hi everyone aaron here for Zollotech and yesterday apple released mac os monterey 12 beta 3. this is
available to developers and hopefully by the time you're watching this video it will be out
to public beta testers they did not release it the same day they released this to developers
so usually it will come the day after if that's the case now along with this apple also released
ios 15 beta 3 ipad os 15 beta 3 watch os 8 beta 3 tv os 15 beta 3 and also a revised version
of homepod os 15 beta 3. so there was an issue with homepod sort of breaking with earlier betas
they've since revised that now you can see this came in at 2.72 gigabytes that's on the m1 macbook
pro let's go ahead and take a look at the build number and talk about what's new so we'll close
this we'll go to the apple in the upper left click about this mac and as you can see here it says the
version number is 12.0 and the build number is 21A5284e and in this particular build there are
a few significant changes now let's go ahead and close this and talk about the first significant
change which has to do with safari so if we go into safari you'll see it looks pretty normal so
far but if i click on apple for example you'll see that it looks more like it did with mac os big sur
and as you can see here if we open up another tab and then we click on maybe google for example it
puts the tabs below it now and you have your refresh button at the top like we did before
if i open another tab go to apple again you'll see it sort of stacks your favorites right here so you
have your favorites below or your different tabs below it just depends on which one you're going to
but it looks much more like mac os big sur now this can be reverted back so instead of having
this sort of look we can go back to what we had with beta 1 and beta 2 by going to view
and then clicking on show separate tab bar so if we click on that now it looks like it did
before so when you click on the individual tabs they sort of expand and once you mouse over them
you get your refresh button so this is sort of the look we had before that we have across ios
and ipad os but for those of you that don't like it they've made it the default in beta 3 to have
sort of the older style design and with this older design if we go to view and then go to customize
toolbar we also have share and reload back so some of these were removed before they've now made them
optional to put wherever you'd like so you have that option now if you want to put reload wherever
you want you can do that and those options are back i actually prefer the previous version i
like to try something a little bit different and new but you can change this to whatever you prefer
so it's nice to see that they've made that change for those that like to see it each way i know a
lot of people don't like this design and i try and force myself to get used to it but you can always
use either version now so that's nice to see them actually giving us the option now if we go down
to system preferences and we go to displays under displays we'll wait for it to load here click on
advanced and you'll now see options that hint that will have universal control very very soon
unfortunately it's not working yet but you'll see it says allow your cursor and keyboard to move
between any nearby mac or ipad this doesn't work in fact my ipad is sitting right in front of my
macbook and it's not working right now at all so unfortunately it's not working with beta 3 on
either ipad os 15 beta 3 or mac os monterey beta 3. so neither one works and then it also says push
through the edge of the display to connect to nearby mac or ipad so if you turn that on hit
done it doesn't really work i wish it did but so far it's not working in this particular version
hopefully we'll see that very very soon and so as far as mac os monterey beta 3 that's pretty
much it as far as new features in this update there's not a lot as far as changes other than
what i've mentioned already now as far as known issues and resolved issues well if we go into
the feedback assistant we can see some of these so we go into this click on inbox and then click on
mac os monterey 12 beta 3. if you're a beta tester you can see all the known issues and resolved
issues now they've fixed over 30 issues in this update and so for example the first one says
airplay receivers now appear in system preferences or sharing as expected also there's known issues
there's over 30 issues that are known so quite a few things that are resolved as we scroll
down through you'll see for example in calendar adding a video call to an event with an existing
location no longer removes the previous location that's fixed in calendar as far as known issues
in display preferences configuration is available for universal control preferences but the feature
support is not enabled in this release so like i said before universal control features are there
but you can't use them yet and so you can see there's quite a few different ones fonts have been
resolved so they render properly in pdfs and much much more so there's a lot of fixed issues in this
update and quite a few things that still exist so apple is working on that but so far it seems
fairly stable and for those of you wondering if you should use this on your main device i highly
recommend against that if it's a production device so if you're editing video with final
cut pro for example or maybe you're using logic pro for music or something else that's critical
i would skip it on your main device however if you want to try it out and it's a device that doesn't
matter too much as far as if it has an issue well then you could definitely try it out otherwise i
would skip it for now but we'll see more changes in the future i'm sure with safari at this point
maybe they'll revert back again with beta 4 or not we're not really sure now as far as when to
expect mac os monterey beta 4 and hopefully we'll see universal control enabled finally
generally we're on a two-week cycle at this point they released it on the 14th of july with beta 3 i
would expect beta 4 some somewhere around the 28th of july and then maybe we'll see maybe a week to
week cycle after that in august that's normally what they do with a final release in september
so look for that in a couple weeks of course i'll keep you updated if there's any significant
changes in it if you've found anything else let me know in the comments below i'd love to hear
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