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

davinche said:
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.
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Ah...that explains why the update is not showing up for the public beta - they borked the profile again.

Ok - I'll reinstall the profile when I get home so the update comes available. (2018 15" MacBook Pro).
 
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Long time listener, new poster here - 16" MBP i9 - had the runaround with Dev Beta 5 and Public Beta 3, and settled back to PB3. Installed Dev Beta 5 and was greeted with a bunch of beachballs in Outlook which I couldn't do for my machine, and also many apps that would not launch due to not having enough privileges. In System Preferences / Software Update tab, I was also greeted with the message "Your Mac is running the latest software update allowed by your administrator" - and I'm clearly running on an admin account and zero MDM profiles on my machine.... did the usual things such as running Disk Utility, and a bunch of other Terminal commands to try to reset a few things to no avail.

I then went back to beta.apple.com to get the latest Public Beta, which is the build from two weeks ago - so it seems that they may have pulled this build from the Public - however it still does download as the Dev Build as I have tried going back and forth twice between builds to see if admin rights would be re-installed after seeing good results from PB3 - but no luck!

From my perspective, the DB5 has some challenges in it right now for me, so I'm sticking to PB4 until the next build!

-Jeff
 
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If anyone is able to test out PB4 against my comments / issues a note above, would you mind circling back here to let us know how it goes? Thanks!
 
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thgoepel said:
You might to get on the latest Beta of Outlook and that one will work. Had the same issue but with the Aug 10 Update Outlook is working and no beachballs anymore. You can get it when you subscribe to the BETA channel.
Outlook Version that works is: 16.53 (21081001)
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I did that as well, removed my profile, re-installed my user, used the old and the new Outlook... beachballs everywhere! :)
 
jeffhenderson said:
Long time listener, new poster here - 16" MBP i9 - had the runaround with Dev Beta 5 and Public Beta 4, and settled back to PB4. Installed Dev Beta 5 and was greeted with a bunch of beachballs in Outlook which I couldn't do for my machine, and also many apps that would not launch due to not having enough privileges. In System Preferences / Software Update tab, I was also greeted with the message "Your Mac is running the latest software update allowed by your administrator" - and I'm clearly running on an admin account and zero MDM profiles on my machine.... did the usual things such as running Disk Utility, and a bunch of other Terminal commands to try to reset a few things to no avail.

I then went back to beta.apple.com to get the latest Public Beta, which is the build from two weeks ago - so it seems that they may have pulled this build from the Public - however it still does download as the Dev Build as I have tried going back and forth twice between builds to see if admin rights would be re-installed after seeing good results from PB4 - but no luck!

From my perspective, the DB5 has some challenges in it right now for me, so I'm sticking to PB4 until the next build!

-Jeff
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Were you able to get rid of the "Your Mac is running the latest software update allowed by your administrator" in any way?
 
wsklar528 said:
That didnt come up but the terminal update seems to be doing something. Thanks

sudo softwareupdate -i -a -R
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During other feedback back to apple yesterday. I queried about the additional security of needing a administrator authentication passcode to run a automated Apple Mac OS system update after preparation is completed against a users account that already logged in that has admin privileges. First saw this in beta 4, but it looked more intentional now.
 
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Realityck said:
During other feedback back to apple yesterday. I queried about the additional security of needing a administrator authentication passcode to run a automated Apple Mac OS system update against a users account that has admin privileges.
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Strangely enough I have this now after updating with the terminal command.
 

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anyone else having issue with downloading OTA version just stuck on downing on my M1 iMac
 
Interesting that they finally pushed it. 2018 15" MBP. The current status message in software update is new - it's like they're using enterprise profiles for controlling access (and making that visible) now?

Edit: Oh, and this build of the PB5 is 21A5304g


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mikeyteh said:
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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90% of the errors I report in Feedback Assistant are ignored and never get fixed, and I'm a registered developer.

Also, all their major errors are almost exclusively found by Google, not Johnny Public Beta Tester.
 
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90% of the errors I report in Feedback Assistant are ignored and never get fixed, and I'm a registered developer.

Also, all their major errors are almost exclusively found by Google, not Johnny Public Beta Tester.
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Vast majority of mine get fixed or show that they’re being looked at, between joining public beta and now.
 
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I'm finding this latest public beta (12.0 Beta (21A5304g) to be a bit of a disaster compared to the last one. It's destroyed Outlook and many apps, like InDesign and Safari, are crashing seemingly randomly, sometimes without announcement.
 
Is anyone able to access their local router admin pages via IP (ex https://192.168.1.1)? I get into a "this connection is not private" -> Yes, I want to visit it -> "this connection is not private" loop.
Works in Chrome after saying I want to visit the page, but not in Safari 15.0 (17612.1.26.1.3) or Tech Preview Release 129.
 
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LlamaLarry said:
Is anyone able to access their local router admin pages via IP (ex https://192.168.1.1)? I get into a "this connection is not private" -> Yes, I want to visit it -> "this connection is not private" loop.
Works in Chrome after saying I want to visit the page, but not in Safari 15.0 (17612.1.26.1.3) or Tech Preview Release 129.
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I can access my local router and other local wifi access points (Fritzbox 7590, 7490, 3000) without a problem (no popup at all) using release 129 and also 15.0 in Safari.
 
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gank41 said:
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…
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----0-Regardless of whether major updates are paid or free, I'm among the folks who still feel like they should go back to a year-and-a-half or multi-year release cadence. Some things just need more time to bake.
 
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