Apple Seeds Revised Third Beta of macOS Sequoia to Developers

[MacRumors]

Apple today seeded a revised third beta of macOS 15 Sequoia to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after the initial release of the third beta.

Registered developers can opt-in to the macOS Sequoia beta through the Software Update section of the System Settings app. An Apple ID associated with an Apple Developer account is required to get the beta.

macOS Sequoia includes iPhone Mirroring, which allows you to control your locked iPhone from your Mac. You can open and use iPhone apps, interact with notifications, and drag and drop files between your iPhone and Mac and vice versa.

There are new options for window tiling, and dragging a window to the edge of the display will suggest a tiled location to make it easier to use multiple apps at once. Apple is adding a Passwords app for managing passwords, Safari can summarize websites and surface key information, and Notes has support for live audio transcription and math equations.

All of the Apple Intelligence features coming to iOS 18 will also be available in macOS Sequoia, but Apple does not plan to add these until later in the beta testing process. Apple Intelligence includes Writing Tools for editing, proofreading, and summarizing text in apps, and an Image Playground allows for AI images to be created from prompts.

Custom emoji or "Genmoji" can be created for any situation and used just like emoji, and Siri is getting much smarter. Siri will be able to do more in apps and will better understand requests, especially those made in regard to on-screen content.

The updated third beta comes as we await the launch of a public beta for macOS Sequoia. Apple said that a version of macOS Sequoia would be available for public beta testers at some point in July.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Revised Third Beta of macOS Sequoia to Developers

 

[Realityck]

There are three releases today

• iOS 18 beta 3 (22A5307i) - July 15, 2024
• iPadOS 18 beta 3 (22A5307i) - July 15, 2024
• macOS 15 beta 3 (24A5289h) - July 15, 2024

previously

• iOS 18 beta 3 (22A5307f) - July 8, 2024
• iPadOS 18 beta 3 (22A5307f) - July 8, 2024
• macOS 15.0 beta 3 (24A5289g) - July 10, 2024

 

[iMacDragon]

Wonder why macos update seems to be a massive complete redownload, 14.43GB

 

[testato]

"An Apple ID associated with an Apple Developer account is required to get the beta." , there is a way to opt out from the "developer" status ?

 

[Vulkan]

What did they revise?

 

[iMacDragon]

What did they revise?

I don't think they specifically say, but it's presumably whatever changes they deemed necessary before public beta from b3.

 

[gmanist1000]

Wonder why macos update seems to be a massive complete redownload, 14.43GB

Yeah I saw that too and was shocked!

 

[iMacDragon]

Yeah I saw that too and was shocked!

Infact, I think that's bigger than regular download? I would guess it's maybe uncompressed image.

 

[Realityck]

OTA 14.43 GB for the revised install is large indeed.

 

[Corefile]

Sounds like something catastrophic in beta 3.

 

[sniffies]

Ugh, window resizing is still buggy just like in the original beta 3. Worked perfectly fine in beta 2.

 

[businessnumbersmoneypeopl]

Could Apple please do something to Stage Manager with this update. I like the idea, but the way it is executed is super chaotic, especially with several monitors.

 

[Realityck]

Comparison of revised MacOS 15 beta 3 to previous MacOPS 15 beta 3

revised macOS 15.0 beta 3 (24A5289h)

• Safari Version 18.0 (20619.1.20.11.1)
• System Firmware Version: 11881.0.224.0.2 (M1 based Macs)
• Darwin Kernel Version 24.0.0: Mon Jul 1 21:58:28 PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.0.132.501.1~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64

macOS 15.0 beta 3 (24A5289g)

• Safari Version 18.0 (20619.1.20.11.1)
• System Firmware Version: 11881.0.224.0.2 (M1 based Macs)
• Darwin Kernel Version 24.0.0: Mon Jul 1 21:58:28 PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.0.132.501.1~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64

Apple Music/TV is still 1.5.0.150

No changes as you can see looking at just these parameters

 

[zaneliu]

Maybe this finally fixes the spotlight memory bug.

 

[Truben]

For the Europeans users.... "iPhone Mirroring is not available in your country or region"

 

[PsykX]

For the Europeans users.... "iPhone Mirroring is not available in your country or region"

Does anyone know how they detect the location ?
Does it work with a VPN ?

 

[zencowboy]

Still notifications and widgets don't work. Anyone see their widgets on desktop?

 

[emarnik]

It's been a while since i've installed a MacOS developer beta. If someone can refresh my memory, once the public beta and/or official gold release comes out, will a simple "Update OS" be sufficient ? Or does it usually require a clean install?

 

[AppleTO]

A revised third beta? So... a fourth beta? lol

 

[Darren.h]

I have incorrect free space on all drives in the 14.6 Sonoma bata.

shows gigs of free space by macOS. but when saving files says drive is full.

 

[Realityck]

It's been a while since i've installed a MacOS developer beta. If someone can refresh my memory, once the public beta and/or official gold release comes out, will a simple "Update OS" be sufficient ? Or does it usually require a clean install?

Usually majority of the time after this revised dev beta 3 seed first PB seed, the build of dev/PB seeds are the same in future betas involving this cycle. The exception would be if some package has QA issues or security instances is involved.

Since nothing has really changed that is noticeable I would guess this revised build is more optimized then last weeks dev b3 seed.

 

[hagjohn]

Still notifications and widgets don't work. Anyone see their widgets on desktop?

I just put 2 on my desktop.

 

[tarunc]

I am having trouble installing this....am on beta 3 from last week. The update is found, it downloads the close to 15gb, goes into preparing update.... The preparation portion fails and I have to start all over. Tried it a few times... Anyone else?

 

[PeeWee1963]

Does anyone know how they detect the location ?
Does it work with a VPN ?

You need a non-EU Apple ID.

 

[PeeWee1963]

I am having trouble installing this....am on beta 3 from last week. The update is found, it downloads the close to 15gb, goes into preparing update.... The preparation portion fails and I have to start all over. Tried it a few times... Anyone else?

Same problem.