In the second public beta, I started having bluetooth issues between my iOS devices and my mid-2014 15.4" rMBP. In this new public beta, those issues are gone. Smooth experience for me so far.
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Apple Seeds Fifth OS X 10.10.3 Yosemite Beta to Developers, Public Beta Testers
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Not going to upgrade from mavericks until the next OS. Yosemite is too buggy I am scared off from it (and really there isn't anything that useful to me in it over mavericks)
Couple quick questions regarding the photo app since I haven't used it:
1. Does it upload your entire iPhoto library automatically into iCloud? Videos too?
2. Do I have the option to keep selected photos/videos local or does everything go?
3. Since photos and videos take up space, does this mean we all will ultimately have to purchase more storage for iCloud at some point?
1. Does it upload your entire iPhoto library automatically into iCloud? Videos too?
2. Do I have the option to keep selected photos/videos local or does everything go?
3. Since photos and videos take up space, does this mean we all will ultimately have to purchase more storage for iCloud at some point?
1. Yes if you choose to turn on iCloud Photo Library. Videos go into the cloud too.
2. No, it's all or nothing. If you need some media local only, the best bet at this point in time is a new Photos Library (just like iPhoto, hold option when starting up Photos to select different libraries). Only your main "system" library will sync to the cloud.
3. Yes if your media is larger than your iCloud storage space. (I really hope that Apple will announce more competitive iCloud storage pricing when Photos is officially released - a year ago Apple's pricing was pretty good, but not so much today)
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For me there are two must have Yosemite features.
1. The UI. Such a breath of fresh air. Going back to Mavericks seems so...old fashioned now.
2. Continuity. Being able to message, FaceTime and phone call people (even people without Apple devices) from my laptop is super handy when my phone is upstairs or in another room. This feature really is excellent
If I remember correctly, it's either on or off. If it's on it'll start uploading. yes, it uses your iCloud space so be ready to buy more if you turn it on.
you could just leave it off and use Photos like iPhoto and keep pics on your computer. Use iCloud only for shared pics and photo stream.
Yosemite is fine. The betas, those are a different story, but they're betas, so they come with bugs. But the non-beta Yosemite, it's fine. I never had any issues and there's millions of others that haven't either. No reason to hold off, just don't go installing the public betas and you'll be dandy.
While I wait for my rMBP to charge before installing this update, I gotta ask, did they fix that massive look-up bug?
so you are saying more than 1 million views of apples forums with wifi issues is nothing major? tech companies telling people to hold off installing yosemite? wake up kid.
This is not a typical .x.x release, this update has a lot of new features such as the new Photos.app and the overhauled Lookup feature plus a few other things like the emoji chooser. It'll be longer than the usual updates.
Apple didn't make it a major highlight, the media did. Apple put it in a small 10.10.3.x update, that's it. The major spotlight Apple is doing for 10.10.3 is the new Photos.app.
I can't agree with that, Wi-Fi took a major hit in Mavericks and for some, Mountain Lion. So, the Yosemite's new discoveryd service isn't the only cause behind the various Wi-Fi/bluetooth problems.
Yes, it is fixed. Apple closed my radar on this a while ago and it is fixed in this build.
Try repairing the library by holding the option+command keys when opening Photos.app.
Why post such nonsense? Yosemite is a very buggy release of OS X and a lot of people are looking to 10.10.3, not for the Photos app or differently coloured emojis, but for basic functionality, performance and stability.
For me:
- it can take up to 1 minute to connect to the Time Capsule at work,
- Safari, Calendar and Mail and others have an input lag when typing or switching between apps.
- Mail (although improved) still has a lot of important bugs when dealing with Exchange and Gmail.
- Messages shows old threads as unread, while the Dock shows an incorrect number of unread messages.
- Major usability issues when dealing with second displays.
- Continuity unusable because far too unreliable
- ...
And that's what I could think of in 10 seconds. So yes, many people have good reasons not to update to the "latest and greatest"...
I've had a similar set of problems that were exclusive to beta 4. I even did a complete re-imaging of my Macbook recently (for other reasons) and the problem persisted. I did some bug reporting to Apple and gave quite a few diagnostics reports; hopefully it's fixed. Wasn't having any wi-fi issues before and all my other devices on my network worked fine.
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Normally I'd agree with such a comment, but it's a real issue in beta 4 that multiple people have experienced who weren't experiencing the problems in previous betas.
Also, I've got an Apple Time Capsule (latest gen, 802.11ac) so it shouldn't be giving me problems on just a machine using the 10.10.3 beta 4 build when every other machine on my network (including another Macbook running on 10.10.2 and multiple iPhones/iPads) access the network & internet just fine.
THIS + smart album syncing would be great. I created some Smart Albums in Photos but they didn't sync to my iPhone.
Mmh, that's interesting. After installation, FaceTime activated the iPhone-Cellular call option and my Mac was able to receive calls...
Seconded. I've got a 200GB+ 25k image/video library and it took a long time to get in sync across devices. Since re-imaging I'm now testing downloading my entire library using "Download Originals" and it appears Apple throttles your connection to iCloud Photo Library at times sometimes not doing any syncing at all, and some times doing syncing only when you are browsing through the library.
But when it works, it is oh so sweet. And if you don't "trust" your library in Apple's hands just do what you should be doing already: having a local backup, offsite backup (like BackBlaze) and the originals. If you aren't doing that, at least, you should trust yourself less than you trust Apple to keep your photos safe from disappearing.
There might be bugs, but I wouldn't say it's a very buggy release of OS X. I use it on two computers at home and one at work.
-No issues/delays connecting to TimeCapsule at home.
-Not seeing the delays when switching betweend the apps you mention
-Using Mail with Exchange every weekday at work and can't remember that I have noticed anything strange.
-I think I've once (on one computer) seen that with Messages app in the Dock showing one unread message even though there was none, but that god sorted by itself after a while (I think).
-Don't know about second displays don't use that so you could be right that there are issues.
-Don't use Continuity, so you might be right there too.
Anyway, there's a lot of users at work that have Yosemite with secondary displays and I don't hear about any issues. Wifi has overall also been stable for me at home. Also at work, but there I'm mostly on Ethernet.
Look, I'm sure there are issues, but to say that they are major and happening for most users I wouldn't agree with.