Apple Seeds Third Beta of macOS Sequoia 15.4 With Mail Categorization

Apple today provided developers with the third beta of an upcoming macOS Sequoia 15.4 update for testing purposes. The new beta is available a week after Apple released the second beta.

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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 15.4 brings Mail Categorization to the Mac for the first time, reorganizing the Mail app into dedicated categories like transactions, updates, promotions, and primary, a category that surfaces the most important emails first. The update brings a range of new emoji characters to the Mac.

For Apple News+ subscribers, there is a dedicated News+ Food section with recipes, articles about restaurants, and other related content. There's a new Sketch style in Image Playground, the option to create Memory Movies in the Photos app, and Apple Intelligence is expanding to new languages.

Apple plans to release macOS Sequoia 15.4 in early April.

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Top Rated Comments

jbc25 Avatar
9 months ago
For me, the mail categorization on iOS is completely unnecessary. Those buttons take up WAY too much real-estate, and based on my experiences with similar features on other platforms, I can't trust it to categorize everything correctly and not make me miss important emails.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
nortonandreev Avatar
9 months ago

My installation of macOS Sequoia 15.4 beta 2 must be special, since it seems to have enabled categorization in Mail already:


It's been enabled since beta 1, don't feel special. :)
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
lkrupp Avatar
9 months ago
Tech averting luddites who reject any change went berserk when the categorizing was added to iOS 18 Mail. Rather than take minute to figure out how to turn it off they flew into a rage vowing to never buy an Apple device again. Same thing will happen when this hits macOS Mail. Count on it.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Velin Avatar
9 months ago
Apple: no one wants "mail categorization." It sucks. Fix the damn spotlight indexing. You know spotlight is bad when you cannot launch the damn Terminal when using it.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Truben Avatar
9 months ago
For Logic Pro users, iLok is working again, and UA Connect.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
ChasSC-Mac-Guy Avatar
9 months ago

For me, the mail categorization on iOS is completely unnecessary. Those buttons take up WAY too much real-estate, and based on my experiences with similar features on other platforms, I can't trust it to categorize everything correctly and not make me miss important emails.
Agreed. When it first arrived on iOS, first thing I did was revert it back to the old view. I didn’t like it when Gmail did it either. I have labels. I just want it in chronological order without the fluff. I’m not a Luddite by any stretch, but I also don’t always agree with Apple’s vision. At least it’s a choice.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)