![]() ![]() ( Computerworld misjudged the release of Big Sur by 10 days using the five-year average, it predicted that Big Sur would show up Nov. 28, a month and a half earlier than Big Sur’s Nov. If Apple delivers Monterey 89 days after its first public beta, the final will drop Sept. Big Sur took 98 days from first preview to stable code. The span between the first public beta and the final release ranged from 75 days (Sierra) to 105 days (El Capitan), with the average running slightly more than 89 days. Last year’s Big Sur was the outlier, with an Aug. During the past six macOS/OS X updates’ summer previews, five of them - from 2015’s El Capitan to 2019’s Catalina - were released between June 24 and July 9. The first Monterey public beta launched right in the middle of Apple’s historical timeline. ![]() ![]() Then, once Apple releases the final code for Monterey, they can retrieve it from the Mac App Store and install it over the beta. Alternately, users can unenroll the Mac from the beta program, which freezes the system at the current preview. To leave the beta and return to the previously run OS, customers must unenroll a Mac from the beta program and then restore the production-grade operating system using the backup. Apple also urged users to back up their Macs before installing the preview. “We strongly recommend installing beta software on a secondary system or device, or on a secondary partition on your Mac,” the firm said in a FAQ about the program. As usual, Apple warned customers against installing the Monterey beta on production Macs. ![]()
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