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Apple Seeds Second Beta of Upcoming macOS Big Sur 11.1 Update to Developers
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any improvements in bluetooth connectivity for Apple Silicon based Macs.
It's still there if you mean you'd like it shown on the menu bar next to the icon. Just go to settings (Dock/Menu) and scroll down to battery and check the % box.
I am not sure if it has "tons" of bugs but I do wonder whether the random crash-on-resume-from-sleep I am experiencing every few days is related to my dock and displaylink drivers, or the OS itself. Other than that I've experienced no problems, and rosetta works with my software stack (which involves python development and some NLU work at the moment).
I have certainly seem some odd behaviour in Big Sur on the M1 one bug I do have is that the clock on booting is set to US time, but once I log in it shows the correct localisation. Essential until you login the localisation does seem to be applied correctly, I have reportEd this through the feedback, will see if the beta has addressed it.
Why would the OS itself have to double in size? The size jump is likely due to the fact it has to support both an Intel and an M1 Mac and has to be universal coded and that it needs to create swap files as it updates things. That doesn't mean the next OS will have a similar size jump.
Hoping that this fixes the external USB microphone echo cancellation bug (yes, I reported that)
Also, my M1 Air has just started forgetting it has an internal mic, speakers and camera on the current 11.1 Beta 1. Fixed by reboot.
Also, my M1 Air has just started forgetting it has an internal mic, speakers and camera on the current 11.1 Beta 1. Fixed by reboot.
What's wrong with it? Genuinely curious what your experience has been.
I encountered some weirdness in the beginning, but Music has been running beautifully ever since I started clean and re-added my 60K+ track local library. Initially I had moved over my entire Music folder and settings (Music Library file and prefs included) from my backup after doing a clean install of Big Sur. This resulted in a very buggy experience, including half of my embedded album artwork not showing up. By the way, I always have the iTunes Store + Apple Music disabled because I only use Music as a player for my local library. So I deleted every iTunes/Music-related file (from Music/Music, Library/Preferences, and even Library/Caches) and started completely fresh. Fired up Music with an empty library so it would recreate all the prefs files I just deleted. Then I moved all my music back over by dropping the files into the Automatically Add to Music folder and letting Music handle Music Media folder organization (on by default). It's been super smooth and bug-free ever since.
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Some people are arithmetically challenged. I agree the next macOS will hardly be 11.9.
Snow Leopard was fantastic, but it's so 2009... I am surprised at the number of UI bugs in Big Sur, like the misaligned menu dropdowns and some funny stuff happening with certain desktop backgrounds.
However, performance-wise (which is most important) Big Sur has been excellent. My Mac is also running much cooler than it was on Catalina.
Rush this update out please? It's needed by the latest version of Crossover. Probably needed for other programs too
Lets rush it out and Get the bugs out ASAP. No more waiting for 6 updates over the course of a year to fix a buggy OS
Lets rush it out and Get the bugs out ASAP. No more waiting for 6 updates over the course of a year to fix a buggy OS
The decimal place they chose to represent a minor upgrade.
Yeah, looks like its the end of an era. Even though each 10.x release was a major update, I personally think they should have called Big Sur macOS 16 since it really is that version. Marketing team likely forgot at the last minute. Out of all of Apples operating system platforms, it really should be carrying the highest version number:
16 - macOS
14 - iOS, iPadOS and tvOS
7 - watchOS
I'm thinking it's more related to supporting Intel, M1, as well as iOS apps.
two new wallpaper tailored to the coming MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2020)
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I probably won't consider Big Sur until at least 11.2 has been release after my experience of "upgrading" to Catalina. Catalina was utterly unstable and had apps hanging constantly, I literally had to hold down the power button as the laptop would just hang completely when shutting down after apps stopped working. It has taken moving to a new laptop to get a stable and working experience!
Things I'd like to see fixed:
1) Watchdogd kernel panic on reboot, plaguing my M1 MBP, 16 MBP, and 15 MBP.
2) AirPods switching
3) Erasing and clean installing M1 Macs without bricking via Disk Utility.
I was sure M1 Macs wouldn't have that ****ing watchdogd KP, but alas...
1) Watchdogd kernel panic on reboot, plaguing my M1 MBP, 16 MBP, and 15 MBP.
2) AirPods switching
3) Erasing and clean installing M1 Macs without bricking via Disk Utility.
I was sure M1 Macs wouldn't have that ****ing watchdogd KP, but alas...
Sounds like you're making this up?