New features available with macOS Monterey.
macOS?Monterey builds on the same powerful foundation as macOS?Big?Sur, while offering distinct experiences designed just for the capabilities of?Mac.
Key Features and?Enhancements
FaceTime
SharePlay: Watch together
Bring movies and TV shows into your FaceTime calls and enjoy rich, real-time connection with your friends while watching the same?videos.
SharePlay: Listen together
Share music with your friends right in your FaceTime?calls.
SharePlay: Share your screen
Share your screen to bring web pages, apps, and more into your conversation on?FaceTime.
SharePlay: Synced playback
Pause, rewind, fast-forward, or jump to a different scene — everyone’s playback remains in perfect?sync.
SharePlay: Shared music queue
When listening together, anyone in the call can add songs to the shared?queue.
SharePlay: Smart volume
Dynamically responsive volume controls automatically adjust audio so you can hear your friends even during a loud scene or climactic?chorus.
SharePlay: Multiple device support
Connect over FaceTime on your Mac while watching video on your Apple TV or listening to music on your iPhone.
SharePlay: Connect through audio, video, and text
Access your group’s Messages thread right from the FaceTime controls and choose the mode of communication that matches the moment.
Portrait mode
Inspired by the portraits you take in the Camera app, Portrait mode in FaceTime blurs your background and puts the focus on?you.1
Grid view
Lets you see people in your Group FaceTime calls in the same-size tiles, and highlights the current speaker so it’s easy to know who’s talking. You’ll see up to 18?faces in the grid at a?time.
Spatial audio
Creates a sound field that helps conversations flow as easily as they do face to face. Your friends’ voices are spread out to sound like they’re coming from the direction in which they’re positioned on the?call.2
Voice Isolation mode
This microphone mode spotlights your voice by using machine learning to identify ambient noises and block them out. So a leaf blower outside or a dog barking in the next room won’t interrupt your?call.3
Wide Spectrum mode
This microphone mode brings every single sound into your call. It’s ideal for when you’re taking music lessons or want your friend to hear everything that’s happening in the space you’re?in.3
FaceTime links
Invite your friends into a FaceTime call using a web link you can share?anywhere.
Join FaceTime on the web
Invite anyone to join you in a FaceTime call, even friends who don’t have an Apple device.4 They can join you for one-on-one and Group FaceTime calls right from their browser instantly — no login?necessary.
Calendar integration
Generate a web link for a FaceTime call while creating an event in Calendar, so everyone knows exactly where to meet and?when.
Messages
Shared with You
Content sent to you over Messages automatically appears in a new Shared with You section in the corresponding app, so you can enjoy it when it’s convenient for you. Shared with You will be featured in Photos, Safari, Apple?Music, Apple?Podcasts, and the?Apple?TV?app.
Shared with You: Pins
For content that’s especially interesting to you, you can quickly pin it in Messages, and it will be elevated in Shared with You, Messages search, and the Details view of the?conversation.
Shared with You: Continue the?conversation
Alongside shared content in the corresponding apps, you can see who sent it, and with a click, open the associated conversation in Messages — so you can continue the conversation while you’re enjoying what was shared with?you.
Shared with You: Photos
Photos sent to you over Messages automatically appear in your Photos app. Your library includes the photos you care about most — like the ones you were there for. And the broader set of shared photos will be featured in a new Shared with You section in the?sidebar.
Shared with You: Safari
Interesting articles, recipes, and other links sent over Messages automatically appear in the new Shared with You section on the Safari start page and in the sidebar.
Shared with You: Apple?Podcasts
Podcast shows and episodes sent over Messages automatically appear in the new Shared with You section of Listen Now in Apple?Podcasts.
Shared with You: Apple?TV?app
Movies and shows sent over Messages automatically appear in the new Shared with You section of Watch Now in the Apple?TV?app.
Photo collections
Enjoy multiple photos as beautiful collections in your Messages conversations. A handful of images appears as a glanceable collage and a larger set as an elegant stack that you can flip through. Click to view them as a grid and easily add a Tapback or inline?reply.
Easily save photos
You can quickly save photos sent to you by clicking a new save button right in the Messages?conversation.
Safari
Tab Groups
Save and organize your tabs in the way that works best for you. Switch between Tab Groups using the redesigned sidebar or drop-down menu. Tab Groups sync across devices so you have access to your tabs from?anywhere.
Redesigned sidebar
Manage your Tab Groups, bookmarks, Reading List, and Shared with You links in the redesigned?sidebar.
Compact tab bar
The compact tab bar integrates the Smart?Search field into your active tab, giving you more space to?browse.
New privacy protections
Intelligent Tracking Prevention now also prevents trackers from profiling you using your IP?address.
HTTPS upgrade
Safari automatically upgrades sites known to support HTTPS from insecure?HTTP.
Focus
Focus
Match your devices to your mindset with Focus. Automatically filter notifications based on what you’re currently doing. Turn on Do Not Disturb to switch everything off, or choose from a suggested Focus for work, personal time, sleep, fitness, gaming, reading, or?driving.
Focus customization
Create a custom Focus to filter notifications based on what you’re currently?doing.
Focus across your devices
When you use a Focus on one device, it’s automatically set on your other?devices.
Allowed interruptions
Set allowed interruptions so that the most important notifications from people or apps will get through to you while you’re?focusing.
Status
Contacts outside the notifications you allow for a Focus will be told that your notifications are silenced. Your status appears the moment someone tries to contact you in Messages, so they know not to?interrupt.
Auto-reply
Turn on a standard auto-reply for your contacts when they message you while you’re?focusing.
Urgent messages
If someone’s status is turned on, signaling that they have notifications silenced with Focus, you can break through with an urgent message. If you’re on the receiving end, you can prevent an app or person from breaking?through.
Status API
For conversations in third-party messaging apps, developers can use your status to reflect that you’ve stepped?away.
Notifications
New look for notifications
Notifications have a fresh new look, with contact photos for people and larger icons for?apps.
Mute notifications
Mute any app or messaging thread temporarily, for the next hour, or for the?day.
Muting suggestions
If a thread is really active and you aren’t engaging with it, you’ll get a suggestion to mute?it.
Communication notifications
Notifications from people across your communication apps now feature contact photos to make them easier to identify.
Time Sensitive notifications
Time Sensitive notifications from apps are always delivered immediately, so you won’t miss out on timely alerts like a fraud alert, car waiting outside, or reminder to go pick up your?kids.
Notification APIs
New notification APIs for developers allow them to automatically send Time Sensitive notifications and adopt the new look for notifications coming from?people.
Notes
Tags
Tags are a fast and flexible way to categorize and organize your notes. Add one or more tags by typing them directly in the note — like #activities or?#cooking.
Tag Browser
The Tag Browser in the sidebar lets you choose any tag or combination of tags to quickly view tagged?notes.
Custom Smart Folders
Custom Smart Folders automatically collect notes in one place based on?tags.
Activity view
See what others have added to your shared note while you were away. The new Activity view gives a summary of updates since the last time you viewed the note and a day-to-day list of activity from each?collaborator.
Highlights
On a trackpad, swipe right with two fingers anywhere in your note to reveal details of who made changes in a shared note. View edit times and dates with highlighted text color‑coded to match collaborators in the?note.
Mentions
Mentions make collaboration in shared notes or folders more social, direct, and contextual. Type or handwrite an @ sign and the name of a collaborator anywhere in your note to notify them of important updates and link them back to the?note.
Quick Note
Easy to access
Access Quick Note using a hot corner, keyboard shortcut, or Control?Center.
Available everywhere
Access Quick Note from anywhere in the system. You can be using any app or in full screen or Split?View.
Adaptable
Adjust the size or position of a Quick?Note.
Links
Add links from an app to your Quick Note to create context. When you return to the same place in the app or website, a thumbnail of the Quick Note appears in the corner to remind you of what you noted?earlier.
Persistent highlights with Safari
Keep track of websites you’ve visited by highlighting text or images in Safari and adding them directly into your?note.
Use your keyboard, mouse, and trackpad across Mac and iPad
Use a single keyboard, mouse, or trackpad to work between your devices. When you move from your Mac to your iPad, the cursor for your mouse or trackpad transforms from an arrow to a round dot, automatically changing shape to the one that is best suited for the?device.
No setup required
Universal Control works effortlessly — no setup required. Simply use your mouse or trackpad to push the cursor from one device toward the other until it pops onto the second device. Then you can move your cursor seamlessly between the?two.
Optional continuous setup
If you use your devices together all the time and want to use Universal Control without the need to link the two using the cursor, you can set them up to work with Universal Control continuously in System?Preferences.
Support for multiple devices
Universal Control works with up to three?devices.
Drag and drop content between?devices
Use your mouse or trackpad to drag and drop content between your devices, perfect for when you’re sketching a drawing with Apple?Pencil on your iPad and want to drop it into Keynote on your?Mac.
AirPlay to Mac7
AirPlay content to your Mac
Use AirPlay to send content to your Mac from an iPhone, iPad, or even another Mac. View videos, edit Keynote presentations, and hear music on your Mac as it’s being played from your other device. Your Mac works with any Apple device, and it’s even easier to connect if the devices share the same Apple?ID.
Mirror or extend the display
When you send content from your iPhone or iPad to your Mac, you can choose to mirror your iPhone or iPad or extend its display by using a Mac as a secondary display for apps that support it, such as Keynote and?Photos.
Use as AirPlay 2 speaker
Your Mac can function as a third-party AirPlay?2 speaker, allowing you to play music or podcasts to your Mac or use it as a secondary speaker for multiroom?audio.
Send wired or wirelessly
AirPlay works both wirelessly and wired using USB. A wired connection is useful when you want to ensure that there’s no latency or you don’t have access to?Wi-Fi.
Live Text
Live Text in photos
Text is now completely interactive in all your photos, so you can use functions like copy and paste, lookup, and translate. Live?Text works in Photos, Screenshot, Quick?Look, and?Safari.8
Shortcuts
Updated Gallery
Find new prebuilt shortcuts you can customize, made just for?Mac.
Cross-device management
Build and manage shortcuts on iPhone, iPad, or Mac for any of your devices —?shortcuts automatically sync across all of?them.
System-wide shortcuts
Shortcuts are available throughout macOS — run them from the Finder, menu bar, Spotlight, Dock, desktop, and?more.
Run iPhone and iPad shortcuts on?Mac
Run compatible iPhone and iPad shortcuts on Mac with M1 or on Intel-based Mac systems with Catalyst?apps.
Improved sharing
Share shortcuts as easily as sharing a link and download them for your own use without managing complicated security settings. If you’re the recipient, smart prompts allow you to share only the data you?want.
Smarter Shortcuts editor
Next Action Suggestions help you complete the shortcut you’re?building.
Automator compatibility
If you already use the Automator app, now you can convert your workflows into?shortcuts.
Advanced scripting
Pro users can enable AppleScript and shell script?compatibility.
Maps
Interactive globe
Discover the natural beauty of Earth with a rich and interactive 3D?globe, including significantly enhanced details for mountain ranges, deserts, forests, oceans, and?more.1
Detailed new city experience
Explore cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and London with unprecedented detail for elevation, roads, trees, buildings, landmarks, and?more.1
Nearby transit
Frequent transit riders can now get one-click access to all departures that are near them. They can even pin their favorite lines so that they always show up at the top if they are?nearby.
All-new place cards
Completely redesigned place cards make it easy to find and interact with important information for businesses, explore details about cities, and learn about physical features like mountain?ranges.
Editorially curated Guides Home
It’s now easier to discover great places with the all‑new Guides Home, an editorially curated destination where you can find Guides for places you’ll?love.
Improved search
When looking for places like restaurants, you can filter your search results by cuisine or whether they offer takeout. Or you can choose to see only places that are open right now. When you move the map while searching, Maps automatically updates your search?results.
User account
Maps users can now find their most used settings all in one place, including their preferred mode of transit, reported issues, favorites, and?more.
Redesigned Maps contributions
With an all-new design, it’s now faster and easier to report an issue in Maps.
Privacy
Recording indicator
See which apps have access to the mic on your Mac in Control?Center. A new software indicator augments the camera indicator light by showing you whenever an app has access to your?mic.
iCloud+
Beta iCloud Private Relay
iCloud Private Relay is a service that lets you connect to virtually any network and browse with Safari in an even more secure and private way. It ensures that the traffic leaving your device is encrypted so no one can intercept and read it. Then all your requests are sent through two separate internet relays. It’s designed so that no one — including Apple — can use your IP?address, location, and browsing activity to create a detailed profile about?you.9
Hide My Email
Hide My Email allows you to create unique, random email addresses that forward to your personal inbox so you can send and receive email without having to share your real email?address.
HomeKit Secure Video
Connect more security cameras than ever to record, analyze, and view your footage in the Home app. iCloud will store your recordings in an end-to-end encrypted format automatically, so that only you and people you choose can view it. None of the video footage counts against your iCloud storage — it’s part of your?subscription.10
Custom email domain
Personalize your iCloud Mail address with a custom domain name, and invite family members to use the same domain with their iCloud?Mail?accounts.
Even More
Accessibility
VoiceOver image descriptions in?Markup
Markup lets you add image descriptions that can be read by VoiceOver. Image descriptions persist even when shared and can be read in a range of supported apps on iPhone, iPad, and?Mac.
VoiceOver descriptions for PDF?signatures
Add custom descriptions to new and existing PDF signatures so you can use the right signature with?VoiceOver.
Improved Full Keyboard Access
Using an expanded set of keyboard shortcuts, improvements to Full Keyboard Access enable you to control everything on your Mac with a keyboard — without a mouse or?trackpad.
Custom mouse pointers
Customize the outline and fill color of the mouse pointer so it’s easier to recognize when it moves or changes to an insertion point, crosshair, hand, or other?shape.
Accessibility Memoji
Memoji represent more of your look and style with new customizations, including oxygen tubes, cochlear implants, and a soft helmet for?headwear.
Apple ID
Account Recovery Contacts
Choose one or more people you trust to become an Account Recovery Contact to help you reset your password and regain access to your?account.
Digital Legacy program
The Digital Legacy program11 allows you to designate people as Legacy Contacts so they can access your account and personal information in the event of your?death.
Augmented Reality
Object Capture
Turn a series of 2D images into a photo-realistic 3D object that’s optimized for AR in just minutes using the power of Mac. Object Capture makes 3D content creation easy for all?developers.12
Books
Redesigned Apple Books app
Enjoy a refreshed version of the app that’s easier and more intuitive to use. Access features like Reading Goals, Want to Read, and Reading Now, previously available only on?iOS.
Search redesign
Search results come up as soon as you start typing and will correct spelling mistakes. Enjoy personalized showcases of top books and genre collections within your results.
Desktop and Screen?Saver
Hello screen saver
Use a captivating new screen saver that celebrates the history and progress of Mac. Watch as the word “hello” writes on the screen in 34 different languages using a custom-designed 3D font inspired by the first Mac that debuted with “hello” on the screen. The generative screen saver follows the graceful arcs and curves of letters as it writes and selects from different camera angles and positions — ensuring that the animation feels fresh every?time.
Hello desktop picture
Use the hello desktop picture on your Mac. It comes in seven different colors and changes automatically from a light to dark version based on the time of day. You can also choose to always use a light or dark still of the desktop?picture.
Dictionary
New dictionaries for India
Bilingual dictionaries for India include Urdu–English, Tamil–English, Telugu–English, and?Gujarati–English.
New thesaurus and idiom dictionary for China?mainland
There’s a new Simplified Chinese thesaurus with synonyms and antonyms as well as a dictionary of?idioms.
New dictionaries for Hong?Kong
Dictionaries now include a Traditional Chinese–English dictionary of Cantonese colloquialisms and a Traditional Chinese dictionary of Standard Mandarin with Cantonese pronunciations.
Find My
Live locations for family and friends
See your family and friends’ locations with continuous streaming updates. This provides an immediate sense of direction, speed, and progress when viewing people’s?locations.
Find My network support for?AirPods
Use the Find My network to get an approximate location of your missing AirPods?Pro or AirPods?Max. This will help you get within Bluetooth range so you can play a sound and locate?them.13
Find My widget
The new Find My widget lets you add people and item location features to Notification Center so it’s easy to keep track of friends, family, and personal items from virtually?anywhere.
Finder
Shortcuts
The Finder lets you save time by running shortcuts from the Touch Bar, the menu bar, and the Quick Actions menu. Run a shortcut to reduce the size of images, batch edit hundreds of PDFs, or configure your workspace setup with just a click.
iCloud collaboration folder
A new collaboration folder in the sidebar contains all shared documents and displays information such as invitation status, the person who last modified the file, and other sharing-related metadata to help you manage your shared?files.
Copy enhancements
You’ll have a better sense of timing when copying files thanks to a new pie chart progress window. You can even stop or cancel a long copy session and resume it?later.
Go to folder enhancements
An enhanced “go to folder” window features a new look and improved autocompletion engine to help you get to the files or folder you’re looking for more?quickly.
View file path
Press the Option key while holding the pointer over a file or folder to momentarily show the path bar, so you can easily see where your file or folder is located. Control-click the path bar to take actions such as opening folders in Terminal or copying the file path. You can also Shift-click a folder to see or navigate to?subfolders.
Gaming
Game Center friend requests
See incoming friend requests in your Game Center inbox, which is accessible from your Game Center profile within a game or from Internet Accounts in System Preferences.
Game Center recents and groups?invitations
Bring your most recent Messages friends and groups into Game Center–enabled games with the new multiplayer friend?selector.
Game highlights
With a press of the share button, save a video clip of up to the last 15 seconds of gameplay using game controllers like the Xbox Series X|S Wireless Controller or Sony PS5 DualSense? Wireless?Controller.
Launchpad games folder
When you download a new game, it’s automatically added to the new games folder in Launchpad. You can also access and navigate the folder with a game?controller.
Home
Package detection
Using HomeKit Secure Video, your security cameras and video doorbells can now detect and notify you when a package has?arrived.10
Inclusive Language
Choose your term of address for Spanish
To make your device feel more personal, in Language & Region preferences you can choose how you would like to be addressed throughout the system: feminine, masculine, or?neuter.
Keyboard
Suggestions for Cantonese and Shanghainese
Type words and phrases in Cantonese and Shanghainese more easily when using the Simplified Chinese keyboard.
New keyboard layouts
New keyboard layouts for Amharic, Assyrian, Fula (Adlam), Igbo, Navajo, Rohingya, and Syriac offer more language?options.
Keyboard shortcuts for Magic?Keyboard
Magic Keyboard now supports keyboard shortcuts for over 100 layouts, automatically adapting them for the layout you’re?using.
Keyboard Dictation
On-device dictation
Keyboard dictation improves as you use your device, personalizing over time. On-device dictation helps protect your privacy by performing all processing completely offline. Dictation in search uses server-based dictation. Available in Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Cantonese (Hong Kong), English (Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, UK, U.S.), French (France), German (Germany), Italian (Italy), Japanese (Japan), Korean (Korea), Mandarin Chinese (China mainland, Taiwan), Russian (Russia), Spanish (Mexico, Spain, U.S.), Turkish (Turkey), and Yue Chinese (China?mainland).14
Continuous dictation
With on-device dictation, you can dictate text of any length without a timeout (previously limited to 60?seconds).15
Mac Experience
Erase all contents and settings
System Preferences now offers an option to erase all user data and user-installed apps from the system, while maintaining the operating system currently installed. Because storage is always encrypted on Mac systems with Apple silicon or the T2?chip, the system is instantly and securely “erased” by destroying the encryption?keys.
Low Power Mode
Reduces system clock speed and display brightness to extend battery?life.16
Automatic window resizing
Windows now resize to fit the new display as you move them from Mac to a secondary display, another Mac, or even an iPad when using Sidecar, making it easier than ever to use multiple?displays.
Mail privacy protection
Mail Privacy Protection helps protect your privacy by preventing email senders from learning information about your Mail activity. If you choose to turn it on, it hides your IP?address so senders can’t link it to your other online activity or determine your location. And it prevents senders from seeing if you’ve opened their?email.
Memoji
Clothing
Customize your Memoji with over 40?outfit choices to reflect your style, mood, or the season — and choose up to three different colors. Show it off using Memoji stickers with expressive body language that include the upper?body.
Two different eye colors
Now you can select a different color for your left eye and your right?eye.
New glasses
Customize your Memoji with three new glasses options, including heart, star, and retro shapes. Select the color of your frame and?lenses.
New Memoji stickers
Nine new Memoji stickers let you send a shaka, a hand wave, a lightbulb moment, and?more.
Multicolored headwear
Represent your favorite sports team or university by choosing up to three colors for?headwear.
New accessibility options
Three new accessibility options let you represent yourself with cochlear implants, oxygen tubes, or a soft?helmet.
Memoji on Mac login screen
Choose your Memoji for your login picture to get fun, personalized interactions — like a greeting when you log in or a “see ya later” when you log off. If you type the wrong password, it even shakes its?head.
Music
SharePlay
Use SharePlay in FaceTime to listen to music together in real time. You can pick out songs with your friends, and everyone can pause, rearrange, or skip tracks in the SharePlay?queue.
Passwords
Passwords in System Preferences
Look up and manage your saved passwords for apps and websites in the new Passwords section of System?Preferences.
Import and export passwords
Import passwords from other password managers to Passwords in System Preferences or Safari. You can export passwords?too.
Built-in authenticator
Generate verification codes needed for additional sign-in security. If a site offers two-factor authentication, you can set up verification codes under Passwords in System Preferences and Safari — no need to download an additional app. Once set up, verification codes autofill when you sign in to the?site.
Manage iCloud Passwords on Windows
Access and manage your passwords saved to iCloud from a Windows device with the new iCloud Passwords app. Included with iCloud for?Windows.
iCloud Passwords extension for Edge
Easily autofill your saved passwords in Edge with the iCloud Passwords for Windows extension. Available in the Microsoft?Store.
Photos
Memories: Fresh new look
Memories has a fresh new look including animated cards with smart, adaptive titles, new animation and transition styles, and multiple image collages for a cinematic?feel.
Memories: Memory looks
Inspired by the art of cinematography, 12 Memory looks add mood by analyzing each photo and video and applying the right contrast and color adjustment to give them a consistent look — just as the colorists at film studios?do.
Memories: Interactive interface
Click to pause, replay the last photo, skip to the next, or jump ahead, and the music keeps playing and the timing adjusts to keep the transitions on the beat. Change the song or Memory look or add or remove photos, and the adjustment happens in real time, without the need for the movie to?recompile.
Memories: Browse view
View all the photos and videos from your memory in one easy-to-navigate?grid.
Memories: New memory types
New memory types include additional international holidays, child-focused memories, trends over time, and improved pet memories, including recognizing individual dogs and?cats.
Memories: Watch next
Memories suggests related memories to watch next after your memory finishes?playing.
Shared with You
Click Shared with You in the sidebar to view photos and videos that have been shared with you in Messages. Photos taken when you were present also appear in All Photos and in Days, Months, and Years views and can appear in your Featured Photos and Memories, including the Photos widget. Save a photo to your library or respond to the sender in?Messages.
Richer Info pane
Copy and paste edits to the location and date taken and learn about objects in the photo that were detected by Visual?Look?Up.
Faster iCloud Photos library initial?sync
When you upgrade to a new device, iCloud Photos syncs more quickly, so you can get to your photo library?faster.
Import photos from another Photos?library
Now you can import original photos, including edits, from a second Photos?library.
People identification improvements
The People album has improved recognition for?individuals.
People naming workflow
Correct naming mistakes more easily in the People?album.
Suggest less often
Click Feature Less to let Photos know you prefer to see less of a specific date, place, holiday, or person across Featured Photos, in the Photos widget, in Memories, or highlighted in the Library?tab.
Podcasts
Personalized recommendations
Discover new podcasts about topics you’re passionate about. The best podcasts, personalized for you, grouped by topics you care?about.
Shared with You
Share your favorite podcast episodes in the Messages app and find all the episodes shared with you in Listen?Now.
Reminders
Tags
Tags are a fast and flexible way to organize your reminders. Add one or more tags, like #errands, to your reminders to make them easy to search and filter for across your Reminders?lists.
Tag Browser
A Tag Browser in the sidebar lets you click any tag or combination of tags to quickly view tagged?reminders.
Custom Smart Lists
Create your own Smart Lists to automatically include reminders that matter most to you by selecting for tags, dates, times, locations, flags, and priority. Choose more than one tag (such as #gardening and #errands) and combine them with other setting filters for more specific?lists.
Delete completed reminders
Access quick options to easily delete your completed?reminders.
Improved natural language support
Type more advanced phrases to create reminder settings. Try something like “Jog every other morning” for a specific, recurring?reminder.
Expanded suggested attributes
Choose tags, flags, priority, and people you message with from the Quick Toolbar when creating a?reminder.
Screen Time
Downtime on demand
Turn on downtime on demand. During downtime, only phone calls and apps you choose to allow will be available. A five‑minute downtime reminder will be sent and downtime will be turned on until the end of the?day.
Tips
Tips
Discover new tips for macOS, designed to help you get started or deepen your understanding of your Mac and its amazing?features.
Collections
Tips are organized in collections on specific topics — from what’s new to essential must-know features to favorite genius picks from our experts. And for those new to Mac, there are tips to help you get?started.
Notifications
When a new collection of tips is available, you’ll get a?notification.
Personalization
To make tips more meaningful and relevant to you, macOS uses on-device intelligence to determine which collections to send and which features to highlight for?you.
Translate
System-wide translation
Translate text by Control-clicking it and selecting Translate. Then copy the result, change the language, or replace the selected text with the translation. Using Live Text, you can translate selected text in photos.
TV
Shared with You
The Apple TV app now helps you see all the shows and movies your friends and family have shared with you in Messages. See them in a new dedicated section called Shared with You on Watch Now and easily keep the conversation going directly from the Apple?TV?app.
SharePlay
The Apple TV app works seamlessly with Messages and FaceTime so you can watch your favorite shows and movies together with friends and communicate using text, voice, or video while you watch. SharePlay lets your friends join in from their iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple?TV —?so everyone can watch together wherever and however they?want.
Voice Memos
Playback speed
Speed up or slow down playback of Voice?Memos recordings.
Skip silence
Voice Memos analyzes your recordings and automatically skips over gaps in your audio with a single?click.
Window Management
Swap out apps in Split View
Swap out one window for another in Split View. Click the green button for a window, select the option to change windows, and select any of your open?windows.
Change a Split View window to full screen
When you select the option to make a window full screen while in Split View, the window expands to the size of your display and the other window previously in Split View automatically goes full screen as?well.
Full-screen menu bar
You have the option to display the menu bar at all times in full screen so you can easily view the app menu and other glanceable information?anytime.