All the Top New Features Coming to MacOS Sequoia Leave a comment

Apple has formally unveiled the newest model of its working system for Mac. This time round, Apple caught to its “California places” naming conference and went with macOS Sequoia. (Sure, a sequoia is a sort of tree, but it surely’s additionally a nationwide park in northern California.)

Also referred to as macOS 15, the brand new OS packs a ton of recent capabilities onto the desktop, together with a password administration app, videoconferencing instruments, and updates to Safari, in addition to all of the options that include Apple Intelligence—the corporate’s new artificial-intelligence-powered system. Beneath, we break down all these new options that may change into accessible in macOS Sequoia when it ships this fall.

Make sure to additionally take a look at our iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 function roundup for all the brand new options coming to your iPhone and iPad, and our have a look at what’s new in watchOS 11.

Is Your Mac Suitable?

MacOS Sequoia, or macOS 15, is a free replace on your Apple computer systems. However some options, like Apple Intelligence (extra on that, later), are unique to Macs with the M-series Apple silicon chip. To determine which Mac mannequin you could have, click on on the Apple icon within the menu bar within the upper-left nook of your show and click on About This Mac. We have listed all of the fashions that may have the ability to run macOS Sequoia beneath.

MacBook Air: 2020 and laterMacBook Professional: 2018 and laterMac Mini: 2018 and lateriMac: 2019 and lateriMac Professional: 2017 and laterMac Professional: 2019 and laterMac Studio: 2022 and later

MacOS Sequoia is presently accessible solely as a developer beta, however the public beta (the place everybody can check out the options) might be accessible in July.

New Options

Beneath, we break down all the key options coming to MacOS 15. For a full record, head over to Apple’s official preview web page.

iPhone Mirroring

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Typically your iPhone is within the different room or deep in your bag. For these moments when you could use it however merely do not feel like getting as much as discover it, you’ll pull it up in your laptop. As a part of Apple’s Continuity options, iPhone Mirroring offers you the power to each entry and work together along with your iPhone wirelessly utilizing your Mac.

When the function is in motion, you will see your iPhone’s customized house display seem. From there, you should utilize the keyboard, trackpad, or mouse to tug and drop content material (like images, movies, and information) between each gadgets, open and use any of your apps, swipe via all of the pages on your property display, 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 function from iOS 17 that turns your iPhone into a sensible show whereas charging.

Safari Updates

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MacOS Sequoia affords a number 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 opinions. Apple additionally redesigned the Reader to attenuate distractions. Along with a sleeker view of the article, you will 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 providing you with entry to playback controls (Image in Image included).

Window Tiling

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Those that all the time preserve a ton of browser home windows open concurrently will respect the brand new Window Tiling function that helps manage them for a greater viewing expertise. If you drag a window to the sting of the display, the brand new OS will routinely counsel a tiled place in your display. (It is much like Snap on Home windows.) You’ll be able to then drop the window into place, organize a number of home windows facet by facet, or place them in any of the 4 corners to make room for extra apps. For faster group, you should utilize keyboard and menu shortcuts too.

Videoconference Instruments

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Final yr, Apple added a ton of recent videoconference instruments with MacOS Sonoma together with Presenter Overlay, Reactions, and numerous options for the Mac’s built-in webcam. This yr, the corporate is including a number of extra. With apps like FaceTime and Zoom, you will have entry to a brand new presenter preview functionality that lets you see what you are about to share earlier than really sharing it. In the meantime, the built-in backgrounds function lets you apply system wallpapers, shade gradients, or your individual images as a backdrop for video calls. Apple says this function might be accessible on FaceTime and third-party apps like Webex.

A New Passwords App

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Should you by no means liked Keychain, now you could have a greater choice: macOS Sequoia comes with a brand new Passwords app that lets you 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 Home 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 properly. You can format your texts inside Messages utilizing daring, italic, underline, and strikethrough kind therapies. You will even have the power so as to add animated results to a particular phrase inside a textual content. For some phrases and phrases, you will additionally see recommendations seem as you kind. Apple added new Tapbacks too—as an alternative of utilizing the standard coronary heart, thumbs up, thumbs down, query mark, or exclamation level, you will additionally see choices to make use of emoji and stickers. One other standout new function is the choice to schedule your messages forward of time in order 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.