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Apple Seeds First Beta of macOS Sequoia 15.5
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I am, or at least I was. The original 15.0 release did have some minor issues. They were fixed in 15.1. It's an meh release but not bad once the bug fix updates were out. Bad was iPadOS 18.0 (shudder), but now that is working too.
The bad news is that the AI keeps turning itself on with each update. 8 GB RAM is marginal at best for AI which is why Apple upgraded everything to 16 GB when it came out. The AI also uses an admitted 7 GB of storage and other reports say it's really twice that. For me there was no gain from the AI and frankly nothing useful to me from the rest of the Sequoia update either and so I reverted back to Sonoma and reclaimed 30 GB of storage, at least 10 more than I could explain from known files I didn't reload and the 7 GB of admitted AI stuff. I believe the claims of 15 GB for the real size of the AI software.
If the AI finds a use in MacOS 16 maybe I'll try again, but I'm not interested in exploring the bleeding edge. Sonoma runs very well.
In MacOS calendar the birthdays of your contacts now show a cake emoji. The old format had a specific icon, then the name and parentheses and the number of years. The new one is name, parentheses, cake emoji, number of years and "years".
Not a big difference but a difference nonetheless
Same on iOS
Not a big difference but a difference nonetheless
Same on iOS
No problems here. Been installing each public release of Sequoia as it became available on my M1 MBA.
Too many posts to see, but has anyone else noticed that in 15.4, when I just upgraded that custom desktop background solid colors don't work anymore?
I've used the same color on my desktop for 20 years and now whenever a custom solid color is chosen, the desktop is just blinding white?
Happened with the 15.4 update. I can choose one of their built in colors, but custom colors aren't actually working anymore.
Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this?
I've used the same color on my desktop for 20 years and now whenever a custom solid color is chosen, the desktop is just blinding white?
Happened with the 15.4 update. I can choose one of their built in colors, but custom colors aren't actually working anymore.
Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this?
That's not the only thing that keeps turning back on for me. I have Wifi deactivated, with even the setting to prevent any changes without an admin password. Yet now with each reboot, wifi is magically back on??
The update to 15.4 (not the betas, just the release) change many random system settings. Not to mention my post above where it kills any custom desktop background colors. The option is still there, it's just broken and shows blinding white light instead of any custom color.
With the actual 15.4 release version having so many bugs like that, there's no way I'm ever testing Apple betas again. Way too unstable even in release builds, have tried betas in the past, but not much trust in quality remains with Apple at this point with the continual crap releases.
That's called the Intel version 😅
I wonder if Intel will get 16 or not, maybe it'll start leaning too deeply on the NPU, and I wonder what OCLP and all will do then
