Apple Seeds Second Beta of macOS Sonoma 14.6 to Developers

Apple today seeded the second beta of an upcoming macOS Sonoma 14.6 update to developers, with the second software coming two weeks after Apple released the first beta.

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

We don't yet know what might be included in macOS Sonoma 14.6, and no new features were discovered in the first beta.

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Realityck Avatar
21 months ago

anyone else fondly recall the good old days when all these minor update betas were just one article on MR instead of five? those were the days
You know how it works higher web traffic generates more income associated with some ad placement. But diffidently using one online article source to create 5 to 10 articles concerning every minor sub-topic is nuts at times. There are time I wonder where some more important news is on MacRumor, and then I find they created it hours ago and there are just that many recent minor articles that obscure that important topic. ;)
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tywebb13 Avatar
21 months ago
Regardless of the motivation I think it's better to have them in separate threads

Many people would only be interested in the macos betas , or only the ios betas etc. It gets too cluttered and confusing if they are all bunched together in 1 thread.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Realityck Avatar
21 months ago
FYI

* iOS 17.6 beta 2 (21G5061c) - July 1, 2024
* iPadOS 17.6 beta 2 (21G5061c) - July 1, 2024
* macOS 14.6 beta 2 (23G5061b) - July 1, 2024
* tvOS 17.6 beta 2 (21M5054a) - July 1, 2024
* visionOS 1.3 beta 2 (21O5756a) - July 1, 2024
* watchOS 10.6 beta 2 (21U5560b) - July 1, 2024
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wanha Avatar
21 months ago
anyone else fondly recall the good old days when all these minor update betas were just one article on MR instead of five? those were the days
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
steve333 Avatar
21 months ago
Safari has been really wonky lately, having to resort to using firefox multiple times is getting tiresome
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
RedWeasel Avatar
21 months ago

anyone else fondly recall the good old days when all these minor update betas were just one article on MR instead of five? those were the days
Remember when the major updates were actually major updates?
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