All of the Prime New Options Coming to MacOS Sequoia

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

iPhone Mirroring

Typically your iPhone is within the different room or deep in your bag. For these moments when it is advisable to 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 will see your iPhone’s customized residence display seem. From there, you should utilize the keyboard, trackpad, or mouse to tug and drop content material (like photographs, movies, and information) between each gadgets, open and use any of your apps, swipe via all of the pages on your private home display, 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 gives just a few new options to Safari. With Highlights, Safari will use machine intelligence to indicate you related data from the webpage like instructions, hyperlinks, summaries, and restaurant opinions. Apple additionally redesigned the Reader to reduce 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 carry it to the forefront whereas nonetheless supplying you with entry to playback controls (Image in Image included).

Window Tiling

Those that at all times preserve a ton of browser home windows open concurrently will respect the brand new Window Tiling characteristic that helps arrange them for a greater viewing expertise. While you drag a window to the sting of the display, the brand new OS will mechanically recommend a tiled place in your display. (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 should utilize keyboard and menu shortcuts too.

Videoconference Instruments

Final 12 months, 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 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 really sharing it. In the meantime, the built-in backgrounds characteristic permits you to apply system wallpapers, coloration gradients, or your personal photographs as a backdrop for video calls. Apple says this characteristic will likely be accessible on FaceTime and third-party apps like Webex.

A New Passwords App

In case you by no means liked Keychain, now you might have a greater possibility: 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 Home windows app) too, and helps end-to-end encryption.

Extra With Messages

A couple of new Messages options are coming to macOS Sequoia—and by extension, to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 as properly. You’ll format your texts inside Messages utilizing daring, italic, underline, and strikethrough sort therapies. You may even have the flexibility so as to add animated results to a particular phrase inside a textual content. For some phrases and phrases, you will additionally see ideas 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 in order 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 “personal intelligence system” constructed into MacOS Sequoia, in addition to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18.