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

So downloaded the beta and now internet Doesnt work and it wont connect to icloud. Says there was an error connecting to the server. Help!
 
n8cousins said:
That's not how it works tho. It's never worked that way. Every year Apple stops seeding new Betas about a month before the GM release. They never add major new features between the final Beta and GM. That would be insane. And what would be the point if none of those features are usable?

There needs to be another Beta after the GM release, likely 9.0.1 beta 1. If the current iOS 9 Beta doesn't have Force Touch then the GM release on the 9th won't have it either. I believe the article you are thinking of only found a mention of FT, not full support.
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So you're saying the next generation iPhone's won't come with one of it's major distinguishing features upon launch? Get out of here.
 
Someone help! Installed the beta and latest update. Internet wont Work and wont let me sign in to icloud. Says there is an error connecting to the apple id server.
 
n8cousins said:
Launch, yes. Announcement, no. Big difference. Sept 9th is only the announcement.
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Still doesn't mean that Force Touch will be excluded from GM or release and would require an additional update to add it. OS X 10.10.3 launched before the new 12" MacBooks launched and that included Force Touch support for it without an additional update to OS X to add it.
 
Can someone please confirm this for me...

Ever since Yosemite, my MacBook Pro which is connected to my 27" Cinema Display on start up never showed the log in screen on my Cinema Display, but always came up on my MacBook Pro display. And yes I did set my main display as my Cinema Display.

Just wanting to know if this latest El Capitan beta has fixed this issue?

Thankyou
 
lagwagon said:
Still doesn't mean that Force Touch will be excluded from GM or release and would require an additional update to add it. OS X 10.10.3 launched before the new 12" MacBooks launched and that included Force Touch support for it without an additional update to OS X to add it.
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You're confusing public releases with Betas. Like I said before, the current iOS 9 Beta doesn't have Force Touch support therefore the GM release on the 9th won't have it either. There needs to be another Beta with FT first. Why is this so hard to understand?
 
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SMIDG3T said:
What? That's the funniest thing I've read in a while. Force Touch is coming to the 6s and 6s Plus. Force Touch isn't software.
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I understand that only the 6s and 6s+ will have force touch capability but you still need the software to support the new hardware which is rumored to be included in an update to iOS 9 after the new phones are released. Or are you forgetting how Apple Pay launched on iOS 8.1 and not with iOS 8 when the new iPhone 6 and 6+ were made available...?
 
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n8cousins said:
You're confusing public releases with Betas. Like I said before, the current iOS 9 Beta doesn't have Force Touch support therefore the GM release on the 9th won't have it either. There needs to be another Beta with FT first. Why is this so hard to understand?
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No I'm not. 10.10.3 BETA had FT support before it went public. There doesn't "need" to be another beta to add it to iOS 9.0 or 9.0.1 or 9.1. Why is it so hard to understand it's not required just because you say so.
 
DrumApple said:
Only thing of interest to me is the split window management, and I guess the under the hood Metal stuff is always welcome... but man, it seems like each OS release gets less and less features. Shouldn't it be the other way around? And let's hope that this doesn't introduce new WiFi bugs etc.
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Each release gets more features. It's not like you lose any with El Capitan. Fewer features is what OS X needs at the moment if it ever wants to reach Snow Leopard-level stability again, which would be quite refreshing... Hopefully by 10.11.3, we'll have a stable OS again.
 
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TimUSCA said:
Those of you waiting on iOS 9, I wouldn't hold your breath...

Given the lack of iOS 9 betas, I can only assume it's at a point where they're ready to add Force Touch but can't until new hardware is announced.
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This is probably very true, but I can't complain about the latest iOS 9 beta so far. It's actually less buggy than my previous "stable" installation of iOS 8.4.1.
 
I have not installed any of the previous betas, is there a way to just install the latest? I have signed up and entered the code awhile ago.
 
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