Apple Seeds First Betas of macOS Sequoia 15.3 and More to Developers

[Adora]

they don't list the ventura or sonoma rcs there anymore, but we should expect support for those to continue till macos 16 is released. then or shortly before they would likely drop support for the ventura.

anyway the full installer for the 13.7.3 rc 1 isn't available yet but probably will come tomorrow. it is however available ota now.

i'm still trying to figure out what is going on with sonoma. seems strange they release a ventura rc but not sonoma rc.

Could be the same that was fixed with iPadOS 17.7.3 a few days ago.

 

[John_Blackthorne]

Yeah pretty standard, and it is the same with iOS. 15.2 betas, outside of the RC, ran like complete crap for me. This is where I have to leave the beta train on my Mac

There have been multiple beta tracks--this is a sort of different year because of the way they rolled AI out.

 

[rezwits]

I am done with Betas as of 15.2 (i.e. all machines, watches, appleTVs, iOS devices etc 15.2 stop the Beta madness...)

It was a wild ride to be sure, but Happy Holidays, gotta get back to work... sucks cause the one feature I wanted was Genmoji on macOS!

 

[Macaholic868]

I think I’m off the beta train until the iOS/iPadOS 18.4 and Mac OS 15.4 betas are released that introduce additional Siri enhancements. I’ve not heard of anything in the 18.3 / 15.3 feature list that I’m willing to give up solid battery life to preview. I hope I’m wrong and the betas we get after the holidays have some new features worth testing but I couldn’t care less about Genmoji on iOS devices or the Mac.

Does anybody know of anything that’s supposed to be coming in the x.3 beta releases that are worth looking at?

 

[b0fh]

weird that Apple Intelligence is not available if you boot off an external drive.

 

[Adora]

weird that Apple Intelligence is not available if you boot off an external drive.

I was able to turn it on with some Terminal commands I found. But I have turned it off again anyway, just wanted to see what it it doing. But I also never used Siri before.

I think it was just this:

curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Kyle-Ye/XcodeLLMEligible/release/0.2/scripts/override.sh | bash -s -- install override xcodellm+greymatter+strontium

But I have SIP disabled and there are several ways listed:

GitHub - Kyle-Ye/XcodeLLMEligible

Contribute to Kyle-Ye/XcodeLLMEligible development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[Vistaus]

tvOS 18.3 now includes the long-awaited Snoopy screensaver. At least for me it does.

(And no, this is not a joke. I updated last night and it's now available and working for me.)

 

[tywebb13]

they don't list the ventura or sonoma rcs there anymore, but we should expect support for those to continue till macos 16 is released. then or shortly before they would likely drop support for the ventura.

anyway the full installer for the 13.7.3 rc 1 isn't available yet but probably will come tomorrow. it is however available ota now.

i'm still trying to figure out what is going on with sonoma. seems strange they release a ventura rc but not sonoma rc.

i finally found out what is happening with sonoma

there is now a 14.7.3 rc 1 build 23H407

looks like there was a day delay after the other betas yesterday

 

[Adora]

i finally found out what is happening with sonoma

there is now a 14.7.3 rc 1 build 23H407

looks like there was a day delay after the other betas yesterday

There seems to be some kind of security fix dated December 16th and 17th.

I found those new links in the catalog while looking for a full installer of 15.3 and was even able to install it. Not sure if that was a good idea but who cares.... 🙈 It's also in the one that only includes final version links, so it might have been installed anyway already in the background.

Looks like it's for everything 10.15 and above.

https://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/09/16/072-50026-A_ZAYJA9MI98/hnkz8h6eb0bc9qa4y3g24oldrltbgal4nh/XProtectPayloads_10_15.pkg

https://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/22/55/072-45610-A_6XNDGAM5HR/hyvi634vqavmw5q8m57q0g0eblqw2vk2op/XProtectPlistConfigData_10_15.pkg

Maybe it's something like this, that installs automatically anyway and you don't even recognize it. I don't know with what version this had been introduced.

Protecting against malware in macOS

On devices with macOS, malware defenses are structured using the followingApp Store, or Gatekeeper combined with Notarization, and XProtect.

support.apple.com

 

[pentabular]

Apple today provided developers with the first beta of an upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.3 update, with the new update coming a week after Apple released macOS Sequoia 15.2. Apple has also seeded new betas of watchOS 11.3, tvOS 18.3, and visionOS 2.3.

The betas are available to registered developers at this time, and can be downloaded from the settings app on each device.

We don't yet know what's included in the macOS Sequoia 15.3 update or the other updates, but we'll update this article should anything new be found after we download and install the new software.

Article Link: Apple Seeds First Betas of macOS Sequoia 15.3 and More to Developers

I swear th trees keep moving a tiny bit after the screen saver stops 😜 I know it's just my eye-scrolling habit expecting it to move like when you gesture to scroll down and your fingers miss but your eyes anticipate.

 

[sliceoftoast]

When will apple fix the Youtube notifications that are not clickable. Previous versions you can click the notifications and it automatically loads to the tab in the browser grr apple