macOS 11.1 is available

[paddylaz]

The stutter when scrolling? Yeah its annoying.

Are you using Safari to watch YouTube videos?

I still see random issues with video and audio freezing up and it would resume 5 sec later. I can see the video is playing in the progress bar and it has buffered 30 sec ahead. Had same issue in Catalina and I never found a fix. Only thing that worked, is play the video in full screen or open another window in front of it, like Finder window or System preference window.

Yeah the scrolling thing only seems to happen on Safari. And for reasons unknown its severity changes between videos. I have Opera Browser installed and it works perfectly so it's defo a safari thing.

Yeah I've also been getting the video/audio freezing thing - but only since I installed Big Sur. Didn't notice any on Catalina.

Not enough to make me regret upgrading, but these are annoying and I find it so strange a company as OCD as Apple would let glitches this big slip by.

 

[Clausewitz]

You need to consider the following:

1. Are all your third party applications compatible with Big Sur?
2. Are you having any issues now with V11.0.1?
3. Are you making backups to an external device (unless you are just testing out Big Sur like I am)?

From my perspective, I did a clean, fresh installation of V11.1 onto a partition on an external SSD, and so far, all is well. I am primarily doing testing, though, as I still have Catalina on my internal SSDs (have 2 Mac). Also, two of my critical applications are not yet compatible with Big Sur. But other than that, all is well.

Some folks here have had issues doing an upgrade from V11.0.1 to V11.1, others have not.

Most third party applications that I use are compatible. Much of my time is spent on MS Word, which just received an M1 compatibility update.

I unfortunately do not have an external SSD. I do have an external HDD, however. I suspect installing 11.1 on HDD might not be an effective way around.

I have installed V11.1 on my MBP E'2015, which seems to be working fine if you don't consider the issues that come with upgrading old Macs.

I have read some posts where people have complained about some issues brought on by V11.1. Although almost all of them sound non-issues for me. I might wait couple of days or so and see if Apple has any plan to further patch the upgrade. I have a base model M1 with 256GB and all these upgrades are slowly eating up my precious infinite SSD space that may be useful for other stuff.

 

[honestone33]

Most third party applications that I use are compatible. Much of my time is spent on MS Word, which just received an M1 compatibility update.

I unfortunately do not have an external SSD. I do have an external HDD, however. I suspect installing 11.1 on HDD might not be an effective way around.

I have installed V11.1 on my MBP E'2015, which seems to be working fine if you don't consider the issues that come with upgrading old Macs.

I have read some posts where people have complained about some issues brought on by V11.1. Although almost all of them sound non-issues for me. I might wait couple of days or so and see if Apple has any plan to further patch the upgrade. I have a base model M1 with 256GB and all these upgrades are slowly eating up my precious infinite SSD space that may be useful for other stuff.

That's good that most of the third party applications you use are compatible. I have two that are not, and thus why I am just testing Big Sur on my external SSD. I use LibreOffice for my word processing and spreadsheet needs, and it works fine (can read a write numerous Word and Excel formats).

You did not say if you are making backups to an external device. That is just about a necessity.

While using that external HDD might not be ideal, there would be nothing wrong in using it for testing Big Sur. It will be somewhat slow to boot to, and possibly running applications (especially if it is a 5400 rpm HDD).

I have said all along that even when V11.1 is released, there will still be bugs. Well, sure enough, yesterday a new beta version V11.2 of Big Sur arrived:

Apple Seeds First Beta of macOS Big Sur 11.2 to Developers

Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming macOS Big Sur 11.2 update to developers for testing purposes, with the new beta coming two days...

www.macrumors.com

So, looks like V11.1 still has some issues, although I am not seeing any (at least ones that are serious. I am seeing two very minor ones, though). V11.1 has actually been rather solid for me.

 

[chrfr]

You need to consider the following:

1. Are all your third party applications compatible with Big Sur?

11.0.1 is already Big Sur. I'm a bit confused by this question; the M1 Macs can only run Big Sur.

 

[honestone33]

11.0.1 is already Big Sur. I'm a bit confused by this question; the M1 Macs can only run Big Sur.

No matter which version of Big Sur, that question means exactly what it says. Myself, I have 2 third party applications that are not yet compatible with any version of Big Sur: SuperDuper! and Tech Tool Pro.

 

[DinkThifferent]

Apple Watch still doesn't unlock any of my Macs on Big Sur...Just getting the following message:

"Your Mac was unable to communicate with your Apple Watch. Make sure your Apple Watch is unlocked, on your wrist and powered on."

My Apple Watch is unlocked... and open. I wonder if this is going to be similar to last years "External eGPU" problem... hangs around until the next release.

Suddenly it works again! I tried it a couple of times and i got the same error message over and over again. Now, a few days later, it suddenly works again after I gave it another go! SUPER weird!

 

[63W]

Yeah the scrolling thing only seems to happen on Safari. And for reasons unknown its severity changes between videos. I have Opera Browser installed and it works perfectly so it's defo a safari thing.

Yeah I've also been getting the video/audio freezing thing - but only since I installed Big Sur. Didn't notice any on Catalina.

Not enough to make me regret upgrading, but these are annoying and I find it so strange a company as OCD as Apple would let glitches this big slip by.

Yesterday I watched 4 hours of robot wars videos none stop with zero issue. Now im watching music videos and videos are stuttering. Even ads are stuttering.... ARGHH!

Im using Safari because of global settings, YouTube account across all devices. I haven't tried using a different web browser. But its annoying. My 2012 Dell Inspiron laptop, running Win 7 doesn't have this issue.

Apologies for getting back to you so late. Its has been a busy week.

Cheers.

edit:

I just tried using MS Edge Web browser and YouTube videos are working perfectly. FML!