September 16, 2024
UPDATE
macOS Sequoia is out there at present, bringing iPhone Mirroring, Apple Intelligence, and extra to Mac
macOS Sequoia, the newest model of the world’s most superior desktop working system, is out there at present as a free software program replace for Mac. macOS Sequoia brings thrilling new options, together with iPhone Mirroring, which expands Continuity by enabling entry to and management of iPhone immediately from macOS; huge updates to Safari; a brand new Passwords app; and extra. Beginning subsequent month, macOS Sequoia will introduce Apple Intelligence,1 the non-public intelligence system that mixes the ability of generative fashions with private context to ship intelligence that’s extremely helpful and related whereas defending customers’ privateness and safety.
Right here’s a take a look at the highest options Mac customers can expertise once they replace to macOS Sequoia.
iPhone Mirroring
Working throughout iPhone and Mac will get even simpler with the latest Continuity function in macOS Sequoia — iPhone Mirroring. Customers can now entry and interact with their iPhone proper from their Mac. Customized wallpaper and app icons seem identical to on iPhone. With iPhone Mirroring, customers also can swipe between pages on the House Display; launch and browse favourite apps; and overview and reply to iPhone notifications immediately from their Mac. And iPhone stays locked the entire time, so no person else can entry or see what the person is doing. It additionally works nice with StandBy, so customers can proceed to get data at a look on their iPhone as they use iPhone Mirroring.
Extra Browsing Energy in Safari
Safari is the world’s quickest browser,2 and it’s even simpler to find new data on the internet with the brand new Highlights function. Powered by machine studying, Highlights robotically surfaces instructions for a location, summaries of articles, or fast hyperlinks to study extra about individuals, music, films, and TV exhibits. A redesigned Reader permits customers to learn articles extra shortly with a streamlined view, a abstract, and a desk of contents, and a brand new Viewer helps customers put movies entrance and middle whereas nonetheless giving them full entry to system playback controls. With Distraction Management, customers can cover objects on a webpage that they could discover disruptive to their looking.
Simpler Window Tiling
New methods to rearrange home windows let customers keep organized with the structure that works greatest for them. By merely dragging a window to the sting of the display, macOS Sequoia robotically suggests a tiled place on the person’s desktop. Customers can launch a window proper into place, shortly organize tiles facet by facet, or place them in corners to maintain much more apps in view. And new keyboard and menu shortcuts assist set up tiles even quicker.
A New Passwords App
An all-new Passwords app makes it even simpler to entry passwords, passkeys, Wi-Fi passwords, and different credentials multi function handy place on Mac. The Passwords app is backed by extremely safe end-to-end encryption. It really works nice with Safari, and seamlessly syncs between all of a person’s Apple gadgets and Home windows with the iCloud for Home windows app.
Video Conferencing Updates
Throughout video calls in FaceTime or third-party apps like Webex, customers can apply stunning built-in backgrounds, together with a wide range of colour gradients or photographs of the surroundings in and round places like Apple Park in Cupertino, California. They will even add their very own images to make use of as a background, And with Apple’s industry-leading segmentation, customers will look their greatest on each name. With presenter preview, customers can now see what they’re about to share earlier than sharing it with apps like FaceTime and Zoom.
Coming Quickly: Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence will rework what customers can do with Mac, delivering intelligence that’s extremely helpful and related to them, whereas defending their privateness and holding them answerable for their knowledge. Apple Intelligence will probably be obtainable on Macs with an M-series chip, harnessing the ability of Apple silicon and the Neural Engine to grasp and create language and pictures; take motion throughout apps; and draw from private context to simplify and speed up on a regular basis duties. Writing Instruments assist rewrite, proofread, and summarize textual content. Siri turns into extra pure, versatile, and deeply built-in into the system expertise, and with richer language-understanding capabilities, Siri can comply with alongside when customers stumble over their phrases. Siri also can keep context from one request to the following. Mac customers can sort to Siri and fluidly change between textual content and voice to speed up on a regular basis duties. As well as, with Siri’s intensive product data, customers can now get solutions to 1000’s of questions in regards to the options and settings on Mac. With most of the Apple Intelligence fashions working totally on gadget, in addition to the introduction of Personal Cloud Compute — which extends the privateness and safety of Apple gadgets into the cloud to unlock much more intelligence — Apple Intelligence introduces a unprecedented step ahead for privateness in synthetic intelligence.
Further Options
In macOS Sequoia, there are numerous extra distinctive and helpful options added to customers’ favourite Mac apps.
Messages
In Messages, customers can now schedule messages to ship later. Textual content messages also can come to life with distinctive textual content results that visually amplify phrases or emoji with animations like “explode,” “ripple,” and “nod,” and customers may even faucet again with any emoji or sticker they need.
Notes
Within the Notes app, customers can now report audio and obtain a reside transcription, making it extremely simple to seize each element of a lecture, assembly, or dialog, and Apple Intelligence will robotically generate a abstract. Math Notes additionally involves macOS Sequoia, enabling customers to immediately resolve an expression or math downside just by typing it into the Notes app on Mac.
Maps
Within the Maps app, out of doors fans achieve entry to beautiful topographic maps and a number of 1000’s of hikes obtainable throughout U.S. nationwide parks. Moreover, customers can now simply create customized strolling and mountain climbing routes with only a few clicks.
For a complete checklist of all the things that’s new in macOS Sequoia, go to apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia.
Availability
macOS Sequoia is a free software program replace that’s obtainable beginning at present. For extra data, go to apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia. Some options will not be obtainable in all areas or in all languages.
- Apple Intelligence will probably be obtainable as a free software program replace. The primary set of Apple Intelligence options will probably be obtainable in beta subsequent month as a part of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1, with extra options rolling out within the months to return. It is going to be obtainable on iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Professional, iPhone 16 Professional Max, iPhone 15 Professional, iPhone 15 Professional Max, and iPad and Mac with M1 and later, with gadget and Siri language set to U.S. English. Later this yr, Apple Intelligence will add assist for localized English in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the U.Okay. Over the course of the following yr, Apple Intelligence will broaden to extra platforms and languages, like Chinese language, English (India), English (Singapore), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Vietnamese, and others.
- Testing was performed by Apple in August 2024. See apple.com/safari for extra data.
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