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Apple Unveils macOS 15 Sequoia With iPhone Mirroring, Passwords App, More
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macOS Sequoia wallpaper reminds me of Windows Vista and Windows 7 beta wallpaper...
https://windowswallpaper.miraheze.org/wiki/File:Img24_(Windows_Vista).jpg
https://windowswallpaper.miraheze.org/wiki/File:Img24_(Windows_7_Beta).jpg
https://windowswallpaper.miraheze.org/wiki/File:Img24_(Windows_Vista).jpg
https://windowswallpaper.miraheze.org/wiki/File:Img24_(Windows_7_Beta).jpg
That's the way so many projects are run today unfortunately. At some point, just introduce a new major version and mark the open issues as "obsolete".
"Seamless drag and drop between devices
Move files, photos, and videos between your iPhone and Mac as easily as you drag and drop between apps on Mac."
Nothing much other than adding a few apps, and a few options. Mobile phone mirroring is just catching up, Huawei had it. 3-4 years earlier. Windows snapping was in Linux a decade or so ago, there was even tiling window managers. Anyway, window tiling is the best addition to macOS. Math notes is alright, but useful for few users. Safari getting AI might be good, or might be a hindrance.
The most notable, but not spoken about at the WWDC was the planned obsolescence of quite usable older (calendar wise) once quite expensive MacBooks, iMacs etc. There must be a script in the new Sequoia macOS to check which devices are allowed, which are not.
The most notable, but not spoken about at the WWDC was the planned obsolescence of quite usable older (calendar wise) once quite expensive MacBooks, iMacs etc. There must be a script in the new Sequoia macOS to check which devices are allowed, which are not.
I have a Mini M2 pro, so it will work on here, but to be honest there is nothing it offers I will use, Ai I havce no interest in whatsoever, well not not what it will offer on Mac IOS or windows for that matter. I do use a bit of AI on my video editor, but then only now and again.
I hate Emojis, so I have no reason to use their new emoji feature. They say about an update to Safari, does anyone use it? I have had a muck around with it, but there are some sites that don't work correctly wioth it, Facebook Messenger for one, it don't use end-to-end encryption with safari, not that bothered, but with Facebook as I don't use it for anything important, but there are other sites that don't work correctly with it.
From what I have seen on here and other sites, most people use a thrid party browser.
As for tiling, never really used it on Windows, that much, double clicing the title bar to enlarge the window is all I used.
Password app I already have, I have no intention of using the one built into MAcOS.
The problem is and this was tyhr same for Windows is that they bring out all these features and all some of us want is an OS that will run the software we want to run and that is it.
Apple hasn’t provided it yet. It looks like an app in the dock when it’s running. There was a lot today that is due some time in the summer for showing up.
Pretty awful really!
A simple thing, Apple 'engineers' can't do.
Thanks, they usually say what is not available immediately and on the Apple site it is not specified that the function will be released in the future
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this would be actually really useful for times when you want your phone and for some reason it isn't nearby.
I can't find this anywhere in the settings or online
Can someone tell me when Apple is expected to release this?
The feature is not there and it is not written or has been said that it is not there
Yep I am on 12.7.5........Monterey came with my Studio ultra and works perfectly.
...from your Mac. It doesn't look like you'll be able to go to your phone/pad, bring up iFinder and rifle through your MacBook and grab a file or two. Will you be able to rename, let alone see file names on the phone? Wait a minute...there are too many words in their sentence... I guess you technically drag a file from Finder to, let's say, Pages, but "drag and drop between apps" is a weird way to put it. I bet there is going to be all kinds of restrictions/hoops to jump through, like if you drag a photo it will only allow dumping it into Photos on the other device. Stuff like that.
The rhetoric exists, but the deed falls short. That's iOS.
A lot of people say some androids had phone mirroring a long time ago, but could you drag a movie from your editing application into your phone's application? I doubt it. Apple has some nice integration. I especially like it where I can control my Laptop from my Mac Studio from the same mouse and keyboard without any config. Plus you can copy and paste between the two.
Already in Sequoia Beta, the upgrade went quite smoothly. Looks quite pretty, the Launchpad icons appears much brighter, maybe because of the Sequoia wallpaper underneath. The window tiling is a beaut. My 15" MBP is 2018 model, made in 2019 (the same year Apple discontinued it). It is just the first few hours using Sequoia (and Safari), and I can simply say that if the next macOS won't be "compatible" with my still young MBP, I won't mind.
I've said earlier that Apple cannot add much to Sonoma, and they didn't. Nothing that we've heard before. Window tiling is quite welcome, very useful with an external wide monitor. Of course, even with my 15" in-built one. iPhone mirroring is just a gadget, maybe useful, but photos, videos, smses, reminders, notifications etc are automatically synced with through iCloud earlier, so could become a hindrance on the long run.
Anyway, Sequoia (or Sonoma with a new name, wallpaper, few new apps and options) is quite nice, and it is still beta. When it matures, it is going to be an excellent OS!
I've said earlier that Apple cannot add much to Sonoma, and they didn't. Nothing that we've heard before. Window tiling is quite welcome, very useful with an external wide monitor. Of course, even with my 15" in-built one. iPhone mirroring is just a gadget, maybe useful, but photos, videos, smses, reminders, notifications etc are automatically synced with through iCloud earlier, so could become a hindrance on the long run.
Anyway, Sequoia (or Sonoma with a new name, wallpaper, few new apps and options) is quite nice, and it is still beta. When it matures, it is going to be an excellent OS!
May I know about the performance of intel iMac? UI is smooth enough? my iMac is 2019 model. How about the compabitility of the apps?
Sequoia Beta is doing very well on my 15" 2018 Intel MBP. I suppose, it will work well with your iMac. Only don't leave the Sequoia wallpaper on, as there's an energy problem with that atm. Best change it to another wallpaper. There's an email in the Feedback Assistant from Apple on Sequoia Beta OS. I don't have too many 3rd party apps (Excel, Word, Gimp, Geany, Calibre, VLC and few standby web browsers), and all of them work as they did.