June 5, 2023
PRESS RELEASE
macOS Sonoma brings all‑new capabilities for elevating productiveness and creativity
With extra methods to personalize with widgets and gorgeous new display screen savers, important updates to Safari and video conferencing, together with an optimized gaming expertise — the Mac expertise is healthier than ever
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at the moment previewed macOS Sonoma, the most recent model of the world’s most superior desktop working system, bringing a wealthy set of options that elevate the Mac expertise. Beautiful display screen savers and highly effective widgets unlock a completely new approach to personalize. Customers can now place widgets proper on the desktop, work together with them with only a click on, and thru the magic of Continuity, entry the in depth ecosystem of iPhone widgets on their Mac. In macOS Sonoma, video conferencing additionally will get extra partaking with nice new options to assist customers current remotely, like Presenter Overlay, which locations a presenter on prime of the content material being shared, and Reactions, which allows enjoyable gesture-triggered video results in cinematic high quality. Important updates come to Safari, taking the net expertise to the subsequent stage. Profiles retains shopping separate between a number of subjects or tasks, and internet apps present quicker entry to favourite websites. And gaming will get even higher, with the introduction of Recreation Mode, thrilling new titles, and a brand new recreation porting toolkit that makes it even simpler for builders to carry extra video games to Mac.
“macOS is the guts of the Mac, and with Sonoma, we’re making it much more pleasant and productive to make use of,” stated Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vp of Software program Engineering. “We expect customers are going to like macOS Sonoma and the brand new methods it allows them to personalize with widgets and gorgeous new display screen savers, see new ranges of gaming efficiency, and acquire highly effective productiveness for video conferencing and shopping with Safari.”
Get Extra Executed with Interactive Widgets
Widgets at the moment are much more highly effective and private on Mac. Customers can place widgets proper on the desktop and conveniently entry the widget gallery to search out those they know and love. Widgets mix seamlessly with the wallpaper whereas customers work in apps, to allow them to keep centered on the duty at hand. By means of the magic of Continuity, customers may benefit from the huge ecosystem of iPhone widgets on their Mac. And widgets grow to be interactive, permitting customers to examine off reminders, play or pause media, entry residence controls, and carry out varied duties from their Mac, all straight from the desktop.
Smarter Video Conferencing Experiences
macOS Sonoma brings enhanced video conferencing options that allow customers to current and share their work extra successfully inside any video conferencing app. Presenter Overlay, a brand new video impact, elevates a consumer’s presence by displaying them on prime of the content material they’re sharing. Moreover, Reactions enable customers to share how they really feel by seamlessly including balloons, confetti, hearts, and extra into the video, which can be triggered with a hand gesture. The improved Display screen Sharing picker simplifies the method of sharing apps throughout video calls. Customers can merely click on the inexperienced button within the top-left nook of an app and select to share it within the name, permitting for simple content material sharing from their at the moment open home windows.
Main Updates to Safari
Safari, the world’s quickest browser, introduces new options to reinforce the shopping expertise for Mac customers. This 12 months brings a big replace to Non-public Searching, which gives even better safety throughout shopping each from trackers and from individuals who might need entry to the consumer’s machine. Superior monitoring and fingerprinting protections in Non-public Searching go even additional to assist forestall web sites from monitoring or figuring out the consumer. Non-public Searching home windows additionally lock when customers aren’t utilizing them, permitting them to maintain tabs open even once they step away from their machine.
Moreover, profiles assist customers keep organized by providing a approach to separate shopping between subjects, whereas additionally holding cookies, historical past, extensions, Tab Teams, and Favorites separate. Customers can register to the identical website with each work and private accounts — and shortly swap between them — guaranteeing a clean shopping expertise. Safari additionally allows the creation of internet apps that behave like regular apps, placing customers’ favourite websites at their fingertips and offering a simplified toolbar for an app-like expertise.
Beautiful New Display screen Savers
macOS Sonoma brings gorgeous display screen savers that includes slow-motion movies of varied areas worldwide, such because the sweeping skyline of Hong Kong, the sandstone buttes of Monument Valley in Arizona, and the rolling hills of Sonoma in Northern California. This wealthy graphical and photographic imagery enhances the Mac expertise by shuffling by way of Panorama, Earth, Underwater, or Cityscape themes. The login expertise is now repositioned on the backside of the display screen, making area for the brand new display screen savers, which seamlessly transition into the desktop.
Video games on Mac Get Even Higher
With the ability of Apple silicon, customers expertise unbelievable graphics efficiency on each Mac. And now, tens of tens of millions of Macs with Apple silicon can run demanding video games with nice efficiency, lengthy battery life, and breathtaking visuals. Builders proceed to benefit from Steel 3, bringing thrilling new titles to Mac, together with DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR’S CUT, Stray, Fort Solis, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, HUMANKIND, Resident Evil Village: Winters’ Growth, The Medium, ELEX II, Firmament, SnowRunner, Disney Dreamlight Valley, No Man’s Sky, Dragonheir: Silent Gods, and Layers of Worry. To make it simpler to port video games from different platforms to Mac, Steel introduces a brand new recreation porting toolkit, eliminating months of upfront work and enabling builders to see how effectively their present recreation might run on Mac in just some days. It additionally dramatically simplifies the method of changing the sport’s shaders and graphics code to take full benefit of Apple silicon efficiency, considerably lowering the full improvement time.
macOS Sonoma additionally introduces Recreation Mode, giving gamers an edge when efficiency is measured in valuable milliseconds. Recreation Mode delivers an optimized gaming expertise with smoother and extra constant body charges, by guaranteeing video games get the very best precedence on the CPU and GPU. Recreation Mode additionally makes gaming on Mac much more immersive — dramatically decreasing audio latency with AirPods, and considerably lowering enter latency with in style recreation controllers like these for Xbox and PlayStation by doubling the Bluetooth sampling fee. Recreation Mode works with any recreation, together with all the latest and upcoming Mac video games.
Enhancing Hybrid and Distant Professional Workflows
Leveraging the superior media engine in Apple silicon, macOS Sonoma brings a brand new excessive efficiency mode to the Display screen Sharing app. Enabling extremely responsive distant entry to hybrid in-studio and distant professional workflows, it delivers low-latency audio, excessive body charges, and helps as much as two digital shows. This mode empowers professionals to securely entry their content material creation workflows from wherever — whether or not modifying in Last Minimize Professional or DaVinci Resolve, or animating complicated 3D property in Maya. And with assist for reference colour, it additionally allows distant colour workflows that historically couldn’t be carried out with out devoted {hardware} and specialised software program.
Enhanced Accessibility Options
macOS Sonoma introduces a spread of accessibility options that make Mac much more customizable for all customers. For purchasers with listening to disabilities, Made for iPhone listening to units can connect with their Mac for calls and media consumption,1 whereas customers who’re nonspeaking can use Reside Speech to kind and vocalize their ideas throughout calls and conversations. For customers with bodily and motor disabilities, phonetic recommendations seem when dictating and modifying textual content with Voice Management on Mac. To help customers with cognitive disabilities, animated pictures like GIFs may be robotically paused in Messages and Safari. Moreover, customers who’re blind or have low imaginative and prescient can simply customise textual content measurement throughout Mac apps, and make the most of Xcode with VoiceOver, Apple’s industry-leading display screen reader.
Further macOS Sonoma updates embody:
- Streamlined PDFs: Enhanced PDF performance permits for fast form-filling with AutoFill, and good recipient suggestions.
- Inline PDFs in Notes: Notes now shows PDFs and doc scans in full width, and with linked notes, customers can shortly join associated notes like recipes or homework.
- Siri: Customers have the power to easily say “Siri” to activate Siri.2
- Passwords: Customers can now create a gaggle to share a set of passwords. Everybody in a gaggle can add and edit passwords to maintain them updated, and since sharing is thru iCloud Keychain, it’s end-to-end encrypted. Moreover, the one-time verification codes acquired in Mail will now autofill in Safari, making it straightforward to securely log in with out leaving the browser.
- Messages: Customers can join with these closest to them with an all-new stickers expertise, enhancements to options like search, reply, teams, and syncing with Messages in iCloud.
- Reminders: Clever grocery lists in Reminders streamline weekly journeys to the shop. Moreover, customers can set up lists into sections and prepare them horizontally utilizing a brand new column view.
- Keyboard: An all-new autocorrect makes corrections extra correct and simpler to repair. Inline completions assist customers shortly end sentences, whereas Dictation brings accuracy enhancements by way of next-level speech recognition.
- Privateness and Security: Communication Security expands to AirDrop, the Images picker, incoming calls, and FaceTime messages, additional broadening protections for youngsters. Moreover, Delicate Content material Warning prevents surprising publicity to delicate pictures and movies in AirDrop and Messages, incoming calls, and FaceTime messages, whereas giving the consumer the choice to dam the contact or search additional sources for assist.
Availability
The developer beta of macOS Sonoma is obtainable by way of the Apple Developer Program at developer.apple.com beginning at the moment, and a public beta can be out there by way of the Apple Beta Software program Program subsequent month at beta.apple.com. The discharge can be out there as a free software program replace this fall. For extra data, go to apple.com/macos/sonoma-preview. Options are topic to vary. Some options might not be out there in all areas, all languages, or on all units. For extra details about availability, go to apple.com.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. In the present day, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Apple’s 5 software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower individuals with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s greater than 100,000 staff are devoted to creating the very best merchandise on earth, and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Customers will have the ability to pair Made for iPhone listening to units that assist bidirectional listening to with choose Mac computer systems with the M1 chip and all Mac computer systems with the M2 chip.
- Simply “Siri” invocation works on Mac computer systems with Apple silicon and AirPods Professional (2nd era).
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