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Apple Releases macOS Sonoma 14.5 With Apple News+ Improvements
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I'm gonna wait a while on this one....
The lack of detailed release notes is a bit worrying. I don't really care much for the News+ enhancements. Tell me what's changed under the hood! Don't treat us like ignoramuses!
because first class Californian software engineering...
And the reminders bug where reminders don't sync between devices still not fixed!
Seriously, how hard is it to fix this kind of bug?
Seriously, how hard is it to fix this kind of bug?
UPDATE: Oh, and *look* at that, would you? Leading into Global Accessibility Awareness Day, Apple *has* announced even *more* accessibility support (just like last year 🙄). FFS - you people seem to have nothing to say that isn't whinging.
Apple Announces iOS 18 Accessibility Features, Including Eye Tracking
Apple today previewed many new accessibility features coming later this year with software updates like iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15, and visionOS 2....
www.macrumors.com
Cherry pick much? Also, just wrong.
Apple has supported WiFi 6 for years already, including *all* Apple Silicon Macs.
Wi-Fi 6: What Apple products support it? Best Wi-Fi 6 routers? - 9to5Mac
Wi-Fi 6 is the marketing name for 802.11ax. Wi-Fi 6 address key concerns for wireless networking around capacity and battery savings for IoT.
9to5mac.com
Apple doesn’t *need* to “update” support for Intel chips 🙄; and, oh great, Linux now supports *M1* Apple Silicon (You did hear that Apple just released the M4 right?)
Every OS update adds support for newly-released accessories; those would be found in the “release notes” or a peripheral-specific support document. Hardly worth noting broadly… unless it was an accessory that *everyone* had.
As for accessibility features, I think it is pretty well-accepted that Apple goes the distance in this area, and *already* has been improving Voice Control for more than 5 years. Here are the new accessibility features they highlighted just a year ago…
Apple previews Live Speech, Personal Voice, and more new accessibility features
Apple today previewed software features for cognitive, vision, hearing, and mobility accessibility, along with innovative tools for individuals who are nonspeaking or at risk of losing their ability to speak.
www.apple.com
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I didn't know that you worked there.
With every update, no matter how minor, I lose tens of GBs of storage on my Mac. This time I just lost 20GB. I usually get some of it back, but never all of it.
Thanks a lot, Apple.
Thanks a lot, Apple.
How practical is it for you? Are you very invested in their products and services? I am, so I am staying, but they keep testing my patience.
Mine is a little different — I get the same tabs (most of the time) but they are out of order and no longer pins until I make them pins again.
I disagree. I always found the old Settings app a nightmare to navigate even after ~2 decades.
Organizing all that information is a tremendously difficult UI/UX challenge. The new layout takes some getting used to, but it's more intuitive and hunting and pecking through a bunch of icons. And it mimics the layout of iOS, iPadOS, VisionOS, etc.
Plus the search makes it trivial to quickly find things.
Interesting. I just installed the update and, while I don't use Apple Pay on my desktop (I don't have a Magic Keyboard), upon restarting I got a notification that Apple Pay had been disabled. The Apple Pay section of the Settings app said that it was disabled because my computer wasn't set to automatically install security updates but I did have my computer setup to install those. Turning the automatically install security updates option off and on again seemed to fix the problem so, if anyone else is experiencing some strangeness w/ Apple Pay, perhaps that might fix it.
The 14.5 update process from 14.4.1 was sloppy to the point of scary. At one point in the process the screen of my MacBook Air M1 want black. Then it sat there. And.... So I hit Return a few times and it went back to installing again. THEN it came up to the login window with no option to restart of shutdown. I had no choice but to type in my login password and hit Enter. Then it sat there spinning its icon forever, and ever, and ever. That's unforgivable. I did a forced shutdown. I was able to boot from there back to a full fledged login screen. But to be safe, I did a few Restarts before logging in. The login worked and I'm running fine. But the sloppiness of this update is soooo in line with the lazy attitude Apple has had toward macOS since 2016, by my personal estimation. *sigh* The words 'cattle prod' and 'Federighi' come to mind.
Just because Apple has always been that way doesn't make it right.
I'm not going to purchase another Apple product just for Apple News+. It is a very versatile news product.
This is perfectly normal. I suspect that a little more patience at this stage could save a lot of trouble later on. If you interrupt the process it is normal that it will then take longer to sort itself out.
You know it's really bad when Apple is resorting to boasting about massive updates with the highlights being more Emoji's, News app updates and crossword games and all the meaningless stuff you don't need in an operating system...more and more useless bloat with 14 Gb MacOS installer files.
one of the most important apps in MacOS that needs a major overhaul or rewrite from the ground up is Apple Mail... it's fine for small light emailing but don't go to heavy with it into small business with multiple mailboxes and the thing starts freezing, hanging and preferences tabs don't even open to edit settings for mailboxes..... what a joke apple Software Development has become...especially the MacOS team. SMH
14.5 on a M2 Studio . . . took a little longer than I had anticipated to get to a Desktop, but everything seems o.k.
I have yet to give it the full run-around; but no surprises, just yet.
I have yet to give it the full run-around; but no surprises, just yet.
Interesting, M1 iMac literally updated in three minutes, no issue.
Well, first thing was TV OS. If THAT breaks (it's my HomeKit hub) that's a big problem. So stuff and devices are all working. I mean yes a glitch here and there on my Macs is annoying. But my locks and things gotta run stay in and day out. Then iPad and phones, then Macs.
Apple today released macOS Sonoma 14.5, the fifth update to the macOS Sonoma operating system that launched last September. macOS Sonoma 14.5 comes more than two months after the launch of macOS Sonoma 14.4.
The macOS Sonoma 14.5 update can be downloaded for free on all eligible Macs using the Software Update section of System Settings. There's also a macOS 13.6.7 release for those who are still running macOS Ventura and a macOS 12.7.5 release for those who have macOS Monterey installed.
macOS Sonoma 14.5 adds a new word game for Apple News+ subscribers and allows for tracking stats and streaks of News+ games. Apple's release notes:
We're nearing the end of the macOS Sonoma development cycle, and this could be one of the last feature updates that we see. Apple is already working on macOS 15, and plans to introduce it next month at WWDC.
Article Link: Apple Releases macOS Sonoma 14.5 With Apple News+ Improvements
It is what happens when the Mac interface development team are smartphone users/perspective, FIRST, and Mac interface/interactive methodology a very distant second.
Instead of trying to design the Mac interface to be more "iPhone" like, Apple should be keeping the Mac interface separate and distinct from the iPhone/iPad.
I am an original "toaster" Mac (ab)user, and have operated each flavor of the Mac OS, down through through all of its evolutionary iterations.
In more recent macOS versions, I have noted Apple's attempts to align the macOS interface with the iPhone interface.
This needs to STOP. The macOS is NOT a touch interface with a limited screen size. The need for nested and complex interface configuration settings is unnecessary and unwelcome. I have spent too much time poking around in the various settings menu, trying to understand how to configure some obscure setting which might allow a normal and expected macOS user experience.
I'd suggest a macOS user interface configuration selection, called 'Mac Classic Interface'. Choosing this would restore a Mac-user friendly and familiar interface presentation to the user, and render the Mac immediately usable without having to know/understand the iPhone interface interaction standards.
Keep an ability for the Mac user to drill down into the interface adjustment weeds, but in a macOS expected fashion, as needed/desired.
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If only they would detail the bug fixes.... if they bothered to fix any...
If you have to search for a setting, the UI designers failed
Also the old version had search so it’s not like this is an improvement. I’d say it’s a lateral move but it’s not because the UI is worse, more cluttered, more esoteric with where things are placed