Apple Seeds First Beta of macOS Sonoma 14.3 to Developers

[iLuddite]

I'm addicted to betas. Stable version is dull.

So true. I’ve been running betas at least 85% of the time since the iOS 4 days.

 

[Darren.h]

another non impressive update with many missed bugs.

jus keep pumping ou the update numbers. Make the people just THINK your fixing the Bugs.

MacOS 15 and a whole year of new and old bugs.

can't even fix the memory leaks.

 

[stigman]

Yet again the Music app released with broken volume slider.

 

[Mike_Trivisonno]

They ruined the Preferences, Stickies still do not stick after 10 years, still no master slider for Display Brightness, and Wallpaper has been ruined or something. And what is Stage Manager supposed to do?

I think I liked it better when Apple tested their OS releases. I used to get excited about a new OS. Now I just wonder what Apple has "improved" into useless ruination.

 

[squampy]

Have to admit I haven't been consistent with submitting feedback. I'll try to step up my efforts in hopes that some of these bugs get more attention.

 

[nortonandreev]

Seems like this has been finalized at least 3 weeks ago, as a bug with the sliders that were present in one of the later macOS 14.2 Betas is back.

 

[falkon-engine]

I skipped the official 14.2 as it wasn't beta quality. I only run beta builds on my system.

The official version was once an RC RC2 in fact in this case. So you don't run RCs, for fear that they may become official?

 

[Realityck]

I think I liked it better when Apple tested their OS releases. I used to get excited about a new OS. Now I just wonder what Apple has "improved" into useless ruination.

Thats exactly what macOS 14.3 beta is, just a bug fix cycle mostly, then it's out maybe Jan 22nd 2024. BTW use search or the view menu when within system settings, much faster to get to what you want in Somoma.

 

[Corefile]

The official version was once an RC RC2 in fact in this case. So you don't run RCs, for fear that they may become official?

Beta and Release Candidates are two separate things.

 

[MrGimper]

Think I'll duck iOS, macOS and watchOS betas until the New Year

I've installed the iPadOS update tho.

 

[falkon-engine]

Beta and Release Candidates are two separate things.

Rc1 was a beta was it not ? It also had usb4 issues with asm2464pd controllers but that got fixed.

 

[Realityck]

Beta and Release Candidates are two separate things.

A RC/RC2 is just the final seeds of a beta seeding cycle. Usually the final build of whatever RC is last is used as the public release build. While we are at it, all betas and RC are defined as unstable as they could possibly change. Only public releases are stable meaning they won't be further modified.

 

[kbajura]

Is anyone having issues with Touch ID on a Magic Keyboard in 14.3? It looks like I totally lost Touch ID after the 14.3 beta for the Magic Keyboard, but it works fine with the built-in fingerprint reader.

 

[srbNYC]

In Mail, "Open Link Behind Mail" opens the Safari page in front, while making my Mac believe it's still "in" Mail. I get a front-most Safari window (which wasn't the point of "Open Link Behind Mail"), but the menu bar still says "Mail" in the upper left corner. Been this way through several 14.x versions.