I pulled 16.2 beta 4 after startup crashes. This beta brings those fixes and everything added since 16.2.0 beta 3, including the rebuilt Store, camera-island support and the improvements that have been going through nightlies.
The version is 16.2.1 beta 1 so it also sits above the current nightly. If you stayed on 16.2 beta 3, the features below are new to your beta channel.
The Store inside Settings
Settings now grows into the Store and shrinks back when you leave. Browse the Community shelf, search for a droplet or swipe through its previews, then open its page for details and version history; Settings also opens faster.
Around the camera
On the new MacBook Pro, the shelf and supported droplet widgets arrange their top rows around the camera island. Spacing is more consistent across widgets, meeting controls and live activities, on both the camera island and the notch.
Copy, translate and share
Double-tap Left Option for Copy Stack, then paste your copies in order with Command-V. Quick Translate works on selected text, Clipboard searches accept filters such as @image, and a Droppy Cloud video review link lets people comment and draw on the video.
Start a stack, copy several things, then paste each item in order. Save the stack from its picker when you want to use it again.
Choose your shortcut, select some text and translate it. Replace sends the result back to the text you selected.
Share a video review link so people can leave comments, drawings and reactions. The native tiles keep review activity beside each video.
Keep copied items in order, translate selected text or share a video for review.
Reminders and feedback
Pomodoro can remind you to rest your eyes, drink water or stand up. Send feedback puts a report on The Trench with your screenshots or recording, while scrubbed diagnostic logs attached to a bug stay private.
Set how often you want a reminder to rest your eyes or drink water. These are example intervals, and you can choose your own.
Describe what happened in the native feedback form. Add photos or a recording when useful; diagnostic logs attached to bugs stay private.
Set reminders during your day, then send detailed feedback when something needs attention.
More room to work
Droppy now speaks 28 languages, with 11 added since 16.2.0 beta 3. Widen Calendar for its month grid, record at up to 120 fps, and use the video editor's cut tool, cursor styles and automatic zoom.
The startup crashes
The app-icon and cover-image crashes came from reading pixels after their owner had been released. That lifetime problem is corrected, along with pointer recording, audio conversion, Clipboard dragging and settings-import crashes; a separate change avoids a possible freeze while Bluetooth initializes.
A connection that stays saved
Droppy Sync keeps its saved connection when the app restarts, and its progress explains that you can close Settings while it finishes. Plain F5 now works in Voice Transcribe, and Agents refreshes its permission state after Accessibility access is granted.
Audio, keys and the lock screen
Brightness and volume fixes cover desktop Macs, external displays and Apple's external keyboards. The lock screen clears more reliably after unlocking, lyrics handle background vocals correctly, and the media controls follow macOS Now Playing with the same default timeline thickness in all three players.
Audio Control no longer leaves a quieted app behind a silent processing chain. There are also fixes for Clipboard content clipped on short displays, an update-tour freeze and the camera-island shell shifting during hover, press and reveal. On one affected MacBook the compact player still does not fully fit the physical island, so that stays open; the Bluetooth change still needs confirmation on affected Macs.
Small things throughout
Search handles multiple words and text inside copied screenshots more usefully. Lock screen artwork and lyrics are smoother, and the video editor gives its timeline more room with clearer zoom and cursor controls.