The next OS X update could fix Yosemite’s rampant Wi-Fi woes

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The next OS X Yosemite update might fix WiFi woes forever. Photo: Cult of Mac
The next OS X Yosemite update might fix Wi-Fi woes forever. Photo: Cult of Mac

Are you one of the many, many OS X Yosemite users who have been plagued with intermittent, seeming unsolvable problems with Wi-Fi dropping since upgrading from Mavericks? The end to your problems may very well be coming down the pipe.

Apple has begun seeding a new developer beta of OS X Yosemite, version 10.10.1. The second beta to be seeded, build number 14B23, comes just a week after Apple released the first beta.

As with the first update, Apple is asking users to focus their testing on Wi-Fi connectivity, Notification Center and Exchange accounts in the Mail App.

Note the focus on Wi-Fi. OS X Yosemite has been plagued with problems involving randomly dropping Wi-Fi connections since its release. So far, no one is entirely sure what is causing the issue, although some people say it can be addressed by disabling Bluetooth, iCloud or deleting your Wi-Fi connection and re-adding it. But nothing fixes 100 percent of the problems.

With Apple stressing that testers should look at Wi-Fi for the second beta in a row, it looks like Cupertino is making a serious effort to fix the issue in the next OS X update. The question remains, though, when it’ll be seeded to the hoi polloi … or if it will fix Yosemite’s Wi-Fi issues for good.

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