*** The Official macOS Sonoma thread ***

[Feek]

Coming in Autumn to a Mac near you.

macOS Sonoma

macOS Sonoma Preview

macOS Sonoma brings stunning screen savers, desktop widgets, new ways to share work and web apps along with fun personalization tools and Game mode.

www.apple.com

 

[Kainz]

New screensavers!

 

[Feek]

Won't be long.

 

[whiskycycle]

Won't be long.

Stuck it on my M1 mini and M1 MBA, been pretty solid all told… hopefully get a release soon, as you say.

 

[Broken Hope]

RC downloading.

 

[Cromulent]

macOS is what I use the most compared to iOS so I'm looking forward to finally getting my hands on this.

 

[Feek]

Both MBA and MSU done.

 

[Cromulent]

Looks good!

 

[Feek]

By default, this is set to 'Always' and was really annoying me.

Click on the desktop and all the active windows shift to the edge and out of sight.

 

[Phemo]

Yeah that is irritating.

I installed it on my M1 Air about 4 days ago and thought my battery life wasn’t as good as it used to be. Using it today, just using Edge, it dropped about 30% in an hour of use. That’s definitely not right and I would’ve thought indexing etc would be long sorted out by now.

Not great, but then it is still beta. Just wouldn’t expect things like this when it’s so close to release so it’ll be interesting to see if I’m on my own with this one.

 

[Feek]

I’ve not used my MBA on battery yet, will do so on Monday to see how it goes.

One thing I have noticed is how quickly it boots. It’s knocked over ten seconds off the boot time on my Studio.

 

[Feek]

Also, bluetooth kicks in quicker after a cold start. Previously, I had to hit a key on the keyboard and wait a few seconds for it start working so I could enter my password. Now it’s instant.

 

[Kainz]

Also, bluetooth kicks in quicker after a cold start. Previously, I had to hit a key on the keyboard and wait a few seconds for it start working so I could enter my password. Now it’s instant.

I have that on Ventura and my MX Keys keyboard. Glad to see I don’t have to go through the head banging mashing the first letter of my password anymore!

 

[ic1male]

I love the way the login screen is now an Apple TV screen saver that becomes your wallpaper when you log in.

 

[Feek]

I chose not to use that, I don't like fancy wallpapers, mine is just a gray textured background. Is it possible to have the login screen show that scrrensave but not have it for the wallpaper as well?

 

[Cromulent]

This is the update I'm looking forward to the most. I have an idea for an iOS app and since iOS 17 has just come out I want to support it from the start. Problem is the version of Xcode that supports iOS 17 comes with Sonoma so I have to wait until then to start.

 

[ChrisD.]

Looking forward to this.

 

[ChrisD.]

I installed the RC earlier this morning, really like the screen saver and dynamic wallpaper, plus clicking on the desktop anywhere brings it fully into focus which is nice. I can uninstall Aerial screen saver now with the update.

Everything seems to be working as before and apart from the above I haven't noticed a huge amount of difference, more like spit and polish over Ventura.

 

[Cromulent]

Xcode 15 has been released. It downloaded in the background for me. I only noticed when I had to agree to the license when using Git on the command line.

 

[Feek]

plus clicking on the desktop anywhere brings it fully into focus which is nice

This annoyed me straight away, fortunately it can be switched off (see post #9 above).