Running macOS Big Sur on my main computer...

[pulyaevskiy]

Could you check if Safari can play YouTube videos in 4K (e.g. this one) and if it does then Right click and show Stats for nerds?

 

[ScreenSavers]

Could you check if Safari can play YouTube videos on 4K (e.g. this one) and if it does then Right click and show Stats for nerds?

Safari still doesn’t have 4K YouTube playback. That’s a big topic for discussion on other threads as well.

 

[vaugha]

He had two tabs open. "Hide Tab bar" menu option is grayed out when you have tabs open. close tabs so that you only have one page loaded, and the option won't be grayed out anymore. Once the tab bar is hidden, if you open a tab, the tab bar will return, and the menu option will be grayed out again. Standard behavior.

Not entirely correct. You can hide multiple tabs in iOS/iPadOS 13. There is a toggle called ‘show tab bar’ under settings > safari > tabs which allows this behaviour. I’ve been using it since it was introduced and wondered why it didn’t make it to macOS.

 

[Killerbob]

I had Parallels give me some requests for extension permissions, but I allowed them and all seems good so far. Remember this is developer beta 1 so there's still some bugs.

But in the end you got Parallels working, right? And you can run your Windows10 off the BootCamp partition?

 

[ScreenSavers]

But in the end you got Parallels working, right? And you can run your Windows10 off the BootCamp partition?

I suppose I probably could, but since I have Boot Camp, I just reboot to use windows 10. Parallels is just for old Windows versions for me.

 

[mrwizardno2]

Interesting! I tried running this in a VMWare VM but it was nearly unusable. Every other click would bounce me back out to the login screen. Not sure that I'll put Dev Beta 1 on any physical hardware yet. Thank you for sharing your experience, though! I love seeing these posts!

 

[pshady]

I installed the dev beta on a separate partition on my 12-inch MacBook. Definitely buggy but still usable and I love the new design aesthetic.

 

[SamPotts]

Any WindowServer crashes yet?

 

[ErikGrim]

System Profiler shows it as macOS 10.16... View attachment 926651

Looks like they’ve forgot to change this for the beta. I would wager that they’ve kept it identifying as 10.16 as to not give away the 11.0 in logs around the internet from internal testing.

 

[ScreenSavers]

Any WindowServer crashes yet?

Not yet.

 

[tagumcity]

Big-IP edge client (vpn), Microsoft desktop remote, MPV playing movies, & ProtonVPN functioned well today. No bugs noticed. The beta Catalina performed better than the official release.

 

[Killerbob]

I upgraded a what I would call "semi-complex" macOS installation, and bar a few issues with installation, it pretty much all works.

The 1st time I ran the upgrade it errored on me, but I just tried a 2nd time (download and the whole shebang), and this time it went through without issue.

I have tested most applications, and have only found a few that does NOT work;

• Dropbox (as reported)
• Little Snitch
• Onyx
• TinkerTool

And of course a bunch of “Incompatible Version”, but on most of these you can continue, and it seems to work;

• WinClone
• Carbon Copy Cloner

And then of course there a few “funny” things going on, but they are mostly graphics related. Like in MS Word text shifts between white and black, and when you go into LaunchPad, most of the time you have to ESC out (it doesn’t work to click outside any boxed…

But that’s really it, everything else worked…

 

[ScreenSavers]

Sometimes leaving a folder in launchpad is only possible by clicking at the very top outside the folder. Also, blackmagic disk speed test does not work.

 

[Applefan2015]

After smoothly installing iOS 14 on my daily driver iPhone 11 Pro Max & and iPados 14 on my iPad Pro 12” I decided to install Big Sur on my iMac and MacBook Pro.

All my Apple products are my daily drivers, call me mad, but you only live once imo.

I copied all my important files to an external HDD, then went ahead with the updates. Few hours later, both macs installed the beta.

So far no issues to report. If I come across any I will update this thread.

Thanks for reading.

Applefan2015

 

[vaugha]

ios/ipados 14 are not as feature rich as 13s were and it's clear that they're holding back on features to have less bug-ridden os releases. Fingers crossed that they get 'em right this time. They're on the right track.

 

[IscariotJ]

Any specific app requests?

Would you be able to have a look in Books, and see if it’s possible to change the location of where audiobooks are stored, please? My Mac mini is stuck on 10.14, as that’s still the only version that stores audiobooks elsewhere...

 

[adrianlondon]

If anyone's interested ...

2020 MBA i5/8/256 was running the latest Catalina beta ... took a day to download the software update and then approximately 45 minutes to install. Everything's running relatively smoothly, although my fans stayed on until I checked (using "top -o cpu" in the terminal) then killed a safari process that was eating loads of CPU. I wasn't even running Safari at the time.

I use Firefox (Nightly) and basic functionality is fine, although video playback is iffy. For example, I get no audio in youtube videos and the videos themselves are a bit glitchy.

 

[FNH15]

Looks like they’ve forgot to change this for the beta. I would wager that they’ve kept it identifying as 10.16 as to not give away the 11.0 in logs around the internet from internal testing.

You’re probably right - here’s the user agent for Safari 14 on Big Sur:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_16) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0 Safari/605.1.15

 

[Ismelito]

I installed it on my main 2018 15" MBP and it is working surprisingly well! I'd say that it is even faster!
Same experience with iOS 14 on my iPad Pro. It seems that these first versions are much better than with iOS 13/macOS Catalina.

 

[alexxn]

Installed on my 2017 15" MBP over my existing Catalina. Seems to be smoother and a bit quicker. Only incompatibility is Dropbox as noted.

No other issues found as of yet.

 

[LFC2020]

Installed on my 2017 15" MBP over my existing Catalina. Seems to be smoother and a bit quicker. Only incompatibility is Dropbox as noted.

Is safari quicker? like apple says it is.

 

[nachodorito]

For those whom it may concern, I'm running OS 11 on a 2017 MacBook Air.

Some icons are pixelated but I'm not sure if that's my non-retina display being ugly.

 

[ErikGrim]

Is safari quicker? like apple says it is.

Way quicker.

 

[ScreenSavers]

Is safari quicker? like apple says it is.

I couldn’t answer that honestly, because I don’t use it as my main browser and didn’t use it before… Although it does feel pretty quick.

 

[xnsys]

It seems faster and more stable than 10.15.5 Catalina - not had the NAS connection errors where drives cannot be found, or even the speaker popping sounds with YouTube videos, they seems to have been fixed.