Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and yesterday apple released mac os
12.1 release candidate this is the latest version or first major update to mac os monterey it's
available to developers and public beta testers and releases alongside ios 15.2 rc ipad os 15.2 rc
watch os 8.3 rc and today they released tvos 15.2 rc all of those are available now i would expect
this to come out to the public within a week or so we'll talk more about that in a little bit
now you can see i have this installed on my macbook pro 16-inch that's the m1 max version
and this particular update came in between two to three gigabytes on this device it took a long
time to install though and if we want to take a look at the build number we can click on 12.1
here and see the build now this should be the final version released to the public that will
come out to the public you just have it a little bit early however apple has been known to have
a release candidate too if they find additional bugs in it so if you're wondering if you should
uninstall the beta profile if you're a beta tester or developer i would wait until we know for sure
if this is the final version you can see the build number is 21c51 and this particular update
includes a bunch of features and changes that we got with ios already some of them some of them
were gaining with ios 15.2 but the first thing is shareplay share play was added with ios 15.1
and it allows you to share content across your devices so if you want to listen to music together
or movies or tv you can do that so we'll go ahead and open up facetime now i'm facetiming myself on
my iphone and now if i open up music we have the option in our notifications to choose content to
use share play so you can select a song to listen to together use the tv app again to select content
to watch together and more however we also have the option to screen share from our device so on
my iphone if i tap on the icon and it's the same icon here you can screen share from a mac as well
tap on screen share it gives me a little countdown we'll give it just a moment
and if i go home you'll see my phone will pop up on screen we'll just give it a moment here
and now you can see what i'm doing on my iphone so if i want to go into music i can do that and also
use share play across my devices that way so you now have the option to use share play in mac os
as well now along with share play apple also introduced a new apple plan for music that uses
your voice so you have this option available now on this if you don't have a different apple music
plan where it's 4.99 per month and you can just use siri to activate what you want to listen to
that's now available not only on the mac but also iphone ipad and more and so you can just
ask siri to suggest music based on your listening history likes or dislikes and more now photos gets
an update as well it's a fairly small update but if we go into photos memories has been slightly
redesigned just like we had that with ios 15.1 they've added some additional features so not
only do we have different photos but if we click this little icon here we can see everything and
then we can adjust things such as short or long for our options we can change the music and more
so there's also new memory types as well for holidays child focused memories trends over time
and improved pet memories so there's that along with different transition styles and more if you
want to use memories so you'll see this is just one that's of me really filming an iphone video
but it created a memory out of it so we'll go ahead and close that now if we go into the tv app
open tv here we now have a store tab and you'll see here at the top we have store where we can
now purchase movies and tv shows right from this app instead of going into itunes like we had to
do before we can purchase things right from here so they've just updated that with tvs and movies
and then you can purchase or rent or whatever you'd like to do from here now there's also some
updates with messages now messages gets an update on ios as well and that has to do with expanded
protections for children now this is not the csam update that a lot of people were wondering about
that's been suspended indefinitely however this is communication safety for children so if you have a
child maybe an explicit photo is sent to them the neural engine on the mac or the processor on the
mac will recognize that it's something that could be inappropriate for a child and warn them this
information is not sent to apple it's just letting them know and then it asks them if you want to
view this and if you do it says if you it's your choice but your parents want to know you're safe
you can either view it and then share it with someone you trust whether that be a parent or
guardian or someone else so that has been enabled for messages as well as siri search so if you're a
child and you're searching it will help expand those protections and blur things out that it
recognizes and then warn you before you're able to click on them i think it's a great addition
for a child and again it's not shared with apple it's just sort of warning you on your device
so if you're not a child you won't have those enabled at all now there's a new feature that has
to do with digital legacy this has been enabled however i've not been able to find the actual
setting within the mac itself on the iphone you can easily find digital legacy which allows you
to designate people as legacy contacts so they can access icloud accounts and personal information
information in the event of your death so that's something that's really nice it's
easily accessible on an iphone typically you would go to your apple id under your apple id you would
go to password and security and under password and security you would have digital legacy
it's not showing up for me for some reason however this is where it's available on your iphone and so
you'll have the option to have an account recovery there as well now if you have icloud plus enabled
there's an update for mail so there's a nice feature to hide your email so if you go into
mail within mail if we go ahead and create a message under creating a message under from if
you click on this you can now hide my email and it creates a random address that forwards to your
inbox this way you can keep your email address private if you want to respond to something or
send an email to someone and you're not sure if you trust giving that information to someone you
can sort of check that by sending it via hide my email that's available if you're an apple
or an icloud plus subscriber so we'll go ahead and close this and there's also additions in reminders
and notes so if we go into reminders within reminders we have tags and that's something
new with mac os monterey under tags we have you'll see we have a couple different ones here
if we select multiple tags we can delete both of them at once create a smart list so now we have
the option to either rename or delete two tags at once where we wouldn't be able to do that before
so if they're similar you can rename them or you can just delete them all in bulk if you want to do
that so that's been updated not only for reminders but also notes as well stocks gets a small update
also again this is carrying over from ios but in stocks maybe we pick apple here you'll see we now
have year to date with charts and it also gives you the current currency that the stock is in
usd or the current currency based on where they're located so that has been updated for mac os 12.1
now as far as anything else that's new there's not a whole lot new in this update other than some bug
fixes so there's some bug fixes in here as well they have to do with firstly with desktop and
screen saver so desktop and screensaver could sort of appear blank after selecting photos from your
photo library so maybe you want to set a custom background now it will no longer show as blank
also there's an issue on some of the new macbooks and other devices where the trackpad could become
unresponsive that has been resolved in this update so where the trackpad was unresponsive to taps
or clicks that will now work if you're using taps or clicks either one will work just fine
also external displays would not charge some macbook pro and macbook air computers if you were
using thunderbolt or usbc that has been resolved so those charging issues should be resolved in
this update as well as hdr video playback on youtube is now working properly so when you're
watching hdr videos although it doesn't always show up properly on safari when it does show it
will no longer cause the device to crash where it would before so that was happening on 2021
macbook pro computers it would cause it to panic and crash now hdr will work properly in safari
if you have one of the new 14 or 16 inch macbook pro computers with an m1 pro or m1 max processor
and you have the notch on the top of the screen apple has fixed an issue where the menu bar extras
could be obscured by the camera housing they don't call it a notch they call it a camera housing on
those computers so if you have a ton of different things they'll no longer be obscured by that also
on the same computers or the 16-inch specifically magsafe is now working properly if the computer is
shut down and the lid is closed so there was a problem sometimes with it charging if that was
the case and then also searching in finder and text at it seemed to work again now of course
there's security updates in this as well so if we go to the apple security website and scroll down
you'll see it's not currently showing the updates for this update and the reason for
that is it's not released to the public yet they typically will update this after it's out to
the public and show you all of the different changes based off of the security updates so
with mac os monterey 12.0.1 here are all the different updates for security
i expect to have the same thing for this update after it's released to the public
and if you're wondering when it's going to release to the public typically based off
of what we had last year i would say probably on the 14th of december or 13th last year they
released it on the 14th so we could see it as soon as tuesday or monday of next week we'll
have to wait and see but that seems to be very likely and of course there could be a second rc2
if there's additional issues that apple is finding in this update now so far i've been using it on my
m1 macbook pro for a day or so i've edited a video on it it worked just fine without a problem and
everything seems to be fast and more responsive than it was before so i think that's a good sign
apple's working out the bugs and it seems to be working just fine so if you're wondering if you
should install this update absolutely when it comes out i would install it if you're on the
beta program definitely upgrade to it since it has all those bug fixes shareplay and more
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