Apple Seeds Third macOS Sierra 10.12.4 Beta to Developers

[Eric5h5]

Well my computers get functionality removed with every update and get new functionality that is seldom used. You think that is rational, I don't. No problem, you will probably get the Apple you want, I won't, so I rant about it in the off case that someone steps back and wants to understand.

It's not rational because it doesn't reflect reality. If your computers get functionality removed with "every update", then you're not using a Mac, since that provably doesn't happen. It's also provable that Apple has introduced features, had complaints about them, then added functionality to make them optional. There's zero indication, and no past history of doing so, that Apple would somehow force Night Shift to be active always, which makes the notion 100% pure paranoid delusion of the most obnoxious sort. There are actual legit criticisms that you could be making of Apple, so you'd be better off putting your energy into those, instead of just making stuff up for no reason. Please try to deal with reality.

--Eric

 

[AndyUnderscoreR]

Well, that's not you using using emoji but others, and you can't really control what other people do. You can certainly ask them not to do it with you, or you can block them from communicating with you, but that's more or less the kinds of things you can do. Similar to people forwarding annoying emails to you, or making annoying calls to you, or sending annoying letters to you, or ringing your doorbell when you don't feel like opening the door, etc., etc., etc.

That's not a fair comparison. A phone running iOS6 won't display emoji, but newer iOS versions have lost that 'don't display emoji' functionality. As with so many dubious 'improvements' Apple hasn't provided a way to turn it off.

 

[C DM]

That's not a fair comparison. A phone running iOS6 won't display emoji, but newer iOS versions have lost that 'don't display emoji' functionality. As with so many dubious 'improvements' Apple hasn't provided a way to turn it off.

It's a perfectly fair comparison as that is what it is--it's up to the people who send it. If someone sends you photos of things you don't want to see, there's nothing in iOS to stop that short of you asking the user not to do that or blocking that user essentially. It's essentially the same concept in play there.

 

[joy.757]

Like what exactly?

I believe it is a documented issue.
Here: https://forum.justgetflux.com/topic/3040/fullscreen-video-artifacts
or
https://forum.justgetflux.com/topic...-full-screen-youtube-when-f-lux-is-active/124

 

[ErikGrim]

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would of said faster horses."

- Henry Ford

Henry Ford would HAVE never garbled the English language like that.

 

[theBostonian]

I'm still bitter about Mac OS X being renamed macOS and the lack of a proper Apple Thunderbolt display.

Now they officially cannibalize the flux app. Courageous!

When Mountain Lion launched they had changed the name from Mac OS X to OS X so don't feel too bitter:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS#OS_X

 

[SeaFox]

sounds like you need to look at other products if what this company is offering doesn't meet your needs (or deal with the adapters which really aren't that much of a problem)

I can't decide if you're unable to understand my point and are afraid to admit it, or just don't really have a response.

 

[Otaviano]

My computer crashed during the install, or in preparation of the isntall. Now I can not login. It tries to go through he login but at a certain point just shuts down.

I booted into Recovery Mode and I can see there is a disk image (Apple disk image media) which I assume is he failed update. This disk image can not be unmounted or erased.

I tried to restore to a previous Time Machine backup but it fails to erase my hard drive and suggests erasing it in Disk Utility.

Any suggestions before I mess things up further? Should I bite the bullet and install a clean OS-X and then restore from Time Machine?

 

[Guy Clark]

My computer crashed during the install, or in preparation of the isntall. Now I can not login. It tries to go through he login but at a certain point just shuts down.

I booted into Recovery Mode and I can see there is a disk image (Apple disk image media) which I assume is he failed update. This disk image can not be unmounted or erased.

I tried to restore to a previous Time Machine backup but it fails to erase my hard drive and suggests erasing it in Disk Utility.

Any suggestions before I mess things up further? Should I bite the bullet and install a clean OS-X and then restore from Time Machine?

Clean Install then Restore from Time Machine Backup. Remember the golden rule. NEVER run Beta software on a production machine.

 

[Otaviano]

Clean Install then Restore from Time Machine Backup. Remember the golden rule. NEVER run Beta software on a production machine.

I managed to recover pretty quickly. I did a reinstall of MacOS Sierra from Recovery Mode which gots me back on track with all my files and apps still in place.

I then managed to install the 10.12.4 update because it was still showing in the software update. Playing with fire I know. Funny because recently I've been thinking of pulling this machine off of the developer beta program. Looks like I should do that with the official release of 10.12.4.

 

[macintoshmac]

I managed to recover pretty quickly.

I like this.

 

[Milltek]

Does anyone have any idea why Nightshift cannot be used on older machines? Is there a hardware issue?

Also, I have used f.lux on my mid-2010 iMac for years and it always worked fine. Since installing the last beta and now with this one it behaves differently in the morning. It used to wake-up and then gradually increase brightness/blue shift to my "day" setting. Now it sits on the night setting for a while and flips to the day setting in less than a second.

Just curious.

 

[Ebenezum]

"Improved PDFKit API" does this mean Apple has finally fixed the PDFKit or is it only new features without fixing current bugs?

 

[DaveOP]

Seeing some strange behavior with Airpods on beta 3. I am seeing very inconsistent pause/play when the airpods are removed, and podcasts have hard locked my machine a few times now. This is a task I do almost every day, and have not seen in the past. Using safari for what it's worth. Not seeing any of these issues with my iPhone/Airpods.