Apple Seeds Seventh Developer Beta of macOS Sequoia 15.1 [Updated]

Apple today provided developers with the seventh beta of an upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.1 beta, with the new update coming one week after Apple released the sixth beta.

macOS Sequoia Feature
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.

‌macOS Sequoia‌ 15.1 introduces the first Apple Intelligence features, adding support for Writing Tools, new Siri features, Smart Replies in Mail and Messages, Priority messages in the Mail app, Memory Movie and Clean Up in Photos, and more.

The update does not include Image Playground, Genmoji, or more advanced ‌Siri‌ functionality.

Using Apple Intelligence features requires a Mac that has an Apple silicon chip.

Update: There appears to be an issue with Apple's servers at the current time, and users could run into errors with updating and restoring Apple devices. Retrying multiple times works for some, but it may be worth waiting until the servers are fixed to download the update.

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Top Rated Comments

Lounge vibes 05 Avatar
11 months ago

That limitation has everything to do with GDPR and nothing to do with language barriers. Apple Intelligence relies on ChatGPT, which is non-compliant with the GDPR.
Apple Intelligence absolutely does not rely on ChatGPT, completely false information.
Starting this December, Apple Intelligence can be used as a portal to ChatGPT, but that isn’t the same thing at all.
You have to optionally go in and confirm you’d like to use ChatGPT every single time according to Apple, or else it will simply just use apples own servers and technology by default.
The current version of Apple Intelligence that’s in 18.1 *only* uses Apple’s AI servers and technology, ChatGPT is nowhere to be found anywhere in 18.1.
And even then, it appears that GPT integration will be limited to Siri queries and the writing tools, which as already stated will default to Apple‘s own services.

Every single time you use ChatGPT, you will have to give explicit permission.

You: ask question
Siri: I don’t know that, would you like me to check if ChatGPT does?
You: yes/no

You will have to answer a question like this every single time you use it.

TLDR: Apple Intelligence is absolutely not powered by ChatGPT.
Score: 13 Votes (Like | Disagree)
iGeneo Avatar
11 months ago
Well.. there is this :rolleyes:

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Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Realityck Avatar
11 months ago
Seeded this week

* [B]MacOS 15.1 beta 7 (24B5077a) - October 15, 2024[/B]
* iOS 18.1 beta 7 (22B5075a) - October 14, 2024
* iPadOS 18.1 beta 7 (22B5075a) - October 14, 2024
* tvOS 18.1 beta 5 (22J5573a) - October 14, 2024
* watchOS 11.1 beta 5 (22R5575a) - October 14, 2024
* visionOS 2.1 beta 5 (22N5573a) - October 14, 2024
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Realityck Avatar
11 months ago
Comparison of MacOS 15.1 Beta 7 to previous MacOS 15.1 Beta 6

macOS 15.1 Beta 7 (24B5077a)

* Safari Version 18.1 (20619.2.8.11.9)
* System Firmware Version: 11881.41.5 (M1 based Macs)
* Darwin Kernel Version 24.1.0: Thu Oct 10 22:07:16 PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.41.3~5/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64

macOS 15.1 Beta 6 (24B5070a)

* Safari Version 18.1 (20619.2.8.11.4)
* System Firmware Version: 11881.41.3 (M1 based Macs)
* Darwin Kernel Version 24.1.0: Mon Sep 30 00:07:39 PDT 2024; root:xnu-11215.40.63~39/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64

Apple Music/TV is still 1.5.1.24 , no change this time.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Realityck Avatar
11 months ago
OTA now available, 2.07 GB download for AS Macs.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
vendini Avatar
11 months ago
Given that none of the new features are available in the EU, neither A.I. nor iPhone mirroring, this version is totally useless for us. Shame on Apple for limiting A.I. to English, and for locking these new features in the EU. I wonder what is still driving European customers to buy an iPhone 16, for example. Waiting until 2025 for it to be partially functional?
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)