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Apple Seeds Third Beta of macOS Sonoma 14.2 to Developers

Apple today seeded the third beta of an upcoming macOS Sonoma 14.2 update to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after Apple seeded the second beta of macOS Sonoma 14.2.

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Registered developers can opt-in to the beta through the Software Update section of the System Settings app. Under Beta updates, toggle on the Sonoma Developer Beta. Note that an Apple ID associated with an Apple Developer account is required to get the beta.

macOS Sonoma 14.2 adds an Apple Music Favorites playlist that houses everything you've favorited, plus Apple added support for collaborative playlists. You can now share a playlist with multiple people, and each participant can add songs.

Shazam can also be added to the Control Center or menu bar on the Mac.

Stickers can be used to reply to iMessages when you long press on a chat bubble in the Messages app, and there's also now support for the extra-secure iMessage Contact Key Verification option.

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GuyDouche Avatar
31 months ago
Please let there be no bugs. Please let there be no bugs.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
vegetassj4 Avatar
31 months ago

Please let there be no bugs. Please let there be no bugs.
I'm sure this will happen first:



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Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Realityck Avatar
31 months ago
Comparison of 14.2 beta 3 to previous 14.2 beta 2

macOS 14.2 beta 3 (23C5047e)

* Safari Version 17.2 (19617.1.16.11.2)
* System Firmware Version: 10151.60.56 (M1 based Macs)
* Darwin Kernel Version 23.2.0: Thu Nov 9 06:28:34 PST 2023; root:xnu-10002.60.71.505.1~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64

macOS 14.2 beta 2 (23C5041e)

* Safari Version 17.2 (19617.1.13.11.1)
* System Firmware Version: 10151.60.55 (M1 based Macs)
* Darwin Kernel Version 23.2.0: Wed Nov 1 21:07:19 PDT 2023; root:xnu-10002.60.69.501.1~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
bousozoku Avatar
31 months ago

Please let there be no bugs. Please let there be no bugs.
Why wouldn't there be bugs in a test release?
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
31 months ago
and again Apple Music is broken
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
31 months ago
Can't wait to install this on my iPad!
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)