Apple has formally unveiled the most recent model of its working system for Mac. This time round, Apple caught to its “California locations” naming conference and went with macOS Sequoia. (Sure, a sequoia is a sort of tree, nevertheless it’s additionally a nationwide 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 Intelligence—the corporate’s new artificial-intelligence-powered system. Beneath, we break down all these new options that can change into accessible in macOS Sequoia when it ships this fall.
Make sure you additionally try our iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 characteristic 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 might 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 can be capable of run macOS Sequoia under.
- 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 at present accessible solely as a developer beta, however the public beta (the place everybody can check out the options) will likely be accessible in July.
New Options
Beneath, we break down all the main options coming to MacOS 15. For a full listing, head over to Apple’s official preview web page.
iPhone Mirroring
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Generally 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 can 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 characteristic is in motion, you may see your iPhone’s customized residence display seem. From there, you should utilize the keyboard, trackpad, or mouse to tug and drop content material (like pictures, movies, and recordsdata) between each gadgets, open and use any of your apps, swipe by means of all of the pages on your house display, in addition to view and reply to notifications. Whilst 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 wise show whereas charging.
Safari Updates
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MacOS Sequoia affords a couple of new options to Safari. With Highlights, Safari will use machine intelligence to indicate 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 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 at all times preserve a ton of browser home windows open concurrently will admire the brand new Window Tiling characteristic that helps manage them for a greater viewing expertise. Once 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 Home windows.) You may 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 permits you to see what you are about to share earlier than really sharing it. In the meantime, the built-in backgrounds characteristic permits you to apply system wallpapers, coloration gradients, or your individual pictures as a backdrop for video calls. Apple says this characteristic will likely be accessible on FaceTime and third-party apps like Webex.
A New Passwords App
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If you happen to by no means cherished Keychain, now you might 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 Home windows app) too, and helps end-to-end encryption.
Extra With Messages
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A couple of new Messages options are coming to macOS Sequoia—and by extension, to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 as nicely. You can format your texts inside Messages utilizing daring, italic, underline, and strikethrough sort remedies. 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 may additionally see recommendations seem as you sort. Apple added new Tapbacks too—as 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 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.