Apple has formally unveiled the newest model of its working system for Mac. This time round, Apple caught to its âCalifornia placesâ naming conference and went with macOS Sequoia. (Sure, a sequoia is a sort of tree, nevertheless it’s additionally a national park in northern California.)
Often known as macOS 15, the brand new OS packs a ton of latest 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 Intelligenceâthe corporate’s new artificial-intelligence-powered system. Beneath, we break down all these new options that can develop into accessible in macOS Sequoia when it ships this fall.
Be sure you additionally take a look at our iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 feature roundup for all the brand new options coming to your iPhone and iPad, and our take a look at what’s new in watchOS 11.
Is Your Mac Appropriate?
MacOS Sequoia, or macOS 15, is a free replace to 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’ve, 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 can have the ability to run macOS Sequoia beneath.
- MacBook Air: 2020 and later
- MacBook Professional: 2018 and later
- Mac Mini: 2018 and later
- iMac: 2019 and later
- iMac Professional: 2017 and later
- Mac Professional: 2019 and later
- Mac 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) will probably be accessible in July.
New Options
Beneath, we break down all the most important options coming to MacOS 15. For a full checklist, head over to Apple’s official preview 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’ll want to 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 together with your iPhone wirelessly utilizing your Mac.
When the function is in motion, you may see your iPhone’s customized residence display seem. From there, you should utilize the keyboard, trackpad, or mouse to pull and drop content material (like photographs, movies, and information) between each gadgets, open and use any of your apps, swipe by all of the pages on your house 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 provides 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 critiques. 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 convey 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 maintain 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 recommend a tiled place in your display. (It is just like Snap on Windows.) You possibly can 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 latest 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 couple of extra. With apps like FaceTime and Zoom, you may have entry to a brand new presenter preview functionality that means that you can see what you are about to share earlier than truly sharing it. In the meantime, the built-in backgrounds function means that you can apply system wallpapers, coloration gradients, or your individual photographs as a backdrop for video calls. Apple says this function will probably be accessible on FaceTime and third-party apps like Webex.
A New Passwords App
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Should you by no means cherished Keychain, now you’ve a greater choice: macOS Sequoia comes with a brand new Passwords app that means that you can 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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A number of new Messages options are coming to macOS Sequoiaâand by extension, to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 as nicely. You’ll format your texts inside Messages utilizing daring, italic, underline, and strikethrough kind remedies. You may even have the power so as to add animated results to a selected phrase inside a textual content. For some phrases and phrases, you may additionally see recommendations seem as you kind. Apple added new Tapbacks tooâas an alternative of utilizing the normal 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 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 Intelligenceâits âprivate intelligence systemâ constructed into MacOS Sequoia, in addition to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18.
