Apple Seeds First Beta of macOS Big Sur 11.2 to Developers

[strangeengine]

Lots of people. Many times per month.

What are you doing wrong?

 

[Mr$tone]

I have the BenQ EX2780Q which can go up to 144Hz at 2560x1440. MBP plugged directly into the monitor via USB-C, no docks or anything to potentially interfere. But since 11.1 came along, there is prolonged negotiation between Macbook Pro and the monitor and it ends up either with the wrong refresh rate or resolution. Sometimes both. No problems with 11.01, no problems with Catalina.

I have a MacBook Air M1 and a 4K 28 inch external monitor. My external monitor used to randomly loose signal with 11.0.1 (and went black). With 11.1 that’s fixed. For my setup 11.1 is a hit.

 

[jz0309]

Public Beta available now @jclo
installing on my MBP, 32.GB

 

[Realityck]

Public beta 1 of Big Sur 11.2 is now available as a FYI

Haha same time posted

 

[ScooterComputer]

Mac OS updates are becoming eye-candy updates rather than adding any productivity features. There are so many things that can be improved.
1. Contacts - Allow exporting to a .csv file 2. Allow Contacts to format phone numbers automatically if Country field is non-empty. 3. Allow printing envelopes with custom "from address" that user can set 4. Tons of Mail improvements - this is my pet peeve. Apple Mail is a toy, a joke. I could list a dozen productivity and feature improvements. Apple - if you are listening. Just look at the third party mail clients and see what they've done.

THIS! THIS! THIS!

Ultimately, I'd like to see (and have talked to an Apple employee about doing it… though… haven't gotten any traction) Apple look at the Contacts/Calendar/Mail/Messaging/Notes/Reminders "productivity" "suite" through the lens of a small business person / CRM user. The entire UX could be revolutionized. Considering that we (uh, "the community") actually have had BETTER contact management tools on the Mac (Palm Desktop, Now), ~20 years ago!, the tools we have today are really poor in comparison.

Worse, you're starting to see competitors come at this from the other side, Microsoft with Teams/Outlook… OK, just Microsoft… well and illumy, now too I suppose. But I want to see kind of an "iTunes-esque" view of my CRM data… and yes, I know iTunes is a TERRIBLE example, but I'm saying kind of the "unifying interface" view it provided, poorly for what it did, but might would be better for productivity data. I want to be able to easily go to a Contact (or Business) and jump to all the messages I've sent them/that "team". Being able to "attach" notes, or reminders… heck, why I can't I make reminders for events?? All of this stuff, under the covers, now uses URIs in macOS, so having the ability to "relate" all of that in a sync'able database shouldn't be THAT difficult.

But yeah… Apple has left SO MUCH undone. And, what's funny, is that EVERY TIME I talk to Apple folks about this, they slough off these apps as "nobody cares". But whenever I talk to my clients, or folks about these kinds of features, they WANT them. The disconnect is SO stark it is puzzling. (Even my go-to Apple guy didn't understand until I spent half an hour explaining it, then, like, lightbulb popped on over his head.) There is just so much that could be done that would make macOS TOWER over Windows 10, and, by extension, make the iPhone an absolute business-must-have. What I especially don't understand is that these Apple execs have to have SOMEBODY doing this work for them… SOMEBODY is scheduling, keeping track of issues, emails, meetings, etc… it really exposes a certain level of elitism (go figure… at Apple) that there is such a disconnect in Apple's own tools for how these activities must be handled… or… rather… don't get handled using Apple tools (most likely they're done "by hand", "in memory", on paper, or using some 3rd party CRM tool).

Though Mail app has to get its **** together first. Has to, has to, has to. Apple is the only one that can do this, because Apple is the only one with access to all the underlying data stores that are already syncing everywhere. Leaving to anyone else is just a privacy nightmare.

 

[Realityck]

That was a fairly quick update comparably from 11.1 to 11.2b1.

 

[KBeat]

Hopefully with a fix for display refresh rates and resolutions when using an external monitor. 11.1 has been terrible - Big Sur generally boots into a lower resolution and/or refresh rate on the external display ever since 11.1 was released (though there are reports of this issue cropping up in the betas) - was absolutely fine with 11.01. Running a MacBook Pro 16" here with a 27" BenQ monitor and USB-C connection, so nothing too exotic.

Amen to that. FWIW, I too am using a BenQ EW3270U. Same issues you describe.

 

[MCKLMT]

What’s the version of Safari on 11.2?

 

[Fran Frin]

What’s the version of Safari on 11.2?

Versión 14.0.3 (16610.4.2)

 

[MLMcMillion]

Hopefully this addresses the performance issues on my fully-specced 16". I had to downgrade back to Catalina becuase 11 and 11.1 were both essentially unusable.

 

[dumiku]

Please fix Safari, Big Sur damaged it for me. Way too slow dropping down the bookmarks menu, seems to have an issue drawing the icons. Also, some websites are just freezing on me, which has literally never happened before.

I stopped using the default safari since updating and only use the Tech Preview which seems decent to me and only doing this because of the login passwords I don't keep them passwords in other browsers except for Firefox for some sites mostly because of the ease of use across apple devices.

 

[dumiku]

Anyone having trouble installing the beta update, it failed on me 2 times now, it downloads and when the installation starts it give me an error right away, I am on 11.0.1 RC2, doing it through terminal.

I gonna try tonight again after unenrolling and then enroll again and see

 

[snakes-]

It seems 11.2 beta is more a placebo instead of real improvements. I installed it and cant´t see fixes... If i run console same error messages like under 11.1

 

[JippaLippa]

I hope they fix the problems with HDR with non XDR displays.
The HDR itself looks good (when browsing HDR Content) but the UI gets hopelessly greyed-out and desaturated when using apps or consuming SDR content, which makes the computer pretty unusable.

I now have to switch the HDR manually each time I want to consume some HDR content, then disable it once again.
Not the end of the world, but really a clunky system...
Apparently the system works well with Apple's own XDR display (...who would have thought...), so it seems to be some software glitch rather than an hardware limitation.

Or it could be Apple that's willingly limiting SDR color management on non-apple Displays, but I'm currently using a BenQ monitor, which seems to be in partnership with Apple, giving the fact you can buy their displays from the Apple store...

Oh well, we shall see...