Big Sur -Public Beta

[TitanTiger]

Geez, I would have though the public beta would be out by now.

 

[ctbritt]

and nothing yet today.

 

[jbachandouris]

and nothing yet today.

You still have about a half hour as releases go by California time (10AM).

 

[souko]

I start to think that Apple will release developer beta 3 and then public beta sometimes next week.

something like
Monday/Tuesday DB3
Thursday PB

 

[Ronal]

I start to think that Apple will release developer beta 3 and then public beta sometimes next week.

something like
Monday/Tuesday DB3
Thursday PB

hopefully its going to be the same day

 

[Ansath]

and nothing yet today.

Well, seeing as Developer Beta 3 hasn't dropped yet, of course Public Beta hasn't. Public betas always come a couple hours or so after Dev Betas 😀

 

[ctbritt]

Dev betas 3 for iOS, watchOS and tvOS are available. No big sur.

 

[sinbad21]

Apple has just released the third beta of iOS/iPadOS 14. For the beta 2 the release for macOS was the same day.

 

[Ansath]

Apple has just released the third beta of iOS/iPadOS 14. For the beta 2 the release for macOS was the same day.

Usually an hour later. So not long now.

Public Beta for iOS was the following day, so if Big Sur is getting it, could tie in with that tomorrow. Though last year, after the first Public Beta, the next one came the same day as the Dev Beta, but a few hours later, as I said above. So, that's some educated guesswork for you 😃

 

[LFC2020]

Looks like no public beta today. 🥺

 

[Ansath]

Looks like no public beta today. 🥺

Dev Beta isn't out still. Until you see Dev Beta come out, then don't even think about Public Beta.

 

[h9826790]

Beta 3 released

 

[Ronal]

Beta 3 released

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fingers crossed for tomorrow PB!!!!

 

[LFC2020]

fingers crossed for tomorrow PB!!!!

Any chance they’ll release it today? 🥺

 

[Young Turk]

you absolutely do NOT want to use an APFS container. You should stick with a partition for the time being. From release notes:



This is a change from previous macOS versions, and it’s buried enough in the release notes that it will bite a lot of people.

I created a partition in preparation for the Public Beta Release. When it drops, do I run Software Update from my main partition running Catalina (10.15.6)? How do I tell it to install on the newly created partition?

 

[memo90061]

I want to try Big Sur. My iMac Pro is supposed to be delivered today!!

 

[Ansath]

Any chance they’ll release it today? 🥺

I'm going with no.....

 

[LFC2020]

Looks like public beta isn't getting released today. 🥺

 

[matt_and_187_like_this]

Looks like it's not getting released this week. I don't think they ever released something on a Friday or am I wrong? ...

 

[MacGizmo]

I wouldn't expect the Public Beta for at least a week, possibly two.

 

[fisherking]

the public beta drops today (just choose the right day to read this post)...

 

[DominikHoffmann]

I was able to enroll in the Public Beta for Big Sur just now. However, it then says this:

Maybe it’s coming in a matter of a few minutes or hours…

 

[DevPreach]

Here's to hoping that it comes next week! I'm really looking forward to trying out Big Sur!!!!

 

[Hjupter Cerrud]

Is the public beta supposed to be different than dev beta 3?.. anyways I was also eager to try Big Sur after reading the release notes of beta 3 seemed like they fixed a lot of things so I decided to give it a go on my main work machine and call me crazy I installed it 30 minutes before my morning meeting lol.. it all went great I did not lost anything or even had to reinstall any software all my stuff works like normal. This was my experience so far with my MBP 16. I upgraded directly from Catalina 10.15.6 btw.

 

[LFC2020]

Not looking likely for today 😔 next week I guess.