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Apple Seeds Seventh Developer Beta of macOS Sequoia 15.1 [Updated]

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Apple today provided developers with the seventh beta of an upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.1 beta, with the new update coming one week after Apple released the sixth beta.

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Registered developers can opt-in to the macOS Sequoia beta through the Software Update section of the System Settings app. An Apple ID associated with an Apple Developer account is required to get the beta.

macOS Sequoia 15.1 introduces the first Apple Intelligence features, adding support for Writing Tools, new Siri features, Smart Replies in Mail and Messages, Priority messages in the Mail app, Memory Movie and Clean Up in Photos, and more.

The update does not include Image Playground, Genmoji, or more advanced Siri functionality.

Using Apple Intelligence features requires a Mac that has an Apple silicon chip.

Update: There appears to be an issue with Apple's servers at the current time, and users could run into errors with updating and restoring Apple devices. Retrying multiple times works for some, but it may be worth waiting until the servers are fixed to download the update.


Article Link: Apple Seeds Seventh Developer Beta of macOS Sequoia 15.1 [Updated]
 
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Hopefully macOS 15 Sequoia will be much better than Sonoma. :rolleyes:
18.0.1 seems better than zero.
 
I doubt it has the on-Mac foveated rendering for Mac Virtual Display on Vision Pro, but will check anyway. If it's not here now, I'd certainly expect it for MacOS 18.2 / VisionOS 2.2.
 
Given that none of the new features are available in the EU, neither A.I. nor iPhone mirroring, this version is totally useless for us. Shame on Apple for limiting A.I. to English, and for locking these new features in the EU. I wonder what is still driving European customers to buy an iPhone 16, for example. Waiting until 2025 for it to be partially functional?
 
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Comparison of MacOS 15.1 Beta 7 to previous MacOS 15.1 Beta 6

macOS 15.1 Beta 7 (24B5077a)
  • Safari Version 18.1 (20619.2.8.11.9)
  • System Firmware Version: 11881.41.5 (M1 based Macs)
  • Darwin Kernel Version 24.1.0: Thu Oct 10 22:07:16 PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.41.3~5/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64
macOS 15.1 Beta 6 (24B5070a)
  • Safari Version 18.1 (20619.2.8.11.4)
  • System Firmware Version: 11881.41.3 (M1 based Macs)
  • Darwin Kernel Version 24.1.0: Mon Sep 30 00:07:39 PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.40.63~39/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64
Apple Music/TV is still 1.5.1.24 , no change this time.
 
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vendini said:
Given that none of the new features are available in the EU, neither A.I. nor iPhone mirroring, this version is totally useless for us. Shame on Apple for limiting A.I. to English, and for locking these new features in the EU. I wonder what is still driving European customers to buy an iPhone 16, for example. Waiting until 2025 for it to be partially functional?
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Yeah, located in Denmark, I really want to hear if there is any progress made for enabling AI in the EU. Don’t have any hopes up for Danish AI anytime soon (we only got swipe keyboard with iOS 18), however most of the stuff I do is in English so I could start with that.
 
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vendini said:
Given that none of the new features are available in the EU, neither A.I. nor iPhone mirroring, this version is totally useless for us. Shame on Apple for limiting A.I. to English, and for locking these new features in the EU. I wonder what is still driving European customers to buy an iPhone 16, for example. Waiting until 2025 for it to be partially functional?
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That limitation has everything to do with GDPR and nothing to do with language barriers. Apple Intelligence relies on ChatGPT, which is non-compliant with the GDPR.
 
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iGeneo said:
Well.. there is this :rolleyes:View attachment 2437833
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Update to this: I didn't do the DFU and renew firmware method. Instead, I simply turned off Find My for my Mac, as suggested by many people above, and started the updated, which I had already downloaded from the Mac AppStore. And IT FINALLYYY WORKED!!!
Thank you all for the updates guys!
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monstro said:
That limitation has everything to do with GDPR and nothing to do with language barriers. Apple Intelligence relies on ChatGPT, which is non-compliant with the GDPR.
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Apple Intelligence absolutely does not rely on ChatGPT, completely false information.
Starting this December, Apple Intelligence can be used as a portal to ChatGPT, but that isn’t the same thing at all.
You have to optionally go in and confirm you’d like to use ChatGPT every single time according to Apple, or else it will simply just use apples own servers and technology by default.
The current version of Apple Intelligence that’s in 18.1 *only* uses Apple’s AI servers and technology, ChatGPT is nowhere to be found anywhere in 18.1.
And even then, it appears that GPT integration will be limited to Siri queries and the writing tools, which as already stated will default to Apple‘s own services.

Every single time you use ChatGPT, you will have to give explicit permission.

You: ask question
Siri: I don’t know that, would you like me to check if ChatGPT does?
You: yes/no

You will have to answer a question like this every single time you use it.

TLDR: Apple Intelligence is absolutely not powered by ChatGPT.
 
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Lounge vibes 05 said:
Apple Intelligence absolutely does not rely on ChatGPT, completely false information.
Starting this December, Apple Intelligence can be used as a portal to ChatGPT, but that isn’t the same thing at all.
You have to optionally go in and confirm you’d like to use ChatGPT every single time according to Apple, or else it will simply just use apples own servers and technology by default.
The current version of Apple Intelligence that’s in 18.1 *only* uses Apple’s AI servers and technology, ChatGPT is nowhere to be found anywhere in 18.1.
And even then, it appears that GPT integration will be limited to Siri queries and the writing tools, which as already stated will default to Apple‘s own services.

Every single time you use ChatGPT, you will have to give explicit permission.

You: ask question
Siri: I don’t know that, would you like me to check if ChatGPT does?
You: yes/no

You will have to answer a question like this every single time you use it.

TLDR: Apple Intelligence is absolutely not powered by ChatGPT.
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Yes. They have their own LLMs.
 
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I JUST HOPE THIS IS A ROCK SOLID DEPENDABLE MACOS.

AS THIS IS THE LAST MACOS FOR ALL INTEL MACS. SO JUST MAKE IT AS BUG FREE AS POSSIBLE.
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Do you have a source for that?
Because as far as I can tell, the latest version of macOS still supports computers all the way back from 2017, and apple didn’t even start their transition until November 2020.
Unless you’re saying Apple is going to cut the vast majority of 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 Intel machines all at once, which… Doesn’t seem very likely.
 
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Given that none of the new features are available in the EU, neither A.I. nor iPhone mirroring, this version is totally useless for us. Shame on Apple for limiting A.I. to English, and for locking these new features in the EU. I wonder what is still driving European customers to buy an iPhone 16, for example. Waiting until 2025 for it to be partially functional?
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Why are you blaming Apple for this?
 
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