September 16, 2024
UPDATE
macOS Sequoia is accessible as we speak, bringing iPhone Mirroring, Apple Intelligence, and extra to Mac
macOS Sequoia, the latest model of the world’s most superior desktop working system, is accessible as we speak 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; large updates to Safari; a brand new Passwords app; and extra. Starting subsequent month, macOS Sequoia will introduce Apple Intelligence,1 the non-public intelligence system that mixes the facility of generative fashions with private context to ship intelligence that is extremely helpful and related whereas defending customers’ privateness and safety.
Here’s a take a look at the highest options Mac customers can expertise after they replace to macOS Sequoia.
iPhone Mirroring
Working throughout iPhone and Mac will get even simpler with the latest Continuity characteristic in macOS Sequoia — iPhone Mirroring. Users can now entry and have interaction with their iPhone proper from their Mac. Custom wallpaper and app icons seem similar to on iPhone. With iPhone Mirroring, customers may also swipe between pages on the Home Screen; launch and browse favourite apps; and assessment 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 info at a look on their iPhone as they use iPhone Mirroring.
More Surfing Power in Safari
Safari is the world’s quickest browser,2 and it’s even simpler to find new info on the internet with the brand new Highlights characteristic. Powered by machine studying, Highlights routinely surfaces instructions for a location, summaries of articles, or fast hyperlinks to study extra about individuals, music, films, and TV reveals. 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 Control, customers can conceal objects on a webpage that they might discover disruptive to their shopping.
Easier Window Tiling
New methods to rearrange home windows let customers keep organized with the structure that works finest for them. By merely dragging a window to the sting of the display, macOS Sequoia routinely suggests a tiled place on the person’s desktop. Users can launch a window proper into place, shortly prepare tiles aspect by aspect, or place them in corners to maintain much more apps in view. And new keyboard and menu shortcuts assist manage tiles even sooner.
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 works nice with Safari, and seamlessly syncs between all of a person’s Apple gadgets and Windows with the iCloud for Windows app.
Video Conferencing Updates
During video calls in FaceTime or third-party apps like Webex, customers can apply lovely built-in backgrounds, together with quite a lot of coloration gradients or pictures of the surroundings in and round places like Apple Park in Cupertino, California. They may even add their very own images to make use of as a background, And with Apple’s industry-leading segmentation, customers will look their finest 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 Soon: Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence will rework what customers can do with Mac, delivering intelligence that is extremely helpful and related to them, whereas defending their privateness and protecting them accountable for their information. Apple Intelligence will likely be accessible on Macs with an M-series chip, harnessing the facility of Apple silicon and the Neural Engine to know 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 Tools 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 may also preserve context from one request to the subsequent. Mac customers can kind to Siri and fluidly swap between textual content and voice to speed up on a regular basis duties. In addition, with Siri’s in depth product information, customers can now get solutions to hundreds of questions in regards to the options and settings on Mac. With lots of the Apple Intelligence fashions working totally on machine, in addition to the introduction of Private Cloud Compute — which extends the privateness and safety of Apple gadgets into the cloud to unlock much more intelligence — Apple Intelligence introduces a rare step ahead for privateness in synthetic intelligence.
Additional Features
In macOS Sequoia, there are a lot of extra distinctive and helpful options added to customers’ favourite Mac apps.
Messages
In Messages, customers can now schedule messages to ship later. Text messages may also 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
In the Notes app, customers can now report audio and obtain a stay transcription, making it extremely straightforward to seize each element of a lecture, assembly, or dialog, and Apple Intelligence will routinely 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
In the Maps app, out of doors fanatics acquire entry to beautiful topographic maps and a collection of hundreds of hikes accessible throughout U.S. nationwide parks. Additionally, customers can now simply create customized strolling and mountaineering routes with only a few clicks.
For a complete checklist of all the pieces that’s new in macOS Sequoia, go to apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia.
Availability
macOS Sequoia is a free software program replace that is accessible beginning as we speak. For extra info, go to apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia. Some options is probably not accessible in all areas or in all languages.
- Apple Intelligence will likely be accessible with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 on iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and iPad and Mac with M1 and later, with machine and Siri language set to U.S. English. Additional languages and platforms are coming over the course of the subsequent 12 months. Later this 12 months, Apple Intelligence will add assist for localized English in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the U.Ok. In the approaching 12 months, Apple Intelligence will broaden to extra languages, like Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish.
- Testing was carried out by Apple in August 2024. See apple.com/safari for extra info.
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