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Apple Seeds Third Release Candidate Version of macOS Big Sur 11.2 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Too]

LFC2020 said:
Where’s the final release 🥺

Noticed my M1 MacBook Pro once logged in takes a few extra seconds to become responsive, get the occasionally beach ball for a second then goes away, hopefully 11.2 gets rid of it.
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Isn’t that spotlight indexing stuff?
 
Kylo83 said:
AirPods auto switching still doesn't work on this one, works going to iPhone but not back to Mac
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Yah, pretty much it does. Do you have the right setting on iPhone? Something like when last connected
 
ripe_banana said:
If they fix fingerprint reader slowness and constant Safari crashing, that would be more than enough!
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Safari has never crashed for me. Is it the web sites you visit, you running extensions? There must be something
 
MauiPa said:
Isn’t that spotlight indexing stuff?
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Nah, had my M1 MacBook Pro since launch, started happening last week.

Turned on my mac yesterday the cursor froze and wouldn’t respond, had to power off the machine to get the cursor to work again.

Hopefully 11.2 fixes these little problems.
 
LFC2020 said:
Nah, had my M1 MacBook Pro since launch, started happening last week.

Turned on my mac yesterday the cursor froze and wouldn’t respond, had to power off the machine to get the cursor to work again.

Hopefully 11.2 fixes these little problems.
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At least one of the releases recently seemed to re-index spotlight. Maybe a format change or something. If so it would go away after whatever time frame it took. You seeing any unusual activity in activity manager
 
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Does macOS 11.2 role back bypassing firewalls like LuLu, LittleSnitch, etc?
Also wondering, now that the bypass option is in place, there isn't really anything prevent Apple from re-activating it at any point in time.
 
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MauiPa said:
At least one of the releases recently seemed to re-index spotlight. Maybe a format change or something. If so it would go away after whatever time frame it took. You seeing any unusual activity in activity manager
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Everything looks normal in activity monitor. Maybe it’s a little bug that developed, hopefully gets taken care of in the next update.
 
jwcom said:
This OS release is not good, Big Sur has cause nothing but issues for us at our workplace, networking with Windows machines is nonexistent we have had to roll several back to Catalina. Releasing a major operating system update without functioning networking to other computers is unacceptable. We have two brand new Mac minis from the factory that will not connect via SMB to any machine on the network. I really hope Apple fixed this issue but it’s been like that since day one so I’m not hopeful.
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There are many reported and acknowledged open bugs since development last summer. In all my years owning Mac's since 1999 this is by far the worst release - and I worked on OS X 10.4 - 10.6 with then SVP of Engineering Bertrand Serlet (Snow Leopard is still one of the most solid releases I've used).

I'd rather Apple return to 2-3 year release cycles with new beta's every 2 weeks requiring a full system wipe and install as it allowed us to debug the core OS without third party apps and plugin's being possible factors. Serlet stayed on for 10.7 but left over disagreements with Cook regarding OS X becoming a free annual release in order to entice more developers and consumers into the Mac App Store. I'd rather pay $129 for a solid release than a rushed and buggy OS.

Also loathe the iPadOS UI on a Mac. Finder navigation is terrible with a washed out UI - no matter how much I tweaked my MacBook Pro or Mac Pro's displays for contrast, brightness, etc or used Dark Mode, I couldn't adjust to the changes. iPadOS/iOS works best on small touchscreen devices not a workstation or any desktop/laptop. So much wasted space as well.
 
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Mlrollin91 said:
My guess is during final testing something urgent was found, thus releasing another RC would be easier than a .x.1.
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Yeah, probably the helpd process issue that users from Spain were experiencing and reporting for several weeks. Apparently this third RC solved it!
 
It concerns me that the release notes only mention display issues with the mini. I’m having a lot of very frustrating external display issues with my M1 MBA. Never wakes the monitor from sleep. Like almost never. Resolution sometimes spontaneously changes. My old 2015 Air on Catalina workEd perfectly.
 
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Oh Apple, oh Apple, so many of us in this environment can’t afford to upgrade to Big Sur compliant macs from our Catalina compliant units. Please for the sake of us, make Big Sur available for our high spec processor and memory units like my Mac mini late 2012.
 
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CJ Dorschel said:
There are many reported and acknowledged open bugs since development last summer. In all my years owning Mac's since 1999 this is by far the worst release - and I worked on OS X 10.4 - 10.6 with then SVP of Engineering Bertrand Serlet (Snow Leopard is still one of the most solid releases I've used).

I'd rather Apple return to 2-3 year release cycles with new beta's every 2 weeks requiring a full system wipe and install as it allowed us to debug the core OS without third party apps and plugin's being possible factors. Serlet stayed on for 10.7 but left over disagreements with Cook regarding OS X becoming a free annual release in order to entice more developers and consumers into the Mac App Store. I'd rather pay $129 for a solid release than a rushed and buggy OS.

Also loathe the iPadOS UI on a Mac. Finder navigation is terrible with a washed out UI - no matter how much I tweaked my MacBook Pro or Mac Pro's displays for contrast, brightness, etc or used Dark Mode, I couldn't adjust to the changes. iPadOS/iOS works best on small touchscreen devices not a workstation or any desktop/laptop. So much wasted space as well.
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Oh how much I agree with you!! Serlet was one of the most brilliant minds in the Steve Jobe era. I miss Tiger and Snow Leopard so much. Rock solid Os, since Mavericks it’s been a free fall. Bugs over bugs in every area of the system.
 
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DudiQ said:
It's a "candidate", which means it will be the final release if no more bugs are discovered. Beta adds features.
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No, not really.
Theres always bugs.
Unless you are staring every final release candidate is perfect, without found bugs.

In which case why have the .X.X releases?

And why is there still bugs after 11.1 final release candidate?
 
Going to have to start calling this Bit?? Rumours soon with the amount of complaints all the time. But most people don’t call Apple and log there issues. Just get on here and complain don’t like it don’t use it. Simple.
 
jwcom said:
This OS release is not good, Big Sur has cause nothing but issues for us at our workplace, networking with Windows machines is nonexistent we have had to roll several back to Catalina. Releasing a major operating system update without functioning networking to other computers is unacceptable. We have two brand new Mac minis from the factory that will not connect via SMB to any machine on the network. I really hope Apple fixed this issue but it’s been like that since day one so I’m not hopeful.
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There is a fix for that that sucks, but works - I had the same issue -
Run this in Terminal:
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext
You have to do this with every reboot so it sucks - but my experience has been that the newest update to 11.2 is all good and stable so far.
 
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Can anyone confirm if this fixes the ultra wide monitor resolution issues to support 4 and 5k ultra wide monitors for the M1 macs?
 
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