Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS 14 Sonoma to Developers

[uczcret]

Clock on the start-up screen defaulted to PST on Beta 1, but it is now fixed and shows local time.

So... that's one bug down. SHIP IT!

Still showing PST time upon boot for me (should be BST for me).

 

[srbNYC]

Can't figure this one out: in System Settings/iCloud, "Apps Syncing to iCloud Drive" indicates 28 apps, but the line is grayed out and I cannot access the list. It was OK yesterday with Beta 1.

(I'm having a sync issue with a 3rd-party app, and need to temporarily turn off iCloud sync, but cannot.)

 

[krbrock1]

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.

ToyOS in 1 year

 

[David G.]

Safari is *not* snappier.

Safari is actually substantially slower, and has become unresponsive multiple times since the update.

 

[Realityck]

Safari is *not* snappier.

Safari is actually substantially slower, and has become unresponsive multiple times since the update.

On my 24" M1 iMac beta 1 that has the issues with sometimes a URL would not stop loading (animation on right side) had a speedometer2.1 score of 404, I ran it with the above issue fixed and the 14 beta 2 score was 421.
Safari versions tested
beta 1 = Safari Version 17.0 (19616.1.14.11.11)
beta 2 = Safari Version 17.0 (19616.1.17.11.4)
So I didn't at all find it slower for this example and one bug fixed. (URL keeps trying to load animation)
You might look at activity monitor and see if you see anything amiss for CPU or memory?

Note my 16" M1 Max MBP ran the same 2.1 at 447.

 

[Larsen2k4]

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Sonoma beta 2 is always displaying the menu icon for screen sharing because of Bartender 4.

Same here with AltTab + Default Folder X.
(Bug report submitted. )

 

[Hank001]

Like today's iOS 17 beta, this latest beta has turned on Significant Locations under Privacy / Location Services.

(It's also turned Bluetooth on, but every beta does that and no-one seems to care apart from me!)

I care as well, and find it to be completely ridiculous for it to be enabled with every freaking sw update. Just leave my settings alone Apple!

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

I get a lot of junk mail, but this is ridiculous:

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Seems like reproduce-able a bug: When I delete junk messages from All Junk, the count is set to 2^64 minus the number of messages deleted. On the above I deleted 3 messages, and just now I deleted 6:

 

[Ariseb1]

Just for reference to show differences between betas

macOS 14 beta 2 (23A5276g)

• Safari Version 17.0 (19616.1.17.11.4)
• System Firmware Version: 10151.0.156.505.1 (M1 based Macs)
• Darwin Kernel Version 23.0.0: Tue Jun 13 21:17:22 PDT 2023; root:xnu-10002.0.116.505.3~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64

macOS 14 beta (23A5257q)

• Safari Version 17.0 (19616.1.14.11.11)
• System Firmware Version: 10151.0.82.0.1 (M1 based Macs)
• Darwin Kernel Version 23.0.0: Mon May 22 22:50:46 PDT 2023; root:xnu-10002.0.40.505.5~4/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64

Thank you

 

[nightfox818]

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Sonoma beta 2 is always displaying the menu icon for screen sharing because of Bartender 4.

I get this with DisplayLink Manager. Plus a bombardment of Deprecated API warnings.

 

[Brlgfan]

The update is not showing for me. I tried turning the beta profile off it won’t turn off it just checks for update and says it’s up to date.

 

[DaveMcM76]

Beta 2 has my Settings app convinced something needs me to sign in again, but the Continue button doesn't seem to respond to clicks.

 

[vinhnguyen1211]

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Sonoma beta 2 is always displaying the menu icon for screen sharing because of Bartender 4.

for me it's Google Chrome. I tried to disable Screen recording in Security & Privacy then restart it will disappear. After I enable Screen recording again, it immediately show that notice again which is annoy