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Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS Monterey 12.2 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]
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Anyone seeing any improvements in Apple Music. They had started 'speeding it up' in Beta 1...
So the feature that actually made Monterey interesting is still not visible - that continuity or how’s it called?
Monterey is sooooo 2021 ?
Monterey is sooooo 2021 ?
Hopefully Apple sort out Bluetooth properly given all the problems being reported online and in App Store Developer Forums!!
Apple today seeded the second beta of an upcoming macOS Monterey 12.2 update to developers for testing purposes, with the new software coming three weeks after the first beta and a month after the release of macOS Monterey 12.1.
Registered developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer Center and after the appropriate profile is installed, betas will be available through the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences. Apple has also released a macOS 11.6.3 release candidate version for Big Sur users.
We don't yet know what's included in macOS Monterey 12.2, and no new features were found in the first beta. We'll update this article should anything new come up in the second beta.
As of now, there's one major feature that Apple has yet to add to macOS Monterey -- Universal Control. Universal Control is designed to allow a single mouse and trackpad to be used with multiple Macs and iPads, and Apple has said it will be launching this spring.
Article Link: Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS Monterey 12.2 to Developers
Hopefully they can fix incorrect brightness :S normal brightness was at half for my iMac 2019 but not on monterey XD I had to use middle steps with shift+options+f1..big sur middle was 8 from left put here it is 4+ 2/3, but cant pin point it right way :S everything else works fine.. really dont want to restore backup to big sur
Is it just me or does the new 12.2 beta2 have a brightness bug? The m1 max 14" screen max brightness seems dimmer than before??
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What do you define as older hardware? If it’s running on authorized supported versions of Apple hardware then it has nothing to do with age. If folks with brand new 2021 MacBook Pro are complaining about how Monterey has a serious memory leak issue.Has anyone in trade magazines ever said MacOS has reached a bottleneck? I don't recall so. We have the usual issues much involving older hardware trying to run the latest OS with a wide variety of software. BTW its a few months older then 20 years. (September 25, 2001 - Puma). Its also the youngest of all the commercial available UNIX's out there. Other UNIX's date back a lot earlier.
So far beta 2 is running OK, system FW is 7429.80.33 on M1. Safari Version 15.3 (17612.4.8.1.1)
The hardware models that are close to Apple's cutoff of older models for this major system release. I have a 16" M1 Max MBP (stock model) and haven't seen memory leak issue. But later reading it was discussed this had more to do with CTO orders than standard stock MBP builds. Some other also had no issues as commented.
Can anyone confirm Microsoft Outlook search (using an Exchange Account) is working with 12.2???
I reached out to Microsoft, and this was their response:
We have a known issue with Search that impacts users on macOS Monterey 12.1 build and above running old Outlook ( https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...rey-12-1-075c5f09-35db-4205-aba3-eea2f168c71b ), our team is closely working with Apple to identify the cause.
Note that the New Outlook is unaffected by this issue.
I see that you are using an Exchange account which is currently not supported in the New Outlook interface. At the moment, we recommend using macOS Spotlight until the issue is resolved to search for Outlook emails.
I reached out to Microsoft, and this was their response:
We have a known issue with Search that impacts users on macOS Monterey 12.1 build and above running old Outlook ( https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...rey-12-1-075c5f09-35db-4205-aba3-eea2f168c71b ), our team is closely working with Apple to identify the cause.
Note that the New Outlook is unaffected by this issue.
I see that you are using an Exchange account which is currently not supported in the New Outlook interface. At the moment, we recommend using macOS Spotlight until the issue is resolved to search for Outlook emails.
Was hoping for some beta's on iOS today as well. The Homekit thumbnail not updating on the Home app is annoying as hell.
What is it missing that a rewrite would solve? Do you just want new things for the sake of them being new?
The only thing that's certain about Apple Software these days:
- Whatever is shown at WWDC in June won't actually be out in customers hand before April or May the year after.
- Whatever is shown at WWDC in June won't actually be out in customers hand before April or May the year after.
'Just got info from Apple about the Time Machine issues. There was a corruption of the files last summer affecting some people. The only fix is to eliminate those TM backups completely and start over from anew.
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Yeah, like what? You still haven’t explained what you want out of this.
You can enable tap to click in trackpad settings. Cmd+clicking has a completely different function than a regular click, I don’t think that’s what you want. Also not sure if this was EVER a feature.
Your point was it was affecting older hardware not new models, yet you just admitted it affects CTO models. It doesn't excuse it and unless you actually inspected all 100 million active Macs in use, you and I can't say this is an anomaly. The fact is, Apple is promising features they can't even get done. Either its the tools or the OS that's holding them back.