Apple just dropped a public beta of macOS 14 Sonoma. Perhaps you’ve been swimming in those wine country waters for a while now. After all, back at WWDC, the company announced that it was opening up early access to its new operating systems to anyone with a developer account — not just those shelling out the $99 for the Developer Program.
Of course, the regular bit of caution applies. I’ve been running betas on all my machines since last month’s developer conference and have encountered a few bugs here and there. Nothing major, but enough to suggest people hold off on installing on their day drivers until the final version has dropped.
As is the case with all Apple OS drops, there’s a lot of common DNA between the different platforms — that’s something that seems to be truer and truer with each subsequent release. There are a number of shared features between macOS 14 and iOS 17. We’ll be hitting on those below, but kicking things off with some of the topline desktop...
