New features like Stage Manager help Mac users stay focused and do more
Apple® today unveiled macOS® Ventura, the latest version of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, taking the Mac® experience to a whole new level. Stage Manager ™ gives Mac users a whole new way to stay focused on the task at hand as they switch seamlessly between applications and windows. The Continuity Camera uses the iPhone® as a webcam on the Mac to do things that weren’t possible before, 1 and with Handoff® coming to FaceTime®, users can initiate a FaceTime call on their iPhone or iPad® and move on. on your Mac. Mail and messaging include great new features that make apps better than ever before, while Safari®, the world’s fastest browser on Mac 2, marks the beginning of a password-free future with passwords. And with the power and popularity of Apple’s silicon and the new Metal® 3 development tools, gaming on the Mac has never been better.
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Featured at WWDC22, macOS Ventura makes the Mac experience better than ever. (Photo: Business Wire)
“macOS Ventura includes powerful features and new innovations that help further enhance the Mac experience. New tools like Stage Manager make it easier and faster to focus on tasks and move between applications and windows than ever before, and Continuity Camera offers new video conferencing features on any Mac, including Desk View, Studio Light and more, “said Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering. “With useful new features in Messaging, state-of-the-art search technologies in Mail, and an updated design for Spotlight, Ventura has a lot to offer and enriches many of the ways customers use their Macs.”
A new way to work with applications and Windows
Stage Manager automatically organizes applications and open windows so users can focus on their work and still see everything at a glance. The window in which current users work is prominently displayed in the center, and other open windows appear on the left so that they can change tasks quickly and easily. Users can also group windows when working on specific tasks or projects that require different applications. Stage Manager works in conjunction with other macOS windows tools, such as Mission Control® and Spaces®, and users can now easily access their desktop with a single click.
Apple devices working in conjunction with Continuity
Continuity camera now offers Mac customers the ability to use their iPhone as a webcam, and unlocks new capabilities that were never before possible on a webcam. With the power of Continuity, the Mac can automatically recognize and use the iPhone’s camera when it’s nearby, without having to wake it up or select it, and the iPhone can even connect to Mac wirelessly. to greater flexibility. Continuity Camera 3 offers innovative features for all Mac computers, such as Center Stage ™, Portrait mode, and the new studio light, an effect that beautifully illuminates the user’s face while dimming the background. In addition, the Continuity Camera uses the iPhone’s Ultra Wide Camera to enable Desk View, which simultaneously shows the user’s face and an aerial view of their desktop, ideal for creating DIY videos, showing sketches on FaceTime, and far more. 4
Handoff now comes to FaceTime, which allows users to initiate a FaceTime call on an Apple device and seamlessly transfer it to another nearby Apple device. Users can be on a FaceTime call on their iPhone or iPad, then move the call to their Mac with just one click, or start a call on their Mac and switch to iPhone or iPad when they need to continue moving.
Powerful updates to key macOS applications and features
Safari offers the fastest and most energy-efficient browsing experience on your Mac, along with innovative privacy features. In macOS Ventura, Safari introduces a powerful new way for users to browse together: with shared tab groups, friends, family, and friends can share their favorite places in Safari and see which tabs others are watching live. Users can also create a list of bookmarks on a shared homepage and even start a message conversation or a FaceTime call directly from Safari, ideal for planning a trip or researching a project together.
In the largest search for years, Mail now uses state-of-the-art techniques to deliver more relevant, accurate, and complete results. Users can quickly find what they’re looking for as soon as they click on the search, including recent emails, contacts, documents, photos, and more, before they start typing. Users can also schedule emails and even cancel sending after clicking Send, 5 and Mail now intelligently detects if items such as an attachment or a cc’d recipient are missing from your email. message. In Mail, users can set reminders to return a message on a specific date and time and receive automatic suggestions for tracking an email if there is no reply.
Messages on Mac now includes the ability to edit or undo a recently sent message, mark a message as unread, or even retrieve accidentally deleted messages. 6 New collaboration features make working with others faster and smoother. Now, when a user shares a file using Messages using the sharing sheet or by dragging and dropping, they can choose to share a copy or collaborate. When they decide to collaborate, all users in a Message thread are automatically added. And when someone makes a change to the shared document, activity updates appear at the top of the thread. Users can also join SharePlay sessions from their Mac directly to Messaging, so they can chat and participate in synchronized experiences.
Spotlight® includes an updated, easy-to-navigate design, new features that provide a more seamless experience for Apple devices, and Quick Look to quickly view files. Users can now find images in their photo library, system-wide, and on the web. They can even search for your photos by location, people, scenes, or objects, and Live Text ™ allows them to search by text within images. To be even more productive, users can now perform actions from Spotlight, such as start a timer, create a new document, or run a shortcut. And Spotlight now includes rich results for artists, movies, actors, and TV shows, as well as for business and sports.
With the iCloud® shared photo library, users can now create and share a separate photo library with up to six family members, so everyone can enjoy all of their family photos. Users can choose to share all of their existing photos from their personal libraries or share them based on a start date or people in the photos. To help keep your shared library up to date, users will receive smart suggestions for sharing relevant photo moments that include library participants and anyone else they choose. Each user in the Shared Photo Library can add, delete, edit, or bookmark shared photos and videos, which will appear in each user’s featured memories and photos so that everyone can relive more family moments.
Safest browsing in Safari
Safari browsing is even more secure with passwords, next-generation credentials that are more secure, easy to use, and designed to replace passwords. Passwords are unique digital keys that remain on your device and are never stored on a web server, so hackers can’t filter or trick users into sharing them. Access keys make it easy to sign in using Touch ID® or Face ID® for biometric verification and iCloud Keychain® to sync with Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple TV® end-to-end encryption . They’ll also work across apps and on the web, and users can even sign in to websites or apps on non-Apple devices with their iPhone.
Immersive gaming experiences
Apple’s silicon power allows every new Mac to run AAA games with ease, including upcoming titles like EA’s GRID Legends and Capcom’s Resident Evil Village. And because Apple’s silicon also powers the iPad, game developers can offer their AAA games to even more users, such as Hello Man’s No Man’s Sky, which will hit both Mac and iPad later this year. .
Metal 3, the latest version of the software that drives the gaming experience on Apple platforms, introduces new features that take the Mac gaming experience to new heights and unleash the full potential of Apple’s silicon during next years. MetalFX Upscaling allows developers to quickly render complex scenes using less computationally intensive frames, and then apply resolution scale and temporary antialiasing. The result is fast-paced performance that gives players a more responsive feel and stunning-looking graphics. Game developers also benefit from a new fast-loading API that minimizes downtime by providing a more direct path from storage to the GPU, so games can easily access textures and geometries. high quality needed to create expansive worlds for a realistic and immersive game.
Greater experiences with macOS Ventura
- Live text uses device intelligence to recognize system-wide image text, and now adds support for paused video frames, as well as Japanese and Korean text. Users can now also lift the subject of an image and drop it to another application. I Visual look up it expands its recognition capabilities to now include animals, birds, insects, statues and even more landmarks.
- He The weather i Clock The apps, with all the features that users know and love about the iPhone, have been optimized for the Mac.
- We accessibility Tools include Live subtitles for all audio content, Type to talk on calls, Text checker to support proofreading for VoiceOver users, and more. 7
- System settings is the new name for System Preferences and includes an updated and streamlined design that is instantly easy to navigate and familiar with for iPhone and iPad users.
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