Apple Seeds Eighth Beta of macOS Sequoia to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]

Apple today seeded the eighth beta of upcoming an upcoming macOS 15 Sequoia update to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after the release of the seventh beta.

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Registered developers can opt-in to the macOS Sequoia beta through the Software Update section of the System Settings app. An Apple ID associated with an Apple Developer account is required to get the beta.

‌macOS Sequoia‌ includes iPhone Mirroring, which allows you to control your locked ‌iPhone‌ from your Mac. You can open and use ‌iPhone‌ apps, interact with notifications, and drag and drop files between your ‌iPhone‌ and Mac and vice versa.

There are new options for window tiling, and dragging a window to the edge of the display will suggest a tiled location to make it easier to use multiple apps at once. Apple is adding a Passwords app for managing passwords, Safari can summarize websites, surface key information, and Notes has support for live audio transcription and math equations.

All of the Apple Intelligence features coming to iOS 18 will also be available in ‌macOS Sequoia‌, but Apple does not plan to add these until later in the beta testing process. Apple Intelligence includes Writing Tools for editing, proofreading, and summarizing text in apps, and an Image Playground allows for AI images to be created from prompts.

Custom emoji or "Genmoji" can be created for any situation and used just like emoji, and Siri is getting much smarter. ‌Siri‌ will be able to do more in apps and will better understand requests, especially those made in regard to on-screen content.

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Realityck Avatar
2 weeks ago
to devs

* iOS 18.1 beta 3 (22B5034e) - August 28, 2024
* iPadOS 18.1 beta 3 (22B5034e) - August 28, 2024
* macOS 15.1 beta 3 (24B5035e) - August 28, 2024
* iOS 18 beta 8 (22A5350a) - August 28, 2024
* iPadOS 18 beta 8 (22A5350a) - August 28, 2024
* macOS 15 beta 8 (24A5331b) - August 28, 2024
* tvOS 18 beta 8 (22J5356a) - August 28, 2024
* visionOS 2 beta 8 (22N5318a) - August 28, 2024
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
chrfr Avatar
2 weeks ago

Last minute bug since Beta 7: macOS won't save the hostname. Even if I set it in Terminal with "sudo hostname ...." it get's reset to "MacBookPro" after the next reboot - but still shows the correct name in Settings. Report sent to Apple.
Did you try setting the hostname with scutil?
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darrenoia Avatar
2 weeks ago

I'm wondering if anyone can test something for me?

On this release, are you able t select an Album from the Photos App, not a Finder Folder, and check the box to cycle thru those Album's photos at Random, in Settings / Wallpaper? Does it revert to the default Sonoma Wallpaper or does it actually work?

I've filed a few already, but the most "recent" one is FB13282770 (filed Oct 17, 2023!) and still shows as "More Than 10 People" having this issue. I've really never gotten ANY feedback on this at all, other tan seeing this report that other people are having the issue... But....
Still doesn't work for me in 15.0 (24A5331b). I've filed bugs in the past on this, too, to no avail.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Morod Avatar
2 weeks ago
Take your time, Apple. I always wait for the .4 release to update, but we already have bugs; we don't need any more.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
yukari Avatar
2 weeks ago

Take your time, Apple. I always wait for the .4 release to update, but we already have bugs; we don't need any more.
There will always be bugs no matter what version.
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adrianlondon Avatar
2 weeks ago

macOS Sequoia 15 beta 6 proposed (2024-08-29)

However I am already in beta 7

Update : now beta 8 appears when I switch from public beta to developper beta.
PB 6 and DB 8 are the same.
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