What you won’t see listed in Apple’s summary are major internal changes and improvements, which you’ll normally only find in developer documentation. System Settings is steadily improving, with even better search, some redesigned panes including Displays, and better navigation controls. It can also tell you the meaning of various signs and symbols you might encounter in product information and laundry tags, and suggest routes to stores it can identify in photos. Use it on an image of food, and it will suggest appropriate recipes. Visual look up adds some interesting and potentially exciting domains. Lockdown Mode isn’t for everyone, but for those who find it valuable, it has new networking defaults, safer handling of media, and more security optimisations. Expect this to improve steadily over the coming year. If your Mac is set to use English as its primary language, you’ll soon notice that autocorrect has improved significantly, and offers predictive text without making a nuisance of itself. Whether that will work with other password managers (the few that now support passkeys) remains to be seen, and there’s no way to transfer a passkey between different vaults.įor those who use Family Sharing, you can share individual folders in iCloud Drive with other family members, giving everyone access to family documents, photos, and other items of common interest. Apple is also adding passkey support for signing in with your Apple ID on the web. Passwords have some useful improvements, among them the ability to create password groups and share them with others, much as you can in some paid-for password managers. In addition to those, you can save favourite websites to the Dock as Web apps, giving you instant access to them. Each keeps its own history, complete with Tab Groups, favourites, cookies and extensions. Set up separate profiles for work, personal use, development, and other tasks. Safari ventures into new territory with profiles, something I’ve experienced in one other browser, Ulaa. These may seem trivial and of no consequence, but Sonoma delivers the best visual experience of any version of macOS to date. The highlight comes once you’ve logged in and it displays one of its new wallpapers (Desktops, for those who can remember) and its slow-motion screensavers. Here I’ll mention just a few that strike me as being particularly significant.įrom the moment that you start Sonoma, it looks different. The list of new and enhanced features is so long that Apple has summarised it in a PDF. If you want to run Sonoma on an older model, then you’ll need OCLP, when it supports Sonoma. MacBook Pro 2018 (MacBookPro15,x) and later.MacBook Air 2018 (MacBookAir8,x) and later.If you’re expecting a new iPhone then, you’ll want either 13.6 or 14.0 as soon as you can get it. While the Monterey update should be security-only, that to Ventura should ensure compatibility with iOS 17.0, due to be released on 18 September. If you’re intending to stay with Ventura or Monterey, you should expect their next updates the same day, to take them to 13.6 and 12.7 respectively. So should you now be preparing to upgrade to it within hours or days of its release, or leave it another few weeks or months? Apple has announced that macOS 14 Sonoma will be released on 26 September, that’s less than a fortnight away.
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