Living dangerously: Trying out the Apple beta software | Malay Mail

BY ERNA MAHYUNI

In truth I didn’t wait for the public beta as there were links to the developer betas floating around on the internet which made the endeavour a little riskier but it gave me more time to play with the devices. I wasn’t quite impressed with the last MacOS, Catalina, and I found trying to use Sidecar, a way to mirror MacOS onto other displays and the iPad, a frustrating endeavour that would cause the test Macs’ fans to go on overdrive.

Safari, like other apps such as the tweaked Music app saw a tweaked interface and feels faster as compared to previous version. Would I recommend updating once it goes live for everyone? I would with a caveat — make sure that your current apps are compatible. While I did not notice performance slowdowns with the new update I am not sure if machines older than 2017 would not.iOS 14 is the one beta I would hesitate to recommend. While it works for the most part, it is rather buggy.

The bugs I found were the one where iOS would consistently notify me it had pasted something — this was an unfortunate result of my using the copy/paste function between devices. Even when I had not pasted something into an app, I would get the notification. Still my favourite feature is how the call notification is now a small widget instead of taking up the entire screen. This means calls won’t interrupt me in the middle of other actions and that is probably well worth installing the beta.I confess I mainly installed the WatchOS 7 beta for the new watch faces. The new Chronograph Pro is pretty — with an integrated tachymeter which sadly I couldn’t put to much use since we are living in a pandemic after all.

The Health app also has a prompt to enable the hand washing feature but I find it curious why they didn’t put in the Watch app instead. Scribble makes the Pencil far more useful with its handwriting recognition and ability to just write into search bars, as well as the more intuitive shortcuts such as a quick scratch motion to delete entries.

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