All the Top New Features in MacOS Sequoia Leave a comment

When the characteristic is in motion, you may see your iPhone’s customized house display screen seem. From there, you need to use the keyboard, trackpad, or mouse to pull and drop content material (like pictures, movies, and information) between each gadgets, open and use any of your apps, swipe by all of the pages on your own home display screen, in addition to view and reply to notifications. When you’re doing all this, your iPhone will stay locked. It additionally works whereas your iPhone is in Standby mode, a characteristic from iOS 17 that turns your iPhone into a sensible show whereas charging.

Safari Updates

MacOS Sequoia gives a couple of new options to Safari. With Highlights, Safari will use machine intelligence to point out you related info from the webpage like instructions, hyperlinks, summaries, and restaurant evaluations. Apple additionally redesigned the Reader to attenuate distractions. Along with a sleeker view of the article, you may additionally see a abstract and a desk of contents (for longer articles). If the webpage features a video, Viewer will deliver it to the forefront whereas nonetheless supplying you with entry to playback controls (Image in Image included).

Window Tiling

Those that all the time preserve a ton of browser home windows open concurrently will admire the brand new Window Tiling characteristic that helps set up them for a greater viewing expertise. Once you drag a window to the sting of the display screen, the brand new OS will mechanically recommend a tiled place in your display screen. (It is much like Snap on Windows.) You possibly can then drop the window into place, prepare a number of home windows aspect by aspect, or place them in any of the 4 corners to make room for extra apps. For faster group, you need to use keyboard and menu shortcuts too.

Videoconference Instruments

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Final 12 months, Apple added a ton of recent videoconference instruments with MacOS Sonoma together with Presenter Overlay, Reactions, and varied options for the Mac’s built-in webcam. This 12 months, the corporate is including a couple of extra. With apps like FaceTime and Zoom, you may have entry to a brand new presenter preview functionality that permits you to see what you are about to share earlier than truly sharing it. In the meantime, the built-in backgrounds characteristic permits you to apply system wallpapers, shade gradients, or your personal pictures as a backdrop for video calls. Apple says this characteristic will likely be out there on FaceTime and third-party apps like Webex.

A New Passwords App

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In case you by no means cherished Keychain, now you could have a greater choice: macOS Sequoia comes with a brand new Passwords app that permits you to entry all of your passwords (Wi-Fi passwords included), passkeys, and verification codes in a single place. It retains all of your Apple gadgets in sync, runs on Home windows machines (utilizing the iCloud for Windows app) too, and helps end-to-end encryption.

Extra With Messages

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Just a few new Messages options are coming to macOS Sequoia—and by extension, to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 as effectively. You can format your texts inside Messages utilizing daring, italic, underline, and strikethrough sort therapies. You will even have the flexibility so as to add animated results to a particular phrase inside a textual content. For some phrases and phrases, you may additionally see ideas seem as you sort. Apple added new Tapbacks too—as a substitute of utilizing the standard coronary heart, thumbs up, thumbs down, query mark, or exclamation level, you may additionally see choices to make use of emoji and stickers. One other standout new characteristic is the choice to schedule your messages forward of time so that they’ll be despatched later.

Apple Intelligence Options

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Along with the options above, the corporate additionally introduced new AI capabilities powered by Apple Intelligence—its “private intelligence system” constructed into MacOS Sequoia, in addition to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18.