Apple seeds OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite beta to developers
Apple on Wednesday issued a fourth beta build for an upcoming OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite maintenance update, requesting developers test Wi-Fi, Mail, VoiceOver and Bluetooth functionality ahead of public release.
The latest Yosemite beta build 14C99d comes one week after the most recent version was released to developers and appears to mark a return to Apple's usual weekly update cycle.
Apple is once again asking developers to focus on Wi-Fi connectivity assets in the new beta version, a problem area for OS X Yosemite that has not been resolved since its launch last October. Mac users have complained of multiple Wi-Fi connectivity issues, including slower than normal transfer speeds and dropped connections.
Other focus areas include Mail, VoiceOver and Bluetooth. Apple's OS X 10.10.1 update attempted to patch complications for both Wi-Fi and Mail in November, but problems remain for some users.
Developers can access the OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite beta through Apple's Developer Portal.
The latest Yosemite beta build 14C99d comes one week after the most recent version was released to developers and appears to mark a return to Apple's usual weekly update cycle.
Apple is once again asking developers to focus on Wi-Fi connectivity assets in the new beta version, a problem area for OS X Yosemite that has not been resolved since its launch last October. Mac users have complained of multiple Wi-Fi connectivity issues, including slower than normal transfer speeds and dropped connections.
Other focus areas include Mail, VoiceOver and Bluetooth. Apple's OS X 10.10.1 update attempted to patch complications for both Wi-Fi and Mail in November, but problems remain for some users.
Developers can access the OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite beta through Apple's Developer Portal.
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And my jerky animations when opening and closing windows....ugh. Early 2009 Mac Pro 16gb Ram.
if you guys are sending your feedback to apple, why post it here?
it just sounds like whining to me.
What "assets," specifically? Wouldn't "Wi-Fi connectivity" alone have worked?
Sorry, I nitpick when bored, but just don't see any value fluff words like "assets" add to these articles, and AI has been overusing it lately (imho).
Lest they forget the graphical bugs and issues I keep seeing on my mid 2013 MacBook Air and my brand new iMac 5K.
Are you referring to the horrible performance of Preview with PDFs?
I find when zooming in on largish PDFs (maybe 1-2 Mb), that lag and spinning beach ball occurs. Sometimes there is just no response for too long, then I have to force quit. This is on my shiny new iMac 5K :-(
Apple support forum users are reporting this too. I went ahead and sent Apple a bug report.
BTW, Adobe Reader seems to work well. Not much in the way of markup tools though.
Yosemite for me has been plagued with poor graphical performance on a 2013 MacBook Air and 2012 MacBook Pro. I see this a lot in Safari. Scrolling a web page quickly results in nothing but white for a moment, and then the page appears. Opening menus in any app, or switching mailboxes in Mail.app can result in the background highlight for the selection to be half on the old, half on the new. I never saw this issue happen with any version of OS X in the past 13 years. It seems to me that they've tried to "over-optimize" graphics performance. I peg all of these problems on the WindowServer process, which also seems to consume even more CPU time than before.
Whining? You've no idea what you're talking about.
You may be right about where this issue is occurring. It's happening across many different Macs from old to new. I hope they are just choosing not to mention this and are working very hard to squash this issue. I just saw it in iTunes on my iMac 5K.
This is true but in many cases we're already submitted bug reports to Apple and at best gotten a reply saying the bug we've submitted is a duplicate of one already in their defect database. So this forum ends up being a place to vent.
If Apple provided even a little positive feedback that it was addressing the most egregious bugs in Yosemite more people would be inclined to cut them some slack. Core features like iTunes are horribly broken. I have to reboot Yosemite 2-3 times a day just to get it to recognize my iPhones, iPads, and iPods. For reasons known only to the Apple software team iTunes will simply lose connectivity to a USB connected device ("iPhone X is no longer connected") or will not recognize a device that's been unplugged and replugged while Yosemite is asleep. As I type this I see that iTunes now shows the entire 79+ GB of used space on my iPhone 6+ as "Other."
Time for another Yosemite reboot.
Yosemite is Apple's Windows Me.
Something is terribly wrong in the Apple software organization. I don't know what their priorities are these days but fixing the basic functionality in OS X and iTunes should be very high on their list. Just make the basic stuff that's supposed to work - work. I suspect that OS X and especially iTunes has become an incredibly fragile house of cards and any changes in any area risk breaking the whole damn thing.
This software crisis has the potential of overshadowing all of the great things Apple is doing with shiny new hardware bling. They are not going to be able to gloss over these software bugs for much longer. The software stink is starting to spread. The worst smell right now is coming from iTunes, it's an unholy mess.
UPDATE:
Rebooted and reinstalled iTunes from the online download site. All of my iOS devices are showing up again - for now. Fingers crossed. This is so much like re-living the Windows Wars only without the need for registry hacks and the DLL hell. If Apple doesn't clean up their act soon on their software these PTSD episodes from my Windows days are going to keep reoccurring. Ugh!
I didn't have issues with the first 2. The third that hit my machine last week really borked bluetooth, both my mouse and headphones were dropping frequently which I haven't seen prior. 4th is downloading now, hopefully it improves.
Apple's software has been killing the performance of older machines. There is no excuse.
I have a computer that has 3 and a half years and the darn thing costed me 1600 €, with student discount. Somehow, I can install Windows 8.1 on it and watch windows being as good as it can be. (still prefer OS X).
On OS X, preview lags like crazy on bigger pdfs and images. iPhoto is a lag fest. Screen transitions are far from fluid. If I go to system preferences and go to my icloud's settings, the beachball appears without end.
And all of this on a crappy 1440*900 TN panel that was outdated in 2011, but is their flagship to this day. There are some stupid decisions, specially on software. People are losing their trust on updates. Heck, just go and read some 10.10 reviews on the MAS.
I hope this update is about putting things on the right track, even if it isn't mentioned. It will take a lot of great releases to make me update on 10.X.0 again. Apple used to be about "it just works" and never release betas. Now it's always about being on beta or unsupported.
They are lucky everybody else sucks.
If Apple provided even a little positive feedback that it was addressing the most egregious bugs in Yosemite more people would be inclined to cut them some slack.
Agreed. This is one of those where secrecy hurts Apple.
10.10.2 seems to have fixed all DNS issues.
Sometimes when a user has a myriad of issues such as you describe, it is natural when they hear about updates that they gain reinforcement in the view it is something wrong with the OS behind their specific issues. Simply based my 35 years plus experience in this industry, I would suspect you have something else going on. Have you tried running Disk Warrior on your boot volume to check the catalogs and directories for example? Sadly, Apple's Disk Utilities is far from the best tool once the weird stuff starts.
Having said that, I like Yosemite a lot. It's the smoothest I've known for some while on my seven year old iMac.
I hope Apple concentrate on iCal and Calendar. There are too many bugs there for my liking.