I wish Apple would dedicate a whole new release just to performance. I have the most powerful Macbook Pro currently out there, and even opening your computer is as sluggish as on that other platform I abandoned many years ago for Apple. Big Sur is a big delay for my productivity. It's time Apple to put performance as the number 1 feature of a respectable OS. All the other additions are frivolous, time to get serious again.
Apple today seeded the sixth developer beta of macOS Monterey, the newest version of the macOS operating system. The sixth beta comes three weeks after Apple released the fifth macOS Monterey beta.
Registered developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer Center and once the appropriate profile is installed, betas will be available through the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences.
As with all new betas, Apple recommends not installing the new macOS update on a primary machine because it is early release software and could have bugs.
macOS Monterey introduces Universal Control, a feature that lets a single mouse, trackpad, and keyboard be used across multiple Mac or iPad devices, plus there's a new AirPlay to Mac feature.
Safari has been redesigned with a new tab bar (with a toggle for two different designs as of the third beta) and support for Tab Groups, and FaceTime has gained spatial audio, a Portrait Mode on M1 Macs, and Voice Isolation for cutting out background noise. There's also a new SharePlay FaceTime feature that lets Apple users watch TV, listen to music, and share their screens with one another.
Shared With You, a separate feature, keeps track of the music, links, podcasts, news, and photos that people are sent in Messages, highlighting it in the relevant apps. Notes has a new Quick Note feature for jotting down thoughts, and collaboration is easier with mentions and an Activity View.
The Shortcuts app from iOS is now available on the Mac, and Focus helps people stay on task by cutting out background distractions. There's an updated Maps app with a whole slew of new features, and with Live Text, Macs can now detect text in photos or provide details on animals, art, landmarks, plants, and more in images.
Mail Privacy Protection hides IP and prevents tracking through invisible pixels, and iCloud Private Relay keeps Safari browsing protected. There are many other new features in macOS Monterey, with a full rundown available in our macOS Monterey roundup.
Article Link: Apple Seeds Sixth Beta of macOS Monterey to Developers
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It's under Tabs, and it's called "Show color in tab bar"
Outlook worked for me since Microsoft's beta last week, so I'm thinking any issue was theirs, not Apple's
OK weirdest bug I've ever encountered. For 30 minutes or so, Safari on my MBA suddenly wouldn't connect. My Wifi is fine, other browsers are fine (I'm creating this post on Firefox on the same machine), but Safari wouldn't connect to anything. Restarted (both Safari and the entire MacBook) several times, etc. Then it suddenly cleared up after about a half hour.
Do you have iCloud Private Relay turned on? If so, Apple's relay servers were probably down.
Eureka! Makes sense. (I guess that wouldn't apply to Firefox on the same machine.)
So far, so good here. Only new weirdness I have found is that most of my favicons in Safari are gone on start page and they don't seem to reload.
what works in this version of the beta might not in the next, if you have only 1 computer and are dependent units functionality and data, upgrade to beta at your own risk ... me, I would not.
Posted this re the earlier beta and still have it. Does anyone else find that "Copy Link" won't show up in the "Share" menu? I have it turned on it in the Extensions preference.
I've been using it since Beta 1 without any serious issues. On my personal Mac.
My work Mac (provided by my employer), stays on Big Sur until the official release.
That's really good advice Mitt. I'm so glad you clarified that. I wish I had thought of that well before I got a beta. /s
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This update restored Outlook but broke external display on my mid-2015 MBP with a Radeon R9 M370X.
Since I updated, everytime I plug in an external display (thunderbolt/mini-dvi or hdmi), after a few seconds both screens will be covered in flashing white, black or red squares and everything freezes. I have to force a restart.
Restarting in safe mode fixes it, I'll try to remove some LaunchAgents to find if it's a software incompatibility or a driver issue.
Anyone has this problem also?
Since I updated, everytime I plug in an external display (thunderbolt/mini-dvi or hdmi), after a few seconds both screens will be covered in flashing white, black or red squares and everything freezes. I have to force a restart.
Restarting in safe mode fixes it, I'll try to remove some LaunchAgents to find if it's a software incompatibility or a driver issue.
Anyone has this problem also?
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It only happens when the video switches to the discrete gpu, either with an external display or with gfxCardStatus or even an app that uses gpu acceleration.
I think it’s linked to the update since it started happening right after a updated (I always have a second screen connected).
It is not linked to other software since i disabled everything but it does not happen in safe mode.
I reinstalled the OS through recovery, still no fix.
I’ll try to reinstall an earlier version in the coming days.
Maybe try GFX and force it to stay discrete? I'm always plugged into an external monitor, which does the same thing.
Yes I tried to force the discrete gpu even without an external display, and it has the same effect, the screen has flashing squares and crashes after a few seconds
The second round of re-installing dev profile resulted in 12GB download and finally beta 6 being installed.
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I've got a 2018 MacBook Pro with the Radon Pro Vega 16. I was often getting WindowServer crashes which would return me to the login screen (console reports an AMD driver assertion error of some description).
Under Monterey beta 6, so far it seems fairly stable. Let's see how it goes.
Under Monterey beta 6, so far it seems fairly stable. Let's see how it goes.
I finally found the time to reinstall the Beta 5, and my problem is fixed.
It really seems to be linked to Beta 6, so I'll send feedback to Apple.