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Apple Seeds New Public Beta of macOS Big Sur to Public Beta Testers
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I had this issue with my AirPods and it was set in sound preferences to only be 1 ear.
Everything I had posted feedback on is now fixed. 
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That fixed it! I always put the right AirPod in first and when I did the sound defaulted to the right and didn't correct when the left AirPod was put in. Very relieved
This b9 (20A5384c) is running better on 2018 Mac mini i7... b6 had a bunch of issues (including no SMB loaded by default), b8 was kinda sluggish, but had less bugs than b6 for sure. Safari especially is running better (in b8 it got sluggish quickly, and saw graphical glitches in it a few times)
Getting b9 going had a couple of issues, the b8 system crashed (spinning wheel) on shutdown - and then after reboot couldn't login to the regular AD user after - was at least able to login as a local Admin account, after a couple of tries was able to get the system to recognize that the update hadn't actually applied - and the update showed up again in System Preferences - this time after downloading it applied correctly, and after getting in as the Admin again, was able to use Fast User switching login to get back into the AD account.
Still not a fan of the changes to the "close" on Notifications - the close button only appearing on mouse-over and being a much smaller target is a regression in user experience over how the notifications have looked for the past decade or more.
Getting b9 going had a couple of issues, the b8 system crashed (spinning wheel) on shutdown - and then after reboot couldn't login to the regular AD user after - was at least able to login as a local Admin account, after a couple of tries was able to get the system to recognize that the update hadn't actually applied - and the update showed up again in System Preferences - this time after downloading it applied correctly, and after getting in as the Admin again, was able to use Fast User switching login to get back into the AD account.
Still not a fan of the changes to the "close" on Notifications - the close button only appearing on mouse-over and being a much smaller target is a regression in user experience over how the notifications have looked for the past decade or more.
I'd say it's your computer because it opens instantly on my MacBook Pro, just like iTunes did.
No issues here with Photos App. Works perfectly.
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The first time I opened the music app after installing the beta took some time (2020 27inch iMac) but opens fast now. Maybe there was some indexing taking place when opening for the first time?
I'm having problems with Safari coming to a stop while loading a page. Up until the update, it ran great.
No problem here (on any Beta including 8 and 9) approx 15,000 pic library. 2015 rMBP
I can't firm everything but I was able to boot (to login) with only eGPU installed (I did not have my eGPU plugged in while updating). The colors seem deeper and richer and I have not had any freezes yet but it has only been a few hours.
Beta 7 and 8 have the same build number (20A5374), so beta 8 is basically a re-release of beta 7. The actual difference between the two betas is 2 weeks."The new beta release for public testers comes a few weeks after the last beta".
Not really. macOS 11.0 public beta 4 was released on 22nd September. This new public beta 5 has been released today (a week later).
macOS Big Sur - Wikipedia
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It seems that the final release is near. Perhaps in one or two weeks or so.
I've seen some really weird clipboard bugs when copying and pasting icons between information panels in the Finder, let's hope they got them fixed.
Starting up the app takes up to 10 seconds. The Apple Music sections For You and Radio never load. My Internet is fine.
New QuickTime, App Store, and Finder icons, and the status bar icons have been moved closer together (thank god).
