macOS Ventura: 50 New Features and Changes Worth Checking Out

[philcourage]

I like the photos duplicate thing. Also, for me: 51) Not having that purple background every time I turn on the MacBook.

 

[Alwis]

Not having that purple background every time I turn on the MacBook.

Dad today, but this is the most important change for me and one I actually like!

I like the photos duplicate thing.

Thats Ok, but Photosweep could do this for a long time. I do not really care, as Yi use Photos only as a frontend to (shared) iCloud albums. For me it lacks to much functionality.

 

[cocoua]

I know major releases always bring comments kind of haters but I have to say Ventura is to me, the most skippable version of all them.
All the “big” features are eye candy or low level consumer enhancements as someone who uses Phostoshop or Lightroom wouldnt find too useful the “copy edit” or “isolated subject” as I never opened Photos…

The new organizer only works with Spaces as separate screens, which I never had this activated as I use 3 screens and having the dock and menu bar in all 3 is impossible, I cant extend windows from the cintiq to the upper screen and many other limitations Apple classic style.

Is time Apple makes a big major release and release a macOS Pro release without stupid things as “your email wont be sent until 10 seconds after you press SEND just in case you want to change something” please, resd your email before sending or asume consecuences, 10 secnds arent going to solve you anything.

There are many bugs since Mojave yet to be solve in Ventura and to me, this is a shame.

macOS Pro with advanced custom settings should be available with Mac Studio, Macbook Pro and MacPro.

And let Photos users enjoy their toys.

 

[Powerbooky]

Maybe it already exists, but how about MR guides of OS functions/features that have been discontinued or moved?

 

[Ashbash75]

99 problems and this solves none 🤣🤣

 

[George Dawes]

Tbh I can't see the point of the un send an email

Solving a non existent problem ?

 

[MacGizmo]

Tbh I can't see the point of the un send an email

Solving a non existent problem ?

So one can correct typos that magically can be seen only AFTER hitting the send button. And particularly for when you inform the receiver that you've attached the doohickey PDF file to the email and realize that you didn't actually attached the PDF immediately after hitting send.

 

[tomp66]

I honestly created a MacRumors account to post this. Stage Manager is the worst piece of UX I've ever seen.

It’s honestly like they let someone completely high take over the UX. It’s insane.

1. Clicking the representation of an app in the dock or vertical dock does the exact same thing.
2. Creating groups of apps to switch between (as ‘stages’?) is so unintuitive I still have no idea how to do it. You can’t drag apps onto a ‘stage’ icon, or out of them… you seem to have to have the ‘destination’ stage open, AND the desired target app top of stack in the stage icon, then drag that into the desired (open) stage. If it’s not top of stack, you have to go into that stage and somehow make it top of stage, then go back to the destination stage and try again (brain explode).
3. Doing a three-finger down swipe to reveal all windows of an app shows ALL windows of that app, not respecting the stages you set up. So ALL your browser windows will show, regardless of whether you have set up stages for photography, development, work, etc., with browser windows in each.
4. Three-fingers up swipe will show ‘Mission Control’ and ALL open windows, again regardless of stage… how does that help you compartmentalize your freaking workflow?
5. You can only have five stages open at a time.. uh… what?
6. The stages stay behind any open windows that overlap them.. wtf?!
7. You can’t label stages to keep track of which is meant to be which
8. The background behind the stage manager remains clickable, so if you miss a stage icon cluster you’re liable to toggle a figma layer or such
9. Super glitchy behavior, e.g. closing an import window in Capture One briefly causes the whole collapse/expand animation to happen again while the ‘manager’ gets confused about whether you just close the whole app
10. The main Dock is now fairly redundant and loses muscle memory, adding cognitive load when you do need to think about where/how to do something.
11. It’s super jarring to have everything constantly move away and only one window open at a time. There’s no physical metaphor behind it, like switching desktop (in the proper way that Windows does that, with localized ‘Mission Control’ per desktop, localized taskbar, etc., unlike Mac multiple desktop). It’s more like kiosk design, with one giant thing looming in your view while everything else is swept away to you-know-not-where.
12. If not for breaking up apps into groups of related apps to allow for focused workflows, what exactly what this point of this feature? It's literally not doing what it seems to be trying to do, and instead we just have random UI animation that hinders rather than helps anything.

OMG. This makes the Touch Bar look like disciplined and enlightened UX. It's the worst design I've ever seen from Apple; the upside-down mouse charging at least is easy to understand and results in a charged mouse. This is dysfunctional, incomprehensible, and can't be mastered.

This should never have been released. Steve Jobs is not only rolling in his grave, he’s probably digging to find a wormhole to another universe.

I’m done. My takeaway is they’ve successfully simulated what it feels like to have dementia. I can’t find anything, can’t get anything done, and I don’t understand the rules of the cosmos anymore.

its a shocker turned off within 2 mins... all staff hate it too all turning off - very buggy also causing all sorts of chaos

 

[ThunderSkunk]

Best feature is how in the background it evaluates all the pictures coming & going from your machine, and when your teenage kids send nudes to their love interests on it, Ventura won’t alert you, it’ll just go ahead and quietly report them or you to the feds as a child predator and destroy your lives forever. I can’t wait to invite a mindless authority figure from the surveillance state into my house to decide my/kids fate lol

 

[jonnysods]

I would love it if the Clocks app could have a setting for digital world clocks so I don't have to use 3rd party widgets. I know how to tell analog time, but I have bad eyesight so the digital times would really help as I work with a lot of people overseas for projects.

 

[jennyp]

"Simply right-click on the message in your inbox..."

Right-click? wtf is this?! I thought I was on Macrumors reading an article about macOS?

It's a 'secondary' click. You set it up for your trackpad or whatever in System Settings. I still think of it as a 'right click'. Not sure how you could work without it.

 

[Doc C]

Time Machine Backup Frequency.

I am happy to get some options - every hour is excessive for me. But why the jump from hourly to every 24 hours?

With totally free choice, I'd probably have gone for every 4, 6, maybe even 8 hours.

This sort of thing appears to be at the utterly trivial end of the scale for Apple to offer.

Try TimeMachine Editor

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(I have no affiliation with the developer)

Given the small size and significant functionality, it really does raise the question of why Apple couldn't include this, at least as an "Advanced" option