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Apple Seeds First Beta of Upcoming macOS Big Sur 11.1 Update to Public Beta Testers

jhowarth said:
Or this is just marketing wanting them to get the release number off of a .0.x series ASAP.
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They didn't do it with any previous release of macOS and some of those had really rough x.0.x releases.

I find myself in agreement with those who feel Apple wants all of their operating systems on an annual full numerical increment upgrade cycle. macOS has been the only outlier of their OS families and I am surprised it has taken them this long to do so. As such, I fully expect to see the launch of macOS 12 at WWDC 2021, followed by macOS 13 at WWDC 2022 and so on.
 
I’d advise avoiding this

my Mac has crashed to the point it won’t boot
and recover from time capsule says contact your administrator

i suspect I will no avoid being on apples beta track from now on
 
mxrider88 said:
If you switch to another user, continuity and handoff STILL stop working!!! This is been going on since Yosemite!!!!
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chucker23n1 said:
Then that’s not gonna work. Handoff works with devices from the same account.

(It might work with family sharing?)
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Yes, this. Continuity/handoff only work for the same person on the same Apple ID.

The feature has only existed since Yosemite. Cross-ID Continuity would be a privacy issue and was never meant to be a feature. Stop screaming 😅
 
chucker23n1 said:
Then that’s not gonna work. Handoff works with devices from the same account.

(It might work with family sharing?)
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No, it’s a bug.
Two accounts, two iPhones, two Apple ID.
Log into my account, it works. Continuity, handoff, hotspot, continuity camera, all works.

switch to the other account, nothing works.
switch back to my account, my iPhone isn’t detected, nothing works, no more continuity camera no more hotspot, nothing.

Only solution: reboot and log into one account only.
 
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primarycolors said:
Yes, this. Continuity/handoff only work for the same person on the same Apple ID.

The feature has only existed since Yosemite. Cross-ID Continuity would be a privacy issue and was never meant to be a feature. Stop screaming 😅
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What are you talking about? Why a privacy issue?

if I log into my account I use continuity camera from my iPhone, if I log into my partner account she wants to use continuity camera from her phone or hotspot from her phone. Then I switch back to my account and I expect my phone to give me continuity camera and hotspot.

but it doesn’t work. As soon as I log into the second account it all breaks and the phone isn’t detected anymore. Can’t even see it in finder to run a backup or sync it unless I reboot. This is a bug.
 
dpfenninger said:
So wouldn’t the .1 release be equivalent to the yearly macOS releases of previous years? I would think all Big Sur-related fixes/features updates would be .0.x ...and that an 11.1 release would be analogous to a new California location release. Otherwise, going to 12.0 would imply drastic changes again only a year later. Thoughts?
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The only reason Apple started doing major macOS updates as .1 updates is because they put a ton of marketing clout into the Mac OS X branding when it launched. They didn’t want to move on to version 11 with Jaguar or Panther as that would have created confusion in the marketplace as the Classic to macOS transition was still underway. Since Apple hasn’t used the Mac OS X name in years it makes sense to move back to a more conventional numbering system.
 
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mxrider88 said:
What are you talking about? Why a privacy issue?

if I log into my account I use continuity camera from my iPhone, if I log into my partner account she wants to use continuity camera from her phone or hotspot from her phone. Then I switch back to my account and I expect my phone to give me continuity camera and hotspot.

but it doesn’t work. As soon as I log into the second account it all breaks and the phone isn’t detected anymore. Can’t even see it in finder to run a backup or sync it unless I reboot. This is a bug.
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Relax. It wasn't clear from your original post that's what you meant, we interpreted that you want Continuity from the same iPhone to work across two accounts / two Apple IDs.

That does sounds like a frustrating issue. Have you replicated it on different computers? Tried reinstalling MacOS? Reported it to Apple?
 
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Continuity and Handoff are both not working for me right now. I also can't see any iCloud Tabs on all devices.
 
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chfilm said:
any infos about amd 6000x series drivers?
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As first, consider that I'm not an expert.

Anyway, just for curiosity, I looked for the PCI id of the 6800/6800xt (not sure but probably the PCI ID is 0x73bf while AMD is 0x1002) and the name "Navi21" (if I understood well RX6800 and 6800 XT are "Navi 21") in /System/Library/Extensions and I found something:

MM2018-2:Extensions root# grep -IRi Navi21 *
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist: <key>AMDRadeonNavi21Controller</key>
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist: <string>AMDRadeonX6000_AmdRadeonControllerNavi21</string>



MM2018-2:Extensions root# grep -B1 -IRi 0x73bf1002 *
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist- <key>IOPCIMatch</key>
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist: <string>0x73101002 0x73121002 0x73181002 0x73191002 0x731A1002 0x731B1002 0x731F1002 0x73BF1002 0x73601002 0x73621002 0x73401002 0x73411002 0x73431002 0x73471002 0x734F1002 0x73A01002 0x73A21002 0x73A31002 0x73AB1002 0x73AE1002 0x73BF1002 0x73C01002 0x73C11002 0x73C31002 0x73DF1002 0x73E01002 0x73E11002 0x73E21002 0x73FF1002</string>
--
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist- <key>IOPCIMatch</key>
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist: <string>0x73101002 0x73121002 0x73181002 0x73191002 0x731A1002 0x731B1002 0x731F1002 0x73BF1002</string>
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AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist- <key>IOPCIMatch</key>
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist: <string>0x73A01002 0x73A21002 0x73A31002 0x73AB1002 0x73AE1002 0x73BF1002</string>



Don't know if this means that they are working on it...

Bye,
Mr Hyde
 
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it broke my unlock with watch
tried to toggle in security&privacy but keeps telling me it cannot communicate with my watch, rebooted everything, still the same, tried the procedure to delete keychain values, still not working

Edit: working again after logout/login of iCloud ...
 
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I am running into a bug where if I watch YouTube using safari at 2x playback speed, the video is at 2x but the audio is still at 1x. Does anyone know a fix for this or I'll probably have to wait till the next release?
 
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mr_hyde said:
As first, consider that I'm not an expert.

Anyway, just for curiosity, I looked for the PCI id of the 6800/6800xt (not sure but probably the PCI ID is 0x73bf while AMD is 0x1002) and the name "Navi21" (if I understood well RX6800 and 6800 XT are "Navi 21") in /System/Library/Extensions and I found something:

MM2018-2:Extensions root# grep -IRi Navi21 *
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist: <key>AMDRadeonNavi21Controller</key>
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist: <string>AMDRadeonX6000_AmdRadeonControllerNavi21</string>



MM2018-2:Extensions root# grep -B1 -IRi 0x73bf1002 *
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist- <key>IOPCIMatch</key>
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist: <string>0x73101002 0x73121002 0x73181002 0x73191002 0x731A1002 0x731B1002 0x731F1002 0x73BF1002 0x73601002 0x73621002 0x73401002 0x73411002 0x73431002 0x73471002 0x734F1002 0x73A01002 0x73A21002 0x73A31002 0x73AB1002 0x73AE1002 0x73BF1002 0x73C01002 0x73C11002 0x73C31002 0x73DF1002 0x73E01002 0x73E11002 0x73E21002 0x73FF1002</string>
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AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist- <key>IOPCIMatch</key>
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist: <string>0x73101002 0x73121002 0x73181002 0x73191002 0x731A1002 0x731B1002 0x731F1002 0x73BF1002</string>
--
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist- <key>IOPCIMatch</key>
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist: <string>0x73A01002 0x73A21002 0x73A31002 0x73AB1002 0x73AE1002 0x73BF1002</string>



Don't know if this means that they are working on it...

Bye,
Mr Hyde
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Im also not a Pro so I can’t tell for sure. But thanks a lot for looking into it, sounds good to me!
 
chucker23n1 said:
Right. We'll likely see 12.0 at WWDC 2021.
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I predict that people who somehow can't grasp version numbers be complaining/questioning why they're (apparently) using major.minor.patch now, at least until macOS 15.

"Back in my day we used major version numbers for so long that they became essentially inconsequential and we liked it, dagnabbit!"
 
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Downloading in a MacBook Air 2015, but don't install: The update install in the Night, how force to update now???
EDIT: solved
 
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mxrider88 said:
No, it’s a bug.
Two accounts, two iPhones, two Apple ID.
Log into my account, it works. Continuity, handoff, hotspot, continuity camera, all works.

switch to the other account, nothing works.
switch back to my account, my iPhone isn’t detected, nothing works, no more continuity camera no more hotspot, nothing.

Only solution: reboot and log into one account only.
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I see.

I read your pots as saying that you can't use your Apple ID's Continuity on your partner's account.

If switching back to your account breaks Continuity for you, that's unfortunate.

I just tried it on a late-2013 15-inch MacBook Pro running 11.0.1 (20B29), and it works for me:

  1. Opened a page in Safari on my iPhone
  2. My Mac shows it in the Dock as Handoff
  3. Went to Fast User Switching to switch to another account
  4. It doesn't show in that account
  5. Switched back to this account
  6. It shows again
 
Would love to know if this updates I/O and/or GPU firmwares.

I lost HDMI output on my MBP16 after upgrading to Big Sur, and it did not recover after re-installing Catalina, so it can only be a firmware issue.
 
chfilm said:
any infos about amd 6000x series drivers?
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Unless Apple is planning on releasing an Intel Mac with the 6000x chip in it, I wouldn't count on it anytime soon. It's more likely to be an M1 version of the driver, if Apple even stuffs a discrete GPU in the iMac/Macbook anymore.
 
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