macOS Sonoma Launching This Week With These New Features

[FormerMacZealot]

Remember when Apple stole the whole "Widget thing" from Konfabulator about 20 years ago? I was a paying KonFab customer then and loved that app but admit I loved the OSX integration.

After several years languishing on the vine, it eventually disappeared from Mac OS.

Until it became "Notification Center," which also blows and has languished since introduction.

But now it will return in it's latest incarnation. 🥱

cjr

 

[Lioness~]

Don't forget the new and exciting bugs!

Yawn. I'll upgrade in exactly 12 months and not a second earlier. I NEED my Macs to be stable, (reasonably) bug free, and functional. It's the functional part that is even more critical than the bugs. I'm sick of all the issues I've had in the past from this – even waiting 6 months isn't enough for them to patch the most glaring issues anymore.

If Apple switched to releasing new versions of macOS to every two years, no one would care. No one is clamouring for these new features, tbh. Nothing is stopping them from updating FaceTime, for example, as independent apps; they already do it for Safari even.

These new versions of macOS every single year is just a marketing exercise for new Macs, and to gradually bring obsolescence to older hardware.

Usually try to wait until .1 - but not always successful with it, as I want to run the new and fun too.
I will try to keep myself busy and forget all about Sonoma for now, or at least to .007 enter the Mac 🥳

 

[Michael Scrip]

So basically desktop widgets, safari tweaks and new screen savers... so underwhelming

So basically it's a mature operating system...

😀

 

[Baletin]

Will they ever fix this terrible finder issue when files and folder cannot be arranged within a visible window????
I'd like to only this single fix instead of all these promotional back-and-forth widgets and whistles....

 

[DevNull0]

So basically desktop widgets, safari tweaks and new screen savers.. so underwhelming

And the desktop widgets were just removed 3 years ago. What a fiasco Apple is these days. They just keep swapping things back and forth.

 

[Chris298]

How many of these feature won't work on my MacBook Air 2018? Do screensavers work on the 2018 Air?

 

[NLLV]

i am thinking of just getting RC2... Running it on my intel mac for a while. I mean, that is basically what comes out Wednesday, correct?

 

[segfaultdotorg]

I hope this includes iMacOS and MacBookOS.

 

[sw1tcher]

Remember when Apple stole the whole "Widget thing" from Konfabulator about 20 years ago? I was a paying KonFab customer then and loved that app but admit I loved the OSX integration.

After several years languishing on the vine, it eventually disappeared from Mac OS.

Until it became "Notification Center," which also blows and has languished since introduction.

But now it will return in it's latest incarnation. 🥱

And the desktop widgets were just removed 3 years ago. What a fiasco Apple is these days. They just keep swapping things back and forth.

Phil Schiller on Sonoma's "new" Widgets feature: Can't innovate anymore, my ass!

 

[TheDailyApple]

Will they ever fix this terrible finder issue when files and folder cannot be arranged within a visible window????
I'd like to only this single fix instead of all these promotional back-and-forth widgets and whistles....
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I think that might be user error.

Right click on the background and select “sort by” and choose an option.

 

[jz0309]

been using the public beta ever since it became available on my M1 MBA, no issues for me. However, I will wait some time to upgrade my Mac Studio as that has all my data ...

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

So basically desktop widgets, safari tweaks and new screen savers.. so underwhelming

What more can you do with a mature platform? It’s fundamentally a keyboard, trackpad and screen, and any software improvements are incremental across all platforms now.

 

[jz0309]

How many of these feature won't work on my MacBook Air 2018? Do screensavers work on the 2018 Air?

did you even bother to read the section "Compatibility"?

 

[Kissmo1980]

I really wish Apple would stop with the yearly OSX releases. Its exhaustingn wondering if your apps are all going to be compatible and in the end I just end up waiting several months until I know everything works and there won't be an app I need that hasn't been updated or crashes regularly.

Just refine what we have and go on a two year cycle of upgrades. Then they will seem more significant.

Sonoma is quite an upgrade.
Not as drastic but this time it feels a bit more.

I am running the RC2 and I couldn’t roll back to Ventura.

 

[Icelus]

How many of these feature won't work on my MacBook Air 2018? Do screensavers work on the 2018 Air?

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/these-macos-sonoma-features-are-not-available-on-intel-macs.2391938/

 

[sziehr]

Sorry Apple not this time, you screwed up the iOS 17 and watch 10 launch so badly if could downgrade new hardware to old OS, hint this is something you damn well should allow, i would. This release has been just about the worst for a tock release which was to just extend some minor changes on 16….. Watch os 10 is so bad i just wiped it and i have it on the charger i am not sure what to do with it. The complications are broke, and it’s just awful.


I have new apple hardware on my desk, for the first time in a long time, i am thinking an Apple Store return protest might be in order from me. I have been in tech a long time, and to get this far with so little changes and muck it up so badly is comically bad.

 

[B4U]

Desktop widgets? Isn't that like what we had in Dashboard?

 

[tywebb13]

wait until .1

There wil probably be a 14.1 beta soon too. So you won't have to wait long.

 

[iZac]

I've refused even updating to Ventura simply because of the system preferences layout.

 

[minik]

I really wish Apple would stop with the yearly OSX releases. Its exhaustingn wondering if your apps are all going to be compatible and in the end I just end up waiting several months until I know everything works and there won't be an app I need that hasn't been updated or crashes regularly.

Just refine what we have and go on a two year cycle of upgrades. Then they will seem more significant.

My day job is managing Apple devices and I'm excited on every OS release. Application compatibility is indeed very important, but more and more applications seem to be launch day ready or in-line with Apple's .1 update. There are a lot of under the hood changes especially on privacy and security area. I like the current annual release schedule, however Apple used to release minor .x update every two/three months but now reduced to weeks to focus on zero-day exploits.
Sonoma RC2 is pretty solid already. Although I won't be deploying it till 14.1 or 14.2, I'll be upgrading my production MacBook Pro on Tuesday.

 

[cpnotebook80]

These updates look like normal through the year features that they could have implemented for Ventura. Nothing groundbreaking.

 

[ddhhddhh2]

I didn’t participate in the testing, but turning a website into an app sounds like some form of PWA tech, or is it actually PWA? Typically, web needs some implementation for PWA to become an “app”, although the implementation is not difficult.

 

[ddhhddhh2]

These updates look like normal through the year features that they could have implemented for Ventura. Nothing groundbreaking.

Allow me to present, with grand fanfare and drumrolls, the Stage Manager feature of Ventura!

 

[Brian Greenstone]

So, in other words there's no real reason to upgrade.

 

[eatrains]

And the desktop widgets were just removed 3 years ago. What a fiasco Apple is these days. They just keep swapping things back and forth.

No, Macs have never had desktop widgets before.