Keyboard shortcut does not seem to be working, haven't tried the force touch yet. A workaround is setting "df"(or anything) as a text replacement for "definition:", so when typing df + space + input will in most cases land you in the definition entry.
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Apple Seeds Release Candidate Version of macOS Big Sur 11.2 to Developers and Public Beta Testers
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god its such a mess. i have the pro's and max's....its a gamble which ones will work and which ones wont. im trying to have a meeting screwing around with both trying to get at least one to pair.
incredibly frustrating to say the least.
Hopefully the major bug that resets open/save windows is fixed in this update too!
It's mostly fixed. I find that in some apps, mostly Adobe, the width you set the side window bar with your favorites and locations doesn't stick on some instances, but the size of the actual window acts as expected now.
Just another data point here, FWIW.
Installed 24 hours ago on my M1 MBA, installation was perfectly normal and smooth.
No problems running any of the software I normally use every day (Office 365, Zoom, Qobuz & Tidal, 1st party macOS apps, 3rd party statistical analysis packages, a few others).
No problems so far with bluetooth (Airpods 2, Logitech MX Anywhere 3 mouse, old Logitech BT keyboard).
No problems controlling homekit accessories.
That said, BS 11.1 worked fairly well for me, too, so I can't confirm that some of the problems many of you have had with the previous BS have been fixed.
Installed 24 hours ago on my M1 MBA, installation was perfectly normal and smooth.
No problems running any of the software I normally use every day (Office 365, Zoom, Qobuz & Tidal, 1st party macOS apps, 3rd party statistical analysis packages, a few others).
No problems so far with bluetooth (Airpods 2, Logitech MX Anywhere 3 mouse, old Logitech BT keyboard).
No problems controlling homekit accessories.
That said, BS 11.1 worked fairly well for me, too, so I can't confirm that some of the problems many of you have had with the previous BS have been fixed.
I know Apple should fix this, but until then something like Airbuddy or Toothfairy is definitely worth checking out. I use Airbuddy and it works well, especially when I switch between my Mac Mini and my M1 Air. as Airbuddy helps manage all Bluetooth devices, not just Airpods.
I second AirBuddy. Works great for what it does, and has both a menu bar icon and a widget. Shows all my household iDevice battery %’s including my Trackpad and Keyboard.
I've been unable to find any stats on how many eligible Mac users have upgraded to Big Sur. I have 3 Macs -- new 2020 iMac, 2013 MacBook Pro and 2013 MacBook Air. Haven't upgraded any. I would love to, but am a student, work full time and have other projects I just can't risk knocking offline. Most comments here have been about specific issues, which is helpful, and I'm curious whether on the whole, y'all recommend going for it on mission-critical machines.
ill def give this a go ...im desperate....thanks
Update : went with toothfairy , works amazing. thanks again! totally works every time now!
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I reported this under 11.1 Public Beta, so they know about it.
BTW, you don't need to unplug - putting the computer to sleep and waking it back up will fix it, too.
my Magic Mouse 2 is performing much better on this release.
Have had disconnects, but far and few between (knock on wood) compared to before
Have had disconnects, but far and few between (knock on wood) compared to before
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On my M1 MBA, BS11.2 has been great so far. On 11.1, no show-stopper issues, nothing that made me regret installing it.
This Mac is my daily driver. But I have another Mac that (via Dropbox) automatically mirrors most of my data, and has the same software on it, so there was virtually no risk when I took the plunge into BS.
This was really bad with Safari 14. I had a 2011 MBA running Safari 13 side by side with a M1 MBA 2020 running Safari 14 and the 2011 machine had much smoother scrolling.
Honestly, I'm not sure anything changed in this update. I still have magic mouse disconnects and my monitor didn't restore right after a sleep. I have no idea what Apple is doing but MacOS is going backwards, not forwards. They need to hire someone who can get these bugs fixed, once and for all.
I waited until the 11.2 RC to update, was hoping this would fix the BlueTooth dropouts (not just on the mini?) with my Magic Trackpad not staying connected, the 'backlit black screen instead of the screensaver' bug, the external monitor not waking from sleep' bug, the 'not all external drives mounting automatically & having to use Disk Utility to mount' bug, and the Slow/many beachballs in Finder bug. Not only is none of this fixed for me, but now the folder I created in the Photos app that I use for my Desktop wallpaper backgrounds isn't populating any photos at all in the corresponding System Preferences / Desktop & Screen Saver folder. All other folders there DO populate their photos, though. Just the one not working. The one that I am relying on here lol
Yeah, huge step backwards for me. Hard to believe this would be a release candidate! What a mess. Hopefully a reinstall from the final release of 11.2 fixes some of these issues. I've been filing Feedback in the app for everything. Not much of an indication any of it's been looked at, though.
I'm not sure if this is related to macOS 11.2 RC specifically, but the other night when I went to re-install macOS, I had a bout of bad luck.
Backed up all my data and user settings beforehand, thankfully. Boot into Recovery Menu to reinstall, the reinstall went fine initially, did not brick my firmware or anything, so at least that is fixed so far.
I got all the way through the reinstallation process, got up to the point where I had to set up my WiFi password and user account, the Setup Assistant. When I went to create my username and password, it was taking longer than usual, and eventually was greeted with a failed message for the username and password. Seemingly it created the User Account, but not the password, as when I shut down and started back up, I was at the macOS login screen, but couldn't login.
So figuring that I had a bad install or something, I reinstalled a couple more times to see if it would fix things, but nope.
There's no other way (as far as I'm aware) to re-launch the setup wizard, unless someone knows a way, and since Single-User Mode is now gone in Big Sur, it's next-to-impossible.
After that, I followed a series of instructions, which ultimately got me to Erase My Mac from the Recovery Menu, once I did that, absolutely everything was wiped off--At which point I was stuck at the Recovery Menu, unable to continue, had no other choice but to enter DFU Mode and use my 2016 MacBook Pro to Revive-Restore.
So long story short; APPLE, DO MORE BETA TESTING!
Backed up all my data and user settings beforehand, thankfully. Boot into Recovery Menu to reinstall, the reinstall went fine initially, did not brick my firmware or anything, so at least that is fixed so far.
I got all the way through the reinstallation process, got up to the point where I had to set up my WiFi password and user account, the Setup Assistant. When I went to create my username and password, it was taking longer than usual, and eventually was greeted with a failed message for the username and password. Seemingly it created the User Account, but not the password, as when I shut down and started back up, I was at the macOS login screen, but couldn't login.
So figuring that I had a bad install or something, I reinstalled a couple more times to see if it would fix things, but nope.
There's no other way (as far as I'm aware) to re-launch the setup wizard, unless someone knows a way, and since Single-User Mode is now gone in Big Sur, it's next-to-impossible.
After that, I followed a series of instructions, which ultimately got me to Erase My Mac from the Recovery Menu, once I did that, absolutely everything was wiped off--At which point I was stuck at the Recovery Menu, unable to continue, had no other choice but to enter DFU Mode and use my 2016 MacBook Pro to Revive-Restore.
So long story short; APPLE, DO MORE BETA TESTING!
I think everything the software dept do at Apple has been a disaster for years now, the hardware depts hard work and innovation is constantly let down by the software dept, its time Apple started to fire some of these goons spend MORE MONEY and get some new talent in, half the kids on XDA write less buggy stuff while doing their homework than these goons, lets not forget these people are being paid a lot of money and they are constantly screwing up, its not just their fault but its the fault of management as well, they need to cut out the touchy feely garbage and get tough, if you can't do your job well your not good enough to work at the world most successful tech company, its as simple as that.
I do not mind the changes. I just want the changes (and everything else) to work.
I respectfully disagree.
Sure, there are definitely too many annoying bugs, and there are features many of us have been wanting for years, that Apple hasn't delivered on.
That said, as the iphone/ipad/mac hardware gets more advanced and more complicated, the OS's are asked to do increasingly more and increasingly complex things. I can't imagine they could ever make everyone happy.
To your first point, that everything Apple's software dept does has been a disaster for years now:
I absolutely don't mean to minimize your frustration.
But for many of us, the experience of running iOS/iPadOS/macOS, while generally not perfect, has usually pretty good, and for me that's been as true in recent years as it was before.
That said, my feeling of general satisfaction with Apple software is no more valid than your dissatisfaction. I hope Apple fixes the issues you & so many others here are having.
Why do you say "eliminates a feature" when you actually mean "fixes a really nasty security bug"?
I'm not going to install anything after Mojave on production machines. Big Sur gets to play on test hardware only. So far it's failing the test miserably.
Quick update if it of use to anyone - downgrading the DisplayPort version on my Samsung C49RG9x monitor from 1.4 to 1.2 fixed all the detection issues. Running the SwitchResX daemon now and monitor fires up in 5120x1440 @ 120Hz after login every time. Still want Apple to fix what is plainly a driver issue though...