All the Top New Features in MacOS Sequoia Leave a comment

MacOS Sequoia, also referred to as macOS 15, is the most recent model of Apple’s desktop working system. The brand new OS packs a ton of latest capabilities onto the Mac, 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 synthetic intelligence-powered system. Under, we break down learn how to obtain it and all the most recent goodies on this software program replace.

Be sure you take a look at our iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 roundup for all the brand new options coming to your iPhone and iPad, and our take a look at what’s new in watchOS 11.

Up to date January 2025: We added particulars on macOS 15.2, which incorporates extra Apple Intelligence options.

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MacOS Sequoia Options

Under, you may discover all the foremost options included in macOS 15. Apple has extra particulars right here.

iPhone Mirroring

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Typically your iPhone is within the different room or deep in your bag. For these moments when you must 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 flexibility to each entry and work together along with your iPhone wirelessly utilizing your Mac.

When the characteristic is in motion, you may see your iPhone’s customized residence display screen seem. From there, you need to use the keyboard, trackpad, or mouse to pull and drop content material (like pictures, movies, and recordsdata) between each units, open and use any of your apps, swipe via all of the pages on your property display screen, in addition to view and reply to notifications. When 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 point out 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 convey 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 hold a ton of browser home windows open concurrently will recognize 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 screen, the brand new OS will mechanically recommend a tiled place in your display screen. (It is just like Snap on Home windows.) You possibly can then drop the window into place, prepare 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 need to use 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 varied 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 lets you see what you are about to share earlier than truly sharing it. In the meantime, the built-in backgrounds characteristic lets you apply system wallpapers, shade gradients, or your individual pictures as a backdrop for video calls. Apple says this characteristic can be accessible on FaceTime and third-party apps like Webex.

A New Passwords App

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For those who by no means liked Keychain, now you will have a greater possibility: macOS Sequoia comes with a brand new Passwords app that lets you entry all of your passwords (Wi-Fi passwords included), passkeys, and verification codes in a single place. It retains all of your Apple units 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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Just a few new Messages options are coming to macOS Sequoia—and by extension, to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 as effectively. You’ll format your texts inside Messages utilizing daring, italic, underline, and strikethrough kind therapies. You may 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 recommendations seem as you kind. 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 emojis and stickers. One other standout new characteristic is the choice to schedule your messages forward of time so that they’ll be despatched later.

Different Options

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• Apple Maps: With Maps, you may have entry to 1000’s of mountain climbing trails throughout all 63 nationwide parks within the US, all of which will be filtered by elevation, size, and route kind. You may additionally have the ability to save them to entry your maps while you’re within the wilderness with out a information sign.
• Calculator App: Apple is giving its Calculator app an improve by including new options like the flexibility to enter and proceed to view full expressions (with trigonometry, parentheses, and a number of operations) earlier than urgent equals to see the ultimate reply. You may additionally have the ability to see a historical past of your calculations.
• Calendar: Throughout the Calendar app, you possibly can see each occasions and duties from the Reminders app. There’s additionally an up to date Month View that is meant to make it simpler to see all of your appointments at a look—all of that are color-coded.
• Pictures: A brand new Collections characteristic throughout the Photograph app will mechanically manage your library by matters together with Journeys, Current Days, and Individuals & Pets. With Pinned Collections, you can rapidly entry sure collections and albums. You may additionally now see your Favorites album seem below Utilities and in Pinned Collections. You possibly can clear your Just lately Shared album and Just lately Considered historical past too.
• Recreation Mode: This characteristic was initially introduced final yr, with macOS Sonoma. With macOS Sequoia, Apple improved Recreation Mode with smoother body charges and “superior energy administration options” to spice up efficiency throughout its Macs. It additionally helps Personalised Spatial Audio and reduces audio latency with the AirPods Professional (2nd era).
• House App: Apple is including visitor entry that lets you handle how and when folks can enter your own home. There is a new characteristic that exhibits how a lot electrical energy you are utilizing and the way a lot it is costing you, primarily based on the present utility charges.
• Battery: The power to activate Low Energy Mode was launched with macOS Monterey. Now it is accessible within the Battery menu within the top-left nook of your display screen so that you now not need to dig via System Settings.
• Discover My: Throughout the Discover My app, you may now see a brand new Misplaced AirTag part that lets you share the placement of your AirTag with as much as 5 different folks, to assist observe it down. Quickly, you possibly can share it with airways as effectively (in case your baggage is misplaced). Merely ship the precise hyperlink by way of Messages, Notes, Mail, AirDrop, and extra. They’re going to need to authenticate it utilizing their Apple account, and the hyperlink will expire after every week.

Apple Intelligence Options

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Along with the options above, Apple Intelligence—the corporate’s “private intelligence system”—is constructed into macOS Sequoia in addition to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. These options are solely accessible in Sequoia 15.1 and newer.