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Apple Seeds Second Public Beta of macOS Sonoma 14.3

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Apple today seeded the second public beta of an upcoming macOS Sonoma 14.3 update, allowing non-developers to test out the software ahead of its release. The second public beta comes three weeks after the first public beta.

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Beta testers can opt-in through the Software Update section of the System Settings app. Under Beta updates, simply toggle on the Sonoma Public Beta. Note that you must sign up to participate on Apple's beta testing website.

macOS Sonoma 14.3 includes support for collaborative playlists in Apple Music, allowing Apple Music subscribers to build playlists with others. When creating a new playlist or selecting an existing playlist, there's a person-shaped icon that can be tapped to turn on collaboration.

Enabling collaboration provides a link that can be shared with others, and anyone with the link is able to contribute to the playlist and listen to the songs. The person who started the playlist can choose to approve those who want to join or open it up to everyone. Anyone with the link to a playlist can add music, though the owner can turn off collaboration at any time or remove people.

macOS Sonoma 14.3 is expected to see a launch at some point in January 2024. Apple has also released public betas of watchOS 10.3 and new HomePod 17.3 software.

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Comparison of 14.3 beta2 to previous 14.3 beta

macOS 14.3 beta 2 (23D5043d))
  • Safari Version 17.3 (19617.2.3)
  • System Firmware Version: 10151.80.20 (M1 based Macs)
  • Darwin Kernel Version 23.3.0: Tue Dec 19 20:56:38 PST 2023; root:xnu-10002.80.20.505.4~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64
macOS 14.3 beta (23D5033f))
  • Safari Version 17.3 (19617.2.1.11.3)
  • System Firmware Version: 10151.80.6 (M1 based Macs)
  • Darwin Kernel Version 23.3.0: Fri Dec 1 03:16:57 PST 2023; root:xnu-10002.80.11~58/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64

Noticed some odd bugs with Safari and Apple TV app fixed with MacOS 14.3 beta 2.

The SDK notes don’t offer anything useful. Thats true for every OS this short beta cycle. Certainly a bit more solid after using it for a day.
 
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Realityck said:
The SDK notes don’t offer anything useful. Thats true for every OS this short beta cycle. Certainly a bit more solid after using it for a day.
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The next one, the spring update, should be the big one. Hyped for the Music widget – I hope we finally get it!
 
Has there been any mention of fixing the mounting issue of m.2 SSDs in the Mac Pro computers?
 
Pro wallpaper for newest MacBook Pro is missing in the 14.3 build entirely. no clue why
 
nortonandreev said:
The next one, the spring update, should be the big one. Hyped for the Music widget – I hope we finally get it!
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Even if we don't see that, I want to see a Classical Music application, or at least something very obviously improved in the Apple Music interface.

Right now you specifically have to navigate to Apple Music Classical category. You could say that the present Music default view should be easy to change to major category choices very easy, instead of how Apple has the default choices for browse.

Then there is Apple TV, it continues to have the poorest navigation and search browsing for an application that is suppose to also be a store front as well as a playback app. Movies have a few genres, TV has none.

Siri can perhaps help a lot with both of these apps if they improve its interpretation of verbal commands.
 
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