10 June 2024
PRESS RELEASE
macOS Sequoia takes productiveness and intelligence on Mac to new heights
The Mac expertise will get higher than ever with iPhone Mirroring, huge updates to Safari, extremely anticipated video games, and Apple Intelligence to ship all-new capabilities
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at this time previewed macOS Sequoia, the following model of the world’s most superior desktop working system, bringing solely new methods of working and transformative intelligence options to Mac. macOS Sequoia is stuffed with thrilling new capabilities, together with iPhone Mirroring, which expands Continuity by enabling full entry to and management of iPhone straight from macOS. Safari will get one other huge replace with the brand new Highlights characteristic for easy info discovery on webpages whereas searching. The brand new Passwords app makes it even simpler to entry passwords and arrange credentials multi functional place. Gaming advances with a extra immersive expertise, in addition to a breadth of latest titles, together with Murderer’s Creed Shadows, Frostpunk 2, and extra.
macOS Sequoia additionally introduces Apple Intelligence, the private intelligence system for Mac, iPhone, and iPad that combines the facility of generative fashions with private context to ship intelligence that’s extremely helpful and related. Constructed with privateness from the bottom up, Apple Intelligence is deeply built-in into macOS Sequoia, iOS 18, and iPadOS 18. It understands and creates language and pictures, takes motion throughout apps, and attracts from private context, simplifying and accelerating on a regular basis duties. Taking full benefit of the facility of Apple silicon and the Neural Engine, Apple Intelligence will likely be supported by each Mac with an M-series chip.1
“The all-star mixture of the facility of Apple silicon and the legendary ease of use of macOS have made the Mac extra succesful than ever. Immediately, we’re excited to take macOS to new heights with macOS Sequoia, a giant launch that elevates productiveness and intelligence,” stated Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vp of Software program Engineering. “macOS Sequoia ushers in Apple Intelligence, unlocking unimaginable new options that will likely be a recreation changer for engaged on Mac. And with extra methods to assist customers effortlessly get issues accomplished, new Continuity options like iPhone Mirroring, main updates to Safari, and a bunch of latest video games, we predict Mac customers are going to like it.”
Wirelessly Use iPhone Proper from Mac with
iPhone Mirroring
macOS Sequoia makes Continuity much more magical with iPhone Mirroring, which permits customers to totally entry and interact with their iPhone — proper from their Mac. A person’s customized wallpaper and icons seem similar to on their iPhone, they usually can swipe between pages on their Residence Display screen, or launch and browse any of their favourite apps. The keyboard, trackpad, and mouse on Mac additionally let a person work together with their iPhone, and audio even comes by way of. Customers can seamlessly drag and drop between iPhone and Mac, and a person’s iPhone stays locked, so no one else can entry or see what the person is doing. It additionally works nice with StandBy, which stays seen, so customers can get info at a look. Moreover, customers can evaluation and reply to iPhone notifications straight from their Mac.
Massive Updates Come to Safari
Safari, the world’s quickest browser,2 now affords Highlights, an excellent simpler strategy to uncover info on the internet, similar to instructions, summaries, or fast hyperlinks to be taught extra about individuals, music, films, and TV exhibits. A redesigned Reader contains much more methods to get pleasure from articles with out distractions, that includes a streamlined view of the article a person is studying, a abstract, and a desk of contents for longer articles. And when Safari detects a video on the web page, Viewer helps customers put it entrance and heart, whereas nonetheless giving them full entry to system playback controls, together with Image in Image.
Gaming Will get Even Higher with Extremely Anticipated Titles and Extra
A stellar lineup of video games is coming to Mac — together with the extremely anticipated Murderer’s Creed Shadows, the following installment in Ubisoft’s blockbuster collection — alongside new options like Personalised Spatial Audio that make gaming much more immersive.
- Extremely anticipated titles: Builders are delivering a tremendous host of latest titles to Mac. Ubisoft will launch Prince of Persia: The Misplaced Crown and Murderer’s Creed Shadows, and Capcom will supply much more thrilling titles from the favored RESIDENT EVIL collection, together with RESIDENT EVIL 7 biohazard and RESIDENT EVIL 2. The following main enlargement of World of Warcraft: The Battle Inside is coming later this yr. Additionally on the way in which are Frostpunk 2, Palworld, Sniper Elite 4, and RoboCop: Rogue Metropolis, all leveraging highly effective software program applied sciences like MetalFX Upscaling to speed up efficiency and ship high-quality visuals throughout the Mac lineup. And Management Final Version and Wuthering Waves are coming quickly, benefiting from the most recent M3 household of chips to ship breathtaking visuals with ray tracing.
- A extra immersive gaming expertise: Personalised Spatial Audio places gamers in the course of the motion like by no means earlier than, whereas considerably diminished audio latency with AirPods Professional (2nd era) supplies even higher responsiveness. Enhancements to Recreation Mode unlock smoother body charges, and superior energy administration options enhance efficiency throughout the Mac lineup.
- Recreation Porting Toolkit 2: For the reason that introduction of the Recreation Porting Toolkit, builders have been in a position to convey their video games to Apple gadgets quicker than ever, and gaming fanatics can expertise extra titles on the Mac. Recreation Porting Toolkit 2 takes this to the following stage with a number of the most-requested capabilities from recreation builders, making it even simpler to convey superior video games to Mac, in addition to iPhone and iPad.
Window Tiling Is Simpler and Quicker Than Ever
Customers can keep organized with new methods to rearrange home windows right into a structure that works finest for them. When a person drags a window to the sting of the display screen, macOS Sequoia robotically suggests a tiled place on their desktop. Customers can launch their window proper into place, shortly prepare tiles facet by facet, or place them in corners to maintain much more apps in view. And new keyboard and menu shortcuts assist customers arrange tiles even quicker.
Video Conferencing Will get Extra Updates
The brand new presenter preview makes it simpler to current, letting customers see what they’re about to share earlier than they share it, and works with apps like FaceTime and Zoom. Customers can even apply lovely built-in backgrounds, together with quite a lot of shade gradients and system wallpapers, or add their very own pictures. Background replacements may be utilized throughout a video name in FaceTime or in third-party apps like Webex, and with Apple’s industry-leading segmentation, customers will look their finest when on a name.
The New Passwords App Retains Credentials Safe and Organized
Constructed on the muse of Keychain, which was first launched over 25 years in the past, macOS Sequoia brings Passwords, a brand new app that makes it even simpler to entry passwords, passkeys, Wi-Fi passwords, and different credentials multi functional place. iCloud syncing is backed by safe end-to-end encryption. Passwords works nice with Safari, and seamlessly syncs between a person’s Apple gadgets and Home windows with the iCloud for Home windows app.
Apple Intelligence Ushers within the Subsequent Chapter of AI on Mac
Deeply built-in into macOS Sequoia and constructed with privateness from the bottom up, Apple Intelligence unlocks new methods for customers to boost their writing and talk extra successfully. With brand-new systemwide Writing Instruments constructed into macOS Sequoia, customers can rewrite, proofread, and summarize textual content practically all over the place they write, together with Mail, Notes, Pages, and third-party apps.
New picture capabilities make communication and self-expression much more enjoyable. With Picture Playground, customers can create playful pictures in seconds, selecting from three types: Animation, Illustration, or Sketch. Picture Playground is simple to make use of, constructed proper into apps like Messages, and likewise obtainable in a devoted app.
Recollections in Images lets customers create the tales they need to see simply by typing an outline. Apple Intelligence will pick the most effective pictures and movies based mostly on the outline, craft a storyline with chapters based mostly on themes recognized from the pictures, and prepare them right into a film with its personal narrative arc. As well as, a brand new Clear Up instrument can determine and take away distracting objects within the background of a photograph — with out by accident altering the topic.
With the facility of Apple Intelligence, Siri takes a serious step ahead, changing into much more pure, contextually related, and private. Moreover, customers can sort to Siri, and swap between textual content and voice to speak with Siri in no matter method feels proper for the second — making the Siri expertise on Mac extremely simple and seamless.
With Personal Cloud Compute, Apple units a brand new normal for privateness in AI, with the power to flex and scale computational capability between on-device processing and bigger, server-based fashions that run on devoted Apple silicon servers. When requests are routed to Personal Cloud Compute, knowledge will not be saved or made accessible to Apple, and is barely used to meet the person’s requests.
Moreover, entry to ChatGPT is built-in into Siri and systemwide Writing Instruments throughout Apple’s platforms, permitting customers to entry its experience — in addition to its image- and document-understanding capabilities — without having to leap between instruments.
Further options in macOS Sequoia embody:
- Messages has huge updates to the methods customers specific themselves and keep related, together with all-new textual content results, emoji and sticker Tapbacks, and the power to schedule a message to ship later.
- Apple Maps is introducing much more methods to discover the world, together with curated hikes and customized strolling routes. Starting this fall, customers can browse hundreds of hikes throughout all 63 nationwide parks in america, filtered by size, elevation, and route sort, and save them to make use of whereas offline.
- Images now surfaces Collections, which robotically organizes a person’s library by useful themes, and features a huge replace to go looking, so customers can get outcomes shortly.
- Observe taking in Notes is getting smarter, making it simpler than ever to take detailed and well-written notes. New audio transcription and summarization options with Apple Intelligence allow a tool to take notes for the person, letting them keep current in a state of affairs the place they should seize particulars about what’s taking place. And if they should shortly crunch a quantity, they’ll simply sort in an equation to have it solved robotically of their notice physique.
- An up to date Calculator app lets customers see earlier calculations with historical past, and offers them the power to see their expressions as they sort.
- Calendar exhibits occasions and duties from Reminders, making it simple to see, edit, or full duties all through the day. An up to date Month View makes it simpler to see occasions and reminders for a whole month at a look.
Availability
The developer beta of macOS Sequoia is on the market by way of the Apple Developer Program at developer.apple.com beginning at this time, and a public beta will likely be obtainable by way of the Apple Beta Software program Program subsequent month at beta.apple.com. The discharge will likely be obtainable as a free software program replace this fall. Apple Intelligence will likely be obtainable in beta on iPhone 15 Professional, iPhone 15 Professional Max, and iPad and Mac with M1 and later, with Siri and system language set to U.S. English, as a part of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia this fall. For extra info, go to apple.com/macos/sequoia-preview and apple.com/apple-intelligence. Options are topic to vary. Some options usually are not obtainable in all areas, all languages, or on all gadgets. For extra details about availability, go to apple.com.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Immediately, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple gadgets and empower individuals with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 workers are devoted to creating the most effective merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Customers with an eligible iPhone, iPad, or Mac with Siri and system language set to English (U.S.) can enroll this fall to entry the Apple Intelligence beta.
- Testing was performed by Apple in Could 2023. See apple.com/safari for extra info.
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