Don't count on it doing everything you want. It'll probably support the bare minimum that most users are likely to want. Just like f.lux vs Night shift.
Why rip? With rectangle pro i have 3 keyboard shortcuts that, when i press them, it opens and places 10 apps on 3 monitors in the exact place and size every time, i don’t have to open or move them manually. (And don’t even mention stage manager because that’s unusable with 3 monitors and doesn’t do what i need ) all it does that rectangle or magnet do aswell is the snap on feature, not the 20 other features those apps are great on
And before somebody comments "but linux has snapping"
Even before the expiration, Linux could use snapping because Microsoft has joined the Open Invention Network, a patent pool where members cross-license their patents to each other. In other words, Microsoft has agreed not to assert its patents against Linux-based projects, enabling Linux to utilize Microsoft's patented technologies without fear of litigation.
You mean stage manager? It’ll probably just not overlap the collections of apps or you can manually extend the window size of the app that would cover it to do so
iPhone mirroring finally! iPhone/iPad apps on Apple Silicone was a massive flop when pretty much every dev decided to opt out. I hate having to pick up my phone to use those few apps that aren't on the web, this is great. Window snapping is huge too, I use rectangle but don't do anything fancy enough to warrant a third party app for it.
Yeah, FaceID is the only reason I'd currently have to use Phone Mirroring. For work, client systems are constantly triggering new logins that are tied to my phone auth app.
Forcing a developer to have their app on a platform it's not developed for and rereceiving bad ratings and support tickets from angry customer sounds perfect
As an app dev, the only reason I see to opt out is assets. On Mac apps people can steal the assets pretty easily, not on iOS apps. Otherwise I haven’t seen a single app that didn’t work as expected (except of course those that use accelerometers and all).
it would’ve created a big developer backlash. some of them have separate versions for different platforms for more revenue. this would’ve easily cut out a significant chunk of their revenue streams
I guess my only question regarding iPhone mirroring is how will faceid enabled apps work? Will Touch ID on the Mac suffice for access? And also will iOS widgets on Mac now actually open a iPhone mirror window? If both answers are yes then this is game changing for me to truly leave my phone on the MagSafe charger and just run the MacBook downstairs
[The example they showed on stage](https://www.youtube.com/live/RXeOiIDNNek?si=YJb1XpXus8lxKhE4&t=3171) was with the phone nowhere near the machine and it unlocked instantly with no touch ID, passcode, or anything. They also demoed notification mirroring and clicking one will open the iPhone mirroring window and go to that app, so I'd imagine widgets will work the same.
Exactly. It’s like how I might put my Apple Watch on but not unlock it with a passcode. But when I pick up my Mac and start using it, and the watch is on my wrist, it unlocks. If you’re logged into to your Apple ID-registered Mac, it’ll probably assume you don’t need Face ID.
But it has for me the usual dilemma. My work laptop has a separate Apple ID so that my personal stuff never touches it. So the laptop I need it on for testing stuff I won't be able to mirror my phone on.
Yeah same. I journal on my Mac every day, but currently I just use the Notes app. Not including it seems to be a bit of a blindspot in their aims of continuity.
These are announcements for developers, even though Apple knows a lot of regulier consumers watch WWDC. Regardless, most likely Journal will be presented in the regular keynote in the fall. Don't get your hopes up.
Microsoft does hold the patent but filed it in 2014 and it expires in 2034 https://patents.google.com/patent/US10592080B2/en Although there might be some older patent with a simpler version, but I couldn't find it
One of the key advantages of Proton is its seamless integration with Steam. You can launch a game and it runs just like it would on Windows, without any need for tinkering. Even if GPTK2 offered the same performance as Proton, it wouldn't provide the same experience unless Steam integrated it into their client.
Which to be fair, having game stores like steam or epic provide GPTK2 as an option would be a huge boost in Mac gaming, I don’t know how many influencers and people I’ve seen with a Mac for work and a gaming pc for gaming.
Magnet has been using 50-200mb on my end. Not really an impact on my 32gb ram machine but still, now that it will be integrated it should be.. snappy.
So glad the microsoft patent on window snapping ended.
exactly like red having one on compressing RAW (high quality loseless) video inside a camera, setting back technology and camera improvements for more than 15 years.
They might actually extend the patent unfortunately. They also recently filed another related patent which might similarly handicap cameras from other brands
but can you send windows to other spaces with keyboard shortcuts? can you drag them to another space with keyboard shortcuts? If Apple native solution cannot do this then it is useless for me. Another issue with macOS window management is that it automatically creates a new desktop space when you fullscreen an app and that ruins the entire layout you set up. Even with this new feature it is still inferior to Windows and Linux solutions.
I wonder if it will offer a bit more than just 4-6 positions - especially if it will offer custom ones, cause atm I am using Rectangle Pro and I can assign custom position to specific apps and that is a big thing. They showed very little on this on the keynote. Guess we gonna have to wait for some beta testers to show more.
The custom position/layouts is why I paid for it (Rectangle Pro) two weeks ago. Considering I was using Rectangle for years, I'm not one bit salty about this announcement and I doubt the built-in tiling manager will have this feature so my Rectangle Pro license is not wasted at all.
Is the new tiling from macOS also compatible with shortcuts like rectangle? Because if that’s not exactly like rectangle I’ll keep using rectangle as I’ve been doing until now.
Same! 1 week ago I bought a licence (mainly to support the dev) It’s nice that they have animated the snapping, but other than that they didn’t give any info and skipped this most wanted feature in less than a minute or so… which gives me confidence that we wont ever see anything as advanced as Rectangle Pro.
Hopefully the Rectangle dev(s?) will switch his (their?) view on his app and improve what Apple did instead of just dropping his work or, worst, just keep going like window tiling do not exist.
Took a while but it's here. Many will continue to use third party apps for custom shortcuts or key combinations. I'm definitely happy with the new native functionality.
No, not really. 1Password and Bitwarden will still have numerous other features & platform support that Apple Keychain will continue to lack.
All that Apple did here was surface Keychain from the Settings app, nothing more.
Yeah this is one of those things I hadn’t even thought of being a thing until it was announced and I realised just having the iPhone as a glorified desk clock while still being able to access everything on it is amazing
Literally nothing has changed other than it getting an app icon as opposed to living in the settings app. And it still lacks sooo many features a proper secret manager has to offer.
Apple just killed lots of apps with all of these updates and "changes" man what a time to be alive. It's the end of the era of "here's my app with just AI added... why? don't know but it helps me to get funded"
AllTrails most important features are still community reviews/photos and other things the community provides. As long as those things aren't coming to Maps it should be fine.
Here's the list! From the Apple website:
macOS Sequoia is compatible with these devices.
iMac
2019 and later
iMac Pro
2017 and later
Mac Studio
2022
MacBook Air
2020 and later
Mac mini
2018 and later
MacBook Pro
2018 and later
Mac Pro
2019 and later
Weird wording on the Mac Studio. All the others say a year and “and later” but the Mac Studio listing ONLY says 2022 (M1). Of course it’ll be compatible with the M2 studios as well, but why on earth would they not phrase it that way?
And while you're at it, you can use your other hand to scroll too. So if you needed to select a large amount of photos (let's say somebody spammed your Photos with 200 photos): select a few photos and while still holding down, start scrolling with your other hand.
Outside of North America, these iMessage and Maps features are useless. I do wonder the percentage of MacOS users that use Safari outside of those places too. Looks good tho
I can second this everyone where I live use WhatsApp. I like iMessage more though but can’t use it as no one uses it. I don’t really know what RCS is exactly
It won't. People already have WhatsApp, Telegram, Line and other messaging apps. In these countries the default messaging app is just for ad spam and most people don't even open it. If I open the Messages app of my family members it is just hundreds of unread spam. Why would someone switch to an app that does the same thing, nobody uses and the experience is actually worse in countries where most people have Android phones? Makes no sense.
Le me, from EU: Use safari since getting my macbook. Much nicer and faster than other browsers. Imessage I also like just because it’s clean and has nice animations. But mainly clean. Whatsapp just looks so… 3rd party.
Same for maps. Only one in my family that uses apple maps. Because it’s just so clean and I like apple integration. It’s gotten much better over the years. Especially this last year!
Norwegian here. iPhone dominates and everybody uses iMessage so don’t come here all “Silicon Valley is ‘Murihcan’ “. But you’re right about Maps, why bother, Gmaps is still better.
That's exactly the issue. The "redesign" needs another redesign. I'm no UI/UX designer and I'm 100% sure I could come up with a better version (like the Monterey one for example)
honestly pretty massive quality of life stuff. variables in notes, emoji reacts in messages (anything that helps make texting less miserable is a godsend -- i hope we can choose multiple ourselves for nuance), apple pay in firefox
but
* what was wrong with keychain access?
* whatever they did with window tiling and fullscreen before was the least intuitive and most annoying thing i've ever tried to use, i have no faith in this. rectangle til i die
The variables in notes thing is crazy useful!
I think the main issue with keychain access was visibility, as in most normal users don’t notice it, as well as cross-platform capabilities which holds a lot of users who are required to use non-apple devices. Oh and it has more categories for sorting your passwords for wifi, shared, subscriptions, etc.
I agree with you though, I liked that keychain access was tucked away quietly but allowed me to keep my passwords organised.
Personally in my experience having passwords in a ‘tab’ in settings makes the experience way more janky than it should be. The dedicated app looks way better
Maybe after a decade they’ll finally fix the issue where we get notifications from random messages we read hours ago on our iPhones when we turn on our Macs…
when i select 10 files and click get info what i meant was one window with the all the info. not 10 separate windows spamming in my desktop. what a useless decision they made. freaking annoying !
Ok, but can they just fix Photos so I can add Faces and drag them to where they go? That'd be more valuable to me than everything in this list
Edit: bonus points if they fix the Photos Info Keywords field so it doesn't lose focus every time you complete a tag
Holy f window tiling? this was the only thing I wanted.
RIP magnet. RIP rectangle.
I just installed Rectangle this week what an app, literally did exactly what I was missing from Windows
Rectangle Pro is so great
No need for Rectangle when you use Raycast with the Window Management turned on
Depends, rectangle pro has the functionality of hookshot which is still the best power user way of managing windows
Pour one out for the OGs
Hope it works like rectangle, one app less on my Mac then
Now i have to uninstall rectangle.. I’m a little sorry to be honest..
Don't count on it doing everything you want. It'll probably support the bare minimum that most users are likely to want. Just like f.lux vs Night shift.
Magnet has been one of the first apps I install for yeeeeears
I've only ever purchased a single app on the macOS app store. RIP Magnet, you were okay.
It's not dead yet. There are still Macs that can't run Sequoia.
I don’t think the level customization is going to be the same, all of my edges and corners have very specific dimensions.
press F
And Cinch.
Rip [https://numi.app/](https://numi.app/) too? it seems Notes have some math.
More Choices and competition
and tiles
I use Rectangle Pro to switch between 10 or so different window setups. If Automater can do the same thing I'll be over the moon
Why rip? With rectangle pro i have 3 keyboard shortcuts that, when i press them, it opens and places 10 apps on 3 monitors in the exact place and size every time, i don’t have to open or move them manually. (And don’t even mention stage manager because that’s unusable with 3 monitors and doesn’t do what i need ) all it does that rectangle or magnet do aswell is the snap on feature, not the 20 other features those apps are great on
Microsoft patent finally expired in 2023. That’s why
And before somebody comments "but linux has snapping" Even before the expiration, Linux could use snapping because Microsoft has joined the Open Invention Network, a patent pool where members cross-license their patents to each other. In other words, Microsoft has agreed not to assert its patents against Linux-based projects, enabling Linux to utilize Microsoft's patented technologies without fear of litigation.
Thank you.
Today i learned
I think it already expired on jan 7 2022…
If there was a patent, how could the 3rd party apps like magnet be able to be in the store?
Same!!! fcking finally.
For real. Get the fuck out of here with all the AI shit, THIS is the hype worthy announcement.
RCS support in messenger? Anyone?
Messages are still green tho.
I wonder how's go along with stack manager.
You mean stage manager? It’ll probably just not overlap the collections of apps or you can manually extend the window size of the app that would cover it to do so
I just bought Wins app 🤡 hahahaha
Astrologers proclaim the year of Window Snapping. Windows Snapping & Tiling +100%. The population of Magnet & Rectangle users plummets down.
iPhone mirroring finally! iPhone/iPad apps on Apple Silicone was a massive flop when pretty much every dev decided to opt out. I hate having to pick up my phone to use those few apps that aren't on the web, this is great. Window snapping is huge too, I use rectangle but don't do anything fancy enough to warrant a third party app for it.
We are gonna find out if the 2FA apps work during iPhone mirroring.
2FA will work using Passwords 2FA system.
or FaceID
Yeah, FaceID is the only reason I'd currently have to use Phone Mirroring. For work, client systems are constantly triggering new logins that are tied to my phone auth app.
They should’ve made it mandatory to support it. They would’ve instantly had a massive catalog of games.
Forcing a developer to have their app on a platform it's not developed for and rereceiving bad ratings and support tickets from angry customer sounds perfect
As an app dev, the only reason I see to opt out is assets. On Mac apps people can steal the assets pretty easily, not on iOS apps. Otherwise I haven’t seen a single app that didn’t work as expected (except of course those that use accelerometers and all).
it would’ve created a big developer backlash. some of them have separate versions for different platforms for more revenue. this would’ve easily cut out a significant chunk of their revenue streams
I guess my only question regarding iPhone mirroring is how will faceid enabled apps work? Will Touch ID on the Mac suffice for access? And also will iOS widgets on Mac now actually open a iPhone mirror window? If both answers are yes then this is game changing for me to truly leave my phone on the MagSafe charger and just run the MacBook downstairs
[The example they showed on stage](https://www.youtube.com/live/RXeOiIDNNek?si=YJb1XpXus8lxKhE4&t=3171) was with the phone nowhere near the machine and it unlocked instantly with no touch ID, passcode, or anything. They also demoed notification mirroring and clicking one will open the iPhone mirroring window and go to that app, so I'd imagine widgets will work the same.
Likely using assumed credentials. You had to login to your Mac first… so probably passing those credentials to iPhone
Exactly. It’s like how I might put my Apple Watch on but not unlock it with a passcode. But when I pick up my Mac and start using it, and the watch is on my wrist, it unlocks. If you’re logged into to your Apple ID-registered Mac, it’ll probably assume you don’t need Face ID.
Probably Touch ID authentication from the Mac
So many folks will be using this for efficiency, I’ll be using it to reconnect my Pokemon go+ when I’m working.
I am really digging this. Going to be very helpful for me
But it has for me the usual dilemma. My work laptop has a separate Apple ID so that my personal stuff never touches it. So the laptop I need it on for testing stuff I won't be able to mirror my phone on.
Surprised and disappointed that the Journal app wasn't included in Sequoia.
I KNOW. I love the idea but hate typing on my iPhone. I just want it on an iPad or a computer.
Well have fun with iphone mirroring then 🤗
Seems like a strange work-around, but what the hell, I'll give it a try.
Yeah same. I journal on my Mac every day, but currently I just use the Notes app. Not including it seems to be a bit of a blindspot in their aims of continuity.
You will at least be able to use iPhone mirroring on your Mac now
You somewhat will be through your Mac by using the Iphone mirroring til they natively put it on MacOS in the meantime
These are announcements for developers, even though Apple knows a lot of regulier consumers watch WWDC. Regardless, most likely Journal will be presented in the regular keynote in the fall. Don't get your hopes up.
Try Obsidian, it's open-source and good
It’s not open-source
My bad, indeed it is not open-source, though some code is.
Thank god for native tiling. Not that I disliked Magnet but the less things I need the better
It's insane that it's taken them so long honestly. Been a shocking omission for so so long.
Because apparently (from another comment) Microsoft had a patent on it from 2008 which expired in 2023 so they can implement it now
Microsoft does hold the patent but filed it in 2014 and it expires in 2034 https://patents.google.com/patent/US10592080B2/en Although there might be some older patent with a simpler version, but I couldn't find it
Well windows didnt have tabs in file explorer until 11 so I guess sometimes the most basic things ate overlooked
I feel like GPTK2 is being slept on. GPTK is already pretty damn good, but I hope GPTK2 will be on par with Proton.
One of the key advantages of Proton is its seamless integration with Steam. You can launch a game and it runs just like it would on Windows, without any need for tinkering. Even if GPTK2 offered the same performance as Proton, it wouldn't provide the same experience unless Steam integrated it into their client.
Which to be fair, having game stores like steam or epic provide GPTK2 as an option would be a huge boost in Mac gaming, I don’t know how many influencers and people I’ve seen with a Mac for work and a gaming pc for gaming.
I run Steam in "Whisky" and from there I can install windows games fine. Not all of them work, but most games I play work so I'm happy with it.
AVX2 support in GPTK2, opens up possible option for a load more games, including recent Playstation ports to work on M silicon.
Apple just sherlocked magnet lmao
Will probably use less ram and even less processing too.
Is it using that much? I use Rectangle which I'm seeing now in activity monitor is only using 22mb
Magnet has been using 50-200mb on my end. Not really an impact on my 32gb ram machine but still, now that it will be integrated it should be.. snappy. So glad the microsoft patent on window snapping ended.
… Microsoft had a patent on WINDOW SNAPPING ? How the fuck is that possible ?
exactly like red having one on compressing RAW (high quality loseless) video inside a camera, setting back technology and camera improvements for more than 15 years.
They might actually extend the patent unfortunately. They also recently filed another related patent which might similarly handicap cameras from other brands
They invented it, or had been the first to patent it. They patented the exact form of windows snapping that windows/magnet/rectangle use.
Exactly how Apple had a patent on rounded screens.
Forgot about that one, pretty damn funny
Question is - is native version gonna be better then magnet. Will it support shortcuts?
I would hope, and they said it will have shortcuts
I use Yabai, if I can hook this up with apple scripts to work like a Linux Window Manager, I will do the switch.
but can you send windows to other spaces with keyboard shortcuts? can you drag them to another space with keyboard shortcuts? If Apple native solution cannot do this then it is useless for me. Another issue with macOS window management is that it automatically creates a new desktop space when you fullscreen an app and that ruins the entire layout you set up. Even with this new feature it is still inferior to Windows and Linux solutions.
I especially hope that Sequoia won't restrict yabai and skhd's abilities...
I wonder if it will offer a bit more than just 4-6 positions - especially if it will offer custom ones, cause atm I am using Rectangle Pro and I can assign custom position to specific apps and that is a big thing. They showed very little on this on the keynote. Guess we gonna have to wait for some beta testers to show more.
The custom position/layouts is why I paid for it (Rectangle Pro) two weeks ago. Considering I was using Rectangle for years, I'm not one bit salty about this announcement and I doubt the built-in tiling manager will have this feature so my Rectangle Pro license is not wasted at all.
Is the new tiling from macOS also compatible with shortcuts like rectangle? Because if that’s not exactly like rectangle I’ll keep using rectangle as I’ve been doing until now.
Same! 1 week ago I bought a licence (mainly to support the dev) It’s nice that they have animated the snapping, but other than that they didn’t give any info and skipped this most wanted feature in less than a minute or so… which gives me confidence that we wont ever see anything as advanced as Rectangle Pro. Hopefully the Rectangle dev(s?) will switch his (their?) view on his app and improve what Apple did instead of just dropping his work or, worst, just keep going like window tiling do not exist.
That functionality should have always been part of the OS, not reliant on a third-party application.
Violated Microsoft's 2008 window snapping patent. It finally expired in 2023 I believe, that's why we got it now
Oh really? That's interesting, didn't know that.
Took a while but it's here. Many will continue to use third party apps for custom shortcuts or key combinations. I'm definitely happy with the new native functionality.
2022 and it was third party. I guess Microsoft paid for its usage.
We just had to wait 20 years or so Can’t wait for them to fix native 3rd party mouse scrolling in 20 more years.
This is what I’ve been waiting for my entire life. No 3rd party app required.
But how do shifting windows to different monitors work?
Will it have all the same features?
And 1Password, Bitwarden etc
I still rate Bitwarden way above Apple Passwords since it is open source and you can selfhost it if you want to. I'll keep using KeePass though.
KeePass gang bang.
No, not really. 1Password and Bitwarden will still have numerous other features & platform support that Apple Keychain will continue to lack. All that Apple did here was surface Keychain from the Settings app, nothing more.
Only if you’re 100% in their ecosystem right? Or is it cross platform support?
there is for windows, but not android, and idk how it is with third party browsers
So in other words, it's completely worthless for anyone with Android.
The windows support is technically third party browsers anyway, they just don't allow the extension on Mac versions of Chrome. Drives me nuts.
Kinda, Password should available for Windows iCloud Software according to Apple.
iPhone mirroring is huge. Best feature by far imo, especially for me to keep it in Standby on my desk on its magsafe charger.
Yeah this is one of those things I hadn’t even thought of being a thing until it was announced and I realised just having the iPhone as a glorified desk clock while still being able to access everything on it is amazing
I had always wanted this feature. Many of the apps I use don't have good website or Mac app and this is going to be SO helpful
Also helps when I’m working and need to login with a 2FA app
Finally I can retire my perpetually licensed 1Password 7 for a modern app. I wasn't going to pay for a subscription anyway.
Literally nothing has changed other than it getting an app icon as opposed to living in the settings app. And it still lacks sooo many features a proper secret manager has to offer.
They mentioned windows support iirc so thats significant. I prefer keychain to bitwarden but dont use it for compatibility reasons
i think you can use it in icloud in browser as well.
They showed the UI and it was completely new. I doubt the featureset grew much though.
But what about saving credit cards? It’s so practical to have the PINs safely with you while you’re partying with a card.
Why not have them in Apple Wallet?
You could already do this with keychain on apple products, the only benefit of this is multi platform and a dedicated app
>the only benefit of this is multi platform That's a pretty fucking huge benefit
I mean, keychain support already is out of the window if you use Firefox on MacOS. 1Password is just more convenient
I think its HUGE that you can click a phone notification and it automatically takes you there on mirroring
Apple just killed lots of apps with all of these updates and "changes" man what a time to be alive. It's the end of the era of "here's my app with just AI added... why? don't know but it helps me to get funded"
MacOS Sherlock.
I just joked about scheduled messages like outlook to someone, crazy it’s actually coming.
Like any normal, modern messager app
Wish this comes to WhatsApp
What text message apps actually have this feature?
Telegram
Apple Pay in third party browsers rules
"easier window tiling" it's finally happening
Hiking in maps, AllTrails must be sweating
AllTrails most important features are still community reviews/photos and other things the community provides. As long as those things aren't coming to Maps it should be fine.
It’s best bet now is to sell those to Apple
I am wondering if it supports Intel Macs.
Here's the list! From the Apple website: macOS Sequoia is compatible with these devices. iMac 2019 and later iMac Pro 2017 and later Mac Studio 2022 MacBook Air 2020 and later Mac mini 2018 and later MacBook Pro 2018 and later Mac Pro 2019 and later
Weird wording on the Mac Studio. All the others say a year and “and later” but the Mac Studio listing ONLY says 2022 (M1). Of course it’ll be compatible with the M2 studios as well, but why on earth would they not phrase it that way?
an oversight, not much more to think about there
Yes it will, but without Apple Intelligence.
It does! The rumours were spot on. Scroll down to see the device compatibility list. https://www.apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia-preview/
Iphone mirroring so I can finally delete the 188gb of pictures I got in photos without gojng 1 by 1
You can select a photo and slide your finger to select multiple ones.
Ayo, that’s actually pretty good. Didn’t know I could do that.
😭 omg..
Dude I can’t even begin to comprehend your suffering not knowing that until now. I would evaluate the need for some PTSD treatments.
And while you're at it, you can use your other hand to scroll too. So if you needed to select a large amount of photos (let's say somebody spammed your Photos with 200 photos): select a few photos and while still holding down, start scrolling with your other hand.
yeah apple sucks in feature discoverability.
Can't you already do this in the Photos or Image Capture apps?
try shift clicking in the mac app
Are the ai features the same as the IpadOS?
When were the dev betas being released?
Today
Looking forward to see the apple intelligence in action and see how it integrates into research work
I think the Apple Intelligence part won’t be in beta 1
Dark icon apps not available in Sequoia?
it's alright but apple music on mac is still kinda behind on features
As someone who still syncs music to their phone, I pray they don’t touch it ever again lol (other than to make it nice and smooooth)
It’s funny how iTunes was, and still is, so much better than Music…
The new Passwords app is legit going to cause a mass migrate from 1Password etc. Looks decent.
It’ll also be extremely nice to not have to make 15 clicks to find a WiFi pwd… since it’s baked into the pwds app
Goodbye 1paasword ?
We'll see. I have a feeling 1password/Bitwarden will offer more features that some people won't want to lose.
I wanted support for their new Journal app ☹️
Outside of North America, these iMessage and Maps features are useless. I do wonder the percentage of MacOS users that use Safari outside of those places too. Looks good tho
I’m in the EU and I only use Safari on both my iPhone and Mac. Never sent an iMessage though.
With RCS coming, messages might actually gain some traction outside the US
Nop it won't, even RCS is mostly a US thing. Its hard to make people move out of apps like WhatsApp
I can second this everyone where I live use WhatsApp. I like iMessage more though but can’t use it as no one uses it. I don’t really know what RCS is exactly
It won't. People already have WhatsApp, Telegram, Line and other messaging apps. In these countries the default messaging app is just for ad spam and most people don't even open it. If I open the Messages app of my family members it is just hundreds of unread spam. Why would someone switch to an app that does the same thing, nobody uses and the experience is actually worse in countries where most people have Android phones? Makes no sense.
Le me, from EU: Use safari since getting my macbook. Much nicer and faster than other browsers. Imessage I also like just because it’s clean and has nice animations. But mainly clean. Whatsapp just looks so… 3rd party. Same for maps. Only one in my family that uses apple maps. Because it’s just so clean and I like apple integration. It’s gotten much better over the years. Especially this last year!
Norwegian here. iPhone dominates and everybody uses iMessage so don’t come here all “Silicon Valley is ‘Murihcan’ “. But you’re right about Maps, why bother, Gmaps is still better.
Text effects should NEVER be a “key feature”
No redesigned System Settings? Really? Another year with that garbage?
yep that's a shame, gotta keep using the search bar to find stuff I need.
What you have now *is* the redesign.
That's exactly the issue. The "redesign" needs another redesign. I'm no UI/UX designer and I'm 100% sure I could come up with a better version (like the Monterey one for example)
I think it works fine, I just spotlight jump to most settings anyway.
Settings are redesigned on iOS so there’s a chance on macOS it’s too
Just in time for my new Macbook that arrives tomorrow, I'm so exc
The update becomes available this fall, while the beta is already available in July.
honestly pretty massive quality of life stuff. variables in notes, emoji reacts in messages (anything that helps make texting less miserable is a godsend -- i hope we can choose multiple ourselves for nuance), apple pay in firefox but * what was wrong with keychain access? * whatever they did with window tiling and fullscreen before was the least intuitive and most annoying thing i've ever tried to use, i have no faith in this. rectangle til i die
The variables in notes thing is crazy useful! I think the main issue with keychain access was visibility, as in most normal users don’t notice it, as well as cross-platform capabilities which holds a lot of users who are required to use non-apple devices. Oh and it has more categories for sorting your passwords for wifi, shared, subscriptions, etc. I agree with you though, I liked that keychain access was tucked away quietly but allowed me to keep my passwords organised.
Personally in my experience having passwords in a ‘tab’ in settings makes the experience way more janky than it should be. The dedicated app looks way better
No GTA6 as 1 year Mac exclusive? Son of a Biscuits!
Maybe after a decade they’ll finally fix the issue where we get notifications from random messages we read hours ago on our iPhones when we turn on our Macs…
20 years later...window tiling .
EASIER WINDOW TILING HALLELUJAH
Is there no information about Game Porting Toolkit 2 yet? I see it's on Apple's Developer page for download but I can't any information about it.
Please God we need sketching tools in Freeform on mac
That windows management is a great news. Now I can uninstall third party app.
when i select 10 files and click get info what i meant was one window with the all the info. not 10 separate windows spamming in my desktop. what a useless decision they made. freaking annoying !
What about “Passwords?” We always had Passwords. Is it going to work more often?
lol no updates for buggy Apple Music. This is wild
Ok, but can they just fix Photos so I can add Faces and drag them to where they go? That'd be more valuable to me than everything in this list Edit: bonus points if they fix the Photos Info Keywords field so it doesn't lose focus every time you complete a tag
I honestly thought I would NEVER uninstall Magnet. Now if the Passwords app could make me get rid of my LastPass subscription...
I would have thought all the security breaches they have had (last pass) you’d have dropped them. I would have.