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macOS Sequoia 15.2 - Bug fixes, changes, and more

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JUMA55 said:
I assume, and I could be incorrect, if an application worked under Sonoma and it doesn't work correctly under Sequoia, then Sequoia is at fault.

For the first time in a couple of years I backed everything up multiple times, then formatted my internal and installed 15.0 from the full installer, and afterwards installed all of my programs one by one. Running 15.2 RC I still have the following issues:

Backblaze never finishes its initial backup. It backs up everything, no problem. But the program fails to indicate it's finished with the initial backup. I've spoken at length with the Backblaze folks and they are at a loss as to what is happening.

Like lots of people here, I have this weird "Creedence" disk showing up in Disk Utility. It doesn't appear to harm anything; it just will not eject.

And when I run Disk Utility it shows resource forks are missing from the Time Machine snapshots and also shows a corrupted place on the internal that DU claims to fix but does not. I have more that once reformatted and restored from Time Machine. When I do the corrupted area goes away but comes back after a few days.

Wifi stops a couple of times a day. No idea why.

The Apple Home app and Path Finder crash at random times. They will just be open, not doing anything and just crash.

Lots of webpages are incomplete and I have to refresh several times to get them to load--or the page might load OK but take forever.

With 15.0 Find My would not find people. That seemed to be fixed until 15.2 RC. Now the problem has returned.

And on my wife's 2023 iMac M3 ExpressVPN will not start automatically.

There are probably other issues, but these are the big ones.

I've spent a huge amount of time on Sequoia since it was released. I'm retired so I have the time. I feel sorry for those of you still working and having to fight Sequoia every day.
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Maybe I’ve just been lucky, but I’ve been using Sequoia since 15.0 beta 3, and stayed on the betas through 15.2. On my main work machine. Throughout all that I had very few bugs, and only minor ones. My email continued to work, AutoCAD kept going, I’ve not had to fight Sequoia any more than I did Sonoma.

I’m sorry you’ve had a rough time with it.
 
Which day should we expect the public release of 15.2? tomorrow or more likely on Tuesday?
 
Bungaree.Chubbins said:
Maybe I’ve just been lucky, but I’ve been using Sequoia since 15.0 beta 3, and stayed on the betas through 15.2. On my main work machine. Throughout all that I had very few bugs, and only minor ones. My email continued to work, AutoCAD kept going, I’ve not had to fight Sequoia any more than I did Sonoma.

I’m sorry you’ve had a rough time with it.
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Thank you. But I should have waited to update. I'm also too early.
 
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Benz63amg said:
any specific reason why you’re thinking tomorrow and not Tuesday/wednsday? (I hope it’s tomorrow as I’m really looking forward to the update)
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Looking at past history, 2 of the last 3 years (21&23) were released on Monday. Also some rumors of a Dec 9 release for iOS 18.2
 
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Is iPhone Screen Mirroring finally enabled in macOS 15.2 on Europe Union?

I’ve tried to use it but no luck until now…
 
Benz63amg said:
No I’m not logged in to iCloud or the appstore on my Mac. So if I log in to iCloud, the beta updates will show up in software update and I will be able to pick public beta from the dropdown selection menu to pick the RC or are you saying that the release candidate was pulled and is no longer available for public data testers and is only available to developers?

It was so simple to install the release candidate on iOS I don’t know why it’s so difficult on macOS
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You need to be logged in to receive beta updates. But it MIGHT be enough to login to the App Store. If you don't see Public Beta then you also need to sign in to iCloud. You don't need real personal data and can use two different Apple-IDs. But a working phone number is needed and an email address to receive the confirmation codes.



I don't know if you need to enter a payment method when you sign in to the App Store. That could be problematic if you don't choose the country you live in or just want privacy. There was a workaround that you don't have to enter any. I think if you use the AppStore on iOS. But that's long ago.

Just open the App Store and click on "sign in" in the bottom left corner.


And if you want to see the Developer Betas too you have to login here in addition by clicking on "account" (upper right):

developer.apple.com

Apple Developer

There’s never been a better time to develop for Apple platforms.
developer.apple.com developer.apple.com
 
Adora said:
You need to be logged in to receive beta updates. But it MIGHT be enough to login to the App Store. If you don't see Public Beta then you also need to sign in to iCloud. You don't need real personal data and can use two different Apple-IDs. But a working phone number is needed and an email address to receive the confirmation codes.



I don't know if you need to enter a payment method when you sign in to the App Store. That could be problematic if you don't choose the country you live in or just want privacy. There was a workaround that you don't have to enter any. I think if you use the AppStore on iOS. But that's long ago.

Just open the App Store and click on "sign in" in the bottom left corner.


And if you want to see the Developer Betas too you have to login here in addition by clicking on "account" (upper right):

developer.apple.com

Apple Developer

There’s never been a better time to develop for Apple platforms.
developer.apple.com developer.apple.com
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Thanks for the response. I think ill just wait for the public release to drop at this point
 
Populus said:
Is iPhone Screen Mirroring finally enabled in macOS 15.2 on Europe Union?

I’ve tried to use it but no luck until now…
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No it doesn't work. I wonder why it isn't invisible like the news app. Changing region and/or language also doesn't help. Either you need an Apple-ID from a country where it works or a phone number from that country.
 
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Populus said:
Is iPhone Screen Mirroring finally enabled in macOS 15.2 on Europe Union?

I’ve tried to use it but no luck until now…
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It's the App Store account. I just changed one that I never really used to a fictional name and U.S. address, but it only worked with a U.S. Number. Luckily I rented one from a Telegram bot. But I wouldn't recommend using such a number for your main account. ;)

But that number is only for the invoice/delivery address.

Also I think on an iPhone you don't need to change anything. I recently switched one account to U.S. and back there much easier.

I could even see all my purchases now, what was not the case some years ago. When I bought something in another country I could only install or update it when changing the account back to that country.

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Populus said:
Is iPhone Screen Mirroring finally enabled in macOS 15.2 on Europe Union?

I’ve tried to use it but no luck until now…
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Doesnsn't work. I also changed the region and made a VPN connection to a U.S. server on both devices.


So it's either the iCloud-ID too or a U.S. number must be on a SIM or eSIM in the phone.
 
@Populus

I was stupid and used another old Apple ID on the phone than on the Mac. 🙈

It's only the App Store location. I can even change the device location to Germany and language to German and disable VPN.



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I've had this bug recently where my Downloads folder in the Dock will insist on being set to view as "fan" as opposed to as a "grid". Right Clicking and changing it doesn't actually make that change, though. I'm having to run sudo killall Dock and then force quit Finder.
 
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gank41 said:
I've had this bug recently where my Downloads folder in the Dock will insist on being set to view as "fan" as opposed to as a "grid". Right Clicking and changing it doesn't actually make that change, though. I'm having to run sudo killall Dock and then force quit Finder.
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We desperately need 15.2 to drop today. Ugh I can’t wait. 15.1 lacks a substantial degree of under the hood optimization
 
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Benz63amg said:
We desperately need 15.2 to drop today. Ugh I can’t wait. 15.1 lacks a substantial degree of under the hood optimization
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Well I'm still having this issue, among a few others, on the RC. Maybe there'll be a newer version released, who knows. I've just accepted that most bugs aren't getting fixed in favor of pushing for all this AI nonsense.
 
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gank41 said:
Well I'm still having this issue, among a few others, on the RC. Maybe there'll be a newer version released, who knows. I've just accepted that most bugs aren't getting fixed in favor of pushing for all this AI nonsense.
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I’m actually excited for the advancements and integration of AI tech into MacOS although we’re still in the early stages of it in MacOS Seqoia. Writing Tools along with the integration of ChatGPT is definitely great to have and I wouldn’t call it “nonsense”. With that being said, I do agree that the core functionality of macOS should be properly optimized first and foremost and and that isn’t the case with MacOS Seqoia as there seems to be more focus on new feature introductions than having the core functionality functioning as it should.
 
gank41 said:
Well I'm still having this issue, among a few others, on the RC. Maybe there'll be a newer version released, who knows. I've just accepted that most bugs aren't getting fixed in favor of pushing for all this AI nonsense.
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Sadly but you are probably correct.

The only big company worse than Apple about fixing bugs is Microsoft. I fight an Excel bug almost daily that's at least 10 years old.
 
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JUMA55 said:
Sadly but you are probably correct.

The only big company worse than Apple about fixing bugs is Microsoft. I fight an Excel bug almost daily that's at least 10 years old.
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i've been running 15.2 RC and haven't (yet) encountered any issues. apple seems, to me, pretty good about fixing bugs and also moving the OS forward.

not everyone has the same experience
 
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