All of the High New Options Coming to MacOS Sequoia

Apple has formally unveiled the most recent model of its working system for Mac. This time round, Apple caught to its “California locations” naming conference and went with macOS Sequoia. (Sure, a sequoia is a sort of tree, however it’s additionally a national park in northern California.)

Often known as macOS 15, the brand new OS packs a ton of recent capabilities onto the desktop, together with a password administration app, video conferencing 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 all these new options that may turn into accessible in macOS Sequoia when it ships this fall.

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

Is Your Mac Suitable?

MacOS Sequoia, or macOS 15, is a free replace in your Apple computer systems. However some options, like Apple Intelligence (extra on that, later), are unique to Macs with the M-series Apple silicon chip. To determine which Mac mannequin you will have, click on on the Apple icon within the menu bar within the upper-left nook of your show and click on About This Mac. We have listed all of the fashions that may have the ability to run macOS Sequoia under.

• MacBook Air: 2020 and later
• MacBook Professional: 2018 and later
• Mac Mini: 2018 and later
• iMac: 2019 and later
• iMac Professional: 2017 and later
• Mac Professional: 2019 and later
• Mac Studio: 2022 and later

MacOS Sequoia is presently solely accessible as a developer beta, however the public beta (the place everybody can check out the options) might be accessible in July.

New Options

Under, we break down all the main options coming to MacOS 15. For a full record, head over to Apple’s official preview page.

iPhone Mirroring

Generally your iPhone is within the different room or deep in your bag. Throughout these moments you merely do not feel like getting as much as discover it however want to make use of it, you’ll pull it up in your laptop. As a part of Apple’s Continuity options, iPhone Mirroring offers you the power to each entry and work together together with your iPhone wirelessly utilizing your Mac.

When the characteristic is in motion, you will see your iPhone’s customized Dwelling 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 gadgets, open and use any of your apps, swipe by way of all of the pages in your Dwelling 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

MacOS Sequoia affords just a few 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 opinions. Apple additionally redesigned the Reader to attenuate distractions. Along with a sleeker view of the article, you will 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 supplying you with entry to playback controls (Image in Image included).

Window Tiling

Those that at all times maintain 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, the brand new OS will robotically counsel a tiled place in your display. (It is much like Snap on Windows.) You may then drop the window it 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 need to use keyboard and menu shortcuts too.

Video Convention Instruments

Final 12 months, Apple added a ton of recent video convention instruments with MacOS Sonoma together with Presenter Overlay, Reactions, and numerous options for the Mac’s built-in webcam. This 12 months, the corporate is including just a few extra. With apps like FaceTime and Zoom, you will 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 pictures as a backdrop for video calls. Apple says this characteristic might be accessible on FaceTime and third-party apps like Webex.

A New Passwords App

For those who by no means cherished Keychain, now you will have a greater choice: 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 Windows app) too, and helps end-to-end encryption.

Extra With Messages

Just a few new Messages options are coming to macOS Sequoia—and by extension, to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 as nicely. You can format your texts inside Messages utilizing daring, italic, underline, and strikethrough sort therapies. You will even have the power so as to add animated results to a particular phrase inside a textual content. For some phrases and phrases, you will additionally see strategies seem as you sort. Apple added new Tapbacks too—as an alternative of utilizing the normal coronary heart, thumbs up, thumbs down, query mark, or exclamation level, you will 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 so that they’ll be despatched later.

Apple Intelligence Options

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.