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Apple Seeds Sixth Beta of macOS Sierra to Developers [Update: Public Beta Testers Too]
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Yes but that doesn't excuse MR from waiting until it is actually confirmed to be available. I checked the seed notes, there's nothing listed as fixed in beta 6. Apple did this before, they accidentally added the version but pulled it later.
wear on your keyboard? are you seriously worried about this??
They may have removed the seed in preparation for PB5. If DB 6 is actually ready for release today. Or has this been an on going issue?
LOL. Come on, if we're making excuses lets not get carried away.
How would this improve "the current password-based method", other than making it faster for some users? There is still a need for a password on the mac, so bad passwords as a vector for a hack is still as much a problem as at any other time.
I don't think the average user would benefit a great deal, I think it would benefit a minority of users. It's completely technically possible to bring this to iPhone, and you're right, Apple isn't motivated to being a so-so experience to iPhone users because not doing so makes the Watch more compelling. If you want to avoid typing your password, get an Apple Watch because it offers the best possible experience for doing so. Frustrating? Maybe, but the rationale is fairly straightforward to me.
It's been an ongoing issue since the first time the update was available. I'm using terminal to find an update and beta 4 is the only one that shows, also.
Weird, you could try changing the DNS settings either to Google DNS or back to your ISP's to see if that forces it to look at a different CDN server, I'm not sure other that that off the top of my head. Might be worth waiting a while though in case an update is released today. Sorry I can't help more than that.
If I re download the file from the App Store, it should download the latest file right, NOT public beta 1?
It's something I'd like to avoid if possible. That doesn't mean I waste my time being worried about it.
A lot of people carry around their iPhone and laptop Mac at the same time, or dock the iPhone near the Mac if it's a desktop. The feature should be useful in either situation.
This was being discussed when the 5s first came out and is relevant to anything unlocked with Touch ID. I'm surprised you haven't had all this time to think about it.
I believe it is available on any hardware that can run macOS Sierra (it works on my mid-2010 MBP).
Siri is not limited to any specific Macs. It will run on any Mac running Sierra, even unsupported ones.
That's the behaviour with regular apps yes. I'm not sure if it's the same for Public Beta's. I'm downloading it onto my MacBook at the moment. So I'll let you know in a bit what version it downloads. There's no way to tell from the list in the purchased tab as it still has the original PB1 date next to it.
Unlocking my Mac via phone Touch-ID would be great. It's usually nearby on my desk or on me. My watch is usually off my wrist by 8pm, so having a phone unlock option would be welcome. Would everyone use this? No. But many will and it costs nothing other that a bit of development time. It's another piece of Apple's Continuity strategy.
It would be way more useful to me to be able to unlock 1Password on my Mac using Touch ID on the iPhone.
Nothing to do with unlocking faster but more to do with using stronger and unique passwords that you type less frequently. I use a 30-character password, it takes 2-3 seconds to type it in and 50% of the times, I have a typo, so it can take up to 10 seconds to unlock for me. I always have my iPhone next to my Mac and it would take less than a second to press the home button. If I can use Touch ID, I would be using even stronger randomized passwords per Mac.
For the same reason Apple built Touch ID in the first place, to allow stronger passwords to be used but less frequently used. They convinced majority of their iPhone customers from having no passcode to majority having a 4-6 digit passcode and stronger passphrases. This was mentioned at WWDC's security talk.
There is zero reason Apple cannot implement the same support on iPhones, it is absolutely possible to do this and in fact, there are third party apps that does this already for a few years now. They're just upselling the Apple Watch and frankly, it leaves a bad taste IMO. Security should never be used to upsell a product like this.
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Usually the later betas on OS errrrr Mac OS fix the early VM Ware fusion errors. For example, internal error was common with this one when trying to load up your VM. Is this still broken?
Why spend resources? Because it's a great feature many will use. It's not a stretch that many desktop users will have their phone nearby. As the framework already exists, the incremental cost for adding this feature is mice-nuts. Just do it and make a bunch of people smile - even 1% of the user base would be a large number.
You can use an app called MacID if you want to unlock using your iPhone's Touch ID, but it's really not that handy. Typing a password takes a second, while taking out your phone, unlocking it, pulling down notification center, hitting the unlock button, waiting for the Touch ID popup and then using your finger to unlock it takes at least 10.
That does sound tedious, but is necessary due to Apple's restrictions on 3rd-party apps. An official Apple method would be to take out the iPhone and unlock it once, thereby also unlocking the nearby Mac, I'm sure.
I wonder if there's a jailbreak tweak to simplify the process used by the 3rd-party app.
I think MR saw the dev portal update and wrote the article, and someone at apple forgot to hit the SUBMIT button
