When the characteristic is in motion, you may see your iPhone’s customized residence display screen seem. From there, you should utilize the keyboard, trackpad, or mouse to tug and drop content material (like photographs, movies, and recordsdata) between each gadgets, open and use any of your apps, swipe by all of the pages on your house display screen, 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 gives a number of new options to Safari. With Highlights, Safari will use machine intelligence to indicate 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 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 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 screen, the brand new OS will routinely recommend a tiled place in your display screen. (It is much like Snap on Home windows.) You possibly can 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 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 number 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 truly sharing it. In the meantime, the built-in backgrounds characteristic permits you to apply system wallpapers, colour gradients, or your individual photographs as a backdrop for video calls. Apple says this characteristic shall be accessible on FaceTime and third-party apps like Webex.
A New Passwords App
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Should you by no means beloved Keychain, now you will have a greater possibility: 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 properly. You’ll format your texts inside Messages utilizing daring, italic, underline, and strikethrough sort remedies. You will even have the flexibility so as to add animated results to a selected phrase inside a textual content. For some phrases and phrases, you may additionally see strategies seem as you sort. Apple added new Tapbacks too—as an alternative of utilizing the standard 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 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 Intelligence—its “private intelligence system” constructed into MacOS Sequoia, in addition to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18.