Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS Ventura 13.4 to Developers

[MacRumors]

Apple today seeded the second beta of macOS Ventura 13.4 to developers for testing purposes, with the beta coming two weeks after the launch of the first beta.

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.

There is no word yet on what's included in macOS Ventura 13.4, but we'll update this article if anything new is discovered.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS Ventura 13.4 to Developers

 

[Jdizzle188]

I'm going to put what is seemingly to be a growing group of MacBook Pro 2021 owners.... Is the black screen during boot up / user login gone with this update?

😂 Please say yes

 

[Realityck]

Tuesday is a good day. 13.4 Beta 2 has arrived

 

[kirbyrun]

Does Time Machine finally work properly?

 

[DFZD]

How many betas for this considering that Mac OS 14 beta is less than 2 months away now..

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Tuesday is a good day. 13.4 Beta 2 has arrived

I can’t find the article about it? 😳

Update: Just posted. I'm happy now, lol.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-seeds-second-betas-of-ios-16-5-and-ipados-16-5.2386544/

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Fix them bugs. For me, I'd love Apple to finally fix the port management bug(s) that causes "unexpected ejections" of select- but not all- hardware... that doesn't do that on any other Mac running macOS before Big Sur using same cable, firmware, enclosure, drives, etc.

I sooooooo miss "just works" Apple and hope the big announcement at WWDC is "another Snow Leopard year (or even TWO if needed) focused on bug fixes & optimizations." It's beyond time for that kind of focus again.

 

[Realityck]

How many betas for this considering that Mac OS 14 beta is less than 2 months away now..

4 with a RC if trying to wrap up first week May. But they will still continue MacOS betas with other cycles because OS 14 doesn't ship to end of Sept/early Oct.

 

[hovscorpion12]

MacOS 14 beta has no effect on the existing beta.

 

[Realityck]

Released today

• iOS 16.5 beta 2 (20F5039e) - April 11, 2023
• iPadOS 16.5 beta 2 (20F5039e) - April 11, 2023
• macOS 13.4 beta 2 (22F5037d) - April 11, 2023
• watchOS 9.5 beta 2 (20T5538d) - April 11, 2023
• tvOS 16.5 beta 2 (20L5538d) - April 11, 2023

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

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[Lounge vibes 05]

How many betas for this considering that Mac OS 14 beta is less than 2 months away now..

Probably four or five before a release in mid May, but we still will more than likely get a 13.5 and 13.6 and quite possibly a 13.7 at the same time we see 14.0.

 

[emmab2006]

Come on apple add radeon 7900XT and 7900XTX support before you kill the intel platform

 

[Realityck]

OTA ia now seen online, installing. 2.54 GB for M1 Macs

 

[patearrings]

OTA ia now seen online, installing. 2.54 GB for M1 Macs

I see 1.4gb on M2 Mac Mini?

 

[gabriel0212]

I'm going to put what is seemingly to be a growing group of MacBook Pro 2021 owners.... Is the black screen during boot up / user login gone with this update?

😂 Please say yes

i've installed. it doesn't fix the issue

 

[Realityck]

MacOS 13.4 beta 2

• Safari Version 16.5 (18615.2.5.11.2)
• System Firmware Version: 8422.120.55 (M1 based Macs)
• Darwin Kernel Version 22.5.0: Sun Apr 2 19:24:16 PDT 2023; root:xnu-8796.120.31~10/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64

MacOS 13.4 beta 1

• Safari Version 16.5 (18615.2.1)
• System Firmware Version: 8422.120.33 (M1 based Macs)
• Darwin Kernel Version 22.5.0: Fri Mar 17 14:38:40 PDT 2023; root:xnu-8796.120.16~15/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64

 

[Jdizzle188]

i've installed. it doesn't fix the issue

Due to the lack of crying reaction.... 😥😥

 

[Realityck]

Spoiler: macOS Ventura 13.4 Beta 2 Release Notes

Apple Studio Display​

Known Issues​

• Apple Studio Display firmware update starts showing progress but never completes. (107287354)
  Workaround: To install other updates including future macOS Beta Updates, click “More info…” in Software Update Settings, uncheck Apple Studio Display firmware update, and click “Install Now.”

CSS​

Resolved Issues​

• Fixed increasing column-count above 2 not updating the layout. (71808738)

File Bookmark​

Resolved Issues​

• Fixes a regression in macOS Ventura 13.3 where a security check causes bookmark resolution to fail when the path contains Unicode characters stored with composed normalization. As an example, this prevented files in Finder from opening when double-clicked. (107550080)

 

[tywebb13]

Released today

• iOS 16.5 beta 2 (20F5039e) - April 11, 2023
• iPadOS 16.5 beta 2 (20F5039e) - April 11, 2023
• macOS 13.4 beta 2 (22F5037d) - April 11, 2023
• watchOS 9.5 beta 2 (20T5538d) - April 11, 2023
• tvOS 16.5 beta 2 (20L5538d) - April 11, 2023

Also there is

macOS Monterey 12.6.6 beta build 21G633
macOS Big Sur 11.7.7 beta build 20G1332

Difficult to call these "beta 2" because the previous betas were actually beta 1 for 12.6.5 and 11.7.6 (not 12.6.6 and 11.7.7). Interestingly they were with higher build numbers than the public releases yesterday. Usually it is the other way around.

There is also a homepod beta audioOS 16.5 build 20L5538d

 

[Boil]

So, any ASi Mac Pro clues within this latest beta...?

 

[MacGizmo]

I don't understand why MacRumors continues to post the same "Beta Update" article with the "There is no word yet on what's included in macOS XXXXXX, but we'll update this article if anything new is discovered." line.

Apple lists what's included in all the releases on the macOS Release Notes Developer page, which is publicly accessible.

 

[srbNYC]

Does Time Machine finally work properly?

Mine has consistently been working fine. Care to give any specifics?

 

[kirbyrun]

Mine has consistently been working fine. Care to give any specifics?

Sure! There's a thread on it here, but the TLDR is: Time Machine stops reporting correct information in the menu bar, reporting that it hasn't backed up in days, even though it has...and then just stops working and cannot be reconfigured or activated without a reboot. And there's no indication this is happening unless you happen to notice it, so you can go days or weeks without backups without realizing.