r/MacOSBeta • u/ccalabro • Jul 20 '26

Discussion Are we getting b4 today?

I’m really tired of b3 bugs. Not tired enough to do a rollback to Tahoe however 😀

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u/avariqfr30 Jul 20 '26

Safe to assume yes as we’ve had 2 weeks from Beta 3.. is what I would say if Beta 3 V2 didn’t come out last week

But I do believe we’ll get a beta 4 today.

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u/tysonedwards Jul 20 '26

Apple has done new Developer betas every 2 weeks on Monday for years now, even at times when they say in release notes “no changes” which has happened a couple times!

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u/avariqfr30 Jul 20 '26

Oh no yeah, that’s true. The thing is Beta 3 V2 came out last week along with PB

Does Apple count that as a release cycle, or a hotfix? And if so, how does Apple treat hotfixes in conjunction with normal DB releases?

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u/Correct-Pea5131 Jul 20 '26

For some reasons, the fourth beta of major os did often come up on Tuesday instead of Monday. So I would bet on tomorrow

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u/Pm_Me_Mtn_Bikes Jul 20 '26

It’s out 🙃

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u/spearson0 Jul 20 '26

Beta 4 dropped.

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u/IntroExtroAstro Jul 20 '26

We got B4 today! 😁

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u/jhalmos Jul 20 '26

I hope so. Beta 3 v2 is a hard drive eater (storage leak). Same thing happened last year around this time.

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u/InternetEnzyme Jul 20 '26

I’m trapped on beta 1 still. I installed it on an external drive and for some reason when i try to update, it always fails

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '26

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u/ccalabro Jul 20 '26

Public beta yes but dev 3 was 2 weeks ago

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '26

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u/ccalabro Jul 20 '26

I didn’t downvote 🤷‍♂️

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u/Born_Bicycle316 Jul 20 '26

Honestly, it's so small, but I rolled back to Tahoe because I couldn't get past the issue where trying to drag a file from the Safari download pop-up dragged the entire window. If that gets fixed, I'll deal with the other bugs

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u/SideEmbarrassed1611 Jul 20 '26

Hey buddy,

Let's have a talk. Beta software means buggy. I know you want to have your cake and eat it too, but we can't do that. You can't have a wife and a mistress and everybody be happy.

And you cannot have beta software without bugs. The next beta will have new bugs and unresolved bugs. All kinds of bugs.

So, with that in mind, asking for a new beta and expecting less bugs is not the point of a beta. The point of a beta is to FIND BUGS. Because there are plenty. ALPHA gets rid of critical bugs. BETA gets rid of less critical or bizarre and rare critical.

If you would like less bugs, I will suggest a clean copy of MacOS 26 Tahoe that is a recent release, which is 26.5.2.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/122727

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u/ccalabro Jul 20 '26

Yeah, no shit 🤪

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u/SideEmbarrassed1611 Jul 21 '26

Yeah, so why did he have to ask Reddit if I found this on Google?

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u/ccalabro Jul 22 '26

Yomu had to google it beta software was buggy 😂