hi everyone aaron here for Zollotech and yesterday
apple released mac os big sur beta 3. this is available to developers
currently and hopefully soon to public beta testers and supports
all mac os big sur supported devices now this came in at a very large 4.96
gigabytes this is on a 2016 macbook pro 13-inch and so it seems to
be running okay i'll talk more about that in a moment
but the update's fairly large and they're usually this big when you
install these beta updates for some reason so
it was normal with catalina it's normal with big sur now let's take a look at
the build number and talk about what's new
the build number is 20A5323I and this particular update brings some
changes now mac os big sur beta 2 did not really
have any changes so i didn't do a video on it but this one does have a few
significant changes but there are still some known issues
this is a beta so keep that in mind there are 36
known issues according to apple's notes as well as 46 resolved issues including
everything such as accessibility during setup so voice over
and things like that have been fixed there are a lot of fixes 46 resolved
issues and so it's good to see that they're
making a lot of progress on it and so far it seems pretty good now as
far as the new features well the first thing is
some new sounds so for example if i take a screenshot by holding command
shift 3 you can hear that the sound is a little bit different now i'll do that
again they've changed that sound now if we go
into screenshots and i delete that photo you'll see or hear that the trash is a
little bit different if i hit command z and take it out of the trash
there's another sound so they've changed sounds all over the place
most notably the screenshot sound is what most people have noticed
but that's something they've changed now the next thing
people will be very happy to know that apple has updated the battery icon
the battery icon in the previous version looked like this so let's go ahead and
open it up so i can show you side by side so this is the this is from
beta 1 and beta 2 the previous battery icon the battery
now looks like this it's what we would expect the battery to
look like an actual battery instead of some people have called this a baby
bottle i've heard other things as well so you'll see
it gives the charging status it looks like a normal battery like you'd expect
and then you just have the same icons here for things like
battery power adapter and schedule your usage history
your battery health and so you can go and check all these things out
so it's really great to see they've changed this i'm looking forward to them
changing some other icons as well but the next thing that they've changed
is the music icon which is pretty obvious they've updated it to match
ios 14 beta 3 where we saw that new update
and you'll see it says the music volume is currently turned all the way down
and it's just letting me know and it's taking a while to bring up listen now
for whatever reason maybe we'll go to browse sometimes this
is a little bit buggy but you'll see it says updating
cloud music library and then another new thing they've changed
is the play button it looks a little bit different we don't know if this is a
mistake or if it's just to match the way it looks in line we're not
really sure yet but this definitely is different than what we had before
so that's something that's different they've also updated
the dictionary icon so if we go into launchpad here
you'll see dictionary here previously it looked a little bit different than this
let me show you side by side and you can see this is someone named nico on
twitter and you can follow them if you want to
see some of the changes but you'll see there's a little change here this is the
old icon on the left here's the new one on the right with mac os big sur beta 3
that we have here so those are the major changes within
this particular update there is not a whole lot new now some
people were saying that the battery remaining
isn't showing although i am seeing it while charging when the
device is not charging it may not show how much time is remaining that's
something some people are seeing but there is one more new feature that
apple has added and that is apfs formatted backup volume so if
you're using time machine time machine should be a lot faster now
because it's using apfs instead of hfs which was the previous version apple
says it makes for faster more compact and more reliable
backups it says new local and network time machine backup
destinations are formatted as apfs by default
but if it actually already is formatted in hfs it will continue in that
version or that option so you may have to select a new disk in order to get
that to work and that is all of the new changes in
this particular version now as far as performance goes so far
it's been pretty good you've seen i'm recording the screen
while actually making this video and it seems to be pretty responsive we
did have that one issue with music not loading properly
but that could be something else entirely although everything else seems
to be fairly fast right now but i would expect
performance improvements closer to the final release now if you found anything
else new i'd love to hear from you in the comments below if you've seen
anything else and if you'd like to get your hands on
this wallpaper i'll leave a link to it in the description like i normally do
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Aaron i'll see you next time
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