Apple Seeds First Beta of Upcoming macOS Big Sur 11.1 Update to Public Beta Testers - MacRumors
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Apple Seeds First Beta of Upcoming macOS Big Sur 11.1 Update to Public Beta Testers

Apple todays seeded the first beta of an upcoming macOS Big Sur 11.1 update to public beta testers, with the beta coming a day after the developer release and two weeks after the launch of macOS Big Sur 11.0.1, the release version of the software.

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Beta testers who signed up for Apple's beta testing program can download the macOS Big Sur beta through the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences after installing the proper profile.

Mac users who want to be a part of Apple's beta testing program can sign up to participate on the beta website, which gives users access to iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS betas.

There's no word yet on what's included in macOS Big Sur 11.1, but it likely includes performance improvements, security updates, and fixes for bugs that weren't able to be addressed in the release version of macOS Big Sur. No significant new feature changes were discovered in the first developer beta.

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Top Rated Comments

72 months ago
Please tell me they brought back quick reply in messages notifications! It's so annoying to have to click 3 times to open the reply field. Not to be overly dramatic, but the loss of this feature spoils the entire OS for me
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
72 months ago
Interesting, they are going with 11.1. So next year we would expect them to move to macOS 12?
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Kylo83 Avatar
72 months ago
does this fix the AirPods automatic switching it didnt work on Big Sur
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
chfilm Avatar
72 months ago

So wouldn’t the .1 release be equivalent to the yearly macOS releases of previous years? I would think all Big Sur-related fixes/features updates would be .0.x ...and that an 11.1 release would be analogous to a new California location release. Otherwise, going to 12.0 would imply drastic changes again only a year later. Thoughts?
any infos about amd 6000x series drivers?
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
72 months ago

any infos about amd 6000x series drivers?
As first, consider that I'm not an expert.

Anyway, just for curiosity, I looked for the PCI id of the 6800/6800xt (not sure but probably the PCI ID is 0x73bf while AMD is 0x1002) and the name "Navi21" (if I understood well RX6800 and 6800 XT are "Navi 21") in /System/Library/Extensions and I found something:

MM2018-2:Extensions root# grep -IRi Navi21 *
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist: <key>AMDRadeonNavi21Controller</key>
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist: <string>AMDRadeonX6000_AmdRadeonControllerNavi21</string>



MM2018-2:Extensions root# grep -B1 -IRi 0x73bf1002 *
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist- <key>IOPCIMatch</key>
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist: <string>0x73101002 0x73121002 0x73181002 0x73191002 0x731A1002 0x731B1002 0x731F1002 0x73BF1002 0x73601002 0x73621002 0x73401002 0x73411002 0x73431002 0x73471002 0x734F1002 0x73A01002 0x73A21002 0x73A31002 0x73AB1002 0x73AE1002 0x73BF1002 0x73C01002 0x73C11002 0x73C31002 0x73DF1002 0x73E01002 0x73E11002 0x73E21002 0x73FF1002</string>
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AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist- <key>IOPCIMatch</key>
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist: <string>0x73101002 0x73121002 0x73181002 0x73191002 0x731A1002 0x731B1002 0x731F1002 0x73BF1002</string>
--
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist- <key>IOPCIMatch</key>
AMDRadeonX6000Framebuffer.kext/Contents/Info.plist: <string>0x73A01002 0x73A21002 0x73A31002 0x73AB1002 0x73AE1002 0x73BF1002</string>



Don't know if this means that they are working on it...

Bye,
Mr Hyde
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chucker23n1 Avatar
72 months ago

No, different, one for me one for my partner..
Then that’s not gonna work. Handoff works with devices from the same account.

(It might work with family sharing?)
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