There’s nothing with macOS Sonoma from 2023, and aside from the promised Apple smarts, there’s nothing radically different about macOS Sequoia from 2024. But there are differences, many of which are notable, and they all contribute to a greater Mac experience, even without the upcoming AI features.
This new update also aims to offer a greater experience on Apple devices, so much so that it is argued that one of the main reasons to upgrade to macOS Sequoia is that all your devices have the most recent versions of the operating system.
Beyond that, the update expands on new features and greater integration with iPhones.
As Craig Federighi demonstrated during the WWDC 2024 keynote, it’s now imaginable to see your own iPhone on your Mac’s screen. This is by far the most noticeable difference of macOS Sequoia compared to its predecessors.
It’s also often so easy to use that it almost disappoints. There are some issues in the beta, like the fact that it insists on locking the Mac, but you regularly click an icon in the Dock and that’s it.
Instantly, you have a symbol from your iPhone on your Mac screen. This is the demonstration of your phone placed in a frame, and when you hover over the right side, this frame features a Mac-style window that can be moved.
Everything is exactly as Apple promised and you get seamless, fluid use of your iPhone right from your Mac screen. However, there is one disappointment: that of the widgets.
As a component of macOS Sonoma, Apple has added the ability to use iPhone widgets on the Mac. It was impressive but ultimately a bit unnecessary, because all a widget did was tell you to use the app on the iPhone.
Now, even when the iPhone is so connected to the Mac that you can run its apps on the screen, the widgets don’t work any better.
It’s unclear if this is expected to improve, but what’s expected is that you’ll be able to drag photographs and other files to and from the iPhone from your Mac.
Right now, there are some quirks, like how you can triple-click the mouse on a paragraph when it’s on the iPhone’s mirrored screen, but you can’t drag it.
Naturally, apps that rely on Face ID shouldn’t open either. In practice, some are code-based and therefore compatible.
There are some other iPhone-related Mac updates that you may discover, or you may never realize the difference. Starting with macOS Sonoma, Mac should show notifications from your iPhone.
The explanation why you don’t realize this is that many notifications are also displayed by default on your Mac, as well as on your iPad and Apple Watch. Also, if you receive a phone call on your iPhone, Mac may already display a notification about it.
But if you have an app only on your iPhone and you’re just not getting enough notifications on your Mac, you can now.
A new feature of macOS Sequoia that has nothing to do with the iPhone is the way you can now tile windows. So if you have a Pages document open or a Finder window open, Mac can place them neatly.
There is also a diversity of options. By dragging a window to an aspect of the screen, it can be expanded to fill part or even the entire screen.
When you drag near the edge, a translucent white overlay appears showing you where your window will pass through when you release it. If you don’t like where it will go, just slide it back.
Unfortunately, you have a great time dragging the window and wondering why nothing happens. By default, you must drag while pressing the Option key.
This can be overridden in Settings and you can also create tiles with a single click. Hover over the green smooth traffic icon and the features will appear to fill the screen, or fill part of it, and so on.
In addition, each and every app, when adding iPhone Mirroring, also has a window menu that has been expanded. A menu item called Move
However, when you take a look at the Window menu, you can see a number of keyboard shortcuts to get the most options. During the beta, they required a function key on the keyboard or a globe key, and they may not be remapped to any other option.
This is another domain where Apple’s intelligence will play a role, but macOS Sequoia has added other new features to the Safari internet browser. They’ve been slow to roll out, even in developer betas, so it’s like Apple has a three-part plan for Safari.
The last component is Apple Intelligence, but it is the first component that reworks the Reader view; In preparation for the second component, Safari Highlights was added. Even before Safari Highlights, the Reader view has been improved to make its features more fluidly visible. .
Click the redesigned Reader icon on the left in Safari’s address bar and get features to enable Reader and enable features over fonts and colors. Later, when you click on this same icon again, you will have the option to turn off Reader mode.
In between, Safari presents the existing website without all the text and photographs that are part of what you need to read. So there are no ads or photos in pop-ups, just a simpler reading experience.
Subjectively, the Reader’s view turns out to have been better formatted. Of course, the controls have been improved to replace its appearance.
What Apple has promised and probably expects from Apple Intelligence is that Reader View will create an AI-generated summary of the article you’re reading. It will provide you with a summary to help you if this is an article you need to read.
And when you need to read it but the article is long, Safari’s Reader mode will create a table of contents to help you skip to certain sections. It is important to note that this feature was included in the developer beta versions, but perhaps only for developers in the United States.
Apple has continuously emphasized that Apple Intelligence features, first of all, will only be available in US English. But Safari’s OCD obviously doesn’t need Apple’s new AI, but it’s just as limited. Your Mac’s locale doesn’t support this feature.
Which is a shame because it’s potentially one of the most productive new features in Safari on the Mac, as well as the iPhone and iPad.
There’s more. That redesigned icon that calls the Reader eye has been redesigned for a reason. It’s no longer just a Reader control, it’s the path to Safari Highlights.
It’s another component of macOS Sequoia that is so useful that we didn’t have it before. You can be sure that other browsers will also try to imitate it.
Safari Highlights aims to extract useful data from a website, data that is particularly useful to you and what you need to do. The example given through Apple is that of a hotel chain site, where Safari Highlights presents the address.
It’s disappointing that we have to wait for some of those issues to arrive, but there’s also sadness that it turns out it may not be resolved. This is because there are no shortcuts for Safari tab groups yet.
Go to the iPhone, where the screen is so small that tabs need to be hidden with a button, and you’ll have all the shortcut to tab organization equipment you could ever need.
There are none on Mac. So on a screen where the tabs are all displayed in a row, nothing.
This means that you can’t have a keystroke that switches to tab organization with all of your company’s websites. You can’t have a Stream Deck button that takes you back to all your favorite sports sites.
Tab groups are such a wonderful feature of Safari that they can be a barrier to switching to other browsers. But on a Mac it still requires point-and-click, 3 years after tab teams were introduced in macOS Monterey in 2021.
There has been an update to the way the Mac handles video conferencing and, in particular, how you can update your background. In Zoom, for example, you can now update your scenery with a single color, one of a small variety of provided photos. , or your own selection of photographs.
Apple says it uses “cutting-edge segmentation technology” to separate you from your genuine experience. In practice, this doesn’t seem to be any more effective than those things.
In fact, the slight rash around the edge of the face and body does not appear if you move quickly. Although this would possibly vary depending on the symbol you use.
Also, before you share a symbol or other video source, you can preview it. You can see what your audience will get in an instant and have time to sort.
There have been times when Apple extols the virtues of an operating formula while talking about its wallpapers. But there’s a special new wallpaper.
Called simply “Macintosh”, it is a wallpaper symbol (and screen saver) featuring the art of Susan Kare. Specifically, it features versions of the original icons she designed for the first Mac in the 1980s.
Kare designed its icons in a grid of just 32 pixels and the new wallpaper features them in thousands of times greater length. But it keeps the dots looking familiar, even when you add new animations, like a mouse cursor clicking on items.
Still, a new wallpaper is just a very small component of a macOS update, and one that’s smaller but probably more useful directly. You’d probably never notice, but now, when you download an app, Mac requires less loose area than before.
So, if you have acres of area on your drive, you don’t want to know or worry about it. But when your disk is full, it can make all the difference.
In the past, in order to download and install an app, it was evident that Mac needed enough free space for that app, but it also needed the same area when it was installed.
Now while macOS still needs some extra space to work in during installs — it’s not clear how much yet — it no longer needs twice the space.
Speaking of apps, or at least the pre-installed ones, macOS Sequoia now offers a redesigned Calculator app.
Finally, there is another new element in macOS Sequoia that has been removed from the iPhone. This is an additional adaptation for the headphones, allowing users to change the tone balance, increase the audio level, and more, when it comes to AirPods or Beats headphones.
It’s clear that Apple focused internally on Apple Intelligence when it released iOS 18. This is a smaller overall edition than previous years, but the included features make up for the lack of volume.
When Apple finally left Mac OS X and introduced us to macOS Big Sur in 2020, it was a big update for Mac and had a few issues along the way. On macOS Monterey, macOS Ventura, macOS Sonoma, and now macOS Sequoia, updates have been relatively minor.
They looked small, at least when they were first installed and used, but every iteration improves the Mac, and macOS Sequoia is no different.
There’s also no difference in the fact that once you switch to it, you don’t need to go back to the previous macOS.
Nothing to mention related to internal updates, performance, bugs, etc. ?With minimal “improvements” to this edition over Sonoma, it would have been appropriate to spend some time on the above.
What about the redesigned Photos app (especially for M1)?
I’d be willing to pay for the OS if they would simply handle the Finder bugs that sent me to the root every time I deleted an item in column view, or provide automatic resizing of columns in column view. columns. Sort or let me hide all unwanted fonts in font menus. No new features please, just fix the damn bugs.
I absolutely agree that solving bugs and focusing on stability and robustness deserve to be the top priority. Sure, macOS is in pretty smart shape overall, but adding possibly superfluous features to an ever-expanding codebase probably won’t be enough. I also think that a number of “magic new features” from Apple are little more than the implementation of their own edition of applications and utilities already provided through third-party expanders in a very high-quality form. Are Apple consumers really asking Apple to expand copies of third-party apps and to do so in a way that is still possibly inferior to the third-party app that Apple released? There used to be, and perhaps still exists, the saying that 80% of the users of a cluttered application like Word only use 20% of the application’s features. Personally, I feel like Apple is bloating its core platforms to the limit with too many things that have little impact. But of course, the counterargument to the 80/20 rule is that other users use 20% more than it contains, so Apple is just looking to cover a broader audience. The fact that programs are downloaded automatically (without loss of user data) helps to some extent, although the volume of the operating system’s core feature set continues to increase.
How do I delete it? This works for me; I use right click, “send to trash”. Resize columns: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=68tuXHdJWvc. Regarding fonts on macOS, this is: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=9RAbcPtcSJQ I hope this helps.