Whats New For Mac Sierra
MacOS High Sierra introduces Hindi as a new language throughout the entire Mac system. From the menu bar to the dock to built‑in apps, everything is designed to feel natural to users who speak and read Hindi.
In addition to Siri, there are a number of new additions that should be on your radar. Here are some of our favorites. Siri Siri is undoubtedly the.
We’ve seen the voice assistant in iOS since 2011, but Sierra marks her debut on Apple’s desktop operating system. While Siri from just a year or two ago would have been mostly a disappointment, the Siri developer API has opened Apple’s smart assistant up to a world of new possibilities from third-party applications.
In addition to merely telling you what time it is, or how to solve a math problem, now Siri can call you an Uber, look up restaurant reviews, control playback for Apple Music (or your local library) and even read your email to you. Once you’re done experimenting with Siri’s newfound robustness, you can pin the results to the Notification Center for referencing later. Tabs If I didn’t have the ability to open dozens of tabs in Safari I’m not sure I could function. To date, applications haven’t had the same functionality — hell, you couldn’t even open additional tabs in Finder until OS X ‘Yosemite’. Now, any application that supports multiple windows also supports tabbed browsing. It’s not going to set the world on fire, but it’s a nice addition that should help compulsive organizers, like me, to avoid feeling as if their desktop was getting away from them. Apple Pay One of our favorite features on iOS, the ability to use Apple Pay on a desktop was long overdue.
Rather than saving credit card or login details for online payments, now you can simply grab your iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch, use Touch ID to unlock and pay without needing to find those pesky credentials. Retailers are already beginning to support the feature, and many more will come around in the months to follow. Hands-free unlock Much like Apple Pay on the Web, Apple’s new hands-free unlock feature allows for password-free authentication for any watch running.
For Apple Watch owners, the login password is a thing of the past, and once your desktop senses your device, it’ll unlock and decrypt (if enabled) the device. Notably absent is the much-requested feature to enable Touch ID unlock. It’s rumored to be part of the next MacBook Pro, which should be announced next month, but the hope was Apple would extend the Continuity function on macOS Sierra by integrating the iPhone’s (or iPad’s) Touch ID to unlock a MacBook or iMac. ICloud Sierra brings the ability to use any computer while accessing the same files as you would on your home device. For example, I use an iMac for the bulk of my daily work, but occasionally I feel like sprawling out on the couch and getting things done from my MacBook Pro. Now, I don’t have to retrieve files from one computer while I’m using another.
Sure, you could do this if you manually shared folders between computers using iCloud (or Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.), but the seamless integration and the automated nature of iCloud keeping your desktop and documents folder in sync is a godsend. The feature is enabled by default when you make the upgrade and assuming you have enough iCloud storage, it’ll work in the background unless you turn it off but why would you do that (aside from not having enough iCloud storage)? Optimize storage While most manufacturers are engaging in an ever-escalating arms race to cram the most storage they can into a laptop, Apple, it seems, is more concerned with efficiency. Rather than participating in these battles, Apple seems content to offer the same storage year-after-year, while increasing the efficiency of its solid-state drives and not offering much in the way of additional space — especially in its laptops.
Apple seems convinced that cloud storage is a better solution than physical space. The push to the cloud comes with a cool feature new to macOS: Optimize Storage. The feature automatically analyzes your drive at regular intervals to find things that could be moved to cloud storage. Old screenshots, photos, documents and the like that aren’t regularly accessed are now moved to the cloud, easily accessible but without taking up as much space on your physical drive.
Those with a Fusion drive on an iMac — which operates in much the same way by moving files from the SSD to the HDD — can attest to just how well the feature works. Apple’s Optimize Storage is essentially the same, only instead of moving between physical drives, it’s now moving files from a physical drive to the cloud. Messages After the massive overhaul to Messages in iOS 10, we’re pleased to report that many of the same features are now available on your Mac. 