Hi everyone aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released mac os big sur 11.4 to the public
this is available to all mac os big sur supported devices and is available at the same time
everywhere around the world now this came in at 3.06 gigabytes that's on the 2021 24-inch
imac the brand new imac apple just released and this was launched alongside ios 14.6 ipad os 14.6
watch os 7.5 as well as tv os 14.6 and homepod os 14.6 all of those updates are available now now
let's go ahead and close this we'll take a look at the build number and then talk about what's new so
we'll go to the apple in the upper left click on about this mac and as you can see it says
version 11.4 if you click on the version number you can see the build number of 20f71 so that's
the current build number of the latest version available to the public and as you can see it's
the m1 with 16 gigs of ram for example so it may vary on the overall install size depending on
which device you're using let's go ahead and close this and the first feature they've updated or
first change they've made is something you can't see directly just yet but support for rdna 2
architecture from amd what that means is new graphics cards whether or not that's coming to new
m1 based imacs or something newer that we're going to see at wwdc or possibly just the standalone
graphics cards that you could add to a mac pro this update adds support for that according to
apple's notes so we'll go ahead and close this and the first change has to do with podcasts
now apple updated podcasts and additional features in that with ios 14.6 and they're bringing across
the same sort of thing apple podcast subscriptions for example they'll be available to purchase
via monthly or annual subscriptions you won't necessarily have to use subscriptions but it does
add support for them i don't see them yet i'm not seeing anything in charts or anything like that
but also alongside that there will be channels grouped together which are collections of shows
from podcast creators so maybe there's a podcast that you listen to regularly for example so if
we go into this show or let's go to see all maybe we'll go into this show in here we could
see different podcasts that are grouped together i'm not seeing any of these yet so i'm imagining
we're going to see more of these very soon once we see subscriptions or things like that where
we have different subscriptions to support our favorite creators for example so that was added
in this particular update so there's not a whole lot new within podcasts if you use the podcast
app you'll appreciate the changes they updated it greatly with mac os 11.3 also let's go ahead
and close this out now as far as new features that's all that's in mac os 11.4 however there
are bug fixes as well so if we go into safari for example apple has said that bookmarks in safari
may get reordered or moved into a folder that can appear hidden so if you're using bookmarks
and they're rearranged in a way that you didn't put them in this should resolve that
also certain websites may not display correctly after your mac wakes from sleep so maybe you put
your mac to sleep you wake it up then you go to maybe apple's website sometimes it may not
appear as it should i've actually seen this before this update where it would be sort of
a small window inside the larger window so that should be fixed in this update now if we go into
the photos app they fix something as well so if we close safari here here's the photos app and
as you can see i take a bunch of different photos for the thumbnails and things but this gives you
an idea and if we go into maybe this one when you export a photo for example and you add keywords so
maybe you're adding keywords to this you want to add a keyword this is apple tv for example
sometimes that wouldn't export when you exported it that has been resolved in photos
now another thing they've fixed has to do with preview so maybe you're in preview you're
searching for a pdf document sometimes it would become unresponsive that has been updated now so
it should work properly now the last thing they've fixed has to do with a specific game
this is kind of unusual if they fix something to make a specific game work but if we go to the app
store for example they've fixed an issue with civilization vi so we go to civilization six or
there we go in civilization six there was an issue where it could become unresponsive when
playing on a 16-inch macbook pro so this has been resolved it's kind of an odd thing we
haven't seen too many times where it's specific to a game but they've resolved that as well now
there are security updates in this update that are pretty significant so if we go into
safari here you can see these are mac os big sur 11.4 security updates there's quite a bit
everything from amd to the app store to core audio to the dock to graphics drivers and we can go on
and on so if i keep scrolling down you'll see the kernel as well login window there's quite
a few updates in this as far as security so you'll see it just keeps going on and on and that's good
the apple continues to update security for mac os and you'll see there's a ton of different updates
in this giving information as who submitted it what the issue was as far as the impact and what
they did to fix it so all of these things have been fixed in mac os 11.4 and i'll link this
security page in the description below if you want to check this out for yourself so quite
a few things fixed in this and that leads me to should you install mac os 11.4 and i would say
for the bug fixes and security updates alone it's worth it along with ios 14.6 for example
so all of those security updates have been added so that's everything in mac os 11.4
so far it seems responsive i've been using it for a little bit haven't had any issues but
let me know if you've found anything new or experienced any issues in the comments below
if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link the ios version for you in the
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