Apple releases iOS 13 macOS Catalina public betas

by bouke on 6/30/2019, 7:00 AM with 77 comments
  • by olliepop on 6/30/2019, 10:06 AM

    If you're interested, please be warned that these betas are extremely buggy. I don't mean 1 or 2 bugs experienced per day, I mean a bug in almost every minute of interaction. You will incur severely reduced battery life and many broken apps, particularly on the iOS beta. On the upside, this is an invaluable preview particularly for an app developer or Apple enthusiast.

    At the very least you should back up your device first so that you can roll back if necessary - officially there is no other way other than performing a factory reset.

  • by nothis on 6/30/2019, 12:30 PM

    For a while, now, I get these warnings that 32bit programs will soon be unsupported in macOS. Is this the release where they drop support?

  • by auggierose on 6/30/2019, 12:03 PM

    I am basically very happy with the betas, they have features I really rely on in the app I am currently working on; for example a custom UTI deriving from "com.apple.package" is now properly working on iCloud, although Dropbox on iOS doesn't work with it (yet?) but shows a big red minus sign for those files.

    What bugs me with Catalina is that my iMac Pro keeps rebooting when left unattended for an unpredictable but short time. I fixed that for now by using "Owly" which keeps it awake ...

  • by mark_l_watson on 6/30/2019, 2:13 PM

    I updated to all three betas last week. I have been submitting suggestions and bug reports to Apple and one app company, but by and large I am enjoying all three betas. I especially like the desktop mode in iPad 13 beta Safari.

  • by mosselman on 6/30/2019, 9:22 AM

    Based on previous betas, how soon can we expect the final versions? I am pretty excited about some new features

  • by tyingq on 6/30/2019, 2:29 PM

    Title could use a comma or "and" before macOS.

  • by crb on 6/30/2019, 11:13 AM

    Is iPadOS v1 or v13?

  • by cudacurious on 6/30/2019, 8:10 PM

    Has anyone tried Catalina with an Nvidia eGPU?

  • by saagarjha on 6/30/2019, 8:19 AM

    Didn't these come out earlier last week?

  • by ing33k on 6/30/2019, 12:07 PM

    running catalina since 3 days. Already loving it !

  • by sys_64738 on 6/30/2019, 3:07 PM

    Apple should reset the Mac OS X clock back to the Snow Leopard 10.6.8 source tree. Toss everything else away.

  • by wincy on 6/30/2019, 12:52 PM

    My iPhone 6 Plus force upgraded itself to iOS 12 several months ago when I had to restore my phone. Unfortunately, my Apple Watch Series 0 or whatever you’ll call it only works with iOS 11. And now I won’t be able to upgrade my 6 Plus. So my two old devices will permanently and unnecessarily be incompatible with one another forever, through no action of my own (there was no way to avoid the iOS 12 “upgrade”).

    Both will permanently be in the past, but one major version away from compatibility. It’s pretty frustrating.