Yeah apple WILL. They abandon people who are incapable of following their lead like avoiding plague.
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macOS Monterey: 40 Tips, Tricks, and Features You Might Have Missed
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Is there also a problem with the calculator app?
Post title is 40 tips & tricks yet vid only features 20, what am I missing??
Edit: Courtesy of dmylrea
The article states 20 are highlighted in the video. If you click the link at the bottom for the full article, it lists all 40.
Post title is 40 tips & tricks yet vid only features 20, what am I missing??
Edit: Courtesy of dmylrea
The article states 20 are highlighted in the video. If you click the link at the bottom for the full article, it lists all 40.
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As a home and business user I really do not find much of interest. Is Apple wanting to convert their iPhones to mini computers or do they want to convert their laptops into big iPhones? This is all fluff, it does not make me more productive and it does not make it easier. I have 3 MacBook Pro's. And I am running Monterey on only 1, the one I use the least. And it really SLOWS doen Safari. My main point of access. All these other features look "pretty" but do not improve on much. I have decided to not upgrade my other 2 macBook Pros. I am happy with BigSur. And I do nto ever care about security as I back up to the icloud and also to an external hard drive, on a daily basis. So if I get a terminal virus, I will just wipe them totaly clean and re-install. Apple has forgotten how simple that is. What I also really dislike is how they secretly without telling you, transparency Apple, change your settings and turn on stuff that I never use. I have also fpound that Apple Supoport does not even kniow the answers to somethings,, and I have gotten several very conflicting answers on the exact same question. Now that concerns me when I am calling several times and getting different answers. So I call again and see what answer I might get this time. Monterey is just pretty, but as a business user, it frequently can not meet my needs of running video and Numbers spreadsheets at the same time. Thank God I have an IT & S department in my hospital to ask for help.
What? Yearly OS releases have existed since the beginning of time, as well as eventual hardware depreciations. None of that is new. No one forces you to upgrade but don’t expect to get new features if you don’t want progress.
Of course Intel support is going to be dropped a year or two after the last Mac has been replaced with M-chips. Why would they support two different architectures longer than needed. By that time, your $10k MacPro is at least 5 years old which is ancient in terms of both software and hardware advancements. If you bought one of those machines it’s because you needed the absolute fastest performance, at that time. After 5 years you would be so far behind in performance compared to what else is on the market, you better have sold that machine a lot earlier and upgraded to something faster.
How much money you spent is irrelevant. I hope you made a cost-performance analysis that seemed beneficial to you, at that time.
Do the tags in the Notes and Reminders apps synchronize with each other? For example, if one tags an item as #ABC in one app, is this tag now available (e.g. for auto-complete) in the other? Do tags in either/both of these apps synchronize with Apple's well-established (since OS X 10.9 Mavericks in 2013) tags in Finder?
One way...
Switch to night mode. Open the picture in photos. You should see black above and below the picture. Take a screen shot and crop the black at the top to be as thick as the notch.
Another way, add a black border using app like Snapseed, then crop
Draw black strip at top using drawing program like Procreate on iPad using Apple Pencil
i would trade all the above 'features'
for having bluetooth work again, the way it used to. its utterly crap in monterey
for having bluetooth work again, the way it used to. its utterly crap in monterey
Thank you! She's a day old in the picture - taken two weeks ago ☺️☺️
Wow. That network quality feature is much faster than speed test.
Apple released macOS Monterey to the public in the fall, and the new desktop OS brings a whole slew of useful new features and changes to apps like Safari, Maps, FaceTime, Notes, Photos, Messages, and more.
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Beyond the headline features, Apple has also made numerous tweaks and changes to macOS that aim to make the time you spend using your Mac more efficient, more functional, and more enjoyable. To that end, we've pulled out 40 additions and improvements to Monterey, some of which may have gone under your radar, and we've highlighted 20 of them in the video up above. Keep reading to refresh your memory or perhaps learn something new.
1. Click to Save Photos in Messages
There's a good chance you'll want to save the photos you receive in the Messages app to your Photos library, and macOS Monterey makes this easier than ever.
You no longer have to right-click or open the image (or stack of images) to save it. Simply click the Save to Photos button to the right of the image instead.
2. Change Mouse Pointer Color
Apple has made it possible to change the color of the mouse pointer from the standard white outline and black fill, to pretty much any color combination you want.
To do so, go to System Preferences -> Accessibility, then click Display (under "Vision") in the left column. Click the Pointer tab in the window of options, and you'll find Pointer outline color and Pointer fill color settings. Click the color swatch to choose a custom color from the palette that appears. You can always click Reset to revert to the default colors.
3. Manage APFS Snapshots in Disk Utility
In the macOS Disk Utility app, you now have access to individual APFS drive snapshots. An APFS snapshot is a read-only copy of its parent APFS volume, taken at a particular moment in time, and you can maintain these snapshots and copy items from them, provided you know what you're doing (see Disk Utility's Help menu for more).
To view them as a list, simply select a volume and choose View -> Show APFS Snapshots from the menu bar. The fixed order list shows you the name, creation date, and cumulative size of each snapshot, while the most recent snapshot has a partition symbol beside its "Tidemark." Select a snapshot from the list and you can right-click or use the ellipsis button at the bottom left corner of the list to mount the snapshot, rename it, and delete it.
4. Test Network Quality
It's now possible to measure the quality of your Mac's internet connection directly from within macOS. Simply open a Terminal window and type networkQuality into the command prompt.
After a short while, you'll have an upload/download measurement, along with the number of "flows" (test packets) used for the responsiveness (network round trips) test. The upload/download capacity is roughly the same result metric you get from online internet speed tools like Speedtest by Ookla, although it tests upload and download concurrently rather than sequentially.
5. Protect Mail Activity
In the Mail app, a new feature called Mail Privacy Protection prevents senders from using invisible pixels to collect information about you. It does this by preventing senders from knowing when you open their email, and masks your IP address so that it can't be linked to your other online activity or used to determine your location.
To turn on the feature in Mail, select Mail -> Preferences... in the menu bar, click the Privacy tab, and then check the box next to Protect Mail Activity. If you leave it disabled, you can still independently opt to Hide IP address and Block All Remote Content.
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No its not. Works fine here. Check your hardware.
Snow Leopard was very buggy from the outset. Two point updates were pulled and replaced; and a 'Font Update' had to be released to fix a major flaw introduced in 10.6.7. There were really nasty network bugs that only got fixed in .8.
It only really achieved its mythical 'rock solid' status due to the car crash that was Lion. But let's not pretend it was anything out of the ordinary.
see you on windowsrumors.com! Clearly overblowing a few bugs in MACOS is a false equivalency to windows. the bugs, security flaws, memory leaks, malware, were the reason I left windows. Can't be happier. I'm not stupid enough to suppose that any software I use is free of bugs, but there sure are a lot less of them on MacOS than windows. Every day you read about print spooler security flaws, or legacy support flaws in windows. I do miss the 127 urgent security fixes every week though. NOT, Lakshimas!
Do your computers officially support Monterey? I run Numbers, play videos, use everything I always do with absolutely no issues whatsoever. Safari is great, not slower at all. I sometimes wonder when I see posts like this, are they for real, or do you have something else going on that I don't have. I will say, that as a matter of course, I do clean installs with every major upgrade, and have no issues. Again, are these issues for real, or maybe there is some old stuff floating around. What I do works, I'm sticking with it
The article states 20 are highlighted in the video. If you click the link at the bottom for the full article, it lists all 40.
Good point, I am having no problems with Bluetooth either, looks the same, works the same. trouble with Bluetooth is usually interference, the bands used are pretty full. Of course not all bluetooth devices are created equal either
Is APFS Snapshots similar to Windows Shadow Copies / Previous Versions feature in Explorer? If so, that's a cool feature. Does APFS Snapshots only work if you are doing Time Machine backups or is it independent of backups?
And #12 -- Erase Contents and Settings is EXCELLENT! Just used it before returning a MBP 14 (upgraded to MBP 16 M1 Pro) and it was simple and fast!
And #12 -- Erase Contents and Settings is EXCELLENT! Just used it before returning a MBP 14 (upgraded to MBP 16 M1 Pro) and it was simple and fast!