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Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of macOS Sonoma 14.2 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]

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Apple today seeded the fourth beta of an upcoming macOS Sonoma 14.2 update to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming two weeks after Apple seeded the third beta of macOS Sonoma 14.2.

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Registered developers can opt-in to the beta through the Software Update section of the System Settings app. Under Beta updates, toggle on the Sonoma Developer Beta. Note that an Apple ID associated with an Apple Developer account is required to get the beta.

macOS Sonoma 14.2 adds an Apple Music Favorites playlist that houses everything you've favorited, plus Apple added support for collaborative playlists. You can now share a playlist with multiple people, and each participant can add songs.

Shazam can also be added to the Control Center or menu bar on the Mac.

Stickers can be used to reply to iMessages when you long press on a chat bubble in the Messages app, and there's also now support for the extra-secure iMessage Contact Key Verification option.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of macOS Sonoma 14.2 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]
 
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Looking forward to the public beta. The current beta 3 is the first time I’ve experienced a bug whereas the Adobe cloud app that runs in the background (for app updates and such) caused a CPU core to constantly run at 100%
 
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jz0309 said:
Looking forward to the public beta. The current beta 3 is the first time I’ve experienced a bug whereas the Adobe cloud app that runs in the background (for app updates and such) caused a CPU core to constantly run at 100%
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I have the exact problem, along with two other programs I use. If they all run at the same time there goes three cores and I have a space heater on my lap.
 
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jz0309 said:
Looking forward to the public beta. The current beta 3 is the first time I’ve experienced a bug whereas the Adobe cloud app that runs in the background (for app updates and such) caused a CPU core to constantly run at 100%
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I've been seeing something similar with the mail app (on an Intel MacBook Pro).
 
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Did they fix/revert the change to “recently added” in Music only showing the last 60 entires?

A little birdy told me this ridiculous change was going to be reverted after complaints.
 
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Comparison of 14.2 beta 4 to previous 14.2 beta 3

macOS 14.2 beta 4 (23C5055b)
  • Safari Version 17.2 (19617.1.17.11.5)
  • System Firmware Version: 10151.61.4 (M1 based Macs)
  • Darwin Kernel Version 23.2.0: Wed Nov 15 22:11:37 PST 2023; root:xnu-10002.61.2.505.1~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64
macOS 14.2 beta 3 (23C5047e)
  • Safari Version 17.2 (19617.1.16.11.2)
  • System Firmware Version: 10151.60.56 (M1 based Macs)
  • Darwin Kernel Version 23.2.0: Thu Nov 9 06:28:34 PST 2023; root:xnu-10002.60.71.505.1~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64
 
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Released today to devs
  • iOS 17.2 beta 4 (21C5054b) - November 28, 2023
  • iPadOS 17.2 beta 4 (21C5054b) - November 28, 2023
  • macOS 14.2 beta 4 (23C5055b) - November 28, 2023
  • watchOS 10.2 beta 4 (21S5358a) - November 28, 2023
  • tvOS 17.2 beta 4 (21K5356c) - November 28, 2023
 
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Released today to devs
  • iOS 17.2 beta 4 (21C5054b) - November 28, 2023
  • iPadOS 17.2 beta 4 (21C5054b) - November 28, 2023
  • macOS 14.2 beta 4 (23C5055b) - November 28, 2023
  • watchOS 10.2 beta 4 (21S5358a) - November 28, 2023
  • tvOS 17.2 beta 4 (21K5356c) - November 28, 2023
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2 Weeks to go it looks like till RC or public release based on this.
 
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Someone let me know if this fixes the battery drain on Macbook Air M2? I get like 3 hours of battery life and its just sitting there doing nothing.

Im waiting for next regular update to get off beta.

Got a MacBook that claims 18 hrs battery life. Gets worse battery life than 2008 macbook.
 
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iMessage Contact Key Verification​

New Features​

  • With iMessage Contact Key Verification, users can choose to further verify that they are messaging only with the people they intend. iMessage Contact Key Verification uses Key Transparency to enable automatic verification that the iMessage key distribution service returns device keys that have been logged to a verifiable and auditable map. When a user enables the feature, they will be notified about any validation errors directly in the Messages conversation transcript and Apple ID Settings.
    For even higher security, iMessage Contact Key Verification users can compare a contact verification code in person, on FaceTime, or through another secure call. They can also choose to create or edit a contact and save a public key to turn on iMessage Contact Key Verification with that person.
    All devices signed into your iCloud account must be on the minimum supported version of iOS 17.2 Beta, macOS 14.2 Beta, or watchOS 10.2 Beta. If you wish to keep using other devices on older versions of the OS, you will need to sign out of iMessage on these devices in order to enable contact key verification. (111356044)

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: When verifying another user, Contact Verification Code will not show unless both users are on SEED_BUILD_NUMBER or higher. (114462363)
  • Fixed: After verifying a contact, the verificaton checkmark might not show up in Messages app. (116142336)
  • Fixed: Users might see an error to Turned Off transcript every few hours. (116405131)
  • Fixed: Users might see that they’re are not eligible to enable Contact Key Verification on some of their upgraded devices. (117044482)

Known Issues​

  • The Learn More links do not link to Knowledge Base articles during Beta. (101563811)

Messages​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: Unlocalized string shown for member count in the full screen Map View of Group Messages might appear (e.g. DETAIL_NUMBER_OF_PEOPLE_LABEL). (117287069)

ServiceManagement​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: Requirements for agents and daemons registered with SMAppService have changed to prevent sandbox escapes. The target executable must be sandboxed if the main app is sandboxed. A small sandboxed trampoline tool can be written to execute scripts and unsandboxed or system tools. (113037504)

StoreKit​

New Features​

  • New pricing properties price, currency, and currencyCode are now available on Transaction. If an offer was applied to the transaction, a new property offer is available to see information about it (id, type, payment mode), as well as convenience properties offerID, offerType, and offerPaymentMode. (106650768)

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: The StoreKit 2 Transaction properties price, currency, and Offer.paymentMode now have Optional types. (116592563)
  • Fixed: The StoreKit 2 Transaction properties price, currency, and Offer.paymentMode now have Optional types. (116809380)
  • Fixed an issue causing the refund request “Done” button to not dismiss the sheet when using StoreKit Testing in Xcode. (117482750)
  • Fixed an issue where StoreKit 2 deviceVerification was incorrect, which caused transaction verification to fail. (117689523) (FB13315344)

Swift Charts​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed an issue where a scrollable chart did not respect the initial non-zero binding value passed to chartScrollPosition. (114889276)

SwiftUI​

New Features​

  • Use _logChanges() to log causes of SwiftUI view updates.
    Call the new debugging method _logChanges() in the body of a SwiftUI view to log information about why the system is updating the view. For example:
    struct MyView: View {
    var body: some View {
    #if DEBUG
    let _ = Self._logChanges()
    #endif
    // … rest of view body …
    }
    }

    As well as the physical property names, “@self” marks that the view value itself has changed, and “@identity” marks that the identity of the view has changed (that is, that the persistent data associated with the view has been recycled for a new instance of the same type).
    The new _logChanges() method is like the existing _printChanges() one, except that the new method uses the system console, which is useful in some debugging workflows.
    Calls to _logChanges() log at the info level to the “com.apple.SwiftUI” subsystem with the category “Changed Body Properties”. (113352555)

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: Resolved a possible Swift access conflict crash that could occur with toolbar items. (113992797)
  • Fixed: To prevent unintentional implicit dependency cycles, ImageRenderer no longer sends Observable updates when the image it produces changes. This change does not affect the behavior when a dependency is explicitly declared by observing the ImageRenderer’s publisher. (116836341)

WidgetKit​

Resolved Issues​

  • Fixed: In widgets Text(_:style:) does not animate its content by default. (107582710)
 
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That's funny because macOS hasn't ever been out of beta for the last several releases.
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Ventura is very problematic; many thunderbolt bugs sometimes the bus goes down necessitating a restart. Even on 13.5.x which is very late into the cycle.

Sonoma has been a much more pleasant experience.
 
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Sliders are somewhat broken in this release which is annoying (slider fill is not rendered/updated properly). Many apps are affected. Basic issues like this are ok for a developer beta but Apple should be more careful with pushing public betas so quickly...
 
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Anyone else experiencing a bug since Sonoma that the mouse cursor does not change where it should (e.g. to the hand when hovering on a link or the vertical line in text fields)?
 
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