Apple Seeds Third Beta of macOS Sequoia 15.4 With Mail Categorization

[MacRumors]

Apple today provided developers with the third beta of an upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.4 update for testing purposes. The new beta is available a week after Apple released the second beta.

Registered developers can opt-in to the macOS Sequoia beta through the Software Update section of the System Settings app. An Apple ID associated with an Apple Developer account is required to get the beta.

macOS Sequoia 15.4 brings Mail Categorization to the Mac for the first time, reorganizing the Mail app into dedicated categories like transactions, updates, promotions, and primary, a category that surfaces the most important emails first. The update brings a range of new emoji characters to the Mac.

For Apple News+ subscribers, there is a dedicated News+ Food section with recipes, articles about restaurants, and other related content. There's a new Sketch style in Image Playground, the option to create Memory Movies in the Photos app, and Apple Intelligence is expanding to new languages.

Apple plans to release macOS Sequoia 15.4 in early April.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Third Beta of macOS Sequoia 15.4 With Mail Categorization

 

[tarunc]

Lets hope nothing broken in this one.....dont see it yet on my MbP 14....

 

[PBG4 Dude]

Lets hope nothing broken in this one.....dont see it yet on my MbP 14....

Had just finished updating when this article was posted lol. Now waiting for this update to show on my laptop.

 

[Xaositek]

Praying for some Spotlight improvements - it's been trashed since Beta 1 and it can't find half my apps

 

[Martyimac]

Hoping they fixed internet not working with VPN's

 

[amaze1499]

Praying for some Spotlight improvements - it's been trashed since Beta 1 and it can't find half my apps

same here. spotlight server is screwed up. reenable via terminal.

 

[Camel993]

iPhone mirroring outside the EU…could anybody please check this?

 

[Martyimac]

just to jump in, I'm running a PIA VPN on macOS 15.4 without issues

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in addition a Little Snitch which seems to have some issues displaying the map properly if connected via VPN

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Hoping they fixed internet not working with VPN's

IT'S FIXED!! Thank you 

 

[mikegem]

Apple today provided developers with the third beta of an upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.4 update for testing purposes. The new beta is available a week after Apple released the second beta.

Registered developers can opt-in to the macOS Sequoia beta through the Software Update section of the System Settings app. An Apple ID associated with an Apple Developer account is required to get the beta.

macOS Sequoia 15.4 brings Mail Categorization to the Mac for the first time, reorganizing the Mail app into dedicated categories like transactions, updates, promotions, and primary, a category that surfaces the most important emails first. The update brings a range of new emoji characters to the Mac.

For Apple News+ subscribers, there is a dedicated News+ Food section with recipes, articles about restaurants, and other related content. There's a new Sketch style in Image Playground, the option to create Memory Movies in the Photos app, and Apple Intelligence is expanding to new languages.

Apple plans to release macOS Sequoia 15.4 in early April.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Third Beta of macOS Sequoia 15.4 With Mail Categorization

The only new function I'd really like in Apple Mail is that it not wipe out all my smart mailboxes, which it does in about 50% of MacOS updates.

 

[jbc25]

For me, the mail categorization on iOS is completely unnecessary. Those buttons take up WAY too much real-estate, and based on my experiences with similar features on other platforms, I can't trust it to categorize everything correctly and not make me miss important emails.

 

[Truben]

For Logic Pro users, iLok is working again, and UA Connect.

 

[Ramsteiner]

Scansnap scanners are working again in beta 3.

 

[tywebb13]

build number is 24E5228e

there are sonoma and ventura rc 3s too

14.7.5 rc 3 is build 23H520

13.7.5 rc 3 is build 22H520

the builds of the other betas released today are

iOS and iPadOS 18.4 beta 3 build 22E5222f
tvOS and audioOS 18.4 beta 3 build 22L5240e
visionOS 2.4 beta 3 build 22O5221d
watchOS 11.4 beta 3 build 22T5234f

 

[xgman]

sounds promising. beta 2 was a misery. first time in 15 years I had to revert to the stable release.

 

[Veinticinco]

Mail categorisation and new emojis.

macOS at the cutting edge.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

My installation of macOS Sequoia 15.4 beta 2 must be special, since it seems to have enabled categorization in Mail already:

 

[artjart]

When is the public beta expected? Thank you!

 

[adamryan1983]

Praying for some Spotlight improvements - it's been trashed since Beta 1 and it can't find half my apps

ok so thats not just me having that issue

 

[nortonandreev]

My installation of macOS Sequoia 15.4 beta 2 must be special, since it seems to have enabled categorization in Mail already:

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It's been enabled since beta 1, don't feel special.

 

[lkrupp]

Tech averting luddites who reject any change went berserk when the categorizing was added to iOS 18 Mail. Rather than take minute to figure out how to turn it off they flew into a rage vowing to never buy an Apple device again. Same thing will happen when this hits macOS Mail. Count on it.

 

[adrianlondon]

It's been enabled since beta 1, don't feel special.

Yeah, it's been here since the first 15.4 beta.

It's just Macrumors' weird thread title that's confusing people.

 

[ajonymous]

My installation of macOS Sequoia 15.4 beta 2 must be special, since it seems to have enabled categorization in Mail already:

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Likewise.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

Yeah, it's been here since the first 15.4 beta.

It's just Macrumors' weird thread title that's confusing people.

Yup, seen this before--for some reason, MacRumors will sometimes describe a new feature as "upcoming" or "now here", when it's already been available for one or two beta releases. Though usually they do that only when it's a feature new to people who install only the public beta or the general release version.

 

[Bungaree.Chubbins]

Tech averting luddites who reject any change went berserk when the categorizing was added to iOS 18 Mail. Rather than take minute to figure out how to turn it off they flew into a rage vowing to never buy an Apple device again. Same thing will happen when this hits macOS Mail. Count on it.

I think this is the new normal.

 

[Velin]

Apple: no one wants "mail categorization." It sucks. Fix the damn spotlight indexing. You know spotlight is bad when you cannot launch the damn Terminal when using it.