So it's weird as I can't see the release note for macos in Feedback yet.
One bug correction noticed so far on mac, the volume adjustment with command + rotor clockwise and counterclockwise on the trackpad (FB14922682) has been solved.
According to macRumors there isn't much new features in this beta anyway aside for genmogies.
I haven't explored or tested further yet either so I'll keep you posted.
PS: always reboot after the update as spotlight for me was completely broken, for example.
Edit: the rest is visible for me now in Feedback while I was already available to download the updates.
By TheBllindGuy07, 16 January, 2025
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Oh wow! Like just in the…
Oh wow! Like just in the feedback app and safari, vo+j now cycles forward normally and isn't stuck anymore in a loop trying to find the next windows spot or html landmark while it should start over from the first element, on mac. Cool!
Quite a major fix for VO+j shortcut, go to linked item
It's undocumented, but basically this will always go to the next windows spot (or html landmark in webapps since Sonoma) and wrap at the beginning. There was a major bug where it would randomly freeze and stuck in a loop where it can't found the next element, or start over. It's now been fixed in pretty much all apps I tried, from web browsers and electron apps to finder, feedback, mail and so on.
Please share your findings!
Aside the two patches on the…
Aside the two patches on the mac everything else seems to be the same so far, but the fact that I can reliably use vo+j again everywhere is a pure joy, definitely worth the update. I have also noticed battery life improvements.
Oh and for writing tools we have a redundant sound in addition to the announcement since 15.3 beta 1, not cool, but we now actually know when the generation is complete by a sound, which is cool.
And if I understood the paragraph/line skiping bug in mail app and on the web reported by Paul and some others it seems to be fixed as well.
I haven't noticed anything in particular on iOS and watchOS with the latest betas.
Does anyone remember when
VO plus J worked properly before this current patch.
I'd prior to Sonoma when…
I'd prior to Sonoma when they included web spot / auto web spot aka html landmarks as windows spot? But I could completely be wrong as I was new to mac on Ventura and vo-j broke the very day I was starting to get use to it, along the caps lock hell and the other problems brought by Sonoma.
Question about 15.3
I was previously running macOS Sequoia 15.3.
I had a bunch of voices in my voice rotor that I decided to clear out.
Only problem was, when I opened voice over utility, the Voices table was completely empty. Of course, if I had backed up all of my preferences, the voices would be in the preference files.
After manually trying to remove the voices from a preference file and re-import them to no success, I ended up Reinstalling macOS 15.2.
I’ve been thinking about upgrading back to 15.3, since this particular beta sounds like it has fixed some issues, but before I did that, I wanted to know if this bug was fixed or not.
I had pretty much every English voice in my voice Router, from all Siri voices, to all vocalizer voices just in case I needed them.
I was doing some spring cleaning throughout my whole entire Mac, andthat’s when I first noticed the bug.
If you’ve experienced this bug, do you know if it’s fixed yet?
I will have to dust off my old MacBook Pro
It currently has macOS 12.7.2 (Monterey), if I am not mistaken. Pretty sure VO plus J is broken on that as well, but I will have to give it a once over and see what's up.
Personally, I think macOS went down the drain sometime after high Sierra. Right around the time of Catalina, if not earlier. That's when SNR first became a thing, although at that point it was more like SB, for Safari is busy. 🫤