September 26, 2023
UPDATE
macOS Sonoma is offered right now
macOS Sonoma is now obtainable as a free software program replace, bringing a wealthy set of recent options to the Mac that make work and play much more highly effective. With macOS Sonoma, desktop widgets unlock a brand new strategy to personalize the Mac and get extra achieved, whereas gorgeous new display savers, large updates to video conferencing and Safari, together with optimized gaming make the Mac expertise higher than ever.
Widgets and Gorgeous Display screen Savers
With macOS Sonoma, widgets could be positioned proper on the desktop and mix seamlessly with the wallpaper whereas different home windows are open. Widgets additionally develop into interactive so customers can full a reminder, play or pause media, entry dwelling controls, and carry out varied duties instantly from the widget on their desktop. And thru the magic of Continuity, customers can additional customise their Mac with widgets from their iPhone.
A brand new choice of display savers in macOS Sonoma options slow-motion movies of gorgeous areas all over the world, such because the sweeping skyline of Hong Kong, the sandstone buttes of Monument Valley in Arizona, and the rolling hills of Sonoma in Northern California. And after login, the display savers seamlessly transition to develop into the desktop wallpaper.
Highly effective Productiveness for Video Conferencing
macOS Sonoma brings enhanced video conferencing options that allow customers to current and share their work extra successfully inside any video conferencing app. Presenter Overlay shows customers in entrance of the content material they’re sharing, and Reactions permit customers to share how they really feel with easy hand gestures that set off enjoyable, frame-filling 3D results like balloons, confetti, hearts, and extra.
Enhanced Looking with Safari
In Safari, profiles hold searching separate between subjects like work, college, and extra so customers can shortly swap between them. Personal Looking will get even higher with added safety in opposition to a few of the most superior methods used to trace customers — Personal Looking home windows develop into locked when not in use and recognized trackers are blocked from loading. Safari customers also can now add any web site to the Dock as they’d with an app, full with a simplified toolbar and notifications for an app-like expertise.
An Immersive Gaming Expertise
With the ability of Apple silicon, tens of tens of millions of Macs can run demanding video games with nice efficiency, lengthy battery life, and breathtaking visuals. macOS Sonoma improves the gaming expertise even additional with Sport Mode, offering extra constant body charges and dramatically lowering enter and audio latency with wi-fi recreation controllers and AirPods. Sport Mode works with any recreation, together with current and upcoming Mac video games like DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR’S CUT, Stray, Layers of Worry, and SnowRunner.
Extra macOS Sonoma Updates
- Notes: Customers can view PDFs and scans of displays, assignments, analysis papers, and extra proper inside Notes. They will additionally create hyperlinks from one be aware to a different to narrate concepts and content material.
- Passwords: A set of passwords can now be shared amongst a gaggle. Everybody in a gaggle can add and edit passwords to maintain them updated, and since sharing is thru iCloud Keychain, it’s end-to-end encrypted. Moreover, the one-time verification codes obtained in Mail will now autofill in Safari, making it straightforward to securely log in with out leaving the browser.
- Messages: Search filters and swipe to answer improve on a regular basis messaging, whereas all-new Dwell Stickers could be created and synced throughout macOS, iOS, and iPadOS.
- Reminders: Clever grocery lists in Reminders streamline weekly journeys to the shop by organizing lists into sections and arranging them horizontally utilizing a brand new column view.
- Keyboard: Autocorrect receives a complete replace with a transformer language mannequin, a state-of-the-art on-device machine studying language mannequin that improves accuracy. A refreshed design makes corrections simpler to repair and inline predictions shortly end sentences. Dictation brings next-level speech recognition and the power to maneuver fluidly between voice and typing.
- Display screen Sharing: A brand new excessive efficiency mode within the Display screen Sharing app delivers extremely responsive distant entry over high-bandwidth connections — enabling inventive professionals to perform their work remotely.
Availability
macOS Sonoma is a free software program replace that’s obtainable beginning right now. Some options will not be obtainable in all areas, languages, or on all units. For extra info and a full record of options, go to apple.com/macos/sonoma.
Press Contacts
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Apple
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Michelle Del Rio
Apple
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