macOS Sequoia 15.0 Beta 3 - Bug fixes, changes, and more

[kaioshade]

Have you tried letting it run in "Automatic" mode?

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Another option is to track down various files/.plist/docs/.log associated with it and trash them one by one and see if you've got a corrupt file.
If you go this route I'd quit the app, trash a particular file, launch it, tedious process but may yield results, also I'd leave it in "Automatic" mode while "testing".
Or just nuke all files associated with it and see if that works for you. I'm leaning to a corrupt file bc others are running without any issues.
These are all the files visible and invisible that I could find.
Im sure you know you have to quit the app "before" deleting any files associated with it.
Hope you get it figured out.

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Thanks for the info. I'll give that a shot. It does work in automatic mode, but I do like to set them manually when I'm doing specific things. Hopefully that works, otherwise it's not too big of a deal. I did notice some other users having the same issues on their github too.

*Edit*

Digging around some more, it seems to be a limitation Apple set in place with certain models:

Limited fan control on certain Mac models · Issue #731 · crystalidea/macs-fan-control

On some newer Mac models, including some of M3-series, fan control is heavily dependent on the hardware settings. If the system's hardware disables fan control, Macs Fan Control (or any other third...

github.com

 

[Luckygreek]

Thanks for the info. I'll give that a shot. It does work in automatic mode, but I do like to set them manually when I'm doing specific things. Hopefully that works, otherwise it's not too big of a deal. I did notice some other users having the same issues on their github too.

*Edit*

Digging around some more, it seems to be a limitation Apple set in place with certain models:

Limited fan control on certain Mac models · Issue #731 · crystalidea/macs-fan-control

On some newer Mac models, including some of M3-series, fan control is heavily dependent on the hardware settings. If the system's hardware disables fan control, Macs Fan Control (or any other third...

github.com

At least now you know and have "some" control, limited as it may be.

 

[Ahheck01]

I'm having the same symptom where active Mullvad VPN means iMessage can't connect. Works alright (though slow) with VPN disconnected.

 

[contacos]

Wifi is greyed out in the task bar and control center but it is THANKFULLY actually working and also when I open the wifi settings itself, it does show me as connected

 

[cueball73]

NOTIFICATION CENTER is GONE for me since this beta 3. They sometimes flash on the screen for about a split second when a new notification comes in. But I click up in the right corner. Literally NOTHING I can do to get them back on the screen :-(​

 

[fisherking]

NOTIFICATION CENTER is GONE for me since this beta 3. They sometimes flash on the screen for about a split second when a new notification comes in. But I click up in the right corner. Literally NOTHING I can do to get them back on the screen :-(​

several others reporting this as well. at least large bold fonts work... 😉

 

[cueball73]

several others reporting this as well. at least large bold fonts work... 😉

Yes... at least there is that.

 

[Jakimo]

Has anyone figured out a way to resolve the permissions for Screen access in Privacy? I love Shottr, and just can't get it to work after troubleshooting quite a bit

 

[VitoBotta]

Has anyone figured out a way to resolve the permissions for Screen access in Privacy? I love Shottr, and just can't get it to work after troubleshooting quite a bit

I have the same problem with AltTab and it's very annoying.

 

[Luckygreek]

I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this but Affinity Designer and Publisher don't play well with Sequoia at least at this time, and at least with my setup, if 1 crashes it will "take" the other with it, and it's pretty repeatable something I've never seen before. Under Sonoma, absolutely rock solid. These are the only apps I've tested that crash under Sequoia aside from earlier version of Password which now is pretty stable after beta 3.

FWIW.
Affinity has a 6 month fully functional trial of their complete suite, (Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher) or 1 time purchase for around $80 USD about half the price. Ive got no skin in the game just tired of Adobe's goughing of their products and the difficulty and hoops in cancelling a subscription, I've used and loved their products for years but imma done with them.

Creative Software For Professionals | We Are Affinity

Subscription-free photo editing, page layout, graphic design and illustration apps for professionals. Try for free or buy for one low payment.

affinity.serif.com

 

[chmania]

I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this but Affinity Designer and Publisher don't play well with Sequoia at least at this time, and at least with my setup, if 1 crashes it will "take" the other with it, and it's pretty repeatable something I've never seen before. Under Sonoma, absolutely rock solid. These are the only apps I've tested that crash under Sequoia aside from earlier version of Password which now is pretty stable after beta 3.

FWIW.
Affinity has a 6 month fully functional trial of their complete suite, (Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher) or 1 time purchase for around $80 USD about half the price. Ive got no skin in the game just tired of Adobe's goughing of their products and the difficulty and hoops in cancelling a subscription, I've used and loved their products for years but imma done with them.

Why not try GIMP for free? Scribus for publishing and Inkscape for designing? They all work in Sequoia beta 3.
Youtube is full of how-tos on these free open source apps.

 

[Luckygreek]

Why not try GIMP for free? Scribus for publishing and Inkscape for designing? They all work in Sequoia beta 3.
Youtube is full of how-tos on these free open source apps.

I've tried GIMP for quite some time, about 2 years off and on as well as Inkscape, and yes they all work, and not much of a learning curve if you've used Photoshop or Illustrator, and they are absolutely without a doubt great free apps, however, IMHO does not have as many features as Affinity's suite, which I'm still learning. As for Scribus, I found Pages once again IMHO a better option. After doing the Adobe "thing" for such a long time, Imma talking when you could actually purchase them, I'm done with Adobe.

Graphic Converter is also a great option and it's free, if you don't mind waiting 30 seconds, I purchased it a long time ago and love it, a lot of features (sometimes I think too many, the manual is like 370 pages) but it's got limitations.

This long ago.

 

[chmania]

I've tried GIMP for quite some time, about 2 years off and on as well as Inkscape, and yes they all work, and not much of a learning curve if you've used Photoshop or Illustrator, and they are absolutely without a doubt great free apps, however, IMHO does not have as many features as Affinity's suite, which I'm still learning.

I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this but Affinity Designer and Publisher don't play well with Sequoia at least at this time, and at least with my setup, if 1 crashes it will "take" the other with it, and it's pretty repeatable something I've never seen before.

Better, if you send feedback to Apple on this matter, that is, if you want to use Affinity and if that doesn't work well with Sequoia Beta 3. Although it is a 3rd party app, Apple developers would read your feedback and take action.

 

[Luckygreek]

Better, if you send feedback to Apple on this matter, that is, if you want to use Affinity and if that doesn't work well with Sequoia Beta 3. Although it is a 3rd party app, Apple developers would read your feedback and take action.

My "workhorse is running Sonoma and my "test" Sequoia on a Thunderbolt external and it generated a report sent to Apple and yeah you're right, doubtful if Apple is going to do anything with it, I'm sure the Affinity developers are working it out to run on Sequoia. I did post it on Affinity's Forum, V2 bugs.
BTW I still have GIMP and Inkscape on both OS's, as I do like them and they do have a "forever" home.

 

[fisherking]

I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this but Affinity Designer and Publisher don't play well with Sequoia at least at this time, and at least with my setup, if 1 crashes it will "take" the other with it, and it's pretty repeatable something I've never seen before. Under Sonoma, absolutely rock solid. These are the only apps I've tested that crash under Sequoia aside from earlier version of Password which now is pretty stable after beta 3.

FWIW.
Affinity has a 6 month fully functional trial of their complete suite, (Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher) or 1 time purchase for around $80 USD about half the price. Ive got no skin in the game just tired of Adobe's goughing of their products and the difficulty and hoops in cancelling a subscription, I've used and loved their products for years but imma done with them.

Creative Software For Professionals | We Are Affinity

Subscription-free photo editing, page layout, graphic design and illustration apps for professionals. Try for free or buy for one low payment.

affinity.serif.com

fwiw, affinity photo is working fine here (the only app in the suite i use)...

 

[Luckygreek]

fwiw, affinity photo is working fine here (the only app in the suite i use)...

Affinity Photo for whatever reason as is it with yours hasn't crashed, and I pushed it pretty hard, 1gb+ files, with multiple docs open, it's only Designer and Publisher, from what I understand it has something to do with font selection, or they are "suggesting" it could be an Apple issue, I kinda doubt that.

 

[chmania]

Affinity Photo for whatever reason as is it with yours hasn't crashed, and I pushed it pretty hard, 1gb+ files, with multiple docs open, it's only Designer and Publisher, from what I understand it has something to do with font selection, or they are "suggesting" it could be an Apple issue, I kinda doubt that.

Well, it is only the Sequoia beta is out yet, so one can't expect all the 3rd party apps to play nice with it. At the same time, it is nice that the open-source apps work with it, beta or not. Best send a feedback to both Apple and Affinity people.

 

[Luckygreek]

Well, it is only the Sequoia beta is out yet, so one can't expect all the 3rd party apps to play nice with it. At the same time, it is nice that the open-source apps work with it, beta or not. Best send a feedback to both Apple and Affinity people.

I did post it on Affinity's website "V2 Bugs", and yes we're still in beta mode, however most apps are working properly, I tested some 70+ apps with that being the only issue.
It did generate a crash log sent to Apple.

EDIT:
They both generated a crash report.

 

[fisherking]

I did post it on Affinity's website "V2 Bugs", and yes we're still in beta mode, however most apps are working properly, I tested some 70+ apps with that being the only issue.
It did generate a crash log sent to Apple.

EDIT:
They both generated a crash report.

i told affinity that images don't preview in the finder, and they pointed out that i'm running an OS beta 🤔. and once, affinity photo crashed scrolling thru fonts... so there's work to be done 👍

 

[Luckygreek]

i told affinity that images don't preview in the finder, and they pointed out that i'm running an OS beta 🤔. and once, affinity photo crashed scrolling thru fonts... so there's work to be done 👍

Same here as I can't preview them either in the Finder, although I can if I change file format which is a no brainer, I can under Sonoma just not Sequoia. I haven't heard back from their team as of yet., so I'll post whatever their response is. I can scroll thru fonts in Photo, just the other 2 that are problematic, although it's still pretty early with beta testing I'm reasonably certain they'll address all the outstanding crashes, especially with font selection. The Preview issue is a real head scratcher.

EDIT:
So Designer crashed while I was editing fonts in Publisher and with Photo open, they did not crash.

 

[avro707]

The beta 2 and beta 3 are very unstable if I use a W6800X Duo on my main Mac.

Constant GPU related kernel panics on start up. Fed up I swapped both cards into a near identical second 2019 Mac Pro running Sonoma 14.5 and there they run faultlessly.

The standard W6800X 32GB runs fine on the machine with MacOS 15, strangely enough.

I have a post on the Mac Pro section about the kernel panics.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/kernel-panic-gpu-related.2430715/

I have reported this bug to Apple and added more details to this along with the logs that are automatically sent through. Given this is limited to a very small set of users I doubt it will be resolved.

 

[fisherking]

Same here as I can't preview them either in the Finder, although I can if I change file format which is a no brainer, I can under Sonoma just not Sequoia. I haven't heard back from their team as of yet., so I'll post whatever their response is. I can scroll thru fonts in Photo, just the other 2 that are problematic, although it's still pretty early with beta testing I'm reasonably certain they'll address all the outstanding crashes, especially with font selection. The Preview issue is a real head scratcher.

EDIT:
So Designer crashed while I was editing fonts in Publisher and with Photo open, they did not crash.View attachment 2397040

as mentioned, affinity will get to the icon preview issue, but are not in a rush, since sequoia is in beta. that does seem more concerning about the other issues tho....

 

[MacGizmo]

NOTIFICATION CENTER is GONE for me since this beta 3. They sometimes flash on the screen for about a split second when a new notification comes in. But I click up in the right corner. Literally NOTHING I can do to get them back on the screen :-(​

Maybe check those post settings. 😂

 

[Adora]

Just recognized I mentioned it in the wrong thread. I think it's better for here.

Safari Technology Preview - what had not even been available for 15.0 until DB2 if I remember correctly - stopped working since DB3 because the version number is still not newer than standard Safari but the build number is lower. Still no update until today.

It's not really crashing but it's causing some "Webkit stuff"* to crash immediately after opening a website or anything in the menu what opens a new window like "About" for example and after that it's beach ball time and you can only stop it with a forced quit.

*crashing process is called: com.apple.WebKit.WebContent


P.S.: I reported it several times to Apple since day one.

 

[fisherking]

wondering what else has changed from the first beta 3 to today's beta 3 (outside of the emoji fixes). any observations, anyone?