Back in late September, mentions of a "High Power" mode were spotted in macOS Monterey code, and it appears Apple is still working on the feature. Battery code in the macOS Monterey release candidate mentions a "High Power" option, and this time, includes additional detail.
"Your Mac will optimize performance to better support resource-intensive tasks. This may result in louder fan noise," reads the code. The mention was discovered by MacRumors contributor Steve Moser.
There is no High Power mode that appears to be present in the macOS Monterey beta on an M1 Mac, so it's possible that this is something that's exclusive to the M1 Pro and M1 Max MacBook Pro machines that are launching next week. Such a feature was not mentioned on stage today.
It's also possible that this is a forthcoming feature that's not quite ready to launch and that's why we're not yet seeing it as a consumer-facing option in macOS Monterey.
macOS Monterey is set to be released to the public on Monday, October 25, and the M1 Pro and M1 Max MacBook Pro models will begin arriving to customers the next day, so we won't have long to wait to find out if there's a hidden High Power mode.
Hopefully you can just configure it to tie "high power mode" to being plugged in. If my Macbook is plugged in, it can have all the chunky watts it wants. I don't want to have to think about it. :)
To me, this keynote almost felt like Craig Federighi and Monterey were being squeezed out to a minor role. The emphasis was certainly focused entirely on the hardware side of things.
Wednesday February 16, 2022 10:30 am PST by Juli Clover
Apple today seeded the third beta of an upcoming macOS Monterey 12.3 update to its public beta testing group, with the new software coming a week after the second macOS Monterey 12.3 public beta.
Public beta testers can download the macOS 12.3 Monterey update from the Software Update section of the System Preferences app after installing the proper profile from Apple's beta software website.
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Tuesday February 8, 2022 10:08 am PST by Juli Clover
Apple today seeded the second beta of an upcoming macOS macOS Monterey 12.3 update to developers for testing purposes, with the new software coming two weeks after the release of the first macOS Monterey 12.3 beta.
Registered developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer Center and after the appropriate profile is installed, betas will be available through the Software Update...
Apple today seeded the release candidate version of an upcoming macOS Monterey 12.3 update to developers for testing purposes, with the new software coming a week after the release of the fifth macOS Monterey 12.3 beta. The RC represents the final version of macOS Monterey 12.3 that will be released publicly next week. Registered developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer...
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In the update, Apple introduced a new "Monterey" screen saver, which is designed to accompany the Monterey wallpaper that was already available.
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Tuesday February 22, 2022 10:08 am PST by Juli Clover
Apple today seeded the fourth beta of an upcoming macOS macOS Monterey 12.3 update to developers for testing purposes, with the new software coming a week after the release of the third macOS Monterey 12.3 beta.
Registered developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer Center and after the appropriate profile is installed, betas will be available through the Software Update...
Thursday October 21, 2021 10:20 am PDT by Juli Clover
Apple today seeded the second release candidate version of macOS Monterey, the newest version of the macOS operating system. The release candidate represents the final version of macOS Monterey that will be released to the public, and it comes just a few days after the first RC.
The release candidate is listed as version 12.0.1, presumably because Apple has made a few tweaks since 12.0...
Tuesday January 11, 2022 10:19 am PST by Juli Clover
Apple today seeded the second beta of an upcoming macOS Monterey 12.2 update to developers for testing purposes, with the new software coming three weeks after the first beta and a month after the release of macOS Monterey 12.1.
Registered developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer Center and after the appropriate profile is installed, betas will be available through the...
Friday January 28, 2022 10:55 am PST by Juli Clover
Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming macOS Monterey 12.3 update to its public beta testing group, with the new software coming one day after it was provided to developers.
Public beta testers can download the macOS 12.3 Monterey update from the Software Update section of the System Preferences app after installing the proper profile from Apple's beta software website....
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