(The most recent beta brought back the tab bar by default after earlier versions of the update removed it.) Other improvements to look forward to include Live Text, a Google Lens-like feature that allows you to select text within photos, and the addition of Quick Notes. The release also comes with a major update to Safari that’s at times been controversial due to significant changes to the tab bar and other key features.
The feature, which builds one earlier Continuity updates, allows users to drag and drop files between multiple devices and type on an iPad from a MacBook keyboard.īut both SharePlay and Universal Control, which wasn’t available in initial betas of macOS Monterey, will be arriving after the initial update "later this fall," according to Apple. One of the biggest changes is the addition of Universal Control, which allows users to seamlessly move back and forth between an iPad and a Mac. The macOS Monterey update comes with notable improvements to FaceTime, including support for Spatial Audio, and the ability to use SharePlay to listen to music and watch videos with your friends.
Apple shared the release date at its "Unleashed" event today alongside the new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips and a redesigned MacBook Pro. This is the start, and it could be quite the adventure.The next version of macOS will be available to download beginning October 25th.
There are also improvements to Translate, which will work system-wide, improved audio on AirPods Pro and AirPods Max (if your Mac has an M1 chip in it), a better low power mode for Mac laptops and more. Which I personally think would be kind of swell. As though the world were peopled and built by Memoji. Maps has been updated with a new look, including buildings which in the case of some landmarks are picked out with a cute simplicity. There’s a lot more coming, such as Live Text, which lets you work with text in photos or other images in a whole new way: tap on a phone number in an image to call it, copy text from a photo as if it were a regular document and paste it elsewhere. Watching the cursor move from one display to the next as you drag your mouse is remarkable. If you have an iPad running iPadOS 15 as well as your Mac, you can-and this is so good it’s almost spooky- drag content from one screen to the other when they’re sitting alongside. There’s one thing coming which looks amazing: Universal Control.
Again, it’s multi-device so activating it on one means it can be set across all. Well, you are, but for a particular reason. The Mac can let other people know you’re in Focus mode so they know you’re not ignoring them. Work notifications can be kept at bay while you play a game, some personal things can be silenced while you finish that pesky work deadline and so on. Notifications have been updated to introduce something called Focus, which selects what you see. And the tabs can sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac.
The tab bar looks much more streamlined, for instance, and a new feature, Tab Groups, should make it easier when you’re navigating through the scores of tabs you may have open at a time. Safari has been completely redesigned-and this may not be to everybody’s taste-to look very different. Sync Safari tabs across multiple Apple devices.