Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and yesterday apple released mac os big sur 11.2 to the public
this is available to all mac os big sur supported devices and is available now around the world at
the same time so you should see it now this update came in at about three gigabytes or so depending
on the device you're using so 2.77 gigabytes as you can see here and it took a little while to
install but once it's installed it does have quite a few bug fixes in it and reliability updates now
let's go ahead and close this and if we take a look at the build number you can see here it
says 11.2 we'll click on it and it says 20d64 now this is the same build as if you're a developer or
public beta tester and you're using mac os 11.2 rc3 they're the exact same version if you were
developer or beta tester you just had it early so there's no need to do anything you already have it
if you'd like to continue beta testing continue doing that if not remove the beta profile and
you'll no longer get the developer updates now this update like i said contains some fixes and
the first thing has to do with bluetooth bluetooth has been a problem for quite a few people and
you can see i have a lot of different bluetooth devices and they've updated bluetooth reliability
and it should be much better since installing this update i have noticed it is better especially on
m1 devices so m1 mac macbook pro mac mini and macbook air you should see some improvements
as far as that goes so bluetooth has been updated which is always nice to see now most of the fixes
are things you cannot see visually but they've been addressed so let's go over them and the first
one has to do with external displays specifically on the m1 mac mini so if you're using an hdmi to
dvi converter sometimes you would not be able to see the screen it would just sort of stay black
now that's been resolved so if you're using that converter with an m1 it should work properly
now if you're using photos there was an issue if you were editing apple pro raw files so maybe
you're editing a photo that has raw on it here and maybe you make some changes to it whatever
you're doing with it and you want to adjust it and then you want to click done a lot of the time
it wouldn't save apple has fixed this now so that they save properly so that's something that's been
fixed in this update so we'll go ahead and close that and the next thing that they've fixed has to
do with icloud drive so if we go into our system preferences and then click on our apple id you
can see we have icloud drive here now if icloud drive was turned on and you're using it normally
and maybe you disable icloud drive desktop and document folder options so maybe you have that
in your finder you're using them with icloud for example so on the left here you can see here on
the left where maybe you're using desktop in icloud if you remove that sometimes it
could turn off icloud drive altogether they've since fixed that and it should no longer do that
so that should be resolved in this update and then if you're within system preferences under
security and privacy and maybe you want to make a change you click the little lock button here
sometimes it wouldn't unlock after clicking on it and then putting in your administrator password
if you did that sometimes it wasn't working properly now it should be resolved
and then finally if we go into notes and if i bring up a new note here when you're using the
globe key on a macbook for example to bring up the emoji selector it wasn't showing up properly for
a lot of people so the globe key will now work properly to bring up emoji and symbols when you
press those keys or that key you can use the same combination on a mac that doesn't have
the globe key as well control command space to bring this up and it will now work as intended
now as far as changes that's everything apple's mentioned as far as bug fixes or physical changes
there doesn't seem to be anything else that they've addressed i hope they fix things with
notifications for example but there are a lot of security updates so if we go into security updates
here this is their website showing the security updates you can see it says about the security
content of mac os big sur 11.2 there's also a similar security update for mac os catalina and
mojave if you don't have big sur and you have the latest version of those and as you can see here as
i scroll down you'll see it says released february 1st 2021 and i can link this in the description
this is available to the public anyone can see this but there are a ton of security updates
in this update so as i go down you'll see core text for example crash reporter will keep going
and there's a ton of different updates so as i go down you'll see image i o i o kit kernel and
for example in the kernel it says an application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel
privileges this has been fixed it says a logic issue existed resulting in memory corruption this
was addressed with improved state management and then again a remote attacker may be able to cause
a denial of service a malicious application may be able to elevate privileges apple is aware of it
apple is aware of a report that this issue has been actively exploited now they've fixed all
of these issues and as i scroll down you'll see there's even more so everything from messages
to screen sharing to webkit webrtc for example so a lot of different things that have been updated
and secured that leads me to should you install mac os 11.2 well i would say absolutely at
this point just for the security updates alone whether you're on big sur catalina or mojave so
those are big updates of course if you were having bluetooth issues that would be a reason
to install this and there's not any huge changes like i said that you can see physically but a
lot of bug fixes and there may be even more that they didn't list so i would definitely recommend
installing this update if you haven't already mac os big sur in general has been very stable for me
more so than catalina but not for everyone but for me it has been on every mac i've used so for
me i recommend it the only issues i have with it really have to do with notifications and the way
you actually have to clear those so for example if i slide in notifications you have to click the x
and it's just more of a pain to clear these than it was before so hopefully they fix this
make it a little bit easier it's hard to click that x sometimes but other than that i recommend
installing this and then many of you wonder what these menus are up here this is an application
called istat menu so it just lets me know what's going on with all the different cpu cores and gpu
cores things like that and gives me my overall temperature so a lot of people ask every video
what that is and then this is air buddy which lets me see everything connected to it via bluetooth
and connect more easily it's just a nice visual representation of what's going on
it is a paid app but i thought i'd just mention it since a lot of people usually ask so that's it for
mac os 11.2 big sur if you've found anything else i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
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