hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and today Apple released Mac OS Catalina 10.15.5
this came in at 3.37 gigabytes on my
2019 16-inch macbook pro that I'm recording from now but it will vary
depending on the device you have but expect it to be over three gigabytes
now this particular update adds a few new features as well as bug fixes and a
lot of security fixes so let's just take a look at the new features now and then
we'll go over the bug fixes next now the first new feature has to do with mac
books or devices that actually have batteries inside of them so MacBook
MacBook Pro MacBook Air for example and if you go into your system preferences
and go to energy saver you'll now have battery health down at the bottom no
battery health helps you manage your battery better to extend the life of the
battery overall and you can see here at the top it gives me my battery condition
and since this is a newer MacBook I would expect it to say normal now if
it's older it will let you know if you need to replace it or not and as you can
see here it says Mac batteries like all rechargeable batteries are consumable
components that become less effective as they age and so here we have battery
health management and as you can see it says as your battery ages peak capacity
is reduced to extend the battery lifespan so right now it's turned on and
the capacity while plugged in will be reduced over time so basically what
Apple has said in the past is if you have a MacBook and maybe you leave it
plugged into a monitor most of the time you should drain that battery down at
least once a month while now you don't need to do any of that they'll just
simply manage it and take care of the battery so maybe they won't charge it to
a hundred percent or maybe they'll pull it back to 90 but still show you 100%
you can always turn it off if you need to take a trip for example or maybe you
just need a little extra battery you can do that but if you leave it on it should
extend the life of your battery over time now they've added some additions to
FaceTime similar to iOS 13.5 so if we go into FaceTime and under FaceTime
if we go up to FaceTime and then preferences under preferences down
toward the bottom you'll see that we now have automatic prominence now if you've
ever used a group FaceTime call you'll know that whoever is speaking kind of
comes closer to you as your speaking to them and so it senses whose
voice is speaking and then enlarges that photo or that video of them and if you
don't want that to happen maybe you have a large FaceTime call with ten people
pause and you don't want that to keep zooming in and out well you can turn
that off by unchecking speaking so you'll see it says during group FaceTime
calls the tile of the person speaking will automatically become larger and so
if you like that leave it on but you now have the option to turn it off now the
next update is specific to displays and more specific to Pro display XDR if you
have apples a very expensive external monitor the 6k monitor you can adjust
color profiles now to more suit what you're trying to do so for example it
gives you the ability to fine-tune the calibration to whatever you want so you
could adjust the white point and the luminance to precisely match what you're
trying to see or maybe you have a monitor next to it and so you can see
here I have some different display profiles so if I was plugged into my
external display I have a couple profiles here that will color calibrate
them since I've calibrated them in the past so now you'll have that ability on
the pro display XDR with different profiles and so as far as new features
that's what's in this particular update on top of that there are a ton of bug
fixes and now I would not expect anything new until this coming June or
so with WWDC so expect a new update there with additional features but as
far as this particular update there's a bunch of bug fixes in it so let's go
over them now the first fix has to do with reminders so if you're using
reminders it fixes an issue that may prevent reminders from sending
notifications for recurring reminders so if you weren't getting your notification
regularly it should now show up for you properly it also addresses an issue that
may prevent password entry on the login screen so maybe you're trying to login
to the Mac and it's not allowing it it should finally be fixed and of course
that's going to be very important to be able to use it so that should be
resolved they fixed an issue where you go to System Preferences and it would
have a badge on it like there was an update due to a software update even
after you installed that update that has now been fixed and the badge should
disappear properly now for all of you using zoom or maybe conference calling
things like that if you were having an issue where you would close
the conference call and then try to go back into it the conference call
wouldn't activate the actual camera properly the internal camera will now
activate properly and things will continue to work as they should now if
you have a Mac that has the t2 security chip in it such as this 2019 MacBook Pro
a MacBook Air the new ones and iMac pro anything that has that chip there was a
problem where some people were not getting the option for their speakers to
show up properly so you'd go into sound preferences and your MacBook Pro
speakers would not be on output so you wouldn't be able to hear anything
this has resolved that issue and your internal speakers should now work
properly now if you use iCloud photo library and you're in photos and when
the Mac is asleep you can upload and download photos to sort of sync with
your iPhone that wasn't working properly and they've since resolved it so the
stability of that and it uploading and downloading while it's asleep and having
all of your photos there should work the next time you open it up this time so
for some reason it wasn't working and now it's fixed now they've resolved a
stability issue when transferring large amounts of data using raid so if you use
raid on a Mac Pro or maybe you have an external raid drive that's basically a
bunch of hard drives together that can sort of act as one and be faster they
weren't working properly if you were transferring huge amounts of data to
them for some people and so that has since been resolved
they've also fixed an issue for reduce motion where it wasn't working properly
with FaceTime calls so maybe you were using prominence and FaceTime and it was
zooming in and out and reduce motion wasn't working properly on that if you
go into your system preferences and then go to accessibility and then you go to
display you have the option to reduce motion similar to what you have on iOS
and iPad OS it wasn't working properly when using FaceTime so it should work
properly now now there are some fixes where they fit them into what was called
an enterprise group but they don't necessarily apply only to enterprise so
for example the first thing improves performance on certain Mac's when
enabling hardware acceleration in the GPU intensive apps such as those used
for video conferencing so if you're using the GPU for video conferencing or
you have the GPU enabled for even Final Cut Pro let me show you what I mean by
that now for example if you have an external GPU or an eg
you plugged in you could select that for Final Cut Pro for example there was an
issue where performance was hindered when you did that with things such as
videoconferencing so now they've fixed that and performance should be improved
they've also fixed an issue with Microsoft Exchange accounts if you're
using that where you were unable to sign in during account setup when you're
using conditional access now they've also given more of a notification for
Apple push notification so says Apple push notification service traffic now
uses a web proxy when specified in a pack file via the proxies payload and so
they've updated that it also resolves an issue that prevented some displays
connected to the 2019 16 inch MacBook Pro from waking up when the Mac wakes up
so if you try and wake the Mac up by moving the cursor around and it wasn't
working properly that should not work properly
then finally major new releases of Mac OS are no longer hidden when using the
software update command if you have the ignore flag turned on so that should be
working properly now and then finally the changes are also affected in Mac OS
Mohave and Mac OS high sierra after installing secure it now there are 45
security updates that apply not only to Mac OS Catalina but also Mac OS Mojave
and Mac OS high sierra and cover everything from accounts as you can see
there - calendar - kernel and many other things as well so if you want to take a
look at this i'll link this in the description this is just a public page
from Apple and you can check out the CVE number and who helped them out as far as
this particular security update and what it affects specifically so if you want
to read each one of these for Bluetooth for example it fixed a malicious
application that may be able to determine the kernel memory layout so
they've fixed that and many other things and so for this particular update that's
about it and you really shouldn't expect anything new until the next version of
Mac OS comes out 10.16 we should see that on June 22nd at the WWDC online
conference if Apple does it like they have in the past everyone will be able
to watch it live and we'll see some new features there now if you found anything
else that I haven't mentioned please let me know in the comments below and if
you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper I'll link it in the
description along with one that fits the iPhone as well if you
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