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macOS Sequoia Slated to Launch in Mid-September Alongside iOS 18

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macOS Sequoia, the newest version of the operating system that runs on the Mac, is set to launch in mid-September, MacRumors has learned. While Apple's iOS updates are consistently introduced in September, macOS launch dates vary, and new Mac updates have been released in September, October, and November in recent years.

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This year, Apple plans to release macOS Sequoia around the same time as iOS 18 rather than holding it until October. Introducing both updates at the same time will ensure that cross-platform features are functional and working as intended, such as iPhone Mirroring. A key new feature, iPhone Mirroring allows an iPhone running iOS 18 to be controlled using a Mac running macOS Sequoia.

Other new features coming to macOS Sequoia include refreshed window tiling capabilities, a dedicated Passwords app, and updates to Safari, Messages, Maps, Notes, and more.

Apple Intelligence features will not be in macOS Sequoia or iOS 18 at launch, with Apple instead introducing the functionality in subsequent iOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1 updates. We expect to see those updates released in October.

Apple is in the final stages of beta testing macOS Sequoia and iOS 18 ahead of its annual fall iPhone-focused event. If Apple sticks with the timing that it has used for the last several years, the most likely event date is September 10. If that's the event date, new iPhones could launch a week later on September 20. New iOS updates typically come out on the Wednesday before new iPhones launch, so with that timeline, we could see iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia on September 18.

There is some wiggle room with dates, though, and Apple could opt to hold the event later in September, which would change the software launch date guesstimate. Apple could announce its iPhone event as soon as next week.

Article Link: macOS Sequoia Slated to Launch in Mid-September Alongside iOS 18
 
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So new Mac reveals wait for upwards of a month after Sequoia is available... or anticipate the iPhone AND Mac show at a combined event in September?

I know iPhone rules all but still: Sequoia frenzies may already be fading after about 3 or 4 weeks of pounding through every nook & cranny on existing Macs.
 
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Got a bit of a dilemma here on this one. I can't afford for this to break my workflow. Sonoma broke a fairly large bunch of things I use on a daily basis (mostly third party Unix/Qt/homebrew/R/sbcl stuff). I am turning into a colleague of mine who is still on Monterey and is so afraid to change anything he won't upgrade because we got broken badly on Ventura. Other colleagues have moved to Windows because of this and seem to have less issues.

Fundamentally I don't trust them not to blow up some API somewhere. The Cocoa/Qt crashing nightmare went on for months.
 
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cjsuk said:
Got a bit of a dilemma here on this one. I can't afford for this to break my workflow. Sonoma broke a fairly large bunch of things I use on a daily basis (mostly third party Unix/Qt/homebrew/R/sbcl stuff). I am turning into a colleague of mine who is still on Monterey and is so afraid to change anything he won't upgrade because we got broken badly on Ventura. Other colleagues have moved to Windows because of this and seem to have less issues.

Fundamentally I don't trust them not to blow up some API somewhere. The Cocoa/Qt crashing nightmare went on for months.
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Realistically there's no dilemma, just wait 6 months for 2 or 3 point releases to fix any ongoing bugs. If you're using MacOS in a production vital environment you should just accept that and go with the most patched up previous OS that still gets updates for as long as you can
 
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I wonder if Apple is trying to get ahead of the competition on shipping items from China to the US by monopolizing shipping containers earlier than normal? Still, I don't have any issue with this since I've been using the public beta for Sequoia for two weeks and the only issue was battery usage with my M1 MacBook Pro. And the update this week fixed that. Which is normally the time of year that happens every year in the betas.
 
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sublunar said:
Realistically there's no dilemma, just wait 6 months for 2 or 3 point releases to fix any ongoing bugs. If you're using MacOS in a production vital environment you should just accept that and go with the most patched up previous OS that still gets updates for as long as you can
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That's the classic advice. The new version is wait for .5 or .6. Else, brace yourself for trouble even in .3.
 
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HobeSoundDarryl said:
So new Mac reveals wait for upwards of a month after Sequoia is available... or anticipate the iPhone AND Mac show at a combined event in September?

I know iPhone rules all but still: Sequoia frenzies may already be fading after about 3 or 4 weeks of pounding through every nook & cranny on existing Macs.
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Last year macOS released in September and the M3 MacBook Pros weren’t announced until October 30.
I’d expect a similar schedule this year.
After all, there really isn’t a history of Apple tying macOS releases to new Macs.
Every once in a while it happens, but usually they are quite independent of each other.
 
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Waiting to see how the EU forces Apple to change things with this OS release. Should be interesting to say the least.
 
cjsuk said:
Got a bit of a dilemma here on this one. I can't afford for this to break my workflow. Sonoma broke a fairly large bunch of things I use on a daily basis (mostly third party Unix/Qt/homebrew/R/sbcl stuff). I am turning into a colleague of mine who is still on Monterey and is so afraid to change anything he won't upgrade because we got broken badly on Ventura. Other colleagues have moved to Windows because of this and seem to have less issues.

Fundamentally I don't trust them not to blow up some API somewhere. The Cocoa/Qt crashing nightmare went on for months.
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No problem, just don’t update.
 
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I can’t help but wonder about many of the comments in here. If Apple sucks so badly these days then why stay? Why not switch to something else. You’ve got Windows or a ton of different Linux distros to choose from. Why come here and complain endlessly? What’s the point? Judging by their Mac sales numbers Apple is doing something right. You can’t grow in the way they have with the number of models they sell and the much larger pool of suppliers they have to use to produce so many units and keep the hardware and software just as tightly integrated as it was when they were a much smaller, much more niche company. I’ll still take them over Windows everyday of the week and twice on Sundays and I just don’t have the time to learn Linux and evaluate all the distros out there and the various options that come with them. No thanks for me though I get the appeal.
 
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Being on a Hack I’ve decided to stop updates at Ventura, as it’s the last version where everything works perfectly and natively for me

Ironically, it has removed any anxiety about the normal macOS update each year as nothing is going to change for me and things just keep working great. 😊
 
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I can’t help but wonder about many of the comments in here. If Apple sucks so badly these days then why stay? Why not switch to something else. You’ve got Windows or a ton of different Linux distros to choose from. Why come here and complain endlessly? What’s the point? Judging by their Mac sales numbers Apple is doing something right. You can’t grow in the way they have with the number of models they sell and the much larger pool of suppliers they have to use to produce so many units and keep the hardware and software just as tightly integrated as it was when they were a much smaller, much more niche company. I’ll still take them over Windows everyday of the week and twice on Sundays and I just don’t have the time to learn Linux and evaluate all the distros out there and the various options that come with them. No thanks for me though I get the appeal.
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WSL on Windows is a mess you don't want to touch.
A lot of big software (Adobe, Office, more or less anything "big") won't run native on Linux.
What are your other choices beside macOS then if you want "big" software but at the same time access to things like homebrew via a decent terminal?

We all made the choice to move to macOS when it was good, really good. But the yearly major releases are destroying macOS. They simply move too fast.
I'd say, if Apple isn't careful, major software may actually get fed up and decide to pull out. I'd hate to go back to the situation as it were 30 years ago.
 
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WSL on Windows is a mess you don't want to touch.
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I use WSL on Windows often and don't experience this. I installed it manually via PowerShell and I download the tar images for the distro(s) I use. Then (again, in PowerShell) I just create/destroy containers as I need them using the local images on my device.

I think the graphical portion of WSL (running windowed applications) is a flaky, but the command line stuff (web servers, databases, Python utilities, etc.) has worked quite well for me.

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We all made the choice to move to macOS when it was good, really good. But the yearly major releases are destroying macOS. They simply move too fast.
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I started on Windows. Then moved to Mac OS X around 10.3. In 2018 I started using Windows again. I have macOS 14.6.1 on my Mac mini now and Windows 11 (23H2) on my laptop. I think, overall, macOS has a nicer, more unified experience. However, if I'm being honest, Windows 11 really does just work; I have zero issues with it. MacOS is also fast and it works, but it's not a great experience. There's a ton of little bugs that, while not show-stoppers, make using it more frustrating. Window management is just bad and buggy. I'm not even talking about tiling (which is long overdue), but even things like when I open a new application (with Raycast or Spotlight) it randomly puts that application behind all others instead of bringing it to the front in focus. Other times, I can't bring focus to a window unless I click on a different application then back to the one I want. Nothing that is a deal-breaker, but it slows me down and is not consistent.

These days I'm probably 60% Windows and 40% macOS, but that number keeps sliding more and more to Windows because Apple doesn't seem to want to fix things.

It's really a shame, there's tremendous potential with the Mac but Apple just doesn't seem to put that last bit of effort into it any more. (Not surprising since they are now basically a cell phone manufacturer that sells online services as an upgrade.)
 
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