Apple Seeds First Beta of macOS Sequoia 15.5

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Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.4 update to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming two days after Apple released ‌macOS Sequoia‌ 15.4.

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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.

We don't yet know what's included in the macOS 15.5 update, but we are waiting on new Apple Intelligence features. It's not clear if that functionality will be in the beta, but there isn't much else that Apple hasn't added to ‌macOS Sequoia‌.

Apple will soon start transitioning to macOS 16, which is set to be unveiled at WWDC in June.

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rbgaynor Avatar
rbgaynor
20 hours ago at 10:43 am

It would be nice if Apple had two version of macOS. One without AI and one without AI


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theolderoldcoot
20 hours ago at 10:17 am
It would be nice if Apple had two version of macOS. One without AI and one without AI
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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vegetassj4
20 hours ago at 10:41 am
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today previewed macOS Sequoia ('https://www.apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia-preview/') 15.5, the next version of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, promising empty new ways of working and transformative intelligence features to Mac. macOS Sequoia 15.5 promises exciting new vaporware, including Apple Intelligence features, which won't arrive until macOS 17.2. Safari gets even snappier with the new ability to not feature Apple Intelligence for effortless browsing without annoying broken features.



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DunedinD Avatar
DunedinD
20 hours ago at 10:51 am
That Sequoia image you’re using makes it look more like macOS Silent Hill.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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vegetassj4
19 hours ago at 11:27 am

That Sequoia image you’re using makes it look more like macOS Silent Hill.
Sounds about right....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Hill

...follows various characters drawn to the town, where they encounter horrifying creatures, psychological torment, and mysteries tied to their own pasts.

town: Cupertino
encounter horrifying creatures: Vision Pro V1 Avatars
psychological torment: suffering through missing/broken feaures
mysteries tied to their own pasts: How "it just works" is now just a past mystery
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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Siliconguy
11 hours ago at 08:03 pm

Anyone running Sequoia on the base M1 MacBook Air? Any issues?
I am, or at least I was. The original 15.0 release did have some minor issues. They were fixed in 15.1. It's an meh release but not bad once the bug fix updates were out. Bad was iPadOS 18.0 (shudder), but now that is working too.

The bad news is that the AI keeps turning itself on with each update. 8 GB RAM is marginal at best for AI which is why Apple upgraded everything to 16 GB when it came out. The AI also uses an admitted 7 GB of storage and other reports say it's really twice that. For me there was no gain from the AI and frankly nothing useful to me from the rest of the Sequoia update either and so I reverted back to Sonoma and reclaimed 30 GB of storage, at least 10 more than I could explain from known files I didn't reload and the 7 GB of admitted AI stuff. I believe the claims of 15 GB for the real size of the AI software.

If the AI finds a use in MacOS 16 maybe I'll try again, but I'm not interested in exploring the bleeding edge. Sonoma runs very well.
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