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macOS 16: Everything We Know So Far

My quick list:
• Trash System Settings and bring System Preferences back and preferences that were thrown out in the switch! I can't stand working with anything over macOS 12 because of it. Yuck! Leave it for the iPhones where it makes sense.
• Focus on stability (aka. a better cake over fancy icing).
• Support Intel machines, same list as before.
• I'm sure the design overhaul won't affect the coders working on bugs very much, so OK. But don't rush it and it should be consistant. No slop.

My list that I am sure they are not working on:
• Supported way of running older Intel macOS versions in a VM for 32-bit games and apps. This would solve a ton of software issues moving forward.

What they should do is update the same OS instead of starting over for each one, each year, like is currently done. Do a larger overhaul where you start from scratch every other year or something.
 
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Vision Pro UI is only 'dark mode', I doubt Apple would remove light mode.

I think it'll be the rim lighting, translucency, fancy shadows, pill shaped dock/toolbar. The toolbar will probably gain a hiding mode like dock.

The iPad accessibility feature to navigate using your eyes will likely arrive across the board and be an unexpected killer app. I could see this forcing circular icons for hit-box detection (math) reasons.
 
Just allow us to do a click through and not have to hold down any keyboard keys.

That's it.
 
While I welcome UI changes and improvements, I agree with some that the underlying OS needs to be streamlined and fixed. There are so many issues with basic things like SMB implementation and performance that make me use my windows machine for tasks that I would prefer to leverage on the mac but cant.

Innovate by leading the way with a stable performant operating system that users enjoy using and the hardware sales will come.
 
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"Mac iOS".

You knew it was coming.

"Simplified navigation system..."
Will there still be a "finder"?

"New window styles and management features"
What's wrong with Mac windows as they've been for decades?

"Visual elements inspired by visionOS"
Does that mean "flat and boring" for everything?

"More translucent interface elements"
So "translucent" you won't be able to see them at all !

(sigh)
In the words of Sam Buttrey of Jeopardy:
"Bring it!"
 
I would like the ability to use Sidecar in portrait mode.
I would also like to be able to control my appleTV box from my Mac.
I would also like to be able to go back to the last window I had open in Safari when I go to another app, instead of having to click through the other open Safari windows to get there. I wish it was more intelligent at guessing I might want to go back to where I came from.

I don’t believe I will get any of these things. 🙃
 
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Well, in theory it could be macOS 16 Buena Vista or Bella Vista (as a tribute to visionOS): which are both California locations, albeit less known…
 
… Talking about other OSes (Windows, Linux), it would be cool if virtualization were more graphically integrated into macOS, without the need for third party software: but also this is clearly quite unlikely to happen (and anyway Parallels has been excellent, so far; and will also be an emulator, hopefully with decent speed, besides a virtualizer: à la UTM, but better).
 
What about being able to use an ethernet port and Wifi simultaneously without major issues ...
 
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