macOS Catalina 10.

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Beta 3 Release Notes
macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta 3 release notes
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macOS 13 Beta 3 Release

Notes
Overview
The macOS 10.15 SDK provides support for developing apps
for Macs running macOS Catalina 10.15. The SDK comes
bundled with Xcode 11 beta available from Beta Software
Downloads. For information on the compatibility requirements
for Xcode 11, see Xcode 11 Beta 3 Release Notes.
General
New Features
• Installing third party kernel extensions now requires that
you restart your Mac before they’re permitted to load.
(50340461)

Known Issues
• If you use Recovery Assistant to erase a Mac that has
Activation Lock enabled, you won't be able to unlock it
when reinstalling macOS. (52017040)

Workaround: Remove the Mac from the associated Apple
ID account using the Find My app on another device or
from iCloud.com, then restart your Mac and reinstall
macOS.
• If you used Migration Assistant to migrate your data to a
Mac running macOS Catalina beta, you might see only
third-party applications when clicking the Applications
shortcut in the Finder sidebar. (51651200)

Workaround: In Finder > Preferences > Sidebar, select
the Applications favorite, then remove the Applications
shortcut from the sidebar that displays incorrect results.
• Warning

Your Secure Token might be lost if FileVault is enabled on
a non-APFS formatted volume while upgrading to macOS
10.15. You might be able to work around this by disabling
FileVault before upgrading to macOS 10.15, then
reenabling FileVault once the upgrade has completed.
(51091312)



• During installation of macOS 10.15 you might be prompted
to enter your administrator password multiple times to
allow installation to proceed. (51206649)
Resolved Issues
• Apps consistently relaunch after installation or applying an
update. (51228752)

Deprecations
• macOS frameworks are now thinned for the x86-64
architecture. Apps that execute i386 code now fail with the
EBADARCH error code. The remaining stub frameworks
are nonfunctional and exist only for compatibility purposes.
(51236070)

Accessibility
Known Issues
• VoiceOver feedback sounds are currently unavailable while
in macOS Recovery. (48218068)

App Store
Known Issues
• You might receive an error when downloading or updating
apps. (49755328)

Workaround: Sign out of your account using the Store
menu, then sign back in and retry your download.
• Some apps, such as Final Cut Pro, Motion, Compressor,
and iMovie can’t be found using Search. (51245576)

Workaround: If you previously purchased the apps, you
can download them again from Account > Purchased.
Apple CryptoKit
Resolved Issues
• Users are prompted to authenticate when using the
SecureEnclave API with access control set on keys.
(51279188)

Apple TV
Known Issues
• Support for signing in with an account from a different
country is currently unavailable. (51240948)
AppleEvents
New Features
• To enhance security, AppleEvents and AppleScripts that
target an app on a remote system must authenticate as the
same user on the remote system. An AppleEvent that
targets an app running as a different user receives a
procNotFound error.

To allow remote AppleEvents to target apps in any user
session, run the following command in Terminal on the
server:

defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AEServer
RestrictAccessToUserSession -bool false
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Then disable and reenable Remote Apple Events in
System Preferences > Sharing. (5353592)
Audio
New Features
• You can now enable voice processing mode on
AVAudioEngine. (50906329)
• You can use new AVAudioNode types to wrap a user-
defined block for sending or receiving data in real-time.
• A new method is available for an AVAudioEngine based
app to retrieve a list of all nodes attached to an
AVAudioEngine instance.
• A new rendering mode in AVAudioEnvironmentNode
selects the best spatial audio rendering algorithm
automatically based on the output device.
• A new AVAudioSession property allows system sounds and
haptics to play while the session is actively using audio
input.
• A new property, AVAudioSession.PromptStyle informs apps
which style of voice prompt they should play based on
other audio activity in the system.
• The AVAudioSession.RouteSharingPolicy enumeration is
extended to allow apps to specify route sharing policies so
their audio and video is routed to the same location as
AirPlay.
• Audio Unit Extensions now support user presets that are
available across all host apps.

Deprecations
• The OpenAL framework is deprecated and remains
present for compatibility purposes. Transition to
AVAudioEngine for spatial audio functionality.
• AUGraph is deprecated in favor of AVAudioEngine.
• Inter-App audio is deprecated. Use Audio Units for this
functionality.
• Carbon component-based Audio Units are deprecated and
support will be removed in a future release.
• Legacy Core Audio HAL audio hardware plug-ins are no
longer supported. Use Audio Server plug-ins for audio
drivers.

AVFoundation
New Features
• AVFoundation now supports encoding video with alpha
channels using HEVC. Videos encoded in this manner are
broadly supported in AVFoundation APIs and by Safari
within web pages. Technical details of the format can be
found in the Interoperability Profile specification. (8045917)

Deprecations
• The previously deprecated 32-bit QuickTime framework is
no longer available in macOS 10.15.
• The symbols for QTKit, which relied on the QuickTime
framework, are still present but the classes are non-
functional.

Books
Known Issues
• After migrating, audio books might not appear until you
restart your Mac. (50823065)
• You might be unable to import books into your library until
you restart your Mac. (50962112)
• After upgrading to macOS Catalina beta, locally
downloaded cloud items might move back to iCloud.
(51306790)
Resolved Issues
• If the ‘Restrict books with explicit content’ setting is
enabled, your purchased books are no longer
unexpectedly hidden. (51602141)
• Books stored in iCloud Drive appear without delay in your
Library. (51435740, 50776390)

Camera
Known Issues
• Apps using Picture Taker must specify the
NSCameraUsageDescription key to access the FaceTime
camera. (47916725)

Console
Resolved Issues
• Applying a filter to console messages consistently
succeeds. (51524242)

Core Image
New Features
• The init(imageURL:options:) and init(imageData:options:)
initializers no longer support RAW decoder versions earlier
than 6. Version 6 and later remain supported. (50911303)
• Added new APIs for instantiating and modifying the built-in
Core Image filters.
• The CICoreMLModel filter is enhanced to support models
with an input or output of type MLFeatureType.multiArray.
• Metal CIKernel instances now support arguments with
arbitrarily structured data.
• Metal CIKernel instances now support returning a group of
two by two pixels.
• The integer values of CIFormat symbols, such as ARGB8,
have changed to a new set of values which are consistent
across platforms. The former values remain supported for
backward compatibility; however, you should avoid
dependancies on specific numerical values.

Core Media
Known Issues
• You might see unexpected results when creating 10-bit
HEVC video content. (50322535)

Device Management
Resolved Issues
• Sending a Volume Purchase Program download request to
a client from a Mobile Device Management server might
cause an authorization dialog to appear on the client.
(49376544)

DriverKit
Resolved Issues
• The Filter Packet network extension type and
NWEthernetChannel API now work with network interface
drivers implemented using DriverKit. (48709552)
EndpointSecurity
Known Issues
• If an EndpointSecurity extension containing the
NSEndpointSecurityEarlyBoot key is installed and then
uninstalled, your Mac might not start. (52010655)

Workaround: Start up your Mac in single-user mode and
delete the file /Library/SystemExtensions/
EndpointSecurity/.early_boot.plist. You might also need to
disable System Integrity Protection.

Resolved Issues
• The exec and open events are cached and invalidated
correctly when the file is manipulated. (45497117)
• The cache flag for es_respond_auth_result(_:_:_:_:) and
es_respond_flags_result(_:_:_:_:) is no longer ignored.
(49071387)
• EndpointSecurity system extensions have access to early
boot events. (49487645)
• The original_ppid field of es_process_t is set properly.
(50746916)

Deprecations
• The kauth API will be removed in a future release.
(50419013)

FileVault
Resolved Issues
• Password reset for FileVault volumes from macOS
Recovery functions as expected. (50455695)
Final Cut Pro
Known Issues
• You might be unable to access content from your Photos
library. (51600540)

Finder
Resolved Issues
• Finder no longer quits unexpectedly when you try to
restore using the Time Machine interface. (49398715)
• Files can be copied from and deleted on an iOS device
using the Files tab in Finder. (48649759)
• You can now download folders from iCloud properly.
(50855741)
• When iCloud Desktop is enabled, attempting to drag a
volume mounted on the desktop no longer results in the
volume being copied to the Desktop. (51187890)

iCloud
Known Issues
• Under certain conditions, your iCloud Drive might be
missing data after upgrading to macOS Catalina beta.

Workaround: Recover deleted files on iCloud.com.
(51787170, 51950018)
• Certain documents might not download in iCloud Drive.
(52295165)
• The Cloud Files section in About This Mac > Storage >
Manage might inaccurately represent the current state of
files on your Mac. (50362095)
• Even when Optimize Storage is switched off, iCloud Drive
might fail to automatically download all files. (50667204)

Workaround: Download files individually.
• When creating a new Pages, Numbers, or Keynote
document in a shared folder, you might see the message
 “Couldn’t connect to iCloud”. (50827963)

Workaround: Close and reopen the document.
Resolved Issues
• There are no longer multiple empty Application libraries
within iCloud Drive. You can safely remove any empty
folders. (51635803)
• The content of folders inside an iCloud Shared Folder is
available to other users viewing your shared folder.
(51591135)
• Turning off the Siri switch in iCloud settings correctly stops
Significant Locations from syncing. (50908297)
• Pages, Numbers, and Keynote documents in shared
folders correctly show an error message when you try to
access them from iCloud.com. (50738067)

iPad Apps on Mac

Known Issues
• MPMediaPickerController might not display the contents of
your library. (51785735)
• macOS and iPad Apps on Mac are currently view-only
clients of PencilKit. (51146823)
• In order to show a share sheet from a toolbar item using
the UIActivityViewController, create the NSToolbarItem
using the init(itemIdentifier:) initializer and pass it a
UIBarButtonItem configured as a
UIBarButtonItem.SystemItem.action. There is no need to
set the barButtonItem property. (47292316)
• The UIScreen class’s isCaptured API isn’t currently
supported. (48360589)
• The current property on UIDevice and the OS Product
Name is currently returned as iOS rather than macOS,
which can affect diagnostic logs generated by your system.
(49792004)
• Event handling in extension contexts may produce
unexpected results, including failure to deliver trackpad
pinch and zoom gestures. (50145462)
• When sending Mail attachments via MessageUI, each
attachment might appear as two icons when viewed by the
recipient. (50369995)
• Controls drawn with accent color incorrectly maintain their
active color when the window is inactive. There is no need
to work around this in your app. (50563638)
• The UIKit module currently doesn’t import the newly added
NSToolbar and NSTouchBar headers,
NSToolbar+UIKitAdditions.h and
NSTouchBar+UIKitAdditions.h. You can import these
headers directly in Objective-C, or you can create a
bridging header to import them for Swift. Be sure to import
Foundation before importing these headers. (50704322)
• When your iPad App on Mac is launched directly into the
background, it experiences all the state transitions of a
regular app launch — such as
application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:) and
applicationDidBecomeActive(_:) — followed by state
transitions to return to background state from there —
applicationWillResignActive(_:) and
applicationDidEnterBackground(_:). This will soon be
updated to match iOS, where your app will receive only
applicationDidFinishLaunching(_:), and only if it wasn’t
already running. (50742219)
• For iPad Apps on Mac to save to Photos Library, explicitly
linking the Photos framework is required. (50781430)
• Opening a CloudKit share URL might not launch an iPad
App on Mac that’s present on the system. Additionally, the
system might not take the user to the appropriate App
Store page to download an app which isn’t present on the
system. (50877241)
• Action and share extensions might exhibit visual
anomalies. (51005363)
• All assets at 3x scale factor are currently ignored when
compiling the asset catalog for iPad Apps on Mac.
Because the search begins with the universal asset, assets
for a specific memory or graphics class won’t be found. For
example, if you provide an image and only give a 6GB and
Metal 5v1 asset, it won’t be found at runtime. It’s
recommended that you provide all images as vectors to
allow generation of the correct scale factors, or at minimum
provide 2x versions of the assets. If you’re classifying
resources based on memory and graphics families then
you should provide "Any Memory" and "Any Graphics”.
(51033745)
• CallKit CXAction instances might return an error.
(51074735)
• If your iPad App on Mac is launched directly into the
background, a second background launch request
launches the app into the foreground, making it visible to
the user. If your app uses any of the supported APIs which
might result in a background launch, this might cause your
app to launch in the foreground without user input.
(51287556)
• In macOS 10.15 beta, the UIGraphicsRenderer class’s
default() function returns the nonextended color range
renderer format by default. To use-extended color range
format for rendering, create an instance using preferred()
and pass it to init(bounds:format:). (51303954)
• When creating a Mac version of your iPad app, Xcode
automatically generates a unique Mac bundle identifier. If
you have an existing Mac bundle identifier you’d prefer to
use, you can do so by using manual signing in Xcode.
(51076014)

Follow these steps to configure your project, AppID, and
provisioning profile:
1. Sign in to Apple Developer, then select Certificates,
Identifiers, and Profiles.
2. In the Identifiers section, select your iOS app identifier to
edit.
3. Check the UIKit for Mac capability to enable it, then click
the Configure button.
4. Choose Use an existing macOS AppID and select the
identifier you'd like to use from the popup menu. Click the
Save button to finish editing your AppID.
5. In the Profiles section, click the + button to create a new
profile, select ‘macOS App Development’, and click
Continue.
6. Select your iOS AppID from the popup, click Continue, and
complete the rest of the profile creation flow. When
finished, click the Download button.
7. In Xcode, select your project to view the Project Editor and
select your app’s target. Then select the Build Settings tab.
8. Set the Derive UIKit for Mac Product Bundle Identifier
setting to No.
9. Expand the Product Bundle Identifier build setting to view
its configurations. Next to the Debug configuration, click
the + button to add a conditional value.
10.For the build setting condition, select Any macOS from the
popup menu. Edit the value of the conditional build setting
to match the macOS bundle identifier you want to use.
Repeat this step for all configurations in your project.
11. In the Signing & Capabilities tab, uncheck Automatically
manage signing.
12.For your macOS app, select Import Profile from the
Provisioning Profile popup and then select the profile you
downloaded earlier.

Resolved Issues
• You can now import AppKit and UIKit modules in the same
compilation unit. (48094910)
• The completion handler is no longer invoked with an error
when donating interactions using the INInteraction class on
macOS. (48371526)
• The productsRequest(_:didReceive:) method from StoreKit
currently returns with didFailWithError and products aren’t
loaded. (51028870)
• MTKView objects might render correctly. (51084042)

iWork
Known Issues
• Attempting to open iWork documents in Finder will
unexpectedly create a .cpgz file if the corresponding iWork
app isn’t installed. (40693892)

Workaround: Install the corresponding app from the App
Store before opening the document.

Localization
Known Issues
• Certain languages might exhibit clipped or misaligned
layout. (51068688,50983852)
• Certain languages might display unlocalized text.
(47765173,51196633)
Mail
Known Issues
• If your Mac contains both macOS Mojave 10.14 and
macOS 10.15 volumes, you might experience issues
searching in Mail. (46611310)

Workaround: While running macOS Mojave 10.14, open
Terminal and execute the following command:

sudo touch /.metadata_never_index_unless_rootfs
• 







Reboot into macOS 10.15, open Terminal and execute the
following command:

sudo touch /System/Volumes/
Data/.metadata_never_index_unless_rootfs
• 







Reboot into macOS Mojave 10.14, open Terminal and
execute the following command:

sudo mdutil -E /
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Depending on the size of your Mail database, it might take
many hours to reindex all content.
Music
Known Issues
• Navigating using the back button might produce
unexpected results. (51248128)
• Music might take a long time to launch for some users.
(51207753)
• You might be unable to scroll content on shelves.
(51248128)
• Artwork changes might not immediately appear; playlists
will be added in an upcoming beta. (51201715)
• Music might not remember the previously selected tab
when it’s relaunched. (50922604)
Resolved Issues
• You can log into the store regardless of whether you're
logging in from the country in which you’re currently
located. (51105585)

Networking
New Features
• All NSURLSessionTasks with a GET HTTP method which
contain a body will now produce the error
NSURLErrorDataLengthExceedsMaximum. (46025234)
Known Issues
• An active Network Extension content filter configuration
might interrupt the boot process indefinitely following a
kernel panic. (50965627)

Workaround: Boot into macOS Recovery, launch
Terminal, and execute the following command:

rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.networkextension.necp.plist
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• The NWEthernetChannel API doesn’t currently support

VLAN interfaces. NEPacketTunnelProvider will see both
tagged and untagged frames arriving on physical
interfaces. Depending on the Ethernet driver, VLAN tags
might be processed by hardware and thus stripped off the
Ethernet frames thus NEPacketTunnelProvider won’t see
the VLAN tag. (51275655)
Deprecations
• Support for FTP and File URL schemes for Proxy
Automatic Configuration (PAC) is removed. HTTP and
HTTPS are the only supported URL schemes for PAC. This
affects all PAC configurations including but not limited to
configurations set using Settings, System Preferences,
profiles, URLSession APIs such as
connectionProxyDictionary, and
CFNetworkExecuteProxyAutoConfigurationURL(_:_:_:_:).
(28578280)
• SPDY support is removed from the URLSession and
NSURLConnection APIs. Servers should use HTTP 2 or
HTTP 1.1. (43391641)
• The Network Kernel Extension API is now deprecated.
(49284108)
• NetBIOS is disabled in macOS 10.15 to speed up
mounting, browsing, and connecting to SMB shares. Some
older printers and file servers may require NetBIOS to
connect. (51119111)

To enable NetBIOS, you can create or edit the /etc/
nsmb.conf file. If your system doesn't already have an /etc/
nsmb.conf file, use the following Terminal commands while
logged in as an Administrator:

echo "[default]" | sudo tee -a /etc/nsmb.conf
• echo "port445=both" | sudo tee -a /etc/nsmb.conf
• 







To disable NetBIOS, you can safely delete the /etc/
nsmb.conf file.

Photos

New Features
• To improve the Photos upgrade experience, Photos is
testing database upgrades using a clone of the Photo
Library. This clone doesn’t include the content of each
photo, but does include faces metadata and a thumbnail
image of each person in your library. It also contains
metadata such as the asset name and the geographic
location of the photo. It is created at ~/Pictures/macOS
10.15 Pre-Upgrade Backup, and you can manually remove
this backup at any time. The clone will be removed
automatically before the final release of macOS 10.15.
(51033690)

Podcasts
Known Issues
• The sidebar might render unexpectedly until quitting and
relaunching the app. (51340728)
• Deleting podcasts using About This Mac > Storage >
Manage doesn’t update what’s shown in the Podcasts app
until it’s relaunched. (50354510)
• Setting “Automatically Download Episodes” to “Never”
might not take effect. (50960777)
• Writing a review isn’t currently supported. (46173722)
• Manually checking for feed updates when Option-clicking
the Podcasts app in the dock isn’t currently available.
(50958585)

Workaround: Quit and relaunch the app.
• If Podcasts is placed in Full Screen mode, some UI
elements might be obscured by the toolbar. (47125303)

Resolved Issues
• Browse and Top Charts consistently display content from
the expected country. (51681853)
• A migration is no longer triggered even if there’s no content
to migrate the first time you launch Podcasts. (51145044)

Quartz Composer

Deprecations
• Starting in macOS 10.15, the Quartz Composer framework
is deprecated and remains present for compatibility
purposes. Transition to frameworks such as Core Image,
SceneKit, or Metal. (50911608)

Screen Sharing
Resolved Issues
• If the Mac you’re screen sharing with is running macOS
10.15 beta, you can now drag and drop onto the screen
share. (50791710)

Screen Time
Known Issues
• Users can click ‘One more minute’ multiple times per day
instead of only once each time they reach a limit for that
app. (48773803)
• Screen Time > Content & Privacy > Content > Web
Content > Allowed Websites Only isn’t currently enforced in
macOS 10.15 beta. (50462899)
Scripting Language Runtimes
Deprecations
• Scripting language runtimes such as Python, Ruby, and
Perl are included in macOS for compatibility with legacy
software. Future versions of macOS won’t include scripting
language runtimes by default, and might require you to
install additional packages. If your software depends on
scripting languages, it’s recommended that you bundle the
runtime within the app. (49764202)
• Use of Python 2.7 isn’t recommended as this version is
included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software.
Future versions of macOS won’t include Python 2.7.
Instead, it’s recommended that you run python3 from within
Terminal. (51097165)

Spotlight
Known Issues
• Drives formatted using exFAT and FAT aren’t searchable
using Spotlight. (52271781)
• Mail messages might not display previews. (35678035)

SwiftUI
New Features
• You can style a NavigationView using two new style
properties: stack and doubleColumn. By default, navigation
views on iPhone and Apple TV visually reflect a navigation
stack, while on iPad and Mac, a split-view styled navigation
view displays. (51636729)

When using the doubleColumn style, you can provide two
views when creating a navigation view — the first is the
master and the second is the detail. For example:

NavigationView {
• MyMasterView()
• MyDetailView()
• }
• .navigationViewStyle(.doubleColumn)
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Known Issues
• Return types for View modifier methods include complex
generic types. In a future release, these methods will
return simpler types. (46140669)
• Image instances don’t use resizing information configured
in asset catalogs. Configure the size of an image using the
resizable(capInsets:resizingMode:) modifier instead.
(49114577)
• A ScrollView doesn’t always size itself as expected for its
content. (49204262)

Workaround: Size the view that’s inside the ScrollView by
applying the frame(width:height:alignment:) modifier to the
inner view. (49204262)

Resolved Issues
• The tabItemLabel(_:) modifier — now named tabItem(_:)
— now accepts @ViewBuilder closures. (51502668)

SystemExtensions
Known Issues
• Approving system extensions using Mobile Device
Management isn’t currently available. (50553712)
Resolved Issues
• Upgrading system extension versions is now supported.
(48943883)

Voice Memos
Known Issues
• Location-based naming isn’t yet available in macOS 10.15
beta. (48048663, 50743045)

Resolved Issues
• Voice Memos synced from iCloud might not finish
downloading. (49512619)
• The File menu might be unexpectedly empty. (51475831)

Xcode
Resolved Issues
• Swift interfaces for several new URLSession APIs are now
available. (50517967)
Deprecations
• Command line tool support for Subversion — including
svn, git-svn, and related commands — is no longer
provided by Xcode. If you need Subversion or related
command line tools, install the Command Line Tools
package by running xcode-select --install. (50266910)