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Apple Seeds Sixth Public Beta of macOS 13 Ventura
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The widgets in the Notification Center are back to normal and I haven't had Mail freezing when quitting it. That's good.
I would really like my wallpaper to show on the log-in screen again, though. Is that just the standard Ventura wallpaper for anyone else?
I would really like my wallpaper to show on the log-in screen again, though. Is that just the standard Ventura wallpaper for anyone else?
It's the same generic Ventura wallpaper for me as well on the log in page, but I thought this was expected behavior?
I remember it was like this on Monterey too (that purple mountainous illustration lol)
You know, I haven't put the new beta on yet as I've been living dangerously with the last beta on my new primary work machine (an M2, I still have the previous laptop as a backup, I'm not totally crazy). And like many, I had dead widgets after upgrading to that beta. In fact, 2 of 3 were dead. And the next day all three were dead. I didn't much care.
Just now, out of idle curiousity, I checked. All the widgets are functioning properly. This is on the *last* beta, the one that introduced the widget problem. So if they're working for you now, great, but I wouldn't assume the problem is permanently fixed yet. Time will tell.
Not true! The Apple 27" Cinema Display in 2010 was launched with a speaker problem that needed a firmware update to fix it -- which you could only install if you were running Snow Leopard 10.6.5 or later.
It’s expected if there are multiple user accounts. But with a single account I’ve always had my custom wallpaper on Monterey’s log in screen.
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Same here, M1 Air. Grayed out on System Settings, can´t turn it on, and the button has gone from Control Center. I have sent a message to Apple using the Feedback application. Hope they fix it.
Update:
Got a mail from Apple Feedback Assistant, and the solution they sent me, worked fine:
"Thank you for your feedback! Please try enabling the 'Displays have separate Spaces' configuration, which can be found in System Settings, and then log out and back in.
System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Mission Control > Displays have separate Spaces"
Try this (in case you have "Displays have separate Spaces" disabled, as I had).
Hope this helps.
Regards.
Happy to see that they fixed that hideous bug introduced in the last beta, where mail replies in plain-text mode were losing their quoting. <shuddder>
The system settings networking panel is still horribly broken in various ways. So is the touchID when used when logged in already.
The system settings networking panel is still horribly broken in various ways. So is the touchID when used when logged in already.
Had a few lockups already with this Beta. Mostly in System Settings when adjusting wallpaper and screensavers. Also when AirPods tried to auto switch.
Also noticed that System Settings window cannot be stretched horizontally. Not sure if it was that way previously.
Also noticed that System Settings window cannot be stretched horizontally. Not sure if it was that way previously.
...Game Center appears to be broken. Logins aren't working, so neither are cloud saves. Unless Apple just happens to have an outage right now.
No lockups, but the Mac held on to my AP Pros when my iphone tried to take them for a Facetime call, repeatedly. I had to walk back to the Mac and pick a different sound output before I could get them onto the phone. This was working perfectly previously.
As for the hideous system settings, it's been constrained horizontally since b4 at least. I don't object in principle to revamping settings, but they really have done a horrible job so far. It's possibly even worse organized than before, nevermind all the bugs.
Sometimes I see when I log into sVoD sites like Netflix, its seems to occasionally stall when it is playing trailers for content and the scrolling seems not to respond when that happens. Too early to compare B8 to previous betas, but it's not as apparent.
Reference b8 notes
This one is the same as in beta 7 notes. Because it wasn't mentioned in beta 6 notes that might be attributed to some earlier observations of display being unresponsive or something else not described. The studio display firmware notes are lacking.
It is a bug inherited from Monterey. It only happens when using BETAS versions, final versions do not. To fix it you have to go to System Preferences, then go to Users and Groups, open the lock, then go to the administrator user, and right click on it, you will get to Advanced Options, inside it you will find the UUID checkbox, you have to copy all that text to the clipboard (cmd+c). Then go to Finder, find Macintosh HD (or whatever your disk is called), go to Library, then Caches, and there should be a folder called Desktop Pictures, which those who have this problem don't have. You need to create it. Then go inside that folder and create a new folder which you will name with the UUID name you copied to the clipboard. That's it, that will fix it and you will have your current home screen wallpaper back.
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Es una falla heredada de Monterey. Solo pasa al utilizar versiones BETAS, las versiones finales no lo hacen. Para solucionarlo hay que ir a la Preferencias del Sistema, luego ir a Usuarios y Grupos, abrir el candado, luego ir al usuario administrador, y realizando un click derecho sobre él, llegarán a Opciones Avanzadas, dentro de ellas se encuentra la casilla UUID, deben copiar todo ese texto en el portapapeles (cmd+c). Luego deben ir al Finder, buscar Macintosh HD (o como se llame vuestro disco), ir a Biblioteca, luego Caches, y allí debería existir una carpeta llamada Desktop Pictures, que los que tienen este problema no la tienen. Deben crearla. Luego ir dentro de esa carpeta y crear una nueva carpeta la cual llamarán con el nombre de UUID que han copiado al portapapeles. Listo! con eso se solucionará y volverán a tener el fondo de pantalla de inicio que tenga actualmente en pantalla.
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Yay, they broke something new in mail.app, which was working fine until now. If you click a link, or use a system service to open one in a browser, it... doesn't. For a minute or more. Then, eventually, it does. Even if you've since done what you needed, and have no continued interest in that page. And if you clicked the link several times out of sheer frustration... you get a bunch of tabs with that page.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
Is anyone else experiencing this?
And for bonus fun, in any part of system settings where there's a button that opens a modal dialog (for example, go to "WiFi", then click the "Details" button for your wifi network) I get a constant system beep every second or so for as long as the dialog is open. This may or may not be related to having set up a game controller recently. Anyone else seeing this one?
Awesome! It worked.
Not right away, mind you. I restarted my MacBook and it still showed the Ventura wallpaper. I then checked the UUID folder which had my wallpaper in it and restarted again. That’s when my own wallpaper was on the log in screen.
Thanks 😊
I'm having a few issues with menu bar/control panel and Safari. I am unable to show icons for time, date, wifi, Bluetooth among others in the menu bar, despite them being set up to show in System Settings. In Safari, all tabs in a Tab Group intermittently close / disappear and then re-appear sometime later. Anyone else?
I'm glad it worked for you! I forgot to say that you had to change the wallpaper for the image to be generated in the Desktop Pictures folder. This has been happening since the start on Monterey, it still is. I reported it more than 30 times. They marked it as a bug, but not a priority bug. And now I see that Ventura continues with the same bug, so the users and the reports we make are apparently no longer a priority for Apple. It's a pity. That's why I don't report more bugs, because only 2 times I was asked for "help" to solve one. In fact, this one I even sent them a step-by-step video so they could see what I was talking about, but nothing has happened.
Greetings!
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Me alegra que ta haya funcionado! Olvidé decir que había que cambiar el papel tapiz para que se generara la imagen en la carpeta Desktop Pictures. Esto sucede desde el inicio en Monterey, aún sigue sucediendo. Lo reporté más de 30 veces. Lo marcaban como que era un bug, pero no de prioridad. Y ahora veo que en Ventura continúan con el mismo bug, así que los usuarios y los reportes que hacemos por lo visto han dejado de ser prioridades para Apple. Una pena. Es por ello que no reporto más bugs, porque solo 2 veces me pidieron "ayuda" para resolver uno. De hecho, este les envié hasta un video con un paso por paso para que vieran de qué les hablaba, pero nada ha pasado.
Saludos!
It's something more fundamental broken in Mail.app on Ventura PB 6. If you drag an image attachment, for example, to a Finder folder, it drags some corrupt file with the extension .inet or something similar. Eventually it works after a few tries. This was working in earlier betas and, of course, every other past OS.
I feel like Apple has some people randomly punching keys to code at their company lately. It's very frustrating that both hiring quality software engineers and having proper quality control have simultaneously taken a nosedive. I realize this is Beta, but it's unacceptable to be breaking old functionality at this point in the beta cycle.
Wishing for OSX Snow Leopard.
The proverbial "Two weeks" in software development is now actually about scheduled release in two weeks. They were due to release in October 2022. But the release is highly doubtful given the current state of the beta code.