Hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and yesterday apple released mac os monterey 12 beta 4. this is
available to developers and hopefully by the time you're watching this it will be out to public beta
testers however they do sometimes take one to two days to release it so it may be out later
today if not possibly the next day now this was released alongside ios 15 beta 4 ipad os 15 beta
4 watch os 8 beta 4 and tv os 15 beta 4 so all of those are available now along with a homepod
os 15 beta 4 update as well now this came in at 2.34 gigabytes that's on an m1 macbook pro
and one thing to know is it installed pretty easily it did take a while for the update to
show up but once it did and i was able to install it installed like normal prior to this with beta 1
2 and 3 often it would reboot into the startup options i would have to log in with my credentials
and then exit that and then it would install the update it was a little bit of an odd situation but
this time it installed just like you would expect so it looks like they've worked out some bugs
now let's take a look at the build number and talk about what's new so we'll go to the apple
and then we'll click about this mac and you can see the build number is 21a5294g and in
this particular update one thing that had many of us very excited is that in their notes they said
that universal control would be active however they quickly pulled that and it's not active
so if you go into your system preferences and click on displays with beta 3 in the bottom left
we have the option for advanced similar to what we would think would happen with universal control
we don't have the option here anymore and we can just extend the display to a nearby ipad just like
you could before with sidecar so they've removed that option or maybe they just never added it and
made a mistake but we should see it hopefully with beta 5 at this point so they didn't add it
many of us were very excited to try this out and unfortunately it's not here so that's something
that was a bit of a disappointment and kind of odd since there is universal control running
in the activity monitor in the background so if we go into activity monitor we'll go into
activity monitor go to memory type in universal control you'll see universal control is active
here but it's not allowing us to actually use it so hopefully we'll see that in beta 5.
now the next thing they've updated has to do with live text so if we go into safari
and we'll go to my website on my website you'll see that i have an old update about iphone 11
pro max but live text is available now not only to m1 devices it's available to intel as well so we
can highlight text within a photo and then we can copy that text and maybe paste it somewhere else
so we could paste it in the top here and we could paste and search or just paste there we go and we
can paste any text that we've copied so this is available now on intel max where it wasn't before
so they've updated that also if we go back maybe go to apple open a couple more tabs we'll go to
another apple tab and maybe a google tab you can see the tabs are divided across the top now this
was a design change that happened with beta 3 and many people prefer this over the prior update
where it was sort of in one line now we had the option to switch between that view
by going to view and then changing the actual view apple has changed this and put this under
preferences so if we go to safari and then preferences under preferences and under
tabs we can now switch between a compact view and a separate view so this is very similar to
what they did with ipad os 15 beta 4. they made this an option so you can switch between either
or if you like the newer design where you can close the tabs here by highlighting over them
and it's more compact but less intuitive for someone that uses it regularly you can use
that if you want separate you can use separate they've just put it under this preference tab
now if we close out of safari and we go back into system preferences you'll see
notifications here under preferences however it now says notifications and focus prior to this
it was just notifications if we click on it we now have the option for focus in the same menu
so there's options for notifications and focus now and you can adjust your different focus modes here
if you want to do that so you can control it all from the same place with notifications since that
sort of makes sense although i'm surprised they just didn't make it a separate category altogether
now let's close out of this and if we go into shortcuts there's an update there as well now
this update carries across multiple devices if we go into home you'll see we now have the option for
return to home screen this is something that was not there prior to this update we didn't have the
option to put in a return to home screen option so if you want to add this maybe you're creating
a shortcut and you want it to go back to the home screen based on a set of variables you can
now do that so this just wasn't there before and they've added in shortcuts now as far as physical
changes and updates that's everything they've updated in beta 4 that i've been able to find
some people have said that they were seeing a notification after booting up that shows new
features in mac os monterey i i was not seeing this myself but some people are seeing that now
they have resolved some issues as well there's 14 resolved issues and 18 known issues some of
the resolved issues have to do with being able to boot into recovery mode now where it wouldn't
work before so they've fixed quite a few issues there's still some yet to go and of course we're
waiting for universal control i can't wait to see that now as far as when to expect beta 5
well beta 5 will probably be within a week based on what we've seen in the past normally when apple
releases a new update they have bi-weekly updates usually from the first to the fourth beta after
the fourth beta they usually switch within august sometimes to a weekly beta schedule with a final
release in september that's normally what they do however this could change of course from year
to year so if we go to our year you'll see maybe we'll have it on the 4th of august with an update
or the 3rd of august or it could be the next week as well so we just don't know usually around beta
4 or 5 it switches to a weekly cycle and then we'll have a final release usually in late
september with mac os or even early october so it just depends on what they decide to do but there
should be at least another three betas or so based on what we've had in the past now as far as should
you install mac os monterey beta 4 if you're already beta testing beta 3 there's no reason not
to to get the latest updates and test out all the features and if you're on mac os big sur i would
recommend against it i never recommend putting a mac os update on a production machine so if you're
using final cut or logic or adobe premiere or anything like that i usually say skip it until the
final version's out so they work out the bugs and it doesn't interrupt your day-to-day production
otherwise if you have an extra mac around and you want to try it out then definitely you could do
that if you are having issues make sure you submit feedback as apple uses that to determine what to
fix first and resolves those issues and so that's everything in mac os monterey beta 4 if you found
anything else let me know in the comments below i'd love to hear from you if you'd like to get
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you.