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title: "Droppy 16.2.2 beta 1: your setup, on every Mac"
description: "Droppy 16.2.2 beta 1 syncs your settings and shortcuts through iCloud, smooths out Up Next and Lyrics, and lets the notch follow your updates."
canonical: "https://getdroppy.app/blog/droppy-16-2-2-beta-1"
last-updated: "2026-11-12"
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# Droppy 16.2.2 beta 1: your setup, on every Mac

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Release 16.2.2 beta 1

Jordy Spruit November 12, 2026 2 min read

![The Droppy 16.2.2 beta 1 release card: iCloud setup sync, updates in the notch, smooth Up Next, emoji search and more, from real screenshots.](https://getdroppy.app/assets/images/blog/releases/16.2.2-beta.1/cover-3088ceab.webp)

The big one in this beta: set up Droppy once and keep it the same on every Mac you use. It also smooths out Up Next and Lyrics, makes updates easier to follow and fixes a good list of small things.

## One Droppy setup for all your Macs

Open Settings, go to General and you will find a new iCloud card with one switch: Sync this Mac. Turn it on and Droppy keeps your settings and shortcuts the same on every Mac where you do the same.

Nothing syncs until you flip that switch yourself. A small green check next to iCloud tells you the last sync went through.

![The iCloud card in Droppy Settings, General: the iCloud icon, a green check, the line Keep your Droppy settings in sync with iCloud across your Macs, and the Sync this Mac switch turned on.](https://getdroppy.app/assets/images/blog/releases/16.2.2-beta.1/icloud-setup-sync.webp)

Sync this Mac sits in the new iCloud card in Settings, General.

## Up Next and Lyrics, without the jolt

Open Up Next or Lyrics on the lock screen or in the floating player and the page now slides in with one smooth motion. Closing it, or going straight from Up Next to Lyrics, no longer stutters or snaps into place.

Choose a place

![The Droppy lock screen player on a coral desert dunes wallpaper, showing Playing Next with Blinding Lights above the Levitating controls.](https://getdroppy.app/assets/images/blog/releases/16.2.2-beta.1/lock-screen-up-next-v3.webp)

Click the list button under the song to see what plays next, right on the lock screen.

![The floating player at its expanded and regular sizes, both playing Levitating by Dua Lipa with the cover, timeline and controls.](https://getdroppy.app/assets/images/blog/releases/16.2.2-beta.1/floating-player.webp)

The floating player gets the same smooth pages: open Up Next or Lyrics from here, then switch back to Now Playing without a jump.

Up Next on the lock screen, and the floating player whose pages now move just as smoothly.

## Updates you can follow

From your next update on, installing from inside Droppy is calmer: the notch shows the update and its result, Droppy reopens sooner, and the installer no longer puts a second icon in your Dock.

Some updates installed perfectly and still ended on Update failed during the Cleanup step. That step now reports what really happened, and because the installer that runs is the one in the copy being replaced, you see it from your next update on.

## No more waiting on macOS

Opening a file from the shelf or the basket could freeze Droppy while macOS took its time finding the right app, and that is gone. Launch no longer stalls while Droppy looks up which browsers you have installed.

Under the hood, Droppy does less work in the background, so typing, changing a setting or playing music costs less than before.

## Small things, done right

Right-click the notch and Droppy does what you picked: Open settings opens Settings, and No action really does nothing. Searching Settings now takes you to the setting you asked for, instead of sometimes leaving you at the top of the page.

Emoji search understands you better: type red heart and you get the red heart, type rose and the wilted rose shows up, and words match in any order. iMessage notifications now put the real Messages icon on the sender's photo instead of a drawn blue bubble.

Also in this build: equal Notch sides HUD bars in every language, Allow access for Kaset instead of Connecting, Cursor signing in after a CLI login, and Hyper Key shortcuts that no longer open apps as if Option were held.