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Apple Seeds Third Beta of macOS 14 Sonoma to Developers

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Apple today seeded the third beta of the upcoming macOS 14 Sonoma update to developers for testing purposes. The beta comes two weeks after the launch of the second beta.

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Registered developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer Center and after the appropriate profile is installed, with the betas available through the Software Update mechanism in System Settings.

macOS Sonoma introduces new Apple TV-like screen savers that also serve as wallpapers after you log in, plus it moves widgets to the desktop. You can use the new widget gallery to choose from a range of widgets, and then drag them to your Mac's desktop.

Widgets can be arranged in any way that's useful, and when you're using an app, they are designed to fade into the background so they're less distracting. Widgets are more interactive than before, so you can use them to do things like play music, turn off the lights in your home, and more. Through Continuity, your iPhone's widgets can also show up on your Mac's desktop.

Video conferencing has improved with a new Presenter Overlay view that shows your desktop or project in new ways, plus Safari now supports web apps for the Dock and the option to create Profiles so you can separate personal browsing from work browsing.

Other new features include improved search that's faster and more responsive, password and passkey sharing, a revamped stickers interface for the Messages app, PDF integration in notes that makes it easier than ever to manage PDFs, and more.

macOS Sonoma will be in beta testing for several months, with a public release for the fall.

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Just for reference to show differences between betas

macOS 14 beta 3 (23A5286g)
  • Safari Version 17.0 (19616.1.20.11.3)
  • System Firmware Version: 10151.0.172.0.3 (M1 based Macs)
  • Darwin Kernel Version 23.0.0: Fri Jun 30 17:48:23 PDT 2023; root:xnu-10002.0.168.505.3~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64
macOS 14 beta 2 (23A5276g)
  • Safari Version 17.0 (19616.1.17.11.4)
  • System Firmware Version: 10151.0.156.505.1 (M1 based Macs)
  • Darwin Kernel Version 23.0.0: Tue Jun 13 21:17:22 PDT 2023; root:xnu-10002.0.116.505.3~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64
 
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For anyone using Little Snitch, unfortunately it is still broken in Beta 3 as it was in Beta 2.

EDIT: Reinstalled it again and it now appears to be working. Will report back if i find any problems.
 
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My first impressions of this update are not good at all. All the bugs I was having problems with are still there, they also ruined the Clock and Home widgets, and brought back the Mail notification bug that plagued the entirety of iOS 16. Going from beta 2 to beta 3 in this case, felt like more of a downgrade. I wish I could “update” back to beta 2. The extreme battery drain is also still here. For now, if you haven't updated already, do not update. The only fix I have noticed in this update is that they fixed the harmless Health icon bug on iPadOS.
 
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