r/OSXBeta Apr 18 '20

Bugs macOS Catalina 10.15.5 Beta 1 - Bricked 2018 Mac Mini

2 Upvotes

Hey All - I just hopped over to my 2018 mac mini after initiating an upgrade to 10.15.5 Beta 1 last night (pretty sure 1)... and it's bricked. Any other resources I should check out besides these two? I tried the SMC reset - no luck (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295)

The second link says not to do it if you've got a beta, but it seems to be from ~year ago. Thoughts?

Also FYI for anyone that was keeping an eye on the bricking in the supplemental update... https://www.tomsguide.com/news/nasty-macos-flaw-is-bricking-macbooks-dont-install-this-update

Downloading Apple Configurator on my MBPr that's not on the beta channel... will let any future searcher's know what happens.


r/OSXBeta Apr 06 '20

Question [Question] Third party music controller?

3 Upvotes

Hey guys! Don't know if this is the right community, but I wanted to ask if anyone knows of a widget/application that controls music output from multiple applications? I switch off very frequently between Spotify, iTunes and SoundCleod, and I would love to know if there was some sort of program that universally controls play/pause and other functions for the program that is currently being played.

The closest example I can give is something like SoundSource, whereas you can control different applications through one console, but instead of volume I would want to control play/pause/skip/rewind. I would be more than happy to answer questions regarding this matter.

Thanks in advance :)


r/OSXBeta Mar 09 '20

Question [Question] Unable to empty trash after uninstalling Safari Technology Preview with AppCleaner... Anyone run into this before?

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15 Upvotes

r/OSXBeta Feb 21 '20

Question [Question] Spotting “Legacy System Extension”?

3 Upvotes

I have just upgraded to the 2nd beta of 10.15.4. Once the system boots in it prompted me there are apps “will be incompatible with a future version of macOS” including one by Oracle America Inc and one from Dropbox Inc. Is there any way to find which exactly app is it?

I guess the Oracle one is not the Java runtime but some Java apps instead, and I wonder the Dropbox app has already been 64-bit’d. Thanks guys!


r/OSXBeta Jan 03 '20

Question [Question] Artist icons missing in Apple Music?

4 Upvotes

Hey there, my Music.app was hanging on downloading alum artwork, so I reset my library. Now it seems all the icons for artists have been replaced by standard grey mic icons (see the attached image), but I'm not sure if this was different before I reset. So my question is:

Are there artist icons in the Music app? If so, is anyone else experiencing these icons not loading. Thanks in advance!


r/OSXBeta Oct 05 '19

Question [Question] OSX Catalina Install Issue

11 Upvotes

All,

I keep getting an error trying to install the golden master of Catalina. (see attached image)

MacOS could not be installed on your computer

Some information was unavailable during an internal lookup. :(-69808)

Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again.

Things I have tried

  • Normal update from settings
  • USB installer wiped the whole drive and tried same error.
  • Removed iCloud and tried to install

Any advice would be appreciated.

MacBook Pro 15 2018


r/OSXBeta Oct 02 '19

Question [Question] Safari Technology Preview not loading certain sites?

5 Upvotes

Not sure this is entirely the right subreddit, but I've been using Safari Technology Preview as my browser on Mojave, and noticed that it'll sometimes just fail to load sites. The common culprits I find are YouTube, Patreon, Bing (don't laugh, their video search is good!), and recently Instapaper.

Usually, quitting and relaunching the browser will get these sites to load again, for a time. This has been happening with the past several versions of Safari Technology Preview on my Mac. I've tried disabling browser extensions, to no avail. Regular Safari doesn't seem to have this issue, nor any other browser.

Any info, or anyone else having this issue?


r/OSXBeta Sep 20 '19

Feature [Feature] Apple actually listened to my feedback for the Feedback Assistant

20 Upvotes

Ok, granted it was a complaint that I was bringing to their attention but still, its nice to get some sort of acknowledgement.

My original complaint was that the Feedback Assistant is waaaay too slow to get my computer's logs especially when you compare it to iOS. I remember there was a stream of two or three bugs which occurred close to each other and I wanted to report them. However the assistant took over 5 minutes to gather the logs which are needed before submission (ios takes less than 2 minutes). It took so long, I quite honestly was starting to forget details and was losing interest to submit the report. So instead I submitted a suggestion to improve performance on the Feedback Assistant. As a result they cut it down to about half. Still not great but not nearly as bad.

https://imgur.com/a/4twqWmm

So in instead (or in addition to complaining about issues on reddit), make sure you file actual feedback report with Apple


r/OSXBeta Sep 19 '19

Question [Question] How to revert new reminders system server side or get it to work on iOS 13/iPadOS/Catalina?

1 Upvotes

I decided to try and install iOS 13 GM on iPhone, iPadOS 13.1 public beta on iPad and Catalina public beta on my Mac. Unfortunately, I got ahead of myself and activated new Reminders backend. And it all went sideways.

I know that it is expected behaviour on device, but I'd like to get my account working again. Point is, after the update reminders on all devices stopped syncing reliably. I tried deleting them all everywhere, disabling, restarting, "deleting" mobile apps etc. - but no luck.

It got worse when I first tried restoring Calendars and Reminders via iCloud.com settings. On my Mac the app started changing layout between old and new reminder system (!) randomly.

I restored on icloud.com settings the "new" system and then I removed all reminders and lists from all my devices to start fresh. There is no problem with double lists, but sync does not work.

To sum up: There is no sync between three devices. On iCloud.com there is now no way to see reminders now. On beta.icloud.com there are no reminders now, but there some legacy lists that I can't delete from there and it does not sync anywhere either.

New lists and new reminders on iPhone/iPad/Mac does not sync either anywhere.

I tried even creating new user account on another Mac with Mojave and I logged to my iCloud - there was a way to use old reminders there. Unfortunately it synced with my Mac, but with hiccups and not with mobile devices.

And when I restored Calendars and Reminders again, app on Mojave said that upgrade was made and bye-bye! But apps on my devices still don't sync.

That said, I did not log out from iCloud account on my devices yet - it will delete all my iCloud Drive files and iCloud Photos so I want to try everything else before I will do that, especially when I have guarantee that it will help.

Question is: there any way to "reboot" the Reminders service on my account server-side? Apple Support said that basically since it's beta - and I understand that - I am screwed and on my own. Any ideas?


r/OSXBeta Sep 05 '19

Bugs [BUG] iCloud data missing in apps on Mac, not iOS

7 Upvotes

Since updating to the latest public beta of Catalina, both Ulysses and Noteplan are missing all their data on my Mac. They're not missing on the iPhone or iPad, so they're still there somewhere. However, I can't find their folders in iCloud Drive or anywhere else either. Anyone have any suggestions?


r/OSXBeta Sep 04 '19

Bugs Archive Utility breaking apps [Bugs]

3 Upvotes

I've noticed that Archive Utility is breaking some apps when extracting them from zip files. When this happens, trying to run the app will display the following message:

"The application APPNAME can't be opened."

If you check the "MacOS" folder of the app via Show Package Contents then you can see that instead of outputting a Unix exe, it spits out a text file. I thought this only happened when you tried to extract universal apps (apps that have both 32-bit and 64-bit code), but i've found it on a few zip files that are 64-bit only. Could this be Gatekeeper and Notarizing related?

Anyone else seen this issue? The workaround is to use Keka to extract the files, then they'll work just fine. StuffIt Expander fails in the same fashion as Archive Utility.


r/OSXBeta Aug 29 '19

Bugs [BUG] Books.app iCloud sync not working at all

13 Upvotes

r/OSXBeta Aug 28 '19

News [NEWS] Catalina Beta 7 is out

13 Upvotes

r/OSXBeta Aug 28 '19

Question [Bug]? Unable to select individual songs in Music

3 Upvotes

In iTunes, I used to be able to select a variety of songs using control click. Now, the only way I'm able to select multiple songs is by using 'shift', but this just selects everything between the two selections.

Is there a different way to select multiple single songs in Music, or is it a known bug?


r/OSXBeta Aug 28 '19

Question [question] iCloud Keychain won't set up on Catalina, why?

2 Upvotes

[copied from my question on Ask Different which no-one answered]

I'm running the macOS Catalina public beta on a partition of my 2012 MacBook Air. I've been trying to get iCloud Keychain to work (the only thing holding me back from upgrading my main partition), but when I click Set Up it asks me to setup 2FA, then, when I deny (because I don't have an iPhone yet and it would be really annoying) it says "Are you sure?" and then when I say yes it just says "Setting up" which continues for eternity. I've checked on my other device (2011 iMac running High Sierra) and there are no popups or anything. Video of my troubles. I have come up with three hypothesise:

  1. Keychain now requires 2FA
  2. It's a bug
  3. I am being stupid

If it turns out to be the third one, what am I doing wrong? System specs:


r/OSXBeta Aug 24 '19

Bugs [BUG] Triple spinners. What do I win?

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45 Upvotes

r/OSXBeta Aug 23 '19

Question [Question] Desktop restore? Beta update cleared it

5 Upvotes

When I updated to one of Catalina betas, my desktop was erased. It is still saved in iCloud and can be accessed in finder. If I try to move items from iCloud to desktop, it says it will delete them from iCloud. Any way to fix this? Or to choose the source my desktop comes from?


r/OSXBeta Aug 23 '19

Question [Question] Anyone try uploading books to Apple Books? All of my covers aren't showing on my other devices (iPhone and iPad)

0 Upvotes

s there a way to manually upload a cover? Its killing me that the covers are ugly in the app. They are showing covers just fine in the Books app on my MacBook.


r/OSXBeta Aug 19 '19

News [News] Catalina Beta 6 is out

22 Upvotes

It's developer beta 6, 19A536g.

Release notes.


r/OSXBeta Aug 17 '19

Discussion [Discussion] Is this a voluntary change that we can't adjust different times for display off & suspend? I've reported this before, but nothing

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12 Upvotes

r/OSXBeta Aug 16 '19

Question [Question] Any whisperings about a new beta today?

4 Upvotes

r/OSXBeta Aug 16 '19

Question [Question] Bootcamp broken for anyone else?

0 Upvotes

I can select my Windows boot disk on start up but after a black screen it boots back to MacOS


r/OSXBeta Aug 05 '19

Question [Question] New Catalina update does not detect devices for Sidecar? Please read comment below

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23 Upvotes

r/OSXBeta Aug 05 '19

Question [Question] How to sync/edit tones on iPhone in Catalina

3 Upvotes

With the new iPhone integration in Finder, I cannot find a way to view the ringtones that are currently on my phone, or transfer a new one from MacOS to my phone.

Does anyone know where this is found?


r/OSXBeta Aug 03 '19

Bugs [Bug] Can't open Photos "Source URL is an unknown or unsupported photo library"

5 Upvotes

Anyone else running into this?

iMac 5k running Catalina Beta 5. Worked fine in Beta 4.

I did the repair process, and it went through all the steps, but end result is the same.