What’s New in the macOS Big Sur 11.1 Update 20C69?

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1. Is Mac trying to go for a wireless first? With issues on 802.1x wired authentication, but no problems with wifi is leading me to believe Apple wants mac users to use wifi over trying to go wired.

2. Hi – really needing BigSur 11.1 pkg file – as link to Apple repository is not working anymore.

   I saw on your website that you provide ipsw files – can someone extract pkg from them? I dont have an extra Mac – so having pkg would be terrific.
   Thanks

3. Little progress but still Mail problems after latest Update.
   After an update yesterday, 14.2.2021, the greyed out Find in EDIT has disappeared so I can sort of click on Find and even see the shortcuts suggested BUT nothing happens. What should happen? Should a search box open? I can´t tell. I certainly do not know how to search in my FROM column for names like Peter or Maggy or Smith or whatever. Any idea? If yours works, let me know what I should expect so I can look in the right place.

4. After MacOS 11.1 was automatically installed yesterday, I started having problems with Apple Mail. Had to find inboxes for my various email accounts, had to put the inboxes under “Favorites,” had to restructure windows for viewing messages and some attached photos did not appear. Anyone else having issues with Apple Mail?

   1. How do I search for message FROM? There seems to be no menu item.
      Also the menu items seem to have diminished in size and to start a new email you have to go to FILE and then down the menu. The message FROM bothers me the most as I get lots of emails and from different people. I know I can sort according to alphabetical order but this is very cumbersome and time-consuming.

      1. If you do a Find in Mail, and then type in an email address, the options are to search by From, To or entire message.

         1. Thank you Ed for your answer but when I go to EDIT Find, Find is greyed out and there is no shortcut given for Find. I tried cmd F, alt F, ctrl F to no useful effect.
            If I use the greyed-out Find in EDIT no search box opens, of course.
            Now let´s assume I get soon an update and Find lets me look for an email address as you say. That is the last thing I can remember and therfore not much good. I need a simple name search in FROM like Peggy or Sarah or John or the surname. You could do that before.
            Many thanks for your first and prompt answer. The shortcoming described above came as quite a shock at a time when the charity work I do was at its busiest.
            Otherwise I am very happy with my MacBook Air and tell people how satisfied I am with the machine.
            Thank you, Ed, for your charity work!
            Siegfried

            1. Hmm. I have no idea why the edit should be greyed out. How about clicking on the magnifying glass icon in the upper right corner to open a find text box?

5. During installation of Big Sur on my MBP mid 2012 with the guidance of Mr Macintosh, btw excellent video, the SIP was turned off but now I would like to enable SIP.
   So, I booted into recovery mode and used Terminal ‘csrutil enable’ but Terminal returned ‘Command not found’. I got lost here. I tried ‘/usr/bin/csrutil clear’ with the same result.
   It is clear that the command does not exist. Could anyone please help me out?

   1. I cannot boot in the Recovery Disk in Big Sur, only into Network Recovery.
      I tried to reinstall the SIP by booting into the Recovery mode and use: ‘csrutil enable’ to reset the SIP
      But terminal returned ‘Command not found’
      With the command ‘diskutil apfs list’ I saw that the recovery disk was present
      The ID of the recovery disk is “disc 1s4 recover”
      But the recovery disk is not seen in DiskUtily.
      When I boot with ‘power option+r” it always goes into internet recovery
      Could anyone please advise how to boot into the recovery disk and enable SIP?
      many thanks and best regards,
      Andre

6. BigSur 11.1 finally installed today from 11.0.1 — for the last week+ the update would perepetually download and then issue error message about failure with download. Oddly when I now run – softwareupdate –history from the terminal there is no mention that the 11.0.1 was previously installed!!!

   Here are the last few entries.

   macOS 10.14.6 Update 08/25/2019, 12:17:10
   macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Supplemental Update 09/07/2019, 14:24:40
   Safari 13.0 09/22/2019, 12:43:38
   Safari 13.0.1 09/25/2019, 16:50:19
   Safari 13.0.2 10/08/2019, 22:03:36
   macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Supplemental Update 2 10/09/2019, 02:10:08
   Safari 14.0 09/18/2020, 18:05:46
   Safari 14.0.1 11/12/2020, 18:57:50
   macOS Big Sur 11.1 Update 11.1 12/29/2020, 00:04:43

7. After the update to 11.1 (20c69), several issue on my iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2017), so plex media server can’t be reached from all my device (MacBook Pro-iPhone-Kodi on Raspberry-(Kodi-Vlc-Plex App on Nvidia Shield Tv), is very frustrating, because before the updating all ran well.
   Any suggestion?
   Thanks a lot
   dylanv7

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9. This update really pissed me off!
   I’m trying upgrade for 3 days.
   I tried everything: Restart, Install on safe mode, Install beta version, downloaded the full version via App Store, reset the PRAM and NVRAM, tried via software update… I’m aways receiving the same error at the end of installation process.
   I think something is broken on my current Mac OS version (11.0), perhaps python packages or wherever framework the Mac OS uses in the installation process.

10. With 11.0.1 beta’s and releases (it had been an issue with at least a couple of 11.0 betas as well) I’d had issues with it not caching AD credentials (which may not be an issue for most people – our network uses certificates and 802.1x authentication to allow access – so the computer can’t talk to the DC’s until the user is logged in with macOS). I was having to use a convoluted work around of getting in as local admin, then providing credentials to get it on the right VLAN, to then finally log in as the user.
    This is now fixed in this macOS 11.1 update.

    1. Hi Brian,
       we’re currently experiencing issues with 802.1x wired machine authentication with Big Sur. Previous macOS versions were working just fine and the 802.1x connection was up as soon as the system was ready.
       On Big Sur, the client is not starting a 802.1x connection as soon as the system is up, and after logging in, the user must click on the “Connect to 802.1x” button under the Network profile.
       If the user logs out, the connection drops immediately.
       Also, the Network profile is not remembering which private certificate should use during the authentication process, so auto-connect fails. The user must select the proper certificate each time it’s requested by the authenticator.
       We suspect there’s something wrong with the Keychain and/or with the Network profile.

11. after booting into the usb installer and macOS recovery, I was prompted for my admin password but the password is not recognized. please help.

12. Installed the 11.1 update on M1 MacBook Air.
    Bluetooth was working perfectly with 11.0.1 is now laggy and freezes for several seconds every few seconds – so unusable (using Logitech MX Keys and MX Master 3). Fortunately my USB-C dock should arrive today so can switch to Logitech Unifying receiver…

    On the plus side startup chime started working again…

13. I also get a kernel panic if I want to run the installer for 11.1 just like Ralph Martin. Running on a 15″ Retina MBP mid 2015…

14. There are reports that Google Meet is not working in macOS 11.1 (https://support.google.com/meet/thread/88764205?hl=en). Unclear what changes have caused this issue.

15. I am so glad that I haven’t upgraded my MacBook Pro laptop 13″ to the Big Sur, yet. I would have been devastated if my screen would have gone black/blank! Thank you for the review and I will be following your feed from now on.

16. “Combo and Delta updates are not available as standalone downloads.”

    Does this mean that updaters on support.apple.com/downloads are no more?

17. Hello,
    my 16″ MBP has been installing macOS 11.1 for 4 hours now

    Console: 535,345 message
    -com.apple.MobileSoftwareUpdate.UpdateBrainService; nw_socket_handle_socket_event [C7.1:1] Socket received READ_CLOSE event

    Any solutions?

18. Mr Macintosh, I was quite happy to install BS 11.0.1 on my MBP mid 2012 with your instructions. And it works well.
    Will you also issue guidance and instructions to install BS 11.1 ?
    It is already difficult to have it downloaded bc Apple prohibits machines older than 2013 to download the software.
    So, I really want it but obviously I need professional help.

    Andre
    [email protected]

19. I just had a kernel panic while the 11.1 update was being installed on a MacBook Pro. How can this even be possible when the OS is read-only? Surely the update is being installed under standardised conditions identical to the one the Apple Developers are using?

20. Heya,

    it’s off-topic, but maybe you have some infos about these issues?: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/k7pkrp/your_help_is_needed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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