I just hope you guys are all using the feedback assistant to report the bugs and oddities you find. An FB ID would be nice, too, so everyone can follow the progress on the ones that interest them.
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macOS 15: All The Little Things
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In the latest beta (PB2), the issue with windows filling out behind the dock is now fixed, and we now have a nice little quality of life feature:
When you fill a window, and the size of the Dock changes, the filled window automatically resizes to accommodate (see video).
When you fill a window, and the size of the Dock changes, the filled window automatically resizes to accommodate (see video).
Take a look at Swinsian (3 betas) if you happen to like the way iTunes used to be. I'm just not going back to Apple's Music.app after so many nightmares since their dysfunctional Music team took over iTunes.
Fresh installs get a new wallpaper that cannot be found in system preferences.
I’m really not that impressed with Apple’s choice in wallpapers lately. They used to be a lot slicker.
In Dev Beta 5, they've changed the selection options in this dialogue box from 'Continue to Allow' to 'Allow for One Week'.
Curious if anyone is experiencing FPCKService using almost 100% CPU usage. It's been running for about 20 plus hours and still has not settled down. Build 24A5309e
See attached from EtreCheckPro.
2019 19,1Mac
UPDATE;
A couple of "days" and it's settled down to some degree, opening Activity Monitor and with Safari open and I was tracking a package that resulted in some serious CPU usage of 80%< closed that window and back to "normal" That's definitely not normal that UPS's Tracking would take that much CPU usage that doesn't happen under Sonoma. At least FPCKService has "finished".
Same iMac just an external Thunderbolt drive with Sonoma. Actually all my "Systems" are on external Thunderbolt drives.
See attached from EtreCheckPro.
2019 19,1Mac
UPDATE;
A couple of "days" and it's settled down to some degree, opening Activity Monitor and with Safari open and I was tracking a package that resulted in some serious CPU usage of 80%< closed that window and back to "normal" That's definitely not normal that UPS's Tracking would take that much CPU usage that doesn't happen under Sonoma. At least FPCKService has "finished".
Same iMac just an external Thunderbolt drive with Sonoma. Actually all my "Systems" are on external Thunderbolt drives.
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Sorry if I haven’t read the 10 pages but, was the settings app finally changed from what it was in Ventura-Sonoma? I read the order of some settings sections would (dynamically?) change, but I’m not sure if that was just for iOS 18.
Thank you.
Thank you.
System Settings is almost the same in Sequoia, with the exception of the application opening in the General pane initially, vs. the Appearance pane previously. There are also new description headers in a lot of the initial setting panes. Not a huge change overall, though.
Sequoia Sunrise now officially available.
Also, old device exclusive wallpapers have been re-added.
There's new backgrounds for FaceTime on the newest Sequoia Betas, including stunning shots around Apple Park.
My Magic Mouse is a bit flaky the last few days, doing right clicks when left-clicking, etc. It just happened the second time that I wanted to change the volume in Control Center by dragging and when letting go it put it to 100%. It turns out you can also swipe over the mouse or trackpad to control these. Is this new?
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Why is it that I can't get the new backgrounds to come up? I'm on the darn second version of 15.1.
However the MacRumors article explicitly says it was introduced in the second release of 15, not 15.0.
Not a little thing to me, but when I updated my main M1 Max MBP to Sequoia PB 5 I noticed that the text clarity on my external MSI MPG 321 URX 4K 240hz OLED screen was **much** improved over Sonoma latest.
Not sure if that had been in any release notes that I am aware of and I was very pleasantly surprised!
I had been using the screen with my Intel gaming rig and had almost given up on it having nice text rendering in macOS, due to the well-known OLED subpixel layout font issues and jaggies, and had been planning to muck around with BetterDisplay to try and tweak things, play with HiDpi, etc.
But it turned out that it wasn't needed!
The support of the screen in macOS is now equal to or better than in Windows where I have to use Nvidia DLDSR (graphics driver-level AI supersampling) to get it looking as nice.
Hats off to the macOS engineering team for vastly improved external OLED screen support and the general stability of the public beta which has been rock solid for me!
Not sure if that had been in any release notes that I am aware of and I was very pleasantly surprised!
I had been using the screen with my Intel gaming rig and had almost given up on it having nice text rendering in macOS, due to the well-known OLED subpixel layout font issues and jaggies, and had been planning to muck around with BetterDisplay to try and tweak things, play with HiDpi, etc.
But it turned out that it wasn't needed!
The support of the screen in macOS is now equal to or better than in Windows where I have to use Nvidia DLDSR (graphics driver-level AI supersampling) to get it looking as nice.
Hats off to the macOS engineering team for vastly improved external OLED screen support and the general stability of the public beta which has been rock solid for me!
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I find it disappointing they lock into California for wallpapers and themes when it's so ugly. There are such more beautiful places like Appalachia, arguably the most beautiful region on planet Earth by many accounts and by people who have traveled all over the world.
the OS names/places are about the state apple is based in, not anything else. and am sure everyone has their own perspective on what's 'the most beautiful region on planet Earth'...
I understand, but their approach is very non-inclusive and makes a lot of people feel negatively towards them for taking this approach. There is an enormous exodus from CA for many reasons and I know a lot of folks who have left there and have very negative feelings towards the area now, especially in Hispanic communities. I feel like what they're doing is detrimental to their ecosystem generally. Also, I'm basing what I'm saying off of many remarks of "world travelers" who have been to many beautiful places in S. America, Asia, Europe, and even Africa. The sentiment is that there is a beauty that is incredible and incomparable, so I make the remark in case anyone at Apple may ever happen across these comments.