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Apple Seeds Third Beta of macOS Sonoma 14.1 to Developers

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Apple today seeded the third beta of an upcoming macOS Sonoma 14.1 update to developers for beta testing, with the update coming one week after the launch of the second 14.1 beta.

sonoma-desktop-wwdc.jpg

Registered developers can opt-in to the beta through the Software Update section of the System Settings app. Under Beta updates, toggle on the Sonoma Developer Beta. Note that an Apple ID associated with an Apple Developer account is required to get the developer beta.

macOS Sonoma 14.1 includes updates for the Music app, introducing an option to favorite songs, albums, artists, and more, plus there's a new Coverage section in System Settings for keeping track of AppleCare+. No other major new additions have been found in the beta as of yet, but there are several promised features that did not make it into the macOS Sonoma launch.

Apple says that these features are coming in an update later this year, so we could begin seeing some of them in this beta.

Additions we are waiting on include interactive Music widgets, iCloud Sync improvements, the option to use Stickers through the Tapback menu in Messages, Intelligent form detection and Enhanced AutoFill for PDF documents and forms, an option to complete words by pressing the space bar, collaborative playlists in the Music app, and a favorite songs playlist.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Third Beta of macOS Sonoma 14.1 to Developers
 
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If they allow you to favourite artists, then you can display your favourite artist's music, I'll come back to Apple Music.

As it stands with Apple music, if you want to add an artist's music to your library, you have to add each one of their albums which is tedious. Spotify allows you to favourite an artist, and their discography becomes instantly available in your library.
 
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How about.....wait for it, wait for it.....getting desktop pictures to set correctly on multiple monitor setups? Or, how about having preferences for the system actually stick and not reset when you restart the computer? That's been on my wishlist for, oh....the past two or three system updates. You'd think they could get things that simple correct while adding all this new, extraneous fluff.
 
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    Workaround: To explicitly request an animation, use the View.contentTransition(_:) modifier.

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  • Updates the iPhone 12 for users in France to accommodate a test protocol for Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) testing. For more information, visit this website: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213923(116601274)

This is looking like just an another beta (4) and a RC left to do.
Todays releases to devs
  • iOS 17.1 beta 3 (21B5066a) - October 10, 2023
  • iPadOS 17.1 beta 3 (21B5066a) - October 10, 2023
  • macOS 14.1 beta 3 (23B5067a) - October 10, 2023
  • watchOS 10.1 beta 3 (21S5063a) - October 10, 2023
 
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MacRumors said:


Apple today seeded the third beta of an upcoming macOS Sonoma 14.1 update to developers for beta testing, with the update coming one week after the launch of the second 14.1 beta.

sonoma-desktop-wwdc.jpg

Registered developers can opt-in to the beta through the Software Update section of the System Settings app. Under Beta updates, toggle on the Sonoma Developer Beta. Note that an Apple ID associated with an Apple Developer account is required to get the developer beta.

macOS Sonoma 14.1 includes updates for the Music app, introducing an option to favorite songs, albums, artists, and more, plus there's a new Coverage section in System Settings for keeping track of AppleCare+. No other major new additions have been found in the beta as of yet, but there are several promised features that did not make it into the macOS Sonoma launch.

Apple says that these features are coming in an update later this year, so we could begin seeing some of them in this beta.

Additions we are waiting on include interactive Music widgets, iCloud Sync improvements, the option to use Stickers through the Tapback menu in Messages, Intelligent form detection and Enhanced AutoFill for PDF documents and forms, an option to complete words by pressing the space bar, collaborative playlists in the Music app, and a favorite songs playlist.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Third Beta of macOS Sonoma 14.1 to Developers
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So, every feature that’s useful had to wait while they added an absolutely basic feature to Music (which should not be part of the OS) and to push AppleCare.
 
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Comparison of 14.1 beta 3 to previous 14.1 beta 2

macOS 14.1 beta 3 (23B5067a)
  • Safari Version 17.1 (19616.2.9.11.6)
  • System Firmware Version: 10151.41.10 (M1 based Macs)
  • Darwin Kernel Version 23.1.0: Tue Oct 3 22:41:31 PDT 2023; root:xnu-10002.41.8~15/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64
macOS 14.1 beta 2 (23B5056e)
  • Safari Version 17.1 (19616.2.8.11.2)
  • System Firmware Version: 10151.40.171.501.2 (M1 based Macs)
  • Darwin Kernel Version 23.1.0: Tue Sep 26 22:11:17 PDT 2023; root:xnu-10002.40.89.501.1~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64
 
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groove-agent said:
If they allow you to favourite artists, then you can display your favourite artist's music, I'll come back to Apple Music.

As it stands with Apple music, if you want to add an artist's music to your library, you have to add each one of their albums which is tedious. Spotify allows you to favourite an artist, and their discography becomes instantly available in your library.
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How about being able to mix music videos and audio in the same playlist without having to restart playback every time an Audio only follows a Video?

Been outstanding since ... Well, probably forever.
 
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We went from 3B5056e (beta 2) -> 23B5067a (beta 3).

So it is likely that an RC or Final Release is coming soon.
 
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groove-agent said:
If they allow you to favourite artists, then you can display your favourite artist's music, I'll come back to Apple Music.

As it stands with Apple music, if you want to add an artist's music to your library, you have to add each one of their albums which is tedious. Spotify allows you to favourite an artist, and their discography becomes instantly available in your library.
Click to expand...
You can Favourite artists, and then filter to see "Only Favourited Artists" or "All Artists" when in Library > Artists... is that what you're looking for?
 
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Sonoma runs fair on my 2012 Mac mini using opencore :)

It seems that every iteration of macOS slightly improves the performance of AFPS by squeaking even more performance out of their code.

Mojave was atrociously slow even on SSDs but now all the way to Sonoma it really seems faster on the same hardware.
 
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Realityck said:

Remote Widgetsin page link​

Resolved Issuesin page link​

  • Fixed: Remote Widgets might render blank on mismatched iOS and macOS releases. (115436466)

Walletin page link​

Resolved Issuesin page link​

  • Fixed: Some event ticket passes might fail to ingest into Wallet when added from a website on a Mac. (115216417)

WidgetKitin page link​

Known Issuesin page link​

  • In widgets Text(_:style:) doesn’t animate its content by default. (107582710)
    Workaround: To explicitly request an animation, use the View.contentTransition(_:) modifier.

iPhone 12 in Francein page link​

Notesin page link​

  • Updates the iPhone 12 for users in France to accommodate a test protocol for Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) testing. For more information, visit this website: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213923(116601274)

This is looking like just an another beta (4) and a RC left to do.
Todays releases to devs
  • iOS 17.1 beta 3 (21B5066a) - October 10, 2023
  • iPadOS 17.1 beta 3 (21B5066a) - October 10, 2023
  • macOS 14.1 beta 3 (23B5067a) - October 10, 2023
  • watchOS 10.1 beta 3 (21S5063a) - October 10, 2023
Click to expand...
Also there is

macOS Ventura 13.6.1 RC2 build 22G311

macOS Monterey 12.7.1 RC2 build 21G918
 
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