what's up guys my name is Brandon and Apple just released mac os monterey 12.1 after going through
beta testing for the past 7 weeks and this is the first major update to mac os monterey since
the initial release back in october and along with this mac os updates we also got ios and ipad os
15.2 tv os 15.2 homepod os 15.2 and watchos 8.3 but of course this video is all about the mac
and we're going to be covering all of the new features changes and bug fixes
found in this latest 12.1 version so let's go ahead and take a look at the size and the
build number for this update so you can see here i'm using my 14 inch m1 max macbook pro
and you can see here the update came in at 2.36 gigabytes from the previous build which was 12.0.1
so you should expect a size under three gigabytes so not too large here and if we take a look at
the build number you can see it's 21c52 all right so now what's new here in mac os monterey 12.1 so
we're going to get a lot of the same features that we got in ios and ipad os 15.1 and 15.2
and this updates and the first one is share play so of course this is the facetime feature where we
can have synchronized experiences in facetime when you're watching a tv show a movie or when you're
listening to apple music you guys should know about this by now this is the big facetime feature
that was included with ios 15. it's now finally made its way to the mac alright so you can see
i facetimed myself over here and now with mac os monterey 12.1 we have this new button in facetime
that's going to allow us to share our screen so if you press on that it's going to take you to
the menu bar up here for facetime and you can see you can share your screen or just share a specific
window which is pretty cool and then of course we do have share play which you're allowed to
you know share your experience or have kind of have a synchronized experience when watching a
movie tv show or listening to music and if you were to press play on like a song for example
you could see here it asks you how do you want to share play this song with everyone you could play
it now next or later and of course it will start playing on your device and of course the person
your face timings device as well so share play is finally now on the mac and then for those of
you expecting to see universal control with this update unfortunately it has been delayed until the
spring of 2022. you can see here apple updated their website to now say available this spring
so it's unfortunate but then again i would rather have a more smooth polished experience than apple
just rushing it out and having a buggy experience with universal control so cannot wait for this to
be released but we're gonna have to wait until this spring to see it we also have a new feature
inside of the mail application just like with ios and ipad os 15.2 we now have the option to use
hide my email straight from the mail application instead of having to do it from settings so when
you tap on the from field right here you have the option to choose hide my email now we also
got safari updated to version 15.2 so now we have 120 hertz when scrolling and safari looks
a lot smoother and a lot better of course than at 60hz so if you go to your safari and go to about
safari you'll see here we're on version 15.2 as well we also get the communication safety feature
for children inside of the messages application on the mac as well so this of course is a big feature
for ios and ipad os to protect children from explicit photos but that has also made its way
to mac os with this latest 12.1 release we also have some changes to the photos application mainly
with the memories feature right here so this is a new splash screen with mac os monterey 12.1 and
you can see here we have shared with you memories so it says discover a new interactive memories
experience including a soundtrack curated for you and then of course we have visual lookup as well
with this update so if we go to the memories tab here you can see just some minor changes to the
ui and of course if we tap these three dots right here you can have the option to do short medium
or long or edit the title of this memory and you can see here in the release notes apple
mentions new memory types include additional international holidays child focused memories
trends over time and improved pet memories so i guess this is an improved pep memory here with
this update so i think it looks pretty solid shows some pretty good pictures right there of my cats
inside of the tv application we now have a store tab where we can rent and buy movies all in one
place you can select right here movies or tv shows to kind of filter it and you can see all of your
options here where you can rent or buy so it's nice to have the standalone store tab now and then
also just like in ios and ipad os 15.2 we now have the option to select people as legacy contacts
so they can access your icloud account and personal information in the event of your death
so something you don't always think about but it is important to have a legacy contact set up
so that your data can be passed down and then of course we do also have the apple music voice plan
available for mac os monterey 12.1 as well so this will carry across of course all devices but you
can now you know sign up for that if you wanted to on the mac we also have some minor changes
inside of the stocks application so now when you go to a stock you now have a year-to-date
option for the charts so before it just said six months and then one year there was never a
year to date so it now has that right there also under the ticker it will show the stock exchange
that this stock is under and the currency that you're currently using so mine is usd
so it shows that now right here with this update and then as far as bug fixes go we do have quite
a few mentioned here but i also wanted to mention a couple that were not mentioned in the release
notes but let's go ahead and cover these first so desktop and screen saver may appear blank after
selecting photos from the photos library that has been fixed also the big issue with the trackpad
where it would become unresponsive to taps or clicks has been fixed that drove me absolutely
crazy on the previous build of mac os monterey i just couldn't even use my trackpad anymore so
thankfully that has been fixed also external displays may not charge some macbook pro and
macbook air computers when connected using thunderbolt or usbc i never had that issue
and i used an external display with my macbook pro but if you were having that issue it has
been resolved also the massive youtube hdr bug has been fixed with this update so if you have a 2021
macbook pro and you tried to watch an hdr video on youtube in safari it would cause your device to
reboot it would have a kernel panic and it drove me and everybody nuts so now after updating you're
able to watch hdr videos as intended another big complaint with the 2021 macbook pros with the
notch the menu bar extras are not obscured by the what apple is calling the camera housing so the
camera housing is the notch on the new macbook pros and now if you have you know menu options
that go all the way to the middle which you have to have a ton of applications that have that but
if they go all the way over here it's now not obscured by the notch you're going to be able to
actually see all your menu items i guess it's just going to skip over that and continue down here
past the notch so i will never have that many menu items but if you do that has been fixed and then
also we have a fix for magsafe when it would stop charging on the 2021 16-inch macbook pro and then
aside from the bug fixes that apple mentioned i did also want to point out that vsync works so
a lot of people had issues with vsync on previous builds of mac os monterey but that has been fixed
and now vsync works properly on at 12.1 and then i also wanted to mention memory leaks because a lot
of people had issues with memory leaking in macos monterey so hopefully 12.1 fixes that that of
course does take time to see if it's been fixed or not apple did not mention it in the release notes
so that is kind of concerning but i personally have not had any issues with memory leaking on
my device but i'll let you guys know if that has been fixed or not in a later
video and then as far as the security patches go we have a ton of bugs that have been patched
in this update so if we scroll down the list here you can see a ton of things have been patched we
have kernel bugs we have webkit bugs we have all types of things that have been patched in this
update so if you care about security at all and protecting your information you know of course
you do want to go ahead and update to keep your device as secure as possible because there are
quite a few bugs that have been patched here and as far as performance overall performance actually
feels better here in mac os monterey 12.1 it seems like a lot of things are just more fluid overall
than they were on a previous build so everything feels great as far as performance goes as far as
battery life goes of course i am using an external display so i never really test the battery life
on at my macbook pro here but i would not expect any major hits to battery life it could get better
i would expect it to get better if anything but you guys will have to let me know down in the
comments below if your battery life got better or worse after updating here to mac os monterey 12.1
but anyways guys there you have it that is mac os monterey 12.1 i think it's a great update for
everybody no matter what device you're on you should go ahead and update to macos monterey
12.1 it's the first big update to macos monterey since it came out initially again back in october
so highly recommended to update for the bug fixes alone and of course the features are a nice added
bonus of course a lot of the features were already in ios and ipad os so nothing groundbreaking here
with the feature set but if you guys enjoyed this video i would appreciate if you give it a
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a comment down below with which mac you updated to 12.1 i'm really curious to see what machines
you guys are using out there but anyways guys thanks again for watching and i'll see you soon
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