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Apple Seeds Sixth Beta of macOS High Sierra to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]
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I am hoping with the high Sierra release the DVD player will still work. Currently it shows up as 32bit with MacOS 10.12.6.
Hi,
I just updated my iMac 27" 5K to the last MacOS High Sierra Beta 6 and the colors are all messed up.
Its like inverted colors but when I activate the option the colors don't get back to normal, they are even more strange.
Anyone with the same problem?
I just updated my iMac 27" 5K to the last MacOS High Sierra Beta 6 and the colors are all messed up.
Its like inverted colors but when I activate the option the colors don't get back to normal, they are even more strange.
Anyone with the same problem?
High Sierra will support 32-bit apps. The last OS to do so. If DVD Player doesn't work as a 32-bit app, it will be for a different reason.
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=06282017a
Plenty of things you can try:
A simple restart
A PRAM/NVRAM reset
A SMC reset
Starting up in Safe Boot, Hold the Shift Key while pressing the On button, this clears caches.
There are more solutions, try the above first.
It's probably Graphics card/driver related.
Apple is not killing 32-bit apps in High Sierra. That change only occurs with iOS 11.
I don't see the DVD player app being phased out for at least one more OS cycle. I think the last model was back in 2012, but sold until last year close to this time.
On the public beta I found a lot of issues running on my 2016 12inch Retina MacBook, I had to revert back to Sierra. Graphics glitching, my external hard disk kept disconnecting, and Safari was insanely slow. I normally never have these issues, but understand and am glad its beta. I filled out the report and reported my issues to Apple. So hopefully sorted on release.
Contacts app is still not syncing with icloud. Am able to sync via my iphone, so I know the problem is with MacOS. Tried logging out of icloud and logging in and still doesn’t work. Have reported this problem twice in prior builds via Feedback assistant.
I see this beta 17A344b completely removed the ability to sign on with the Apple Watch. It was very buggy in the last beta, only worked 1 out of 10 times. But worked 9 out of 10 times 2 betas back. I wonder what the problem is?
Apple is also killing 32-bit apps with MacOS but in 2018 as part of a point release update. It isn't a big deal if you have VMWare Fusion though since you can place any 32-bit apps in a Mac VM.
Here is the link (from Macrumors) about dumping 32-bit in MacOS:
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/06/06/apple-to-phase-out-32-bit-mac-apps/
Thanks for the heads-up. Interestingly unlock with Apple Watch failed consistently for me with High Sierra Beta 4, but has been flawless with High Sierra Beta 5. I wonder why our experiences seem like polar opposites? I’m using High Sierra Beta with the latest iOS and watchOS stable releases. Are you using High Sierra Beta with iOS and watchOS Beta?
This issue and the graphics glitching issue reported by @scottct1 are enough to convince me to skip High Sierra Beta 6.
hi, I converted two 8rb hard drives and it took about three minutes each to convert.
"Starting in January of 2018, all new apps submitted to the Mac App Store must be 64-bit, and all apps and app updates submitted must be 64-bit by June 2018. With the next version of macOS after High Sierra, Apple will begin "aggressively" warning users about 32-bit apps before eventually phasing them out all together."
So 10.14 will still support 32-bit, with a warning, and it looks like 10.15 will drop support.
There's really, really expensive legacy apps on macOS, so it makes sense they'd stretch it out. But that will be a very, very nice cut to the codebase when it's carried out.