Clock on the start-up screen defaulted to PST on Beta 1, but it is now fixed and shows local time.
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Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS 14 Sonoma to Developers
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Music went from version 1.4.0.58 to 1.4.0.76.
Many fresh bugs, I presume...
Many fresh bugs, I presume...
I know it’s early to tell but - any sign of Apple re-adding Broadcom WiFi support?
Sounds like what happens when your device doesn’t support the new OS. If it does, they do stagger rollouts. I also toggled the beta on my devices, have no idea if that worked, but I am up to date now
Since all Macs use Broadcom Wi-Fi chips they never removed support. All they did was removing support for chipsets in Macs not supported by Sonoma. Also, they started transitioning to DriverKit userspace drivers for Wi-Fi.
Hopefully the screenshots app shortcuts all work again and the Trash Bin's Put Back feature is working again. Glad to see overall has been very stable however.
Apple today seeded the second beta of the recently announced macOS 14 Sonoma update to developers for testing purposes. The beta comes two weeks after the launch of the first beta that came out following the June 5 WWDC keynote event. While the beta is limited to developers at this time, Apple plans to provide a public beta later this summer.
Registered developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer Center and after the appropriate profile is installed, with the betas available through the Software Update mechanism in System Settings.
macOS Sonoma introduces new Apple TV-like screen savers that also serve as wallpapers after you log in, plus it moves widgets to the desktop. You can use the new widget gallery to choose from a range of widgets, and then drag them to your Mac's desktop.
Widgets can be arranged in any way that's useful, and when you're using an app, they are designed to fade into the background so they're less distracting. Widgets are more interactive than before, so you can use them to do things like play music, turn off the lights in your home, and more. Through Continuity, your iPhone's widgets can also show up on your Mac's desktop.
Video conferencing has improved with a new Presenter Overlay view that shows your desktop or project in new ways, plus Safari now supports web apps for the Dock and the option to create Profiles so you can separate personal browsing from work browsing.
Other new features include improved search that's faster and more responsive, password and passkey sharing, a revamped stickers interface for the Messages app, PDF integration in notes that makes it easier than ever to manage PDFs, and more.
macOS Sonoma will be in beta testing for several months, with a public release for the fall.
Article Link: Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS 14 Sonoma to Developers
It actually turned on all System Location Services in Privacy for me, whereas I had half of them disabled pre-update.
That makes two of us! Turning Bluetooth off is the first thing I do upon boot after every update. Still no clue why software updates (beta or not) turn it on automatically...
Dashboard is a pretty cool sounding name so I hope they take your recommendation to heart.
Broadcom wifi support was never taken away. just socketed Broadcom. it's not coming back
Dashboard was introduced in Mac OS X 10.4.0 as a separate space for Widgets.
They normally do one or two developer betas before the first "public" one, yes? Does that mean we are close to that?
Yes the third beta that shows up after July 4th holiday might be PB a day or 2 later.
Every year we get closer to its transformation into toyOS.
Sadly, macOS Pro would never happen because Apple's current target market is zoomer "content creating" YouTubers.
I hope there is a way to delete the new screensavers. These things tend to take up a huge amount of space, and I will not use them.
The aerial ones aren’t installed by default. You have to download them
The final Sonoma boot login screen will look like a YouTube kids unboxing and toy review cover image complete with Tim Cook’s wide-eyed surprise face.
Sonoma beta 2 is always displaying the menu icon for screen sharing because of Bartender 4.
I get a lot of junk mail, but this is ridiculous:
