Under, we break down all the foremost options coming to MacOS 15. For a full listing, 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 it’s essential to use it however merely do not feel like getting as much as discover it, you’ll pull it up in your pc. As a part of Apple’s Continuity options, iPhone Mirroring provides you the power to each entry and work together together with your iPhone wirelessly utilizing your Mac.
When the characteristic is in motion, you will see your iPhone’s customized dwelling display seem. From there, you need to use the keyboard, trackpad, or mouse to pull and drop content material (like images, movies, and information) between each units, open and use any of your apps, swipe by means of all of the pages on your private home 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 characteristic from iOS 17 that turns your iPhone into a sensible show whereas charging.
Safari Updates
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MacOS Sequoia presents a couple of new options to Safari. With Highlights, Safari will use machine intelligence to point out you related data 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 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 supplying 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 recognize the brand new Window Tiling characteristic that helps set up them for a greater viewing expertise. While you drag a window to the sting of the display, the brand new OS will mechanically recommend a tiled place in your display. (It is just like Snap on Windows.) You’ll be able to then drop the window into place, organize 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 numerous 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 will have entry to a brand new presenter preview functionality that means that you can see what you are about to share earlier than really sharing it. In the meantime, the built-in backgrounds characteristic means that you can apply system wallpapers, colour gradients, or your personal images as a backdrop for video calls. Apple says this characteristic can be obtainable on FaceTime and third-party apps like Webex.
A New Passwords App
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When you by no means beloved Keychain, now you have got a greater possibility: 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 units 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 Sequoia—and by extension, to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 as nicely. You’ll format your texts inside Messages utilizing daring, italic, underline, and strikethrough sort therapies. You will even have the power so as to add animated results to a selected phrase inside a textual content. For some phrases and phrases, you will 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 will 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.
