Apple Seeds Third Beta of macOS Sequoia 15.4 With Mail Categorization

[mansplains]

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.

They likely have categories enabled on their gmail account too

 

[hoodafoo]

it's a lot of work for apple to add these tiny features into a point release.. why are they doing this???! why couldn't they just do a FULL update of mail app in ONE point release and focus on another FULL update of another app in the next point release? am I making too much sense???

 

[tmckenna]

I have three different apps that scrobble music from the Music.app. (Scrobbling as in sending what music I am playing to Last.fm...)

All of them have been broken since beta 2.

If anyone knows a workaround or an app that is working correctly -- I'm all ears.

(If you want to see what I listen to, here's a link to my listening habits: https://www.last.fm/user/Tom34772 )

-- Tom

 

[Silberbogen]

With 15.4 Beta 3, VPN services such as Mullvad VPN or NorthVPN work again on macOS.

 

[ChasSC-Mac-Guy]

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.

Agreed. When it first arrived on iOS, first thing I did was revert it back to the old view. I didn’t like it when Gmail did it either. I have labels. I just want it in chronological order without the fluff. I’m not a Luddite by any stretch, but I also don’t always agree with Apple’s vision. At least it’s a choice.

 

[vkd]

Oh great, mail categorization, that's something I'll never need.

Meanwhile, do the Rules work? Do they hell!