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Apple Seeds New Public Beta of macOS Monterey

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Apple today seeded a new public beta of the macOS 12 Monterey beta to public beta testers, allowing non-developers to test the new macOS Monterey software ahead of its public release. The fourth beta comes two weeks after Apple released the third macOS Monterey public beta.

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Public beta testers can download the macOS 12 Monterey update from the Software Update section of the System Preferences app after installing the proper profile from Apple's beta software website.

macOS Monterey introduces quite a few major updates for the macOS operating system. Universal Control, for example, lets a single mouse, trackpad, and keyboard be used across multiple Mac or iPad devices, and it's now possible to AirPlay directly to a Mac from an iPhone, iPad, or even another Mac.

Safari has an updated tab bar and support for Tab Groups to keep tons of tabs organized, and FaceTime now features support for spatial audio, Portrait Mode (M1 Macs only) and Voice Isolation for cutting out background noise. A SharePlay FaceTime feature lets Apple TV users watch TV, listen to music, and share their screens with one another.

Shared With You, another new feature, keeps track of the music, links, podcasts, news, and photos that people are sent in Messages, highlighting it in the relevant apps. Notes has a new Quick Note feature for jotting down thoughts, and the Shortcuts app is now available on the Mac.

A dedicated Focus mode helps people stay on task by cutting out background distractions based on what's going on, and there's an updated Maps app with a whole slew of new features. With Live Text, Macs can now detect text in photos or provide details on animals, art, landmarks, plants, and more in images. The new beta adds Live Text support for Intel Macs.

Mail Privacy Protection hides IP and prevents tracking through invisible pixels, and iCloud Private Relay keeps Safari browsing protected. There are many other new features in ‌macOS Monterey‌, with a complete overview available in our macOS Monterey roundup.

Article Link: Apple Seeds New Public Beta of macOS Monterey
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Be careful if you're using Outlook. It keeps crashing with this beta. The system also asks about your Exchange password every 5 seconds. It's unbearable.
 
stonerdt said:
Question for the group - how do I re-enroll in the Apple Beta program for the Mac? I unenrolled so I could get the Big Sur 11.5.2 update, which did not show up in my Software Update (nor did the 11.5.1 update). Now that I have it, I want to go back to the Beta. When I go to the site and sign back in, it just goes back to the Beta page and I don't get any file to download and I don't see a change in the Software update. Anyone know what to do?
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I did a very quick screencast for you
 
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jeffhenderson said:
I did not have any luck with that fast beta version you mentioned. Did you use that with the new PB4 or the DB5 from yesterday? Do we know if they are the same build of Monterey?
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Beta version, sorted outlook for me on M1 Chip
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I tried the Beta version of Outlook, it is better but some emails still cause Outlook to stall (spinning beach ball of doom). Not a big problem as the Outlook Web Client is pretty good and I can use that for the next week or so until they get a fix updated.
 
It seems to be resolved!! I clicked on the radio button -restart outlook. Reopened it 5-7 times and Voila! (after updating to 16.53)
 
I can’t install PB 5. I’m on PB 4 and get promoted for a password when I click on restart. Seems like the password is accepted but then see the notification:

updates not installed, some updates could not be installed.

I have no idea why this is happening. I’ve checked my user account and it has admin privileges and I’m able to install other apps change settings.

anyone have any ideas as I’m stuck. PB 4 is far worse than Pb 3

I’m using an m1 mbp btw
 
Realityck said:
Very stable. Been running it for a day.
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Exchange is broken, so if you use outlook, it will beachball. Others have the same issue. Good job Apple, broke something very critical. Risk accepted as it's a beta. Just tired of their sloppy QA.
 
BarrettF77 said:
Exchange is broken, so if you use outlook, it will beachball. Others have the same issue. Good job Apple, broke something very critical. Risk accepted as it's a beta. Just tired of their sloppy QA.
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It’s Microsoft’s issue. The native Exchange implementation works just fine.
 
Can anyone else send the dmg file of the MacOS Public Beta Software Access Utility? This is what I am not able to see and download when I try to go to the Beta Software page. Please send it as an attached file. Thanks.
 
The latest beta (on Intel) broke Outlook for me. My work account will not let me go beyond version 16.52 of Outlook.

I also use OneDrive and every synced file was 'upversioned' to a file that no longer works. So now, to open any file on OneDrive, I have to use the web interface and restore the previous version.
 
stonerdt said:
HI James, Thanks for the help. I don't get that screen with the MacOS Public Beta Software Access Utility. Could you send it to me? Maybe you can attach it in your response. Thanks
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for the public beta i just reenrol with the following and relaunch Software Update
sudo /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Seeding.framework/Resources/seedutil enroll PublicSeed
 
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