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Sonoma (macOS 14.0), iOS 17.0, iPadOS 17.0, and watchOS 10.0 public BETAS are live and available for installation.

No significant glitches so far but several
popups. Most of which seen related to UI related apps from small developers.

I reported a while ago that the Ventura 13.4 update added an option to enroll in the public beta program to my Software Update pane, but at the time, Ira didn't see the same option. Dunno what's up with that, and he was the only one to comment.

I'm going to pass, because I don't use enough of macOS's functionality to be any sort of a helpful contributor.

I can't say for sure, but I suspect Ira's Mac won't support Sonoma, so the option was not offered to him.

"Currently: 24" M1 iMac, 27""

You're far more knowledgeable than I am, but I'd guess that any M1 can certainly support Sonoma.

Perhaps he upgraded to the M1 after he posted, and his current profile doesn't reflect the Mac he was running at the time, which may have been incompatible.

Ira?

OK, thank you everyone for reminding me to update my signature. The 27" iMac is no more, after 9 years of great service.

My public enrollment comments were made after all of my upgrades and I still do not seen the public enrollment beta options. You can see from my signature hardware that my setups will support Sonoma.

Supposedly the beta option should be offered to every user on a compatible device with the latest OS release version or beta version installed. Ira's updated signature indicates macOS 13 but not the dot release (macOS 13.0, 13.1, 13.2,13.3, etc.). Given the fact that announced OS features or functionalities may not be turned on (or off) until mid or even late dot releases, could that be why Ira is not seeing the beta version as an option in Software Update?

"iPhones, iPods (yes, still) and iPads"

No longer galore?

The option turned up in 13.4.

I don't keep up with the dot releases because there will usually be several betas of each dot release and I lose track.

Speaking of which, no major glitches with Sonoma so far, but multiple minor cosmetic glitches in third party apps, and a couple of iPadOS apps that won't run on My Studio. So far, I have encountered no issues in iOS 17, iPadOS 17, watchOS 10 or any of their apps. Some of the major Apple apps such as Health have migrated from the iPhone to the iPad and the Apple Watch and that has been completely seamless. It is obvious there have been numerous UI tweaks under the hood on all the Apple platforms and based on the number of deprecated API notices I anticipate a lot of older, no longer actively supported, third party apps to go dark in 2024 or 2025 so there are bound to be some old "can't live without it" apps that will have to be replaced.

So far, the most notable common theme among all the platforms is widgets, widgets everywhere, widgets anywhere.

IRA:

Posted an iPOD question for you in the appropriate forum.

Picky, Picky, Picky. 13.4.1(c)

Maybe going for something a little less pretentious.

Which is probably why the second PUBLIC beta has not yet been released. I am still dealing with an issue affecting Apple Studio and Mac Pro computers when attaching an external enclosure with two or more NVME drives. Attaching the enclosure causes instantaneous Kernel Panic, followed by repeated reboots. It was reportedly fixed in the third Sonoma Developer beta, but has yet to make it into a Public beta release of either Ventura or Sonoma. Could the Sonoma Developer beta issue be the result of a fix for my issue with unanticipated side effects?

Whatever the case, it is a safe bet the Sonoma developer team is losing a lot of sleep these days.

I posted the previous message and voilá Sonoma Public Beta 2 appeared. It is less than half an hour later and Sonoma (macOS 14.0) Public beta 2 is up and running along with my NVME array. Not a hitch or problem in sight. Only six more devices to update. (Now if I can just figure out a solution to my woodturning project.)