

I didn’t receive notifications properly on my phone any more, and I couldn’t send text messages. Within 24 hours of downloading macOS Mojave and iOS 12 onto my primary laptop and phone, my world was turned upside down. Definitely do it with the laptop and phone you use every day!Īgain, I did a dumb thing, but I learned a lesson from it. (Emphasis on “stupid” and also emphasis on me being the stupid one.) After seeing several coworkers running the beta version of macOS Mojave and looking super cool with the new dark mode, I decided I had to have it.Īnd while I was at it, why not join the public beta for iOS 12 and see what that was all about? Because you should always pivot from dependable software to unpredictable adventures when your daily life depends on it. Unexpectedly, I think the resulting disaster made me a better computer user. This approach recently backfired on me with macOS and iOS 12. The bugs are annoying, but hey, the features are better. I keep telling my friends this, and when they get behind on their updates, I’m all, “Hey, you’re missing out on good stuff!” This is part of the reason why I’m sometimes the guy who downloads beta versions of software.
