Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and yesterday apple released macOS Monterey 12.2 beta 1.
this is available to developers and just today they released it to public beta testers as well
so if you want to try it out you can now the odd thing is along with this apple was supposedly
going to release ios 15.3 beta 1 ipad os 15.3 beta 1 tv os 15.3 beta 1 and watch os 8.4 beta 1.
however for some reason they didn't and it's actually within the code on the developer website
but for some reason they didn't push out those those specific updates so maybe they
found a problem with them now as you can see this came in at 1.83 gigabytes that's for me on the
13-inch macbook pro m1 let's take a look at the build number and talk about what's new so
we'll click on the apple go to about this mac and as you can see it says version 12.2 beta
and if you click on it here you get the build number the build number is 21d5025f
and this particular build brings a couple things some are not as easy to see as the others
but the first thing that this brings has to do with apple music and apple music
actually gets a complete rewrite or it's they're beginning to rewrite it in its native app kit
before it would use things from the web to sort of load some of these different things when you
go into your library for artists or you're searching the store for artists or browsing
now it's actually native and loading much faster depending on what you're doing so whether you go
to artists or just click on whatever you want here it just feels faster overall as you can browse go
through whatever you'd like and you'll see some of the loading isn't incredibly fast but it
definitely feels faster than it was before apple had actually updated the same sort of thing in
mac os 12.1 with the tv app so they're rewriting this to be a native app for the mac now there's an
improvement within safari if you're on one of the new macbooks maybe the 14 or 16 inch macbook pro
and you actually go to safari you'll notice that promotion will be much smoother you won't notice
that on this video since it's in 60 frames per second but if you have 120 hertz pro motion
you can notice this on one of those macs if your mac supports it so that's nice that finely updated
safari to give it a more smooth experience and it seems to be much better quite a few
people have been reporting that now as far as those who are curious about universal control
it seems like apple just keeps delaying this you'll see if we search for it within our
settings or system preferences we have the option for universal control but it's just not there yet
so it's something that we'll have in the future and if we go to our display you'll see it
actually opened up our display preference pane we have the option to mirror or extend to an ipad pro
that's nearby but that's it we cannot actually do universal control between these devices and easily
switch between our mac and ipad or multiple macs and an ipad just by dragging our trackpad or mouse
so you'll see here actually as i brought it to the corner it popped up so let's see if we can
enable that and we can't this popped up on its own so just by bringing it over to the edge it noticed
that maybe i want to try this out but it wasn't working so i can click on it it seems to be in
the code but it's not really working properly and apple has said that they've delayed this
until spring you'll see it says available this spring on the mac os monterey website
and so this is here but unfortunately that means probably after march at this point so
it's delayed for a few months maybe even longer maybe they'll push it even later than
that hopefully we'll get it sooner rather than later but maybe they're having some technical
difficulties with it or something else but i would love to see this pop up and allow me to enable it
i know there's some ways to enable it through terminal but right now this is all i'm getting
and this is the first time i'm seeing this pop up like this now as far as resolved and known issues
well apple has not listed anything in their notes in fact it says there's no new notes
so whether they've actually fixed the issue with a memory leak or something else it's hard
to say because we don't really know i haven't really experienced that too much you can see
the memory being used here in real time as i'm recording this video but they haven't mentioned
anything about the memory leak and people have not confirmed whether or not it was fixed in
mac os 12.1 either so additional bugs could be fixed in the future typically there will be a few
bug fixes in this update and hopefully universal control will come a little bit later where we can
just drag from corner to corner and then it will show up but those are the things that are new in
mac os 12.2 i just wanted to share that with you and hopefully we see ios 15.3 betas very soon
however with mac os 12.2 betas i would expect beta 2 maybe after the holiday break as apple
typically goes on vacation at the end of the month so we may not see beta 2 until later so typically
based on this calendar here so we may not see mac os 12.2 beta 2 until the new year of 2022
so we could see it halfway through the month like we did last year so we'll have to wait and see
what they do hopefully we'll get some new betas and they'll finally enable universal control but
again we'll have to wait and see if you've found anything else though in mac os 12.2 i'd love to
hear from you in the comments below also i'd love to hear what device you're actually using it on if
you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link the iphone version in the
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