All of the High New Options in MacOS Sequoia

MacOS Sequoia, often known as macOS 15, is the most recent 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 methods to obtain it and all the most recent goodies on this software program replace.

You’ll want to take a look at our iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 roundup for all the brand new options in your iPhone and iPad, together with all the most recent 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 foremost options included in macOS 15. Apple has extra particulars right here.

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

When the characteristic is in motion, you will see your iPhone’s customized residence display seem. From there, you should use the keyboard, trackpad, or mouse to tug and drop content material (like photographs, movies, and recordsdata) between each gadgets, open and use any of your apps, swipe by means of all of the pages on your private home display, in addition to view and reply to notifications. When 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 affords a number of new options to Safari. With Highlights, Safari will use machine intelligence to point out you related info 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 convey 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 respect the Window Tiling characteristic that helps set up them for a greater viewing expertise. Whenever you drag a window to the sting of the display, macOS will mechanically recommend a tiled place in your display. (It is just like Snap on Home windows.) You’ll be able to then drop the window into place, prepare a number of home windows aspect by aspect, 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 numerous 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 may 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 lets you apply system wallpapers, coloration gradients, or your individual photographs as a backdrop for video calls. This characteristic is obtainable on FaceTime and third-party apps like Webex.

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

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A number of new Messages options are coming to macOS Sequoia—and by extension, to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 as properly. You’ll be able to format your texts inside Messages utilizing daring, italic, underline, and strike-through sort therapies. You can too add animated results to a selected phrase inside a textual content. For some phrases and phrases, strategies seem as you sort. Apple added new Tapbacks too—as an alternative of utilizing the normal 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 in order that they’ll be despatched later.

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• Apple Maps: With Maps, you will have entry to hundreds of mountain climbing trails throughout all 63 nationwide parks within the US, all of which might be filtered by elevation, size, and route sort. You can too save them to entry later within the wilderness with no knowledge 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. In case you faucet the equals signal twice, you may repeat the newest mathematical operate. You are now capable of see a historical past of your calculations as properly.
• Calendar: Inside the Calendar app, you may 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 coloration coded.
• Pictures: A brand new Collections characteristic throughout the Photograph app will mechanically set up your library by subjects together with Journeys, Current Days, and Folks & Pets. With Pinned Collections, you may shortly entry sure collections and albums. You can too see your Favorites album seem beneath Utilities and in Pinned Collections, and clear your Just lately Shared album and Just lately Seen historical past too.
• Recreation Mode: This characteristic was initially introduced in 2023, with macOS Sonoma. With macOS Sequoia, Apple improved Recreation Mode with smoother body charges and “superior energy administration options” to spice up efficiency throughout its Macs. It additionally helps Personalised Spatial Audio and reduces audio latency with the AirPods Professional (2nd era).
• Dwelling App: Apple is including visitor entry that lets you handle how and when folks can enter your own home. There is a new characteristic that reveals how a lot electrical energy you are utilizing and the way a lot it is costing you, primarily based on the present utility charges.
• Battery: The power 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 need to dig by means of System Settings.
• Discover My: Inside the Discover My app, you will now see a brand new Misplaced AirTag part that lets you share the placement of your AirTag with as much as 5 different folks, to assist monitor it down. Quickly, you may share it with airways as properly (in case your baggage is misplaced). Merely ship the particular hyperlink through Messages, Notes, Mail, AirDrop, and extra. They will need to authenticate it utilizing their Apple account, and the hyperlink will expire after every 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 value noting that Apple Intelligence is now on by default with Sequoia 15.3. For step-by-step directions on methods to manually flip it off, learn our tutorial right here.