Apple's MacOS Sequoia: The New Features You'll Want to Try

Speaker 1: A new Mac OS is coming. It's called Sequoia, and along with several new features, it's being injected with ai, apple Intelligence. Here's what Mac users have to look forward to. It happens every year at WW DC Apple's Developers conference that the company announces updates to its operating system that wow Mac users with features Windows and Android and even Chrome OS users already have. Part of Sequoia, for example, is iPhone mirroring. It's a continuity feature that lets you see and interact [00:00:30] with your iPhone on your Mac with a touch pad and keyboard because your iPhone and iPad can have a touchscreen but not your MacBook. The feature gives you all kinds of access to your iPhone, so you can message launch and use apps, get your notifications, drag and drop files from the iPhone to the Mac. It's very similar to what can be done with an Android phone and a Chromebook, but much more feature rich. Speaker 1: Then the phone Link app on Windows. So if you have an iPhone and a Mac, this is certainly [00:01:00] a nice addition and it's all done wirelessly between devices and your phone stays locked so no one can pick it up and start using it. Another new to Mac feature is an update to how you can tile windows. You'll be able to simply drag one to the edge of the screen and it'll automatically suggest how to resize and arrange your windows. What's nice is Apple is also adding new keyboard and menu shortcuts to speed up the process. Two other helpful additions perked my attention. One is a new password [00:01:30] app built on the foundation of key chains password management. The standalone app will securely hold your credentials and sync them across your devices and autofill them if you want. The second and third, I guess are new features in Safari Highlight and Reader Highlight uses machine learning to find and highlight important information such as directions or a phone number on a webpage. Speaker 1: Reader, on the other hand, removes distractions and generates a table of contents and an article [00:02:00] summary next to the page. Now, while Apple has used the term machine learning frequently and generally steers clear of saying artificial intelligence for the WDC keynote, it well, it still avoided it in favor of Apple Intelligence, the company's personal intelligence system, which favors local generative models instead of cloud-based options. The former offering more privacy and security than the latter. Potentially, if you've watched any of the AI demos from Google [00:02:30] and Microsoft Apple Intelligence, when it rolls out later this year, will power tools that seemingly do many of the same AI tasks that can be done with Microsoft Copilot. For example, a new image playground app with an image wand tool will straighten out a sketch into a more realistic picture. Similar to what Microsoft's co-creator tool can do, there will be options to help you write and find specific files and photos and videos based on their content Speaker 2: Or pull up details from [00:03:00] a text message and use it for other tasks. But again, it's all happening on device. It's only if Apple's intelligence needs more intelligence or a task is too demanding that it reaches for outside help from chat GPT. But it still asks your permission first before sharing your information with chat JPT. Apple hasn't released all the details yet about how the relationship between the two works, but it does seem like a step in the right direction when it comes to AI and privacy. Also, something [00:03:30] to keep in mind supported devices include those with an A 17 pro chip or an M series chip, and it's not clear if all Apple Intelligence features will be supported on them or if say an M three MacBook will have more tools than an M1 MacBook. So I guess we'll have to wait and see which is to be expected since macOS Sequoia is only available for developers now and be released as public beta in July. And then the full release will come later this year. [00:04:00] And that's our first look at some of the new features coming to Mac Os. What do you think? Was there anything you were really hoping for that you didn't get? Let me know in the comments and you can read more about all of Apple's announcements@wwdccnet.com. Thanks for watching and you'll see me when you see me.