All of the Prime New Options in MacOS Sequoia

MacOS Sequoia, also called macOS 15, is the newest model of Apple’s desktop working system. The brand new OS provides a number of new capabilities to the Mac, together with a password administration app, videoconferencing instruments, and updates to Safari in addition to all of the options that include Apple Intelligence—the corporate’s synthetic intelligence–powered system. Beneath, we break down find out how to obtain it and all the newest goodies on this software program replace.

You should definitely try our iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 roundup for all the brand new options in your iPhone and iPad, together with all the newest options on the Apple Watch with watchOS 11.

Up to date January 2025: We have added particulars on macOS 15.3.

MacOS Sequoia Options

Beneath, you will discover all the key options included in macOS 15. Apple has extra particulars right here.

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Typically, your iPhone is in one other room or deep in your bag. For these moments when you’ll want to use it however do not feel like getting as much as discover it, you possibly can pull it up in your pc. As a part of Apple’s Continuity options, iPhone Mirroring permits you to entry and work together along with your iPhone wirelessly utilizing your Mac.

When the characteristic is in motion, you will see your iPhone’s customized dwelling display seem. From there, you should use the keyboard, trackpad, or mouse to pull and drop content material (like images, movies, and recordsdata) between each units, open and use any of your apps, swipe via all of the pages on your house display, in addition to view and reply to notifications. Whilst you’re doing all this, your iPhone will stay locked. It additionally works whereas your iPhone is in Standby mode, a characteristic from iOS 17 that turns your iPhone into a wise show whereas charging.

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MacOS Sequoia provides a number of new options to Safari. With Highlights, Safari will use machine intelligence to indicate you related data from the webpage like instructions, hyperlinks, summaries, and restaurant evaluations. Apple additionally redesigned the Reader to reduce distractions. Along with a sleeker view of the article, you can even see a abstract and a desk of contents (for longer articles). If the webpage features a video, Viewer will carry it to the forefront whereas nonetheless supplying you with entry to playback controls (Image in Image included).

Anybody who at all times retains a ton of browser home windows open concurrently will recognize the Window Tiling characteristic that helps set up them for a greater viewing expertise. Once you drag a window to the sting of the display, macOS will routinely counsel a tiled place in your display. (It is much like Snap on Home windows.) You may then drop the window into place, prepare a number of home windows facet by facet, or place them in any of the 4 corners to make room for extra apps. For faster group, you should use keyboard and menu shortcuts too.

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In 2023, Apple added new videoconference instruments with macOS Sonoma together with Presenter Overlay, Reactions, and varied options for the Mac’s built-in webcam. In macOS 15, the corporate is including a number of extra. With apps like FaceTime and Zoom, you possibly can entry a brand new presenter preview functionality to see what you are about to share earlier than sharing it. In the meantime, the built-in backgrounds characteristic permits you to apply system wallpapers, shade gradients, or your personal images as a backdrop for video calls. This characteristic is accessible on FaceTime and third-party apps like Webex.

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If you happen to by no means liked Keychain, now you might have a greater choice: macOS Sequoia comes with a brand new Passwords app that permits you to entry all of your passwords (Wi-Fi passwords included), passkeys, and verification codes in a single place. It retains all of your Apple units in sync, runs on Home windows machines (utilizing the iCloud for Home windows app), and helps end-to-end encryption.

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Just a few new Messages options are coming to macOS Sequoia—and by extension, to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 as nicely. You may format your texts inside Messages utilizing daring, italic, underline, and strike-through kind therapies. You too can add animated results to a selected phrase inside a textual content. For some phrases and phrases, recommendations seem as you kind. Apple added new Tapbacks too—as a substitute of utilizing the standard coronary heart, thumbs-up, thumbs-down, query mark, or exclamation level, there are alternatives for emojis and stickers. One other standout new characteristic is the choice to schedule your messages forward of time so that they’ll be despatched later.

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• Apple Maps: With Maps, you will have entry to 1000’s of climbing trails throughout all 63 nationwide parks within the US, all of which could be filtered by elevation, size, and route kind. You too can save them to entry later within the wilderness with no information sign.
• Calculator App: Apple gave the Calculator app an improve by including new options like the power to enter and proceed to view full expressions (with trigonometry, parentheses, and a number of operations) earlier than urgent equals to see the ultimate reply. If you happen to faucet the equals signal twice, you possibly can repeat the newest mathematical operate. You are now capable of see a historical past of your calculations as nicely.
• Calendar: Inside the Calendar app, you possibly can see each occasions and duties from the Reminders app. There’s additionally an up to date Month View meant to make it simpler to see all of your appointments at a look—all of that are shade coded.
• Images: A brand new Collections characteristic throughout the Picture app will routinely set up your library by subjects together with Journeys, Latest Days, and Folks & Pets. With Pinned Collections, you possibly can rapidly entry sure collections and albums. You too can see your Favorites album seem beneath Utilities and in Pinned Collections, and clear your Just lately Shared album and Just lately Considered historical past too.
• Sport Mode: This characteristic was initially introduced in 2023, with macOS Sonoma. With macOS Sequoia, Apple improved Sport Mode with smoother body charges and “superior energy administration options” to spice up efficiency throughout its Macs. It additionally helps Customized Spatial Audio and reduces audio latency with the AirPods Professional (2nd era).
• Dwelling App: Apple is including visitor entry that permits you to handle how and when folks can enter your home. There is a new characteristic that exhibits how a lot electrical energy you are utilizing and the way a lot it is costing you, based mostly on the present utility charges.
• Battery: The flexibility to activate Low Energy Mode was launched with macOS Monterey. Now it is out there within the Battery menu within the top-left nook of your display so that you now not must dig via System Settings.
• Discover My: Inside the Discover My app, you will now see a brand new Misplaced AirTag part that permits you to share the placement of your AirTag with as much as 5 different folks, to assist observe it down. Quickly, you possibly can share it with airways as nicely (in case your baggage is misplaced). Merely ship the precise hyperlink by way of Messages, Notes, Mail, AirDrop, and extra. They will must authenticate it utilizing their Apple account, and the hyperlink will expire after per week.

Apple Intelligence Options

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Along with the options above, Apple Intelligence—the corporate’s “private intelligence system”—is constructed into macOS Sequoia in addition to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. These options are solely out there in Sequoia 15.1 and newer. It is also price noting that Apple Intelligence is now on by default with Sequoia 15.3. For step-by-step directions on find out how to manually flip it off, learn our tutorial right here.