers

[daveedjackson]

My touchbacks doesn’t seem to respond to function key, so showing all windows f11 or frankly any F doesn’t work. Anyone else ?

 

[Doctor Q]

Before installing macOS Catalina, be aware that it does away with 32-bit app support, so some older apps that have not been updated in some time may stop working.

This is why I'm going to stall a bit before this update. I need time to replace various old utility programs that I've used for years. I can probably find new equivalent products for each of them, but I've never needed to hunt for them before. Inertia and laziness worked fine, but now the all-64-bit world has arrived.

 

[verpeiler]

Was the update pulled? No PB2 so far for me..

 

[mr95295]

FYI: The second public beta of Catalina will likely break sidecar. It requires a more updated version of iPad OS, which has not yet been released.

 

[nitramluap]

Not doing that for me. It’s working fine. Must be something reading havok. Mine is all backed up, so of course no problems

Hmm... maybe this widespread iCloud problem is/was the cause, although this has been going on since Beta 2? Will check later today but not holding my breath.

 

[China1]

I’ve heard nightmare install stories with this beta from developer friends. Any confirmation?

Yes. Restored from Time Machine. Then changed to Public Beta profile and succeed.

 

[ApfelKuchen]

None of my six (6) pending app updates will download. My iCloud desktop is still gone and I can't sign into my App Store account. on the plus side after the update I can now open and save Office 365 files. I haven't tried PDF expert yet.

I had the same issue with app updates. In my case, I was able to work around it by using a different login user account to download the apps (always handy to have a "clean" admin user to switch to).

If that workaround is effective for you, too, it suggests the solution posted by rumormiller will be an effective approach, as it seems to shotgun every user-specific aspect of the App Store. I'm holding off on applying that kind of fix; if by some chance Beta wants to investigate, it's helpful to be in a position to isolate the specific cause.

 

[Marx55]

Does second public beta of macOS Catalina allow to make Time Machine backups on APFS disks?

 

[kingspointer]

Here's my post on how I got App Store App Updates to work again #267

quite a few of these files were not present and this didn't work for me. thank you for your help.

 

[hagjohn]

Are you guys able to update your software? Firefox says it cannot be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.

It took me a good 7 tries but I was finally able to get it updated and working.