Apple Releases macOS Ventura 13.3 With New Emoji, Bug Fixes and More

[MacRumors]

Apple today released macOS Ventura 13.3, the third major update to the macOS Ventura operating system that was released last October. macOS Ventura 13.3 comes two months after the launch of macOS Ventura 13.2, an update that added Security Keys for the Apple ID.

The ‌‌macOS Ventura‌‌ 13.3 update can be downloaded for free on all eligible Macs using the Software Update section of System Settings.

macOS Ventura 13.3 adds new emoji characters that include pea pod, ginger, pink heart, blue heart, gray heart, donkey, moose, black bird, goose, wing, and jellyfish, among others.

There are bug fixes to fix an issue that could cause Trackpad gestures to stop working, along with a number of other small features and tweaks. Apple's full release notes for the update are below:

This update includes new emoji along with other enhancements, bug fixes, and security updates for your Mac.

• 21 new emoji including animals, hand gestures, and objects are now available in emoji keyboard
• Remove background option in Freeform automatically isolates the subject in your image
• Photos duplicates album expands support to detect duplicate photos and videos in an iCloud Shared Photo Library
• Transliteration support for Gujarati, Punjabi and Urdu keyboards
• New keyboard layouts for Choctaw, Chickasaw, Akan, Hausa, and Yoruba
• Accessibility setting to automatically dim video when flashes of light or strobe effects are detected
• VoiceOver support for maps in the Weather app
• Resolves an issue where Trackpad gestures may occasionally stop responding
• Fixes an issue where Ask to Buy requests from children may fail to appear on the parent's device
• Addresses an issue where VoiceOver may be unresponsive after using Finder

Some features may not be available for all regions, or on all Apple devices.

For detailed information about the security content of this update, please visit: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222

macOS Ventura 13.3 is expected to be one of the last updates to the macOS Ventura operating system as Apple shifts its attention to the next-generation of macOS that's expected this June.

Article Link: Apple Releases macOS Ventura 13.3 With New Emoji, Bug Fixes and More

 

[daneoni]

Was the RC stable and bug free?

i.e. any show stoppers or its safe to update?

 

[Basic75]

Seriously, emojis are the headline feature of an operating system update? ROFL

 

[timmodugdale]

not available here yet.

Update: it appeared now

 

[podycust]

Makes a change first time of checking it’s available!

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

Seriously, emojis are the headline feature of an operating system update? ROFL

iChat and Photo Booth special effects and backgrounds used to be big highly marketed features every update or two, how is this any different?

 

[rm5]

Not showing up yet for me on my M1 Air. Will have to check for 12.6.4 on my Mac Pro when I get home. Haven't checked for iOS 16.4 either yet.

 

[ELman]

Seriously, emojis are the headline feature of an operating system update? ROFL

Living in an area with Moose this is an important update.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Woo hoo! Can't wait to use the new emojis on mac OS.

 

[AAPLGeek]

Apple's commitment to shipping new emojis with every point release is quite remarkable.

 

[nerdo]

How about something serious like: solves all issues with external drives? Ventura made 5x 18TB drives unusable unless I unplug them from the 5X housing and shove them in an old usb open drive thingy. Why is it so often 2 steps forward and 5 steps back in a place you would never expect?

 

[AAPLGeek]

Seriously, emojis are the headline feature of an operating system update? ROFL

You must be new...

 

[Luap]

Apple's commitment to shipping new emojis with every point release is quite remarkable.

They are a nice whimsical addition to an OS update which helps ease those pangs of anxiety brought on by the threat of imminent nuclear armageddon. So it's not all bad!

 

[cpnotebook80]

I am more interested in this:

• Photos duplicates album expands support to detect duplicate photos and videos in an iCloud Shared Photo Library

Will test it out hoping to clean up my library.

 

[AAPLGeek]

How about something serious like: solves all issues with external drives? Ventura made 5x 18TB drives unusable unless I unplug them from the 5X housing and shove them in an old usb open drive thingy. Why is it so often 2 steps forward and 5 steps back in a place you would never expect?

Seriously? They've been working super hard to get all these emojis shipped and you're worried about something pointless as external drives.

 

[saulinpa]

Was the RC stable and bug free?

i.e.e any show stoppers or its safe to update?

Probably safe as long as you have no 3rd party software or hardware. Otherwise wait a week for the reports.

 

[sw1tcher]

macOS Ventura 13.3 adds new emoji characters that include pea pod, ginger, pink heart, blue heart, gray heart, donkey, moose, black bird, goose, wing, and jellyfish, among others.

Nice. Ventura 13.3 is going to make me more productive. Instead of using 2 emojis (◾ 🐦), now I can use 1 whenever I need to type the lyrics to The Beatles' "Blackbird"

◾ 🐦 singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise

 

[NY Guitarist]

Yaaaay!! New emojis!!

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

How about something serious like: solves all issues with external drives? Ventura made 5x 18TB drives unusable unless I unplug them from the 5X housing and shove them in an old usb open drive thingy. Why is it so often 2 steps forward and 5 steps back in a place you would never expect?

Nah, take our beautiful emojis instead

 

[jayducharme]

Resolves an issue where Trackpad gestures may occasionally stop responding

Hooray! That's been a big PITA for a while.

 

[Madonepro]

Build no when someone's installed it.

 

[AAPLGeek]

Apple needs to stop half-assing at this point and just give us an EmojiOS.

 

[danielsutton]

Apple today released macOS Ventura 13.3, the third major update to the macOS Ventura operating system that was released last October. macOS Ventura 13.3 comes two months after the launch of macOS Ventura 13.2, an update that added Security Keys for the Apple ID.

The ‌‌macOS Ventura‌‌ 13.3 update can be downloaded for free on all eligible Macs using the Software Update section of System Settings.

macOS Ventura 13.3 adds new emoji characters that include pea pod, ginger, pink heart, blue heart, gray heart, donkey, moose, black bird, goose, wing, and jellyfish, among others.

There are bug fixes to fix an issue that could cause Trackpad gestures to stop working, along with a number of other small features and tweaks. Apple's full release notes for the update are below:macOS Ventura 13.3 is expected to be one of the last updates to the macOS Ventura operating system as Apple shifts its attention to the next-generation of macOS that's expected this June.

Article Link: Apple Releases macOS Ventura 13.3 With New Emoji, Bug Fixes and More

This release also fixes a file sharing issue, where SMB shares were not working properly.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Yaaaay!! New emojis!!

Is it weird that it's 2023 and we still get excited about new emojis?

 

[nerdo]

Nah, take our beautiful emojis instead

Seriously? They've been working super hard to get all these emojis shipped and you're worried about something pointless as external drives.

You're right, who needs 50TB of work data when you can spend the whole day sending clients nice mails why you did not finish a job with all new emoji's!!