MacOS 15.1 Beta 2 and macOS 15 Beta 6 is Out! - What's New?

MacOS 15.1 Beta 2 and macOS 15 Beta 6 is Out! - What's New? - New Features, Performance and Battery Life.

MacOS 15 Beta 6 and MacOS 15.1 Beta 2 contain new wallpaper, updates to Safari, Calculator and more. Apple Intelligence is available for Apple Silicon based Macs with an M1, M2, M3 or M4 CPU in the USA and with the language set to English. In this video I go over all the latest Apple Intelligence and New Features in macOS 15.1 Beta 2 and macOS 15 Beta 6 using a 15-inch MacBook Air.

*Apple released*
iOS 18.1 Beta 2
iPadOS 18.1 Beta 2
macOS 15.1 Sequoia Beta 2

*Gear I use*

*Find Me Here*

*Chapters*
00:00 - Everything New
00:26 - Apple Releases and Size
00:44 - Build Number
01:02 - New Features, Changes and Update
06:55 - Release Notes
07:52 - Should You Install macOS 15 Sequoia Betas?
08:24 - Performance
08:55 - Battery Health and Battery Life
09:30 - Conclusion

[DISCLOSURES]
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[pasquale]

It would be cool if the Sequoia wallpaper would change with the time of day like with Big Sur.

[netdude]

One thing that I submitted in the Feedback app was Dark Icons in macOS Sequoia just like iOS and iPadOS 18. That would be cool to see when the OS goes into Dark Mode. Good video Aaron.

[Koraka_ARandomGuy]

I had a new screen after the final restart of the update: Whats new and a Hello Mac Screen.

[JohelSouza]

Fair title. Fair presentation. Very good!

[melvinbriggs]

New Woods Wallpaper looks like a location in Red Dead Redemption 2

[TechlikeL]

Love your videos so much, keep it up :)

[bosmanka]

Macos 15.1 beta 2 is fantastic. I run it on my Mac mini and everything works just fine.

[Koraka_ARandomGuy]

For all: if you do not have a iPhone 15 and higher and you want to have as Focus: Reduce Interruptions - on your iPhone and you have the Beta 15.1 or beta 2 installed, if you set it up here as Focus, it will automatically show up on the iPhone as well. Without it, I did not had it on my iPhone 13

[RaghavVijay]

Thanks Aaron, Keep up the high quality content!!- Wow some really nice changes with MacOS. That wallpaper looks so so cool, can’t wait to try it when it releases, also can’t wait to try apple intelligence as well, hopefully the newer apple intelligence features come in the next few iOS 18.1 beta and in the final release!

[JesseJones-nvvd]

I love this new update! Beta 1 was more buggy and some things didn’t work. Now everything works better. Plus, I love the new Sequoia wallpapers, I just wish that Apple would put a midday and night mode just like the other wallpapers.

[Butterscotch_]

I was just thinking why you don’t make videos about MacOS updates.

[pranaypaul]

need this Mac versions of wallpapers included too.

[lukchem]

I actually really like the new change to the screen sharing. With the new system, Apps that you gave the rights to view your screen can’t spy on you anymore that’s great. It’s quite similar to iOS actually.

[AquilaTheHun]

Marvellous. New icons, wallpapers. Renaming Browse to New. What an advancement.

[Koraka_ARandomGuy]

I dont know if its new: if you go under wallpaper and scroll down till the end, for me the Hello Metallic silver and other colors are new, and I absolutely love them-

[sachabenichou]

hi I just have a little question how do you do for making you trackpad being so fast on your device ?

[TheCrossfitter]

Apple, if you are listening, please include the ability to get rid of notification badges for iMessage when a focus mode is activated, just as you allow the same on It would be so helpful towards Thank you

[Brian-Burke]

I appreciate you cautioning about using the beta on primary machines. I want to try them out but you're right, there's a risk involved and I only have one Mac and one iphone. Again, thank you.

[vincentivanchev]

how comes your mouse looks like it has motion blur, it moves so smoothly. Do you know how I could make my one look like that? 😁

[readyplayer]

Hi, where can I find the wallpaper you have used at the beginning of the "new features" portion of this video?