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Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of macOS 12 Monterey to Developers [Updated]

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Apple today seeded the fifth beta of macOS Monterey, the newest version of the macOS operating system. The fifth beta comes two weeks after Apple released the fourth macOS Monterey beta, and it is available to both developers and public beta testers.

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Registered developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer Center and once the appropriate profile is installed, betas will be available through the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences. Public beta testers can install the proper profile from Apple's public beta testing website.

As with all new betas, Apple recommends not installing the new macOS update on a primary machine because it is early release software and could have bugs.

macOS Monterey introduces Universal Control, a feature that lets a single mouse, trackpad, and keyboard be used across multiple Mac or iPad devices, plus there's a new AirPlay to Mac feature.

Safari has been redesigned with a new tab bar (with a toggle for two different designs as of the third beta) and support for Tab Groups, and FaceTime has gained spatial audio, a Portrait Mode on M1 Macs, and Voice Isolation for cutting out background noise. There's also a new SharePlay FaceTime feature that lets Apple users watch TV, listen to music, and share their screens with one another.

Shared With You, a separate feature, keeps track of the music, links, podcasts, news, and photos that people are sent in Messages, highlighting it in the relevant apps. Notes has a new Quick Note feature for jotting down thoughts, and collaboration is easier with mentions and an Activity View.

The Shortcuts app from iOS is now available on the Mac, and Focus helps people stay on task by cutting out background distractions. There's an updated Maps app with a whole slew of new features, and with Live Text, Macs can now detect text in photos or provide details on animals, art, landmarks, plants, and more in images.

Mail Privacy Protection hides IP and prevents tracking through invisible pixels, and iCloud Private Relay keeps Safari browsing protected. There are many other new features in macOS Monterey, with a full rundown available in our macOS Monterey roundup.

Update: While Apple initially also pushed the update to public beta testers, it appears it was pulled soon after.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of macOS 12 Monterey to Developers [Updated]
 
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You know what Apple should do? Go back to strict private betas for some of its releases. Just have established app store developers be the beta testers and internal company testers. This will reduce the high concentration of saturated junk articles just telling us there is a beta 123456789 etc. This is not targeted at Macrumors, it goes for even Windows 11 too. The tech sites, Youtubers have oversaturated the content they deliver with every little thing Apple does these days. Coverage needs to be a little more value added and meaningful. Also, the element of surprise is missing.

A strategy I would recommend the company could use is, every other year, have a public beta, and just let it be the last two betas before GM that users get access to. Also, make only be for the stability and clean up releases (aka Snow Leopard, High Sierra).
 
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The macOS 12 SDK provides support to develop apps for Mac computers running macOS Monterey 12 beta 5. The SDK comes bundled with Xcode 13 beta 5, available from Beta Software Downloads. For information on the compatibility requirements for Xcode 13, see Xcode 13 Beta 5 Release Notes.

AppKit​

Focus​

Known Issues​

  • You’re unable to switch to a Focus other than Do Not Disturb using Siri. (78263540)
  • The system won’t allow notifications to break through a Focus, even if “Allow time sensitive notifications” is selected. (80998661)

iCloud​

Known Issues​

  • Legacy Contacts has been removed from macOS Monterey 12 beta 5 and will return in a future release. (81292890)

Language & Region​

Known Issues​

  • Certain languages might display unlocalized text. (78476984)
  • Certain languages might exhibit clipped or misaligned layout. (78477103)

Mac Catalyst​

Known Issues​

  • Setting the title color of a UIButton doesn’t work regardless of whether you use baseForegroundColor or titleColorForState:. (76566253)
  • System buttons have a black background color if no color is set. (76910619)
    Workaround: Set a color, or if you want the system default color, request a button using the iOS 14 and Mac Catalyst 15 or earlier API: buttonWithType:.

macOS Recovery​

Deprecations​

Maps​

Known Issues​

  • The Bay Bridge might scale incorrectly at high zoom levels. (79217316)
  • Rounded building corners might disappear. (80468151)

Messages​

Known Issues​

  • Reminders triggered by messaging a contact don’t produce a notification. (81118121)

Music​

Known Issues​

  • You might be unable to play Lossless or Spatial Audio tracks via Siri. (78277808)

Networking​

Deprecations​

  • Support for cleartext HTTP URL schemes for Proxy Automatic Configuration (PAC) is now deprecated. Use only HTTPS URL schemes for PAC. This affects all PAC configurations, including, but not limited to, configurations set via Settings, System Preferences, profiles, and URLSession APIs such as connectionProxyDictionary and CFNetworkExecuteProxyAutoConfigurationURL(_:_:_:_:). If you configure a cleartext HTTP PAC URL, the system may upgrade it to HTTPS during PAC file loads. Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) Protocol via DNS isn’t affected. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Option 252 WPAD may attempt to upgrade cleartext HTTP URLs to HTTPS during PAC file loads. (61981845)

Python​

Deprecations​

  • If an app uses Python 2.7, macOS now triggers an alert indicating that the developer must update the app to ensure it will work in future versions of macOS. (80221011)

RealityKit​

Known Issues​

Safari​

Known Issues​

  • Animation glitches might occur when opening and closing the sidebar in Safari. (80441779)
  • Safari toolbar vibrancy and background color might adversely affect the legibility of tab buttons in the tab bar. (80417925)

SharePlay​

Known Issues​

  • Sessions with more than five participants might affect SharePlay performance. (79466576)
  • Notifications you receive while sharing your display are visible to other SharePlay participants. (79455578)
    Workaround: Enable Do Not Disturb during the SharePlay session.
  • Recipients of screen sharing content might see unexpectedly small windows and limited zoom behavior. (78431516)

SwiftUI​

New Features in macOS Monterey 12 beta 5​

  • The contentShape(_:eoFill:) modifier now allows fine-grained control over different kinds of shapes. For drag previews, hover effects, and context menus, the matching ContentShapeKinds is required to affect the shape of previews when linked on iOS 15.0 or newer. The default behavior is to set the interaction kind. (60792377)
  • openURL environment value can now be set and used to customize URL handling in the view hierarchy, including URL handling in Link views and links embedded in Text views. (78551237)
  • Task allows you to pass the priority to be used when spawning a new Task. (80599258)
  • Text views that contain excessive line height characters now have a larger default size to avoid clipping or overlapping of oversized characters. (80665315)

Known Issues​

  • You can’t push to a third screen after popping from a third screen in the navigation stack. (79076444)
  • Providing a binding to an OutlineGroup might require including wrappedValue in the init(_:children:content:) key path parameter, and won’t back-deploy to earlier releases. (77890799)
  • Focusing a view in a newly added List row using FocusState requires deferring the focus state property update to the next time the main runloop runs. (78607356)

Deprecations​

  • controlProminence has been deprecated. Use the new .borderedProminentButtonStyle instead. (78908460)
  • Fn (Function) shortcut modifier is deprecated and reserved for system usage. (78627099)

Translation​

Known Issues​

  • System-wide translation replacement functionality doesn’t work in apps created with Mac Catalyst. (80022547)

Virtualization​

Resolved in macOS Monterey 12 beta 3​

  • Virtual machines no longer fail to start a guest account if a memory balloon device is set up. (79943519)
 
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Mr. Dee said:
You know what Apple should do? Go back to strict private betas for some of its releases. Just have established app store developers be the beta testers and internal company testers. This will reduce the high concentration of saturated junk articles just telling us there is a beta 123456789 etc. This is not targeted at Macrumors, it goes for even Windows 11 too. The tech sites, Youtubers have oversaturated the content they deliver with every little thing Apple does these days. Coverage needs to be a little more value added and meaningful. Also, the element of surprise is missing.

A strategy I would recommend the company could use is, every other year, have a public beta, and just let it be the last two betas before GM that users get access to. Also, make only be for the stability and clean up releases (aka Snow Leopard, High Sierra).
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So Apple should purposefully worsen their beta testing practices by having less people test their new releases, just because tech "journalists" are lazy and you are unable to ignore bad articles? Hard pass on you bad idea.
 
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Mr. Dee said:
You know what Apple should do? Go back to strict private betas for some of its releases. Just have established app store developers be the beta testers and internal company testers. This will reduce the high concentration of saturated junk articles just telling us there is a beta 123456789 etc. This is not targeted at Macrumors, it goes for even Windows 11 too. The tech sites, Youtubers have oversaturated the content they deliver with every little thing Apple does these days. Coverage needs to be a little more value added and meaningful. Also, the element of surprise is missing.

A strategy I would recommend the company could use is, every other year, have a public beta, and just let it be the last two betas before GM that users get access to. Also, make only be for the stability and clean up releases (aka Snow Leopard, High Sierra).
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It seems like having public betas allows for a wider audience for potential major errors. They already do closed betas for several weeks before the public beta, which is usually pretty smooth, begins. And Macrumors posts about the closed betas also. The oversaturated content wouldn't exist if there weren't eyeballs and clicks on it, so clearly there is interest.
 
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So Apple should purposefully worsen their beta testing practices by having less people test their new releases, just because tech "journalists" are lazy and you are unable to ignore bad articles? Hard pass on you bad idea.
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Sounds like you are new to all this, because they did only private betas for many years before they started public betas with Sierra. With a few exceptions such as 10.0 and 10.5, releases such as Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Tiger for Intel, Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks were all private. Yet, Big Sur which was public has more glaring bugs that I am sure public testers didn't pick up. Its really no benefit to be honest.
 
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Mr. Dee said:
Sounds like you are new to all this, because they did only private betas for many years before they started public betas with Sierra. With a few exceptions such as 10.0 and 10.5, releases such as Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Tiger for Intel, Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks were all private. Yet, Big Sur which was public has more glaring bugs that I am sure public testers didn't pick up. Its really no benefit to be honest.
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I did get beta invaites and I do remember how special you did feel when you did receive them.
 
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