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Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of macOS 12 Monterey to Developers [Updated]
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I am on the beta program and I am not seeing this update. Are you sure it's not just dev only at this point?
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.
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.
Article Link: Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of macOS 12 Monterey to Developers and Public Beta Testers
I am not sure they released the public beta version — no update is showing up on my iMac.
Is anyone who’s enrolled onto the public beta able to confirm if they’ve received a notification for a new version?
Is anyone who’s enrolled onto the public beta able to confirm if they’ve received a notification for a new version?
Also not showing up for me. Maybe they pushed it to some public beta testers by accident, or did actually release it at the same time with developer beta but pulled it for public beta testers for some reason?
I didn’t know this would be such a negative post. Well let me pour salt into the wound, they should start charging $129 again, too!
If they sent home the current lineup of software engineers a
Ne brought back Forstall and Serlet, I’d gladly pay the fee!!
Anyone else having an issue with Apple Watch unlock capability? Times out when trying to enable.
I held off until December/January for Big Sur, I think I may do the same for Monterrey. I upgraded to Catalina all too quickly and it was not a good experience!
Well, unless they come out with that tasty, tasty new MBP in the fall! Hopefully not long now....
Well, unless they come out with that tasty, tasty new MBP in the fall! Hopefully not long now....
Macrumors jumped the gun and posted the public beta had also been released. It hasn’t. No other Apple site is reporting it as being released. They need to update their article.
Agreed and I believe a lot of people have already proposed the bundle articles for the beta update, but given the fact that not everybody installs every beta, bundling everything will just make the article blotted for those who want an update about macOS only and don't care about anything else nevertheless as you said it up to us.
This was back when we didn’t get yearly updates, too. Although, the betas were way more wonky then! It’s been a while since a beta has completely borked everything for me and I’ve had to revert back. I’d attribute that to a wider base of users testing the OS for free…
Broke here too. I shifted to the Insider "Beta" build and it seems to be working again... fingers crossed
I have some sympathy with this idea. There is a great deal of tedious, click-bait churnalism out there
I wish there weren't so many different articles and chats about each iOS 15: what's new, just released, bug fixes, etc. Everyone posts everywhere.
That would make a great t-shirt.
I'm getting it now (after successfully opening a few emails) and I'm not on beta; I have the App Store versions.
There it is, just waiting and you haven’t disappointed
Not showing up for me on an Intel iMac. Developer portal only shows restore image for M1 Macs and the profile installer is not currently available for download. I wonder if they pulled it.
Edited: after trying to download on a couple different Macs the profile installer is now available. And after reinstalling the profile the update showed up for me.
Edited: after trying to download on a couple different Macs the profile installer is now available. And after reinstalling the profile the update showed up for me.