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Apple Seeds Eighth Beta of macOS Monterey to Developers
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Whew I've never seen a changelog this big. 1 resolved thing and 6 deprecations, can't wait to try it !
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Seriously, for the past 4 weeks, they resolved like 3-4 things ? I hope there's more behind-the-scenes, because it's a little bit ridiculous. iOS Betas were shaping up way differently.
Anyone see mildly curious whether this will come out before Windows 11?
Can’t say I’ve ever done that, but sometimes I do read “Chesapeake” as “Cheapskate.”
I was having tons of trackpad issues in the previous beta - not just zooming, but scrolling through anything was halting and I had to constantly keep swiping. Seems this update fixed these issues.
I want to say I saw something saying October 5th for Windows 11. If that's the case, I doubt it. Big Sur didn't come out until November, right? My guess is going to be somewhere around then
I noticed a change in Safari; when you close tabs the tab bar immediately resizes, unlike before where there was a brief moment before it did. Not sure if I like this change; that brief pause allowed you to close a few tabs in rapid succession without moving the mouse.
Everything was off about a month last year. Usually macOS is about a month behind iOS. I think I saw there is a promo (Back to School, maybe) that ends around the October 12. So, new MacBooks that week make sense.
How stable are things looking now that we're this far into the beta process? I've typically installed MacOS betas fairly early, but after last year when Big Sur broke Google Drive for the first like 5 or 6 betas, I decided to wait this time. But at 8 betas in, it should be pretty stable now I would think. Anyone know of anything major that's not working well at this point?
Back to school w/AirPods is over already. We still say November, if not into December.
I do like that this b8 came out a lot sooner then b6-> b7.
These have been the4 most stable macOS public beta releases just about ever — at least for me. I was expecting the worst but pleasantly surprised. I had an issue with a SoftRaid beta and Monterey but SotRaid released a new one and fixed it immediately. All the other apps I use, mostly design stuff like Adobe CC and RapidWeaver have worked perfectly. Shocking. The only app that no longer works for me is ArtView, which is a little app that adds Quick Look plugins for Adobe files.
While partially true that betas should get more stable, I would still treat anything labeled as beta as such… a beta, if you’re not trying to look for bugs and regressions I don’t think anyone has any business installing said betas.
These by definition of being a beta are never truly suppose to be treated as an everyday OS experience, should really only be installed on a secondary non-critical to daily activity device.
Well yes, I know all this as someone who has actively used betas for years; my question was really more along the lines of how overall stable this one is behaving. Big Sur was actually the biggest issues I've ever had with a beta, although that was mostly wrapped around how much I needed to use Google Drive File Stream at the time and how long it took Google to implement things so it would work with Big Sur (during the beta period). I'm well aware of all the risks, etc
Just looking for the general concept of how this one is doing, especially 8 betas in - and if most software by now is working ok with it (knowing that I could easily have a use case where it borks something I need on my machine)
What’s diffrent we already have the re designed safari which is terrible, what’s the point of this update exactly?
Oh - and also to add; I am active in reporting bugs when I use the betas. I've done some developing, etc. I also don't come on complaining (during the beta period) when it breaks something because I know it can and it's at my own risk. I just chose this time (where I'm not doing any active developments) to not jump in - but where I also do a lot of tech support, was thinking of getting in a little early so I can be ready to help when it gets to official release.Well yes, I know all this as someone who has actively used betas for years; my question was really more along the lines of how overall stable this one is behaving. Big Sur was actually the biggest issues I've ever had with a beta, although that was mostly wrapped around how much I needed to use Google Drive File Stream at the time and how long it took Google to implement things so it would work with Big Sur (during the beta period). I'm well aware of all the risks, etc
Just looking for the general concept of how this one is doing, especially 8 betas in - and if most software by now is working ok with it (knowing that I could easily have a use case where it borks something I need on my machine)
It’s been supported for a few versions now. Parallels has some support for it but they’ve got networking issues the last I saw. I’ve been testing with an open source tool. It doesn’t seem to have networking problems but the macOS VM isn’t very useful to me because I can’t log in to iCloud or my developer account. I haven’t tested the latest version yet.
Beta 7, the previous build broke audio drivers with Universal Audio hardware, hope that’s fixed again
Apple has ruined every software update recently nothing but bugs, apple need to hire a real team again