Apple Seeds Eighth Beta of OS X El Capitan to Developers, Sixth Beta to Public Testers

[doelcm82]

The Beta is still far too buggy, they could do with stabilising it before adding new features.

There is not enough time left! If the new iPhones feature force touch, then Apple has been internally (and with selective developers) testing it all along, in parallel with the developer program betas and public betas. For those who aren't upgrading their phones, Force Touch is probably not going to be an issue. Phones without the necessary hardware won't be able to access the force touch routines; no matter how hard you jab at your screen it won't trigger a call to any Force Touch API.

 

[netsped]

Apple finally fixed the scaled resolution bug on my 2015 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro. The login screen would show the native resolution at first, then the desktop jumped to the scaled one like an old CRT at logon.

Not fixed yet... it appears to not happen every time, but it's still happening.

I hope this gets fixed, I turn off my rMBP every night and it's a pain to see the sluggish animation when it changes the resolution back to what I have set.

 

[navaira]

I don't really dare to install the new beta, PB5 has been magically stable for me. I'll wait to see what y'all make of it

 

[richtea123]

It's funny you should say that. My plan is EE SIM only too.

Hmm. Mine too...

 

[TyPod]

Last developer beta worked great on my rMB. Downloading 8 now and hope to see nothing but improvements!

 

[Mactendo]

I'm getting tired of El Capitan. I want to start beta on 10.12.

I'm tired with the whole OS X line after Yosemite redesign. Give me OS 11.

 

[longdogs]

It's funny you should say that. My plan is EE SIM only too.

Ditto. Same symptoms. Only just moved from vodafone to EE and happened immediately.

 

[n-evo]

Not fixed yet... it appears to not happen every time, but it's still happening.

I hope this gets fixed, I turn off my rMBP every night and it's a pain to see the sluggish animation when it changes the resolution back to what I have set.

Well, it's not happening for me anymore. Restarted several times. So yay.

 

[Risco]

Download is keeps stopping for public beta?

 

[Sloppy.Joe]

For those in the beta test, is Elcap a modest upgrade only or does it really improve the OS usability?

 

[netsped]

Well, it's not happening for me anymore. Restarted several times. So yay.

Do you have FileVault enabled?

If so, can you try and change the resolution to 1680x1050 and see if it stays like that when restarting?

If not, maybe the bug I'm seeing is different than yours and it has to do with FileVault being on.

 

[jmh600cbr]

did it fix the split screen with messages?

 

[Risco]

Grr, still cannot download even directly, the download either freezes through app store or connection gets reset through Safari!

 

[n-evo]

Do you have FileVault enabled?

If so, can you try and change the resolution to 1680x1050 and see if it stays like that when restarting?

If not, maybe the bug I'm seeing is different than yours and it has to do with FileVault being on.

FileVault is enabled by default on the MacBook Pro, so yeah. And I'm already using the same resolution as you.

 

[Sanlitun]

For those in the beta test, is Elcap a modest upgrade only or does it really improve the OS usability?

I feel there are significant advantages in the speed and legibility of El Cap. They have slightly improved the grey on white problems that I personally hated in Yosemite.

 

[Even Longer]

Apple Seeds Eighth Beta...

You will earn, what you seed, they say...

 

[Jamalien]

Can't believe I haven't seen anyone mention this yet. In logic pro x the animations of everything, including scrolling within the timeline/workspace and the mixer are smooth as butter in el Capitan. FINALLY

 

[Sanlitun]

I'm making a mental note to haunt the next iOS beta thread with confusing and irrelevant messages about OS X....

 

[Scary Spice]

I'm making a mental note to haunt the next iOS beta thread with confusing and irrelevant messages about OS X....

Most apt post I have read on this thread so far.

Kudos, Sanlitun

 

[antmarobel]

For those in the beta test, is Elcap a modest upgrade only or does it really improve the OS usability?

It's faster than any other Apple OS I have used (and I've been using them since Tiger)

 

[yosappy]

On my 2 Macs, the build is "Version 10.11 Beta (15A278b)" NOT "15A279b." Am I missing something?

 

[MarcusCarpenter]

Can I do a clean install? I don't want to instal Developer beta 1 and have to upgrade through each version. Thanks

 

[Jamiet361]

Really enjoying El Capitan! The animations were too jerky on my rMBP running Yosemite, so I reverted back to Mavericks.

El Capitan seems silky smooth. Day 1 upgrade for me!

 

[iPhil]

On my 2 Macs, the build is "Version 10.11 Beta (15A278b)" NOT "15A279b." Am I missing something?

I'm on the same build but its latest PB 6 the PB 5 was a roughly 2 weeks ago

 

[GadgetBen]

It's a Beta! Therefore bugs & quirks are expected.

El Capitan betas have been smoother than Yosemite on last two releases! Like I said, Apple should focus on stability of iOS 9 before introducing a Beta for that with more features.