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Apple Seeds Sixth Beta of macOS Catalina to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]
Apple today seeded the sixth beta of macOS 10.15 Catalina for testing purposes, more than two weeks after seeding the fifth macOS Catalina beta and over a month after the new Mac operating system update was first unveiled at the Worldwide Developers Conference.
The new macOS Catalina beta can be downloaded using the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences. As with all new betas, macOS Catalina should not be installed on a primary machine because it is early release software and has bugs.
macOS Catalina eliminates the iTunes app, splitting it into Music, Podcasts, and TV apps. The Apple Music and Apple Podcasts apps are available now, while the Apple TV app is coming later this year.
The three new apps offer similar functionality to iTunes, but are split up by feature. iOS device management is still available on the Mac, but it's now done through the Finder rather than iTunes.
With a new Sidecar feature, you can turn your iPad into a second display for your Mac with just the click of a button. The Apple Pencil works with Sidecar, so you can turn your iPad into a drawing tablet in apps like Photoshop and Illustrator.
Your Apple Watch can be used to approve security prompts for passwords and other info in macOS Catalina, and Macs with a T2 chip now support Activation Lock, making them more secure. There's a new Find My that brings the Find My Mac app to the Mac for the first time and even lets you track your devices when they're offline, or, in the case of notebooks, closed.
Screen Time is available on the Mac as well as iOS devices, and Project Catalyst, a new Apple initiative, will let developers easily port their iPad apps over to the Mac to increase the number of Mac apps available.
There's a new Photos interface that surfaces your best photos organized by day, month, or year, there's a new start page in Safari, Mail has new tools for muting email threads and blocking senders, and the Reminders app has been overhauled. 32-bit apps no longer work in macOS Catalina, which is something to be aware of before installing the beta.
For more details on macOS Catalina, make sure to check out our macOS Catalina roundup.
Update: Apple has also made a new public beta of macOS Catalina available to public beta testers.
The new macOS Catalina beta can be downloaded using the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences. As with all new betas, macOS Catalina should not be installed on a primary machine because it is early release software and has bugs.
macOS Catalina eliminates the iTunes app, splitting it into Music, Podcasts, and TV apps. The Apple Music and Apple Podcasts apps are available now, while the Apple TV app is coming later this year.
The three new apps offer similar functionality to iTunes, but are split up by feature. iOS device management is still available on the Mac, but it's now done through the Finder rather than iTunes.
With a new Sidecar feature, you can turn your iPad into a second display for your Mac with just the click of a button. The Apple Pencil works with Sidecar, so you can turn your iPad into a drawing tablet in apps like Photoshop and Illustrator.
Your Apple Watch can be used to approve security prompts for passwords and other info in macOS Catalina, and Macs with a T2 chip now support Activation Lock, making them more secure. There's a new Find My that brings the Find My Mac app to the Mac for the first time and even lets you track your devices when they're offline, or, in the case of notebooks, closed.
Screen Time is available on the Mac as well as iOS devices, and Project Catalyst, a new Apple initiative, will let developers easily port their iPad apps over to the Mac to increase the number of Mac apps available.
There's a new Photos interface that surfaces your best photos organized by day, month, or year, there's a new start page in Safari, Mail has new tools for muting email threads and blocking senders, and the Reminders app has been overhauled. 32-bit apps no longer work in macOS Catalina, which is something to be aware of before installing the beta.
For more details on macOS Catalina, make sure to check out our macOS Catalina roundup.
Update: Apple has also made a new public beta of macOS Catalina available to public beta testers.
Related Roundup: macOS Catalina
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27 weeks ago
Well I'd say its about time, but it probably took them the last 2 weeks to install it in house.
27 weeks ago
Baffled to why anyone would prefer either Firefox or Chrome over Safari.
I find Firefox much faster than Safari. For me, whether I use stock Safari or Safari Tech Preview, it likes to redraw the screen whenI swipe back on most forum websites. Including this one. I swipe back, wait a second or two and then it redraws. If I click on something without being patient, and the reload moves the forum topics around, I end up opening a topic I didn't intend to click on.Plus, I don't like Safari's cookie control. Nor the way the tabs shrink in size as you open more of them. And many other UI things I've come to like about Firefox. Ah yes, it also loads complex Youtube pages much quicker. And I can use uBlock Origin.
27 weeks ago
Confirming. Build 19A536g on Dev Console. Release notes also already up for b6.
Interesting tidbits:
* Music: "Artwork changes now appear immediately; playlists have been added."
* Photos: still doing the database clone/backup thing, with deletion and correction later on.
* App Store: "You no longer receive an error when downloading or updating apps."
Interesting tidbits:
* Music: "Artwork changes now appear immediately; playlists have been added."
* Photos: still doing the database clone/backup thing, with deletion and correction later on.
* App Store: "You no longer receive an error when downloading or updating apps."
27 weeks ago
who still uses Firefox anyways
[doublepost=1566248581][/doublepost]why is everyone talking about Firefox? if you don't wanna use safari use chrome its much better than Firefox
Yes, use Chrome instead of Firefox if your privacy means absolutely nothing to you.
27 weeks ago
How's the stability looking? Are we expecting final release next month?
if previous betas are anything to go by id say it won't be properly ready till at least late October, November possibly even next year
27 weeks ago
who still uses Firefox anyways
[doublepost=1566248581][/doublepost]why is everyone talking about Firefox? if you don't wanna use safari use chrome its much better than Firefox
A lot of people don’t want Google to see everything you do. Chrome is a giant privacy disaster, even if you’re not logged in.
And Firefox really isn't that bad, even if Chrome maybe faster in some artificial benchmarks, you won't notice that in real life usage.
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