This morning, Apple has released a pair of OS X Yosemite beta updates. The first is OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 8 for registered developers. That update is available via the Mac App Store. The Cupertino-based company has also released OS X Yosemite Public Beta 3, which is the third release for end users that are part of Apple’s AppleSeed customer software seeding program. That update is, too, available on the Mac App Store for applicable users. We’ll be updating this post with new changes as they are discovered. OS X Yosemite is expected to ship in October, according to sources.
-Weather in Notification Center requests permission to use current location now, previously just displayed current city
-System Preferences app navigation changed, “Show All” button replaced with forward and backward buttons as well as a 4×3 grid button
-New build is 14A361c over 14A343f from previous developer preview
-New Safari launch screen for on-boarding
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When ios 8 launches in a couple days, beta yosemite users will have the full range of ios 8 and yosemite features? But the rest of users will live with ios8 for a month with very little but health kit and preview? It seems to me that to operating systems that are so deeply connected in features should have been released together, no?
Two* operating systems. Sorry.
There’s more to iOS 8 than handoff and continuity
I’d argue that the millions of iPhone users that have windows (or no desktop OS at all) will benefit from iOS 8 too without the OS centric features
I know, I do, but come on… airdrop, continuity, handoff, these are hallmarks right? P.S. is anyone seeing this update? I am not, currently.
Well… I have Yosemite Preview 3 and IOS8 Gold and unfortunately the handoff, continuity, starting calls from Contacts… none of that is working. Also, on IOS8 the “Preview” app is not to be found and the “iCloud” drive app is missing as well. Now… they could cut all of this “on” once they release IOS8 to the general public so heres crossing our fingers XX
Without these things, its less like a new operating system (feature wise) and more like new Apple apps. No?
I have the most recent Yosemite public beta installed (not today’s rumored version) and iOS 8 GM and continuity is working for me. Initially I tried to configure it using an @me.com address but it didn’t work. When I switched to @icloud on both devices, it worked flawlessly.
I have iOS8 GM and Yosemite. Continuity works perfect. I can call or answer my iPhone from Mac. However, there rest you are right. There is no iCloud app or Preview or etc…
i struggled with this as well but here is what worked for me.
– Obviously you are signed in to iCloud on all devices with the same account
1. you need to have your bluetooth on at all times
2. make sure you are signed in at iMessage and FaceTime
3. open the bluetooth section on your iOS devices and make sure your other devices are showing up and are listed under “My Devices”
4. Try to airdrop a photo, no need to send it, just make sure that your devices do see each other
5. Hopefully this would have worked for you so try opening Safari or Calendar or mail
Note: iWork doesn’t work with handoff wet as they haven’t been update to take advantage of this feature… YET
There is no app for iCloud drive. There is no Preview app. None of that exists, even in GM or in final public release. Not sure where the confusion is. iCloud drive is visible from your Mac and from Apps that have access to it, but you won’t see all your files on your Phone. Thats not how it works. Handoff continuity and calls all work fine. If you are on DP3 then it won’t work. But if Your on PB3 then it should definitely work for you. If you’re on Developer versions, update to the latest version.
You seem to be pretty confused about iOS 8.
1) iCloud Drive is a storage service, not an app.
2) There is no “Preview” app for iOS.
Don’t know where you heard those things, but it wasn’t from Apple.
You’re right. I cancelled my order for the iPhone 6 and won’t be upgrading any of my iDevices until Yosemite is released publicly. I mean waiting another month or so is completely out of the question. Thank you ever so kindly for pointing this out.
Are you serious? Just wait until you have to wait “more than a month” for your iPhone to be delivered due to high demand once Yosemite is out. You just shot yourself in the foot.
Wait… you were being sarcastic, right? Right? haha
I doubt Uriah is being sarcastic, but if so, you’re both kinda going over board. All I am saying ( I preordered both 6 and plus) is that I wish OS X was launching now because so many of the keystone features are shared. I am not saying its a BIG FAIL or that it has ruined the coolness of the new phones. It hasn’t. It’s a “it’d be way better IF” statement. Mr. coolFactor.
I am on Public Preview 2 and the App Store shows DP7 (7!) as available Update. Anybody else got that?
and now it’s completely gone… no updates available.
came and went, like the pre-order iPhone 6 site, or the keynote, Apple’s new trademark is the Premature ejaculation of everything.
I had the same issue after installing DP1. Try updating iTunes manually. This fixed my Yosemite and updates started appearing in App Store app like expected.
Thanks, but it seems like this is a broader issue and has to do with some mess up in their update system that caused the wrong update to show up for Public Beta users. Also my iTunes is already on the newest beta.
I do, and I don’t know how to fix it :c
Wow a large update 1.63GB. Will be interesting to see what fixes have been included.
Well one thing is fixed that was a pain, the problem with Outlook for Mac 2011 crashing if any folders were expanded is resolved. Glad they got that handled, didn’t expect Microsoft would give a rip about that issue!
I’m on Beta 2 and Developer Preview 7 is showing up in the Mac App Store..
Click the “purchases”-tab instead of “Updates” ;-)
but than i’ve to download over 5GB and install it completely, not just a small delta update.. :/
You probably don’t have enough HD space
OS X Yosemite Developer Preview 7 1.0 and OS X Yosemite Beta Recovery Update 1.0 for public Beta Participants in Germany
The Developer preview showed up in my app store as well. But then I clicked the “purchases”-tab and my “Yosemite public beta 2” was changed to beta 3 :-)
I don’t see public beta 3 update…
we have three separate macs that are on beta seed and none of them see it either.
Me neither. Hmmm
me either
Same here…:/
Same
Updated battery charging icon.
show the screenshot please. the current one (PB2): http://i2.minus.com/iMStGSbItNYLb.png
http://i.imgur.com/u6OnyGn.png — the pervious one looked better. Also menu fonts are more thick and seem to be more blurry.
The release notes: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/mac/releasenotes/General/rn-osx-10.10/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40014447
Point to another preview/beta in the works to address some of the known issues.
Where in the doc do you see it point to another preview / beta in the works?
Here, under the extensions known issues:
Which can either mean one of two things; they’re going to provide another build or they’re going to ship it and the provide an update shortly after its release (maybe within a month).
They finally fixed an issue in Yosemite where the Facetime app always used the built-in microphone instead of the selected audio input device. In addition, the App Store settings have been extended woth an option to auto-install OS X updates.
Thanks Apple! :-)
Based on comments such as Public Beta users seeing the Developer Beta… this could explain why the updates were taken down… they were misconfigured for the wrong end users.
Still not seeing it? Anyone?
New drag’n drop icons
show the screenshot please!
Seems, it worked at least for me. I have now Build 14A361p.
Is it me or the notifications center has changed dramatically .. for example it used to push the desktop to the right .. but now it hover above it .. which i find is nice and doesn’t distract you as before
This isn’t new. The notification center has hovered above the desktop since Preview 1.
Beta 3 just showed up for me. 1.63gb
I could install DP8 on my machine. First thing I noticed: Mail is broken. Mail Preferences especially is broken. Signatures all jumbled up and if you try to do anything to them, it just gets stuck. You must quit Mail and reopen it back.
Mail and Signatures work fine for me. Late 2012 iMac 27 inch.
Mine’s Late 2012 MacBook Pro 15″. Mail is working, but often breaks. A pattern that I could reproduce is to reply to an email on my Office 365 account. Signatures have created ghost entries and when I try to delete them, it just won’t and hangs. I have to quit and launch Mail back.
I have 4 email accounts, BTW. 1 iCloud, 1 Office 365 and 2 Gmail.
Odd. Well I hope you have taken the time to send feedback of all this. Apple has been very awesome with responding to feedback promptly.
Same mail problem with me – on the public preview and on DP8 on another Mac. Cannot reply with mail.app at all. Cannot compose mail using my signature. Surprisingly bad.
Same for me. Mail.app not working. Can’t see signatures. cannot compose or reply to email. When new compose window opens then you cannot close it and have to force quit.
Same here – the next release keeps on getting worse than the next!
Mail is having problems with me too: I have two Mail accounts – one Gmail based, the other Exchange based. On the Exchange-based account, I cannot reply, reply-all, or forward. On Gmail accounts these actions work. This is with the public beta 3 I installed last night.
The previous problem I had with Mail – that the CPU invariably would get pegged at 100% at some point – seems to be fixed. Alas, this new one is worse as I can’t reply to any work-related mail! I hope Apple fixes this one quickly :-( (before someone asks, yes, I reported the problem).
I removed ~/Library/Mail/MailData/Signatures and I’ve been able to reply with no issues since.
BRILLIANT! This solved all my mail issues.
I can quit moaning about this now, which I’m sure will make all my office mates happy :)
Amazing! Solved the issue.
Thanks!
Thank you Michael! – This solved my issue too!!!!! Awesome.
Removing the files from that folder solved my issues too. Good call!
Fantastic. SAVED MY DAY
When they release Photo.app? Can’t wait anymore :)
they said it won’t be ready before early 2015, so keep calm and wait for apple watch
I read early 2015.
Just took the plunge Saturday. Can’t wait to upgrade and see if it’s any smoother. Really digging it though.
The charging logo has also changed to a dark with light outlines, from light with dark outlines.
Will Yosemite Beta work with Firefox?
Downloading in Macedonia. DP 8 :) Can’t wait!
New charging icon: http://i.imgur.com/zfg6gpl.png
I think the battery icon on the tray has been updated and hand of shows a tiny symbol of where the app is open (shows a tiny iPhone and iPad) like app badges but on the app on the side of the dock (HANDOFF)
The 4 finger swipe on the trackpad doesnt work
Do you have a second Desktop? You may have to create it and then 4 finger swipe into it.
http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=491900&d=1410835451—-as shown by me i found a new iCloud photo sign in screen after i dl’d OS X 10.10 DP8 (not public beta)
Safari works faster; reading through .pdfs in Preview is MUCH FASTER; the share feature on Safari actually works, without crashing the system.
Nice update so far!
In the PB3, it says “enter password” instead of “password” on the login screen. Or is that just me?
I have Yosemite Public beta 3 now and I still cannot minimise a mail window! Can anyone shed any insight into this?
It’s a basic feature I know but quite simple and annoying that I keep having to cancel and save draft messages to get back to my Mail messages!
All, not sure if it was something unique to my update but when I installed. Beta 3 my email acted very weird…I could not reply to certain messages….standard gmail ok…corporate gmail and Exchange accounts would not work. Hit reply and nothing would happen. Sometimes reply worked but I could not type in the body of the message. Not saying it is Beta 3 ;) .but I had to restore my backup to be able to get work done. Message is: Even though it’s a pain…backup before you install new versions…pretty glad I did. It IS Beta.
I am getting the same error :( It is a same because I need my mail app working.
You can fix Mail (in my testing) simply by turning off Signatures. Ignore if the UI messes up, you can still remove your current signatures and then continue replying to messages. Lame, but makes Mail functional again.
Getting the exact same bug with the mail app not replying in Exchange accounts. Not conducive do a successful day at work! I hope they fix this soon.
Replying to myself….answer to this was above…
Michael Sitarzewski (@msitarzewski) says:
September 17, 2014 at 7:54 am
I removed ~/Library/Mail/MailData/Signatures and I’ve been able to reply with no issues since.
This solved it for me too…signature handling is messed up.
p.s. I deleted the folder and mail built it back and the problem came back.I went back in and just deleted the signatures and hoping that holds for awhile.
p.s. My folder was actually in:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Signatures
The back and forward buttons have always been in the System Preferences window, are you blind?
I’m on Public Beta 3, and last night I was able to Airdrop photos from my iOS 7 phone to my mac. I’m not sure if you could do that before or not, but it was super convenient b/c PhotoStream was being super slow.
one change i see here is when i used to boot my mac up it had the black screen but now after updating the boot up screen has changed to white again.. i liked that black screen boot up
OK, I figured out that most of the mail problems are all related to the signature settings.
When I am able to get the signatures for a particular account to set to “Random” or a specific signature then I am unable to reply to or compose an email.
But when I switch the signature back to “None” I am able to reply to or compose emails again from that account, but of course I don’t have signatures.
So, the hangup must be occurring when we go to reply to or compose an email and that account is set to insert a signature and since that feature is broken, it simply refuses to even try to create the email.
Setting signatures for your account to “None” will solve the reply or compose issue, but you won’t have signatures. I had to toggle the “Place signature above content” box in order to change to “None.”
Also, the battery icon is updated in today’s update to the Yosemite Public Beta. Just noticed it.
Oddly enough, DP8 mail works on my late 2013 iMac 27″ – under my profile. My wife’s profile features the same mail problems everyone else is reporting.
Strange.
Nevermind, the solution is in the dev forum.
Delete sigs from mail prefs. Close mail, launch again.
Functionality restored.
Afterwards you can create sigs in mail prefs.
This worked for me, hope it works for you.
Opinion.
Yosemite is pretty much skinless, which is great. Everything that has no reason to have any other color than white is just plain white (like backgrounds and buttons). Sidebars should have a visually different background color which is now contextual instead of some predefined blue gradient.
But System Preferences, yikes. It’s the only app that lacks naming consistency with iOS (Settings). It has dull gray backgrounds. And many settings should be reconsidered. The appearance setting for example has no use and should disappear. The graphite option has almost no effect besides making the traffic lights unreadable when hovering the mouse over them. Since Yosemite is skinless, the “dark mode” is the only appearance preference needed, and it lacks “spotlight” in its description. This is just an example.
On the new update for mail, I can’t shut a new mail, I can’t reply all and I can’t type in the body of the mail!
As mentioned previously – and I know it doesn’t make much sense – open prefs, delete your signatures and restart mail.
Like I say, it makes no sense, but this did the trick for me and dozens of others on Apple’s dev forum.
The Wifi symbol got thicker, making it much easier to see on non-retina Macs
The mail app client is completely inoperable after the new OS X Yosemite Public Beta 3 update… cannot write any emails, and the program just hangs, and you have to force quit to close the program.
I have had the same issues. Try deleting all of your signatures in the preferences pane of the mail app then relaunching. It has worked for others.
Yes, that solved it for me! Thanks! :-)
This didn’t work for me. It hangs when I try to delete the signatures as well as when I try to compose an email or to reply to one. I can type the to and subject in a new email, just not the body.
Same issues as many people with the Mail app in Beta 3. I should have waited until this morning, but I went ahead and deleted the Exchange account to try to add it back in fresh. Now I can’t add it back at all. I know it is talking to the server, and all other devices using it (even including the Outlook app on Beta 3) are working. It just gives me a server error and will not let me continue. If anyone has any suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it. I’m having to use Windows8!! Haaalp!!
Just downloaded iOS 8. Handoff is not working for me, only Safari handoff. Tried Mail handoff but nothing.
I have Yosemite Public Beta 3 and Bluetooth on, ICloud Drive and all options ticked in settings on all devices for Handoff…
iCloud and map mail does not allow typing in the content area of a new email. Gmail is working OK
I got to say, I’ve got the most recent update on my 2012 macbook pro, as i seen it said not to install on a newer one, so that was out of the equation for my 2014 retina macbook pro, but i do wanna say continuity is working perfectly, and flawlessly for me since i’ve added the update, i would of thought i had to do something to connect them, but when it updated, i just put in my iCloud info. and boom, worked perfectly,
never had no troubles with the preview yet, but I cannot wait for them to release the full version, and to also be able to text, not just iMessage from my mac.
Is it normal when i boot to ask me first for my password in a grey screen and after that to shows a progress bar for loading the mac????
I get the same response when I login, which I really don’t care for. Its not about the time but rather the appearance that is remanicent of “Windows” login. Eh.
Mail buttons (reply, forward etc) not working after update….. HELP!