Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and yesterday apple released mac os big serve beta 10. this is
available to developers and came in around three and a half gigabytes depending on the device
you're using in this case 3.82 gigabytes now i'm using this on a 2019 mac pro and
here is the build number so you can see which version you're on this build number is 20a5395g
if you have that build number you'll know that it's actually the same version as this
now many of you have been asking me why haven't i been making videos about mac os big sur and that's
because there hasn't been any physical significant changes that you've been able to see for a while
so there are a couple in this particular update and the first one is a little bit of a change
in the way it works when you use a macbook and you want to lock the macbook so if you press the
power button it will immediately lock the display now for me on some macbooks i recall this seems
to be a normal feature with mac os catalina but for others they're saying that they're seeing
this as new let me know what yours is doing in the comments below now in the menu bar there's a new
feature which is actually an option but now it's turned on by default and that's now playing so up
here in the upper right you have now playing if you have music open for example or maybe you have
media from youtube open it will show them in here so you can see them you can see the status of the
song for example while it's playing and you'll be able to see how long it's got left or when it ends
so that's a nice little feature you can turn that off in system preferences though if you'd like to
now another new feature has to do with airpods or a connected audio device so if i connect
my airpods pro to my mac it will take just a moment to do that we'll give it a second here
and we'll go to the bluetooth settings here and we'll connect airpods pro
it takes just a moment and you can see they immediately show up in the top right so now
they're showing up by themselves you can click on them the icon is now just the air pods as opposed
to just a little audio symbol like we have here so as long as you're using air pods or something
that's supported maybe beats they'll show up like this now the next change has to do with
the wallpaper you may be able to see one of the new ones here if we go into system preferences and
then we go to desktop and screen saver you can see we have big sur ariel and they've changed the way
this looks a little bit so we have dynamic desktop here with big sur this is the standard wallpaper
and then we have of course catalina and mojave and solar gradients and then light and dark desktop
there's a couple different ones as well and if we go through some of the wallpapers there's some of
the ones that have been there before but a lot of really nice wallpapers big sur shore rocks
let me move this out of the way big sur shore rocks so there's a bunch of new ones some people
are saying they're seeing more than others but big sur road we've got big sur night succulents
big sur night grass and then back to catalina so there's some nice new ones in here and a nicely
redesigned wallpaper picker so i think i'll switch over to big sur ariel kind of like that one and
let's talk about a couple other things now there's not a lot of other visual changes but some people
are reporting that 4k youtube is not working on safari and it seems to work fine for me so
here's my ios 14.1 gm is out video and if we go to the quality you can see that i have 4k as an
option so it's still there i don't have anything special turned on and it's there so it should be
there for you it's working fine for me let me know if it's working okay for you in the comments below
now there's a couple things that they've fixed one thing i've noticed is i use final cut pro
a lot to edit videos and final cut pro was having an issue when importing footage you'd place a new
memory card in and it would show up once you open final cut pro but if you swapped that memory card
it wouldn't show up again and also some of the footage wouldn't fully import that's now fixed
and it's working properly so all of that footage import issue seems to be resolved also photos is
still randomly crashing on me and i can't drag and drop the photo to the desktop it's just
not working properly so if i go into photos and you can see this was the be right back for the
apple store if i drag that to the desktop you'll see it just sort of disappears it doesn't work
properly for some reason and then photos will sometimes crash on me now they have said that
they've fixed some issues in this particular update so one of them that they've fixed has
to do with notes and photos no longer quitting unexpectedly if the system language is set to
greek i have it crashed regardless of the system language so they say it's fixed of course you need
to report those in feedback when you have issues and then also they have 25 known issues that are
still in this particular update so it's not really advised to install if you have critical work to do
so installing can take significantly longer than expected and that's what i experienced
when i installed this it took almost two hours to install on a mac pro after downloading it so it
took an incredibly long time also installing from beta 2 to beta 10 could have a huge download size
there are some workarounds for that now if you're using parallels desktop 16 you could have a kernel
panic which would completely lock up the mac and you'd have to restart it so those are known issues
however they've resolved 11 issues as well one of them is photos not quitting when set to greek
like i said and then that final cut issue and some other things as well have been resolved so
it seems like it's a fairly solid update to beta9 we'll still have to use it for a few
days i'm using it full time to edit all of my videos on it's been a pain with beta 9
beta 10 seems much better but i still would not install this if you have critical work to do
i just wait until maybe even the second version of mac os big sur is out and most people that do
critical work know that for example my app Piezo many audio apps just won't work so you'll need to
have an alternative to that maybe garage band or something else so there's still some issues with
this update applications will need to be updated for it and hopefully we'll see the final version
maybe within a couple weeks i'm not sure maybe with a mac the apple releases later this year
in November so we'll have to wait and see if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link
it in the description so you can check it out i think a couple other sites posted them so i'll
link them in the description below and if you'd like to see more mac os videos let me know in
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