All of the Prime 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 just a few 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 how you can obtain it and all the most recent goodies on this software program replace.

Make sure you 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 may discover all the foremost options included in macOS 15. Apple has extra particulars right here.

Typically, 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’ll be able to pull it up in your laptop. As a part of Apple’s Continuity options, iPhone Mirroring helps you to entry and work together along with your iPhone wirelessly utilizing your Mac.

When the function is in motion, you may see your iPhone’s customized residence display seem. From there, you need to use the keyboard, trackpad, or mouse to tug and drop content material (like images, movies, and information) between each units, open and use any of your apps, swipe by way of all of the pages on your private home 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 function from iOS 17 that turns your iPhone into a wise show whereas charging.

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MacOS Sequoia provides just a few new options to Safari. With Highlights, Safari will use machine intelligence to point out you related data from the webpage like instructions, hyperlinks, summaries, and restaurant critiques. Apple additionally redesigned the Reader to attenuate distractions. Along with a sleeker view of the article, it’s also possible to 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 providing 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 function that helps manage them for a greater viewing expertise. If you drag a window to the sting of the display, macOS will routinely recommend a tiled place in your display. (It is much like Snap on Home windows.) You’ll be able to then drop the window into place, organize 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 need to 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 just a few extra. With apps like FaceTime and Zoom, you’ll be able to 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 function lets you apply system wallpapers, colour gradients, or your individual images as a backdrop for video calls. This function is on the market on FaceTime and third-party apps like Webex.

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In the event you by no means beloved Keychain, now you’ve gotten a greater possibility: 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 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 effectively. You’ll be able to format your texts inside Messages utilizing daring, italic, underline, and strikethrough kind therapies. You can too 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 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 function 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 may have entry to 1000’s of mountaineering trails throughout all 63 nationwide parks within the US, all of which may be filtered by elevation, size, and route kind. You can too 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 flexibility 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 the event you faucet the equals signal twice, you’ll be able to repeat the newest mathematical operate. You are now in a position to see a historical past of your calculations as effectively.
• Calendar: Inside the Calendar app, you’ll be able to 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 color-coded.
• Photographs: A brand new Collections function inside the Picture app will routinely manage your library by subjects together with Journeys, Current Days, and Individuals & Pets. With Pinned Collections, you’ll be able to rapidly 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.
• Sport Mode: This function 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 technology).
• Residence App: Apple is including visitor entry that lets you handle how and when folks can enter your own home. There is a new function that exhibits 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 accessible within the Battery menu within the top-left nook of your display so that you not should dig by way of System Settings.
• Discover My: Inside the Discover My app, you may now see a brand new Misplaced AirTag part that lets you share the situation of your AirTag with as much as 5 different folks, to assist observe it down. Quickly, you’ll be able to share it with airways as effectively (in case your baggage is misplaced). Merely ship the precise hyperlink through Messages, Notes, Mail, AirDrop, and extra. They will should 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 accessible 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 how you can manually flip it off, learn our tutorial right here.