June 10, 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 as we speak 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 filled with thrilling new capabilities, together with iPhone Mirroring, which expands Continuity by enabling full entry to and management of iPhone immediately from macOS. Safari will get one other huge replace with the brand new Highlights function for easy info discovery on webpages whereas searching. The brand new Passwords app makes it even simpler to entry passwords and manage 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 non-public intelligence system for Mac, iPhone, and iPad that mixes 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 might 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. Right now, 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 unbelievable new options that might be a sport changer for engaged on Mac. And with extra methods to assist customers effortlessly get issues finished, new Continuity options like iPhone Mirroring, main updates to Safari, and a number of latest video games, we expect Mac customers are going to find it irresistible.”
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 have interaction with their iPhone — proper from their Mac. A consumer’s customized wallpaper and icons seem similar to on their iPhone, they usually can swipe between pages on their Residence Display, or launch and browse any of their favourite apps. The keyboard, trackpad, and mouse on Mac additionally let a consumer work together with their iPhone, and audio even comes by. Customers can seamlessly drag and drop between iPhone and Mac, and a consumer’s iPhone stays locked, so no one else can entry or see what the consumer is doing. It additionally works nice with StandBy, which stays seen, so customers can get info at a look. Moreover, customers can assessment and reply to iPhone notifications immediately from their Mac.
Large Updates Come to Safari
Safari, the world’s quickest browser,2 now affords Highlights, a fair simpler technique to uncover info on the internet, equivalent to instructions, summaries, or fast hyperlinks to be taught extra about folks, music, films, and TV reveals. A redesigned Reader consists of much more methods to get pleasure from articles with out distractions, that includes a streamlined view of the article a consumer 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 middle, 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 sequence — 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 sequence, together with RESIDENT EVIL 7 biohazard and RESIDENT EVIL 2. The following main growth of World of Warcraft: The Battle Inside is coming later this yr. Additionally on the best way 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, making the most of 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 technology) gives even higher responsiveness. Enhancements to Recreation Mode unlock smoother body charges, and superior energy administration options increase efficiency throughout the Mac lineup.
- Recreation Porting Toolkit 2: Because the introduction of the Recreation Porting Toolkit, builders have been capable of deliver their video games to Apple units quicker than ever, and gaming fans can expertise extra titles on the Mac. Recreation Porting Toolkit 2 takes this to the following degree with a number of the most-requested capabilities from sport builders, making it even simpler to deliver superior video games to Mac, in addition to iPhone and iPad.
Window Tiling Is Simpler and Sooner Than Ever
Customers can keep organized with new methods to rearrange home windows right into a structure that works finest for them. When a consumer drags a window to the sting of the display screen, macOS Sequoia mechanically suggests a tiled place on their desktop. Customers can launch their window proper into place, shortly prepare tiles aspect by aspect, or place them in corners to maintain much more apps in view. And new keyboard and menu shortcuts assist customers manage 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 may apply stunning built-in backgrounds, together with a wide range of coloration gradients and system wallpapers, or add their very own images. 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 inspiration 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 consumer’s Apple units 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 reinforce 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 photos in seconds, selecting from three kinds: Animation, Illustration, or Sketch. Picture Playground is straightforward to make use of, constructed proper into apps like Messages, and in addition accessible in a devoted app.
Recollections in Pictures lets customers create the tales they wish to see simply by typing an outline. Apple Intelligence will pick one of the best images and movies based mostly on the outline, craft a storyline with chapters based mostly on themes recognized from the images, and prepare them right into a film with its personal narrative arc. As well as, a brand new Clear Up device 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 significant step ahead, changing into much more pure, contextually related, and private. Moreover, customers can kind to Siri, and change between textual content and voice to speak with Siri in no matter means feels proper for the second — making the Siri expertise on Mac extremely straightforward and seamless.
With Non-public 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 Non-public Cloud Compute, information is just not saved or made accessible to Apple, and is barely used to satisfy the consumer’s requests, and unbiased specialists can confirm this privateness promise.
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 — with no need to leap between instruments.
Extra 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 1000’s of hikes throughout all 63 nationwide parks in the US, filtered by size, elevation, and route kind, and save them to make use of whereas offline.
- Pictures now surfaces Collections, which mechanically organizes a consumer’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 consumer, letting them keep current in a scenario the place they should seize particulars about what’s taking place. And if they should shortly crunch a quantity, they will simply kind in an equation to have it solved mechanically of their notice physique.
- An up to date Calculator app lets customers see earlier calculations with historical past, and provides them the power to see their expressions as they kind.
- Calendar reveals occasions and duties from Reminders, making it straightforward 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 complete month at a look.
Availability
The developer beta of macOS Sequoia is obtainable by the Apple Developer Program at developer.apple.com beginning as we speak, and a public beta might be accessible by the Apple Beta Software program Program subsequent month at beta.apple.com. The discharge might be accessible as a free software program replace this fall. Apple Intelligence might be accessible in beta on iPhone 15 Professional, iPhone 15 Professional Max, and iPad and Mac with M1 and later, with Siri and machine 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/macos-sequoia-preview and apple.com/apple-intelligence. Options are topic to alter. Some options usually are not accessible in all areas, all languages, or on all units. For extra details about availability, go to apple.com.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Right now, 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 units and empower folks with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 staff are devoted to creating one of the best merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Customers with an eligible iPhone, iPad, or Mac with Siri and machine language set to English (U.S.) can join this fall to entry the Apple Intelligence beta.
- Testing was carried out by Apple in Could 2023. See apple.com/safari for extra info.
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