Apple macOS Sequoia Product User Guide

September 19, 2024
Apple

 Apple macOS Sequoia Product

Product Information

Specifications

  • Product Name: macOS Sequoia
  • Main Features: Apple Intelligence, Writing Tools, Image Playground
  • Compatibility: macOS operating system
  • Additional Features: Style Rewrite, Proofread, Summarize, Describe, Compose, Quick Previews, Preview History

Product Usage Instructions

Writing Tools
The Writing Tools feature in macOS Sequoia offers various functionalities to enhance your writing experience:

  • Rewrite: Create multiple versions of your text, swap options, and continue refining.
  • Style Rewrite: Rewrite your text in different styles like professional or friendly.
  • Proofread: View suggested improvements, accept suggestions, and understand changes.
  • Summarize: Generate high-quality summaries from selected text.
  • Describe: Specify changes you want to make to your text, such as simplifying vocabulary.
  • Compose: Ask ChatGPT to create original content or add images alongside your text.

Image Playground
Image Playground is a feature that allows you to create and experiment with images:

  • Create Images: Choose from concepts, people, characters, photos, and text to create unique images.
  • Suggested Concepts: Intelligent suggestions based on previous selections or context.
  • Quick Previews: Preview concepts and save detailed versions to the Image Lab library.
  • Image Playground Library: Save images to the library synced across devices for easy sharing and remixing.

FAQ

Q: Can I access my Image Playground library from multiple devices?
A: Yes, images created in Image Playground are saved to your library and synced across devices using iCloud.

Q: How can I generate a summary using Writing Tools?
A: Simply select the text you want to summarize and use the ‘Summarize’ function to generate a concise summary.

Writing Tools

  • Rewrite
    Create multiple versions of your text that maintain your tone. Easily swap in an option you prefer and continue writing or refining, or go right back to your original.

  • Style
    Rewrite your text in a new style, such as “professional,” “concise,” or “friendly.”

  • Proofread
    View suggested improvements to what you’re writing, like grammar fixes and language refinements. Quickly accept all suggestions with a click or view the explanations to better understand the changes and accept the ones you want.

  • Summarize
    Select text wherever you’re writing and generate a high-quality summary. Summarize content of all kinds like documents, articles, or communications to quickly understand the important points.

  • Describe
    The text field in Writing Tools lets you describe a more specific change you want to make to your text. Make it read like a poem, simplify the vocabulary, or even turn it into a formal letter.

  • Compose
    Ask ChatGPT to create original content from scratch. You can also use ChatGPT’s image generation capabilities to add images alongside your written content.

  • Image Playground

  • Image Playground app
    Have fun and experiment with all the features of Image Playground in a new app. You can easily create new images, access all the images you’ve previously created, remix previous images and share your creations with friends and family using your favorite social and communication apps.

  • Create Images with Concepts
    Choose from a range of concepts to add to your playground from categories like themes, costumes, accessories, and places.

  • Create Images with People You Know
    Create an image of your friend on the moon or a family member on a surfboard with Image Playground thanks to Apple Intelligence’s understanding of people inyour photo library.

  • Create Images with Characters
    Easily define a character to add to your images in Image Playground by choosing their gender and skin tone, and by providing a short description.

  • Create Images with Photos
    Create images inspired by a photo by taking one, selecting one from your photo library, or dragging one into Image Playground.

  • Create Images with Text
    When you want to create a more specific image, you can add descriptions to your playground to shape the images you create.

  • Suggested Concepts
    Image Playground offers intelligent suggestions to add to your image that are related to previous concepts you selected, the context of a messages thread in Messages, or your notes in the Notes app

  • Quick Previews
    Quickly see a selection of previews as you add concepts, and choose the one you like to create with more detail and at a higher resolution and save it to your Image Lab library.

  • Preview History
    Freely experiment with different concepts without worrying about losing any previous previews you liked. When you remove a concept you previously added, Image Playground remembers what previews were created before you added it and can quickly bring them back for you.

  • Image Playground library
    When you create an image, it’s saved to your Image Playground library and synced across your devices with iCloud. You can access your library from Messages to easily share your creations, and you can revisit and remix your images in Image Playground as well.

  • Animation style
    Create fantastical creatures, expressive animals, exaggerated human figures, and more, all against immersive and detailed environments with rich textures using a modern, 3D-animated style.

  • Illustration style
    Create uplifting and playful compositions with stylized and exaggerated characters against minimal backgrounds using a contemporary illustration style defined by simple shapes, clean lines, and flat color blocking with a diverse color palette.

  • Sketch style
    Produce delightful drawings perfect for Notes using an academic and highly detailed sketch style with vibrant colors and a technical line style.

  • Messages experience
    Create a fun image to share with friends using the new experience in Messages. When you first open Image Playground in Messages, it will suggest concepts related to your most recent conversation. You can also create a new image from scratch, or just select one of your previously created images from your Image Playground library.

  • Deep integrations
    Create images in Notes, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and Freeform to elevate your documents, spreadsheets, presentations, or boards with delightful images.

Siri

  • Personal context understanding
    With the on-device semantic index provided by Apple Intelligence, Siri can understand emails, messages, photos, calendar events, files, and more, and can provide answers to questions that are personal to you. For example, when you say “What was that movie that Jamie told me I should check out?” Siri will dig up the message from last week. When you’re filling out a form and say  “Add my passport number here,” Sirican extracts the number from a saved photo of your passport and drops it in.

  • In-app actions
    Siri can take hundreds of new actions on your behalf, in both first- and third-party apps. The next time you’re editing photos, you’ll be able to say “Make this photo warmer,” and Siri will make adjustments using the Photos app. Siri can take actions across apps too, so after you’re done editing that photo, say “Add this to my ratatouille recipe note” and Siri will jump from the Photos app to the Notes app to take care of it.

  • Onscreen awareness
    Siri will be able to understand and take action with things on your screen, so when a friend texts you recommending a new coffee shop in the neighborhood, you can simply say “How long would it take me to walk there from home?” and Siri will understand just what you mean. More resilient request handlingIf you stumble over your words or change your mind mid-sentence, Siri will still follow along. For example, you might say “Siri, set an alarm—wait no, sorry, I meant a timer for 10 minutes—actually, let’s make that 15.”

  • Maintains conversational context
    Siri remembers what you talked about in recent requests, so if you ask when the Warriors are playing next and then say “Add that to my calendar,” Siri will know just what you mean.

  • Product knowledge
    Siri can answer thousands of questions about the features and settings on your Apple products by drawing on large language models that are trained on Apple support documentation.

  • Type to Siri
    You now have the option to type to Siri at any time, and you can ask Siri all the same things by text as you can ask by voice. You can switch fluidly between text and voice, so you can communicate in whatever way feels right for the moment.

  • Predictive text in Siri keyboard
    As you type a request to Siri, you’ll see predictive text that helps you complete your request faster. This predictive text model is designed specifically to help accelerate Siri requests.

  • Suggestions for Siri keyboard
    Suggested requests appear below the keyboard as you type, giving you ultrafast access to actions that Siri can help you with.

  • More natural voice
    Siri sounds more natural, expressive, and clear, and is now synthesized entirely on the device by Apple Intelligence’s new language models.

  • ChatGPT integration
    Siri can tap into ChatGPT to help you with certain requests when it determines ChatGPT can provide a helpful answer. You can also ask questions about photos and documents including PDFs and presentations. You will be asked before requests or information are sent to ChatGPT. Siri then presents you with the answer directly.

Focus

  • Reduce interruptions
    Focus understands the content of your notifications and selectively surfaces only the ones that might need immediate attention, like a text about today’s daycare pickup or a last-minute invite to dinner tonight.

  • Intelligent Breakthrough & Silencing
    Your Mac will determine if a notification is important enough to break through with the Intelligent Breakthrough & Silencing option. It can be turned on for any Focus mode, so you don’t miss your food delivery when you’re in Do Not Disturb.

Genmoji

  • Genmoji
    Generate unique, emoji-style stickers right from the keyboard. In the sticker creator, just type what you want to create, like “dog on a surfboard,” and see your creation appear in seconds.

Mail

  • Priority messages
    Know what to prioritize as soon as you open Mail with priority messages at the top of your inbox that are based on what’s most urgent.
    Preview summaries
    Know the key information before you even open the thread with summaries that appear in the email preview instead of the first few lines of that email.
    Thread summaries
    When you open an email thread, click to see a detailed summary that helps you get the gist of a lengthy email or several emails in the same thread.
    Smart Reply
    Based on the content of the email you received, Mail will show you smartoptionso to quickly choose from that add detail to the reply, like answering specific questions you were asked. When you make your selections, your Smart Reply incorporates your choices into the generated draft so it’s ready to send.

Messages

  • Smart Reply
    Quickly respond to messages with generated options that appear right in the prediction bar when you click the text field to respond. Messages will understand the content of the conversation and offer options that are relevant to the context.

  • Summaries
    Previews of messages in your conversation list will show summaries instead of the beginning of your most recent messages, so at a glance you know the key information before you even open the chat.

Notes

  • Transcription summaries
    Get an intelligently created summary of key points from your audio recording, so you can review what happened without going through the entire transcript.

Notifications

  • Priority notifications
    Immediately see the things that may require your attention, like a work message about a deliverable due that day, with priority notifications that are based on what’s most urgent and appear at the top of your notifications.

  • Notification summaries
    Multiple notifications from a single app are grouped in a stack with a glanceable summary on top that lets you know the most important information. For many communication apps like Mail and Messages, the content of your notifications will be summarized so you can get all the key information without clicking the notification to open the app.

  • Announce Notifications support
    Announce Notifications can read aloud your notification summaries when using AirPods or CarPlay.

Photos

  • Natural language photo and video search
    Search now supports natural language queries and expanded understanding,  o you can search for just what you mean, like “fluffy white dog on a green couch.” You can also search for an action that happened within a video, and Photos will take you to the correct segment.

  • Create your Memories.
    Create a memory about the specific story you want to see, just by typing a description. Photos write a storyline, complete with unique chapters, and select a great set of photos and videos to create your movie, complete with a perfectly paired song.

  • Clean Up tool2
    Remove distracting elements from your photos with the Clean Up tool for those times when an unwanted object spoils the moment.

Key features

Continuity

  • iPhone Mirroring3
    Control and interact with your iPhone by mirroring its screen to your Mac using the new iPhone Mirroring app. Fully engage with your iPhone and its apps, all wirelessly. You can browse your iPhone Home Screen, launch apps, and interact with them as if you had your phone in yourhand.

  • Works with StandBy
    Access your iPhone’s apps and notifications while your phone continues to give you glanceable information with StandBy.

  • Control your iPhone with your trackpad.
    Two-finger gestures on the trackpad of your Mac let you control your iPhone, so it’s easy to swipe on your Home Screen, pinch to zoom on a photo, or scroll through your social media feed.

  • **Drag and drop files***
    Quickly transfer files between your Mac and iPhone just by dragging photos and other files using iPhone Mirroring.

  • iPhone Notifications on Mac
    View and interact with your iPhone notifications, without needing to reach for your phone. iOS notifications appear on your Mac desktop and in the Notification Center. Interact with them using quick replies, or launch into the app using iPhone Mirroring.

  • Edit Home Screen
    Access Jiggle mode on the Home Screen to re-arrange app icons, delete apps, or add and edit Widgets.

Easier Window Tiling

  • Tiling and resizing Arrange your windows even more easily. Drag them to the edge of the screen and macOS automatically suggests a tiled position on your desktop. Quickly place tiles side-by-side, or place them into corners to keep even more apps in your view. It’s easy to resize two adjacent timeless when you create your ideal arrangement.

  • Tiled window menu options
    Arrange your windows quickly by selecting from various tiling options using the green button at the top left of each window, or from the menu bar.

  • Keyboard shortcuts
    Arrange your tiled windows even faster with keyboard shortcuts. You can also hold down the Option key while dragging a window to preview various tiling positions.

  • Supports multiple displays
    Move window tiles freely between multiple displays. macOS will suggest a tiled position when you drag a window and pause next to the edge between both displays.

Video conferencing

  • Presenter preview
    Know exactly what you are going to share before displaying it to everyone. The presenter preview appears when you share your screen on a video conference or connect to an external monitor or display. It lets you pick just an app to share or your whole screen. Picking just an app means things like notifications or background windows from other apps won’t be seen.

  • Play preview
    Clicking Play in Keynote (or supported third-party apps) gives you a preview of where your content and presenter notes will be, ensuring you get the right content on the right screen.

  • New features available with macOS Sequoia 8

  • Background replacement
    Replace your background during a video call. Choose from a variety of color gradients and system wallpapers—or pick your favorite image. Background replacements use Apple industry-leading segmentation so you look your best when on a call.

Safari

  • Highlights5
    Discover helpful information about a webpage, like a summary, a location, a person, music, movies, and TV shows.

  • Location highlights6
    Check the location and get directions and phone numbers to a restaurant, hotel, or landmark from a location highlight.

  • Summary highlights
    Review a summary of an article before reading it with a summary highlight.

  • Music highlights
    Listen to an artist’s song or album in your favorite streaming app from a music highlight.

  • Movie or TV show highlights
    Check out a movie or TV show from a movie or TV show highlight. Person highlights Learn more about someone featured on a web page from a person highlight.

  • Viewer
    Dim the rest of the page around a video to watch without distractions. You still have full access to system playback controls and video automatically moves into Picture in Picture when you click away from the page.

  • Redesigned Reader5,6
    Reader offers even more ways to enjoy articles with a streamlined view of the article you’re reading, a summary, and a table of contents for longer articles.

  • Distraction Control
    Hide items on a web page that you find distracting. You can easily revert the changes later if you change your mind.

Passwords

  • app
    See all your passwords, passkeys, verification codes, and Wi-Fi passwords, and Sign in with Apple credentials for websites and apps in one place.

  • Passwords and passkeys
    Easily save your passwords and passkey and autofill them into websites and apps, either by saving them during account creation or manually adding them later.

  • Sign in with Apple
    See what apps and websites you’ve used Sign in with Apple or Hide My Email to sign in. You can also now add Sign in with Apple credentials to shared password groups.

  • Wi-Fi passwords
    Access Wi-Fi passwords you’ve saved so you can easily refer to them or share them with others.

  • Verifications codes
    Set up two-factor verification codes right in Passwords and easily copy them or autofill them into Safari without even opening the app.

  • Sorting
    Sort accounts alphabetically, or by recently created, to quickly find the accounts you’re looking for. New features available with macOS Sequoia 9

  • Syncing
    Your accounts saved in Passwords sync seamlessly with iCloud so you can access them on your other Apple devices. End-to-end encryption iCloud syncing is backed by incredibly

  • secure end-to-end encryption.
    Windows support Access your passwords on Windows in the iCloud Passwords app.

Gaming

  • Game Mode improvements4
    Provides a more immersive gaming experience by improving the responsiveness with wireless accessories and minimizing background activity even further to sustain the highest frame rates.

Messages

  • Text effects Add dynamic, animated effects like Explode or Ripple to any letter, word, or phrase in iMessage to bring your conversations to life.

  • Text formatting
    Add text formatting like bold, underline, italics, and strikethrough to any letter, word, or phrase in iMessage to better express your tone.

  • Emoji and sticker Tapbacks
    Tapback with any emoji or sticker, giving you infinite ways to react to a message. Multiple Tapbacks on a single bubble are spread out to let you better view the three most recently added.

  • Send Later
    Compose a message now and schedule it to be sent later for the times when it’s late and you don’t want a message to be sent until the morning, or when you don’t want to forget to celebrate an important birthday or other milestone.

  • Low-Quality Image Mode improvements
    Send images in Messages at their original size or compressed with minimal quality loss while in Low-Quality Image Mode. High-quality Images Send most images up to 100MB at full resolution over Message, depending on device and network conditions.

Maps

  • Hiking and walking
    Maps brings all-new topographic maps, curated hikes, and route creation to make it easy for you to adventure using Maps.

  • Topographic maps7
    Explore stunning topographic maps with contour lines, hill shading, hiking trails, and more.

  • Hikes6
    Browse a selection of thousands of hikes available across all U.S. national parks. Save them to your device and access them when you’re in the park. Create and save walking and hiking

  • routes
    Easily create custom walking and hiking routes with just a few clicks. Save your custom routes so you can easily access them later. You can create custom routes for hikes in the park, regular exercise routines in your neighborhood, walking tours while on vacation, and more.

  • New features available with macOS Sequoia 10

  • Discover and save places
    Quickly discover and compare places by browsing photos, ratings, price levels, and more, all without leaving a search. Easily save places with just a click, and add a note on what you want to remember about a place or why you like it. Easily access all your saved places, guides, and hiking routes in the all-new Places Library.

Notes

  • Audio recording
    Record audio sessions right from your notes, and keep them with related comments, checklists, and documents. You can even edit your notes while recording, so you’re always able to jot down something important.

  • Live transcription1
    Get a live transcription of audio in a conversation or lecture from your recordings. Transcript text stays in sync with your audio, so it’s quick to scrub through a transcript to find just the moment you’re looking for in a recording. Transcripts are also searchable, so you can always find what you need.

  • Math in Notes
    Enter formulas and equations while typing to have them solved instantly in your note body.

  • Collapsible sections
    Clean up long notes by hiding text under new collapsible section headers.0

  • Highlighting
    Make text in your note stand out using highlighting with five different color options.

  • PDF inline search
    Find words in PDFs and document scans with an improved search experience that takes you to what you’re looking for within the document.

AirPods

  • Siri Interactions
    Respond to Siri announcements with AirPods by simply nodding your head yes or shaking your head no.

  • Voice Isolation
    For the best call quality with AirPods, Voice Isolation enables you to take calls anywhere—even in windy conditions or places with loud background noise. Personalized Spatial Audio for gaming8 Personalized Spatial Audio for gaming puts you in the middle of the action like never before with a new API that makes it easy for developers to deliver the most immersive audio experience with AirPods.

  • Reduced gaming audio latency9
    To make sure you get the edge over the competition, AirPods Pro now delivers the best wireless audio latency for mobile gaming Apple has ever delivered.

  • In-game voice quality9
    For high-quality in-game audio, quality is now leveled up to 13 bits, 48 kHz, while streaming or chatting with friends while gaming.

Even More

Accessibility

  • Vocal Shortcuts4
    Create custom utterances to activate shortcuts and complete tasks on Mac like taking a screenshot or checking the Weather forecast.

  • Cochlear implant support
    You can new use even more Made for iPhone hearing devices with outstanding quality, including cochlear implants. It is easy to set up and can be used like any other Bluetooth device.

Apple Account

  • Share Sign-in with Apple credentials.
    Share access to your Sign in with Apple credentials with trusted friends and family members in the new Passwords app. This makes it easy to share the credentials just once, similar to setting up a shared family password list.

Apple TV

  • app InSight10
    See real-time actor and music information that complements the action onscreen, while enjoying Apple TV+ Original movies and shows. Select an actor to learn more about them or easily add a song to an Apple Music playlist.

  • More dynamic subtitles11
    Subtitles will automatically appear at just the right times, like when the content language doesn’t match your device language when you mute the audio, or when you skip back while watching a program.

  • Calculator

  • Math Notes12
    Open your Math Notes in the Notes app right from Calculator to simply type out and evaluate expressions.

  • Typed math
    Type out mathematical expressions in Math Notes, and see them instantly solved right inline.

  • Variables13
    Easily assign values to variables and then use those variables in expressions you solve. For example, you can assign “x=7” and then type “x + 20 =“ to get an answer.

  • Adjust numbers
    Quickly adjust any number you type in Math Notes by hovering your cursor over it and then dragging across the slider to increase or decrease it. You’ll see the number and related equations and graphs updated in real time.

  • Math Results
    Type out a mathematical expression in apps like Messages and Mail, and you’ll see Math Results as suggestions so you can easily add them in.

  • Editable expressions
    Enter an expression in the basic and scientific calculators, and you’ll see the full expression before you solve it. You can also easily delete characters with the backspace button.

  • History
    Keep track of previous calculations in the basic and scientific calculators, copy their results to use in other apps, and click the results to go back to keep working on them.

  • Unit conversions
    Convert length, weight, currencies, and more while using the basic and scientific calculators, or convert typed units usin..

  • Math Notes.
    New features available with macOS Sequoia 12

  • View reminders in the Calendar
    Stay organized and view all your scheduled reminders from the Reminders app right in Calendar along with all your other events.

  • Edit reminders in Calendar.
    Mark reminders as complete from the Calendar as you move through your day, move them to schedule them for a different date or time, or even edit all their details.

  • Create reminders in Calendar. . Create scheduled reminders right from the Calendar just like you would create an event. This makes it easy to separate events from tasks and keep your tasks synced to the Reminders app. Refreshed look

  • Updates to typography and consistent
    event details across Day, Week, and Month views make your events easier to read.

Family Sharing

  • Family Sharing Invitations Now it’s even easier to accept an invitation to join a Family Sharing group. As soon as you’re invited, the invitation will appear at the top of Settings. Plus, family organizers can immediately see who’s accepted and easily send a reminder or follow-up to those who haven’t.
  • Recommended for your family
    Quickly and easily set up new items for your family like a shared calendar, grocery list, and password list. Once created, everyone in the family can contribute to the shared items, making it easy to keep the entire family in the loop.

Finder

  • Finder Integration for Cloud File Providers
    A new API for cloud file providers allows them to integrate with Finder to sync Desktop and Documents to the cloud.

  • Keep downloaded
    Choose the iCloud files you always want access to on your device. Changes you make to your file while offline will sync with iCloud whenever you are back online.

Freeform

  • Scenes
    Create scenes to organize sections of a board by topic or to make it easy to present your content by moving around quickly.

  • Send a copy
    Share your ideas with as many people as you want by sending a copy with a link that anyone can use to open the board on their device.

  • Snap to Grid
    Align content on your board precisely with Snap to Grid.

  • Handwriting recognition
    Handwritten text on your board can be searched, translated, and copied as text.

  • Improved diagramming
    Join objects together with magnetic connection lines that can be anchored anywhere, making it easier to create diagrams and relate your ideas.

  • Board navigation
    Easily pan around your board by clicking and dragging on the canvas while the spacebar is pressed.

  • New features available with macOS Sequoia 13

Home

  • Guest access14
    Provide time-based access to locks, garage doors, and alarm systems for up to 29 guests in the Home app. Guest activity will be logged into Activity History, displaying up to 30 days of activity including time, the accessory used, and the name of the person, if applicable. Pair Matter accessories without a hub15 Add and locally control Wi-Fi-based d\ Matter accessories to the Home app without needing a home hub.

  • Control robot vacuum cleaners in the

  • **Home app***
    Robot vacuum cleaners can participate in automation and scenes and listen to Siri requests, just like other accessories in your home. Matter-compatible robot vacuum cleaners can be controlled in the Home app.

  • Electricity usage and rates16
    Easily access and understand your home electricity information right from the Home app. Eligible Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers can connect their utility accounts to the Home app to view their electricity usage and rate plan information.

iCloud

  • Settings redesign
    iCloud settings have been redesigned to make it easy to see how iCloud keeps content from across your device backed up and synced. Quickly see if your apps are syncing to iCloud, enable premium features, customize your experience, and take action on personalized recommendations.

Keyboard

  • Unified picker
    The emoji keyboard and sticker drawer are combined into a unified picker, making it even easier to find just what you’re looking for.

  • Inline stickers and Memoji
    Stickers and Memoji can be inserted inline with text, just like emoji.

  • Searchable stickers
    In addition to emoji, stickers are also now searchable in the unified picker.

Photos

  • Collections
    Your library is automatically organized into helpful new collections of photos so you can browse and find content in your library by themes—without having to organize your entire library into albums.

  • Recent Days
    View your recent events and activities without the clutter, so you can easily show friends the photos from last Sunday’s epic ride—and easily share the photos.

  • Groups in People & Pets
    People & Pets now includes groups of your favorite people, like you with your partner, you and your pet, or you with your best friends.

  • Trips
    Trips organize your adventures in one place, so you can relive your travels. Quickly jump to a specific year to see your trips from that year.

  • Collection view options
    There are multiple options to view and enjoy each group of photos—in a beautiful editorial view, in a grid, as a memory, or on a map.

  • Album attribution
    View which custom albums a photo has been added to in the Info pane. New features available with macOS Sequoia 14

  • Smart copy and paste edits
    Edit similar images quickly by choosing whether to include the crop aspect ratio and match exposure and white balance across photos when copying and pasting edits.

  • Video speed control Adjust the playback speed of high frame rate video for cinematic and dramatic low effects.

  • Create your Memories.
    Create a memory about the specific story you want to see, just by typing the ad description. Photos write a storyline, complete with unique chapters, elect a great set of photos and videos to create your movie, complete with a perfectly paired song.

  • Creative stories
    Photos create a montage with unique chapters for you, in addition to chronological stories. It picks out the best photos and videos and arranges them into chapters that match the story arc. Lastly, it even picks out a great title and song to match.

  • Smart suggestions
    Don’t worry about writer’s block—you can start with a suggestion provided by Photos based on recent events, trips, and people that you’ve photographed.

  • Featured photos
    photos surface the best content from our library for you to enjoy. Podcasts Share from transcripts Share a link to a specific time from the transcript.

Privacy & Security

  • Redesigned Privacy & Security settings
    More easily manage how much information you are sharing with apps. Each data type ow shows how many apps are accessing that data, making it easier for you to find here you are sharing themost informationn with apps. Blocking sensitive content for children Communication Safety will require a Screen Time password for children to view or send sensitive content.

Reminders

  • Calendar integration
    Your scheduled reminders now show in the Calendar app alongside your events. You can even create and edit your reminders directly from Calendar, and they sync right back to your Reminders lists.

  • Recently deleted list
    Your deleted reminders stay in a recently deleted section for easy reference or retrieval.

  • Subtasks in Smart Lists
    Your subtasks are now available in Today, Scheduled, and other Smart Lists for quick reference. Multilanguage grocery lists Enable other languages to categorize your grocery lists from Reminders settings. Tips Tips app in macOS See user guides and collections of tips that help you get the most from your Mac.

Tips

  • sharing
    Share helpful hints and hidden gems with others from the Tips app.

  • New features available with macOS Sequoia 15

Translate

  • AirPods in conversations
    Get in-ear translations that come through your device microphone and respond with your AirPods microphones so the other person can hear the translated output from the device speaker.

  • New language
    Support for Hindi in Translate, systemwide translation, and Safari web page translation.


Wallet

  • Apple Pay on Chrome and Windows
    Enable Apple Pay as a payment option for online transactions on third-party browsers and Windows PCs.

Weather

  • Easier-to-find Feels Like temperature Prepare for outdoor conditions more efficiently with a more prominently displayed Feels Like temperature. Feels Like appears near the actual temperature when they differ significantly, and their detail views are merged so you can compare them more easily.

  • Home and work locations
    Your home and work locations from Contacts are brought into Weather. You can search for them and add them to your list.

  • Prominent wind gusts and direction
    Conveniently learn about windy conditions with wind speed, gusts, and direction.

Coming in an update later this year.

  1. Available on Mac computers with Apple silicon in English (Australia), English (Canada), English (Ireland), English (New Zealand), English (South Africa), English (United Kingdom), and English (United States).
  2.  Clean Up will be available in beta on iPhone 15 Pro and later models, iPad with M1 and later, and Mac computers with Apple silicon as part of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia this fall.
  3. Available on Mac computers with Apple silicon or Intel Mac computers with a T2 Security Chip when your iPhone and Mac are signed in with the same Apple ID using two-factor authentication, your iPhone and Mac are near to each other and have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi turned on, and your Mac is not using AirPlay or Sidecar. Not currently available in the European Union.
  4. Available on Mac computers with Apple silicon.
  5. Available in English (United States).
  6. Available in the United States.
  7. Available in the United States and Japan.
  8. Available on AirPods (3rd generation), AirPods Pro, and AirPods Max.
  9. Available on AirPods Pro (2nd generation and later).
  10. Available with an Apple TV+ subscription. Title support subject to change.
  11. Available with compatible content in supported apps.
  12. Available for math written using Western Arabic numerals and common mathematical symbols, or typed using Arabic (Eastern and Western) and Devanagari numerals and common mathematical symbols.
  13. Available with variables created using the Latin alphabet.
  14. available with a home hub, such as Apple TV or HomePod. Setting a schedule for guest access via hands-free unlock with home keys, tap-to-unlock with home keys, or PIN codes requires a Matter lock that support schedules.
  15. vailable on a Thread-enabled home hub such as Apple TV 4K, HomePod (2nd generation), HomePod mini, or a compatible third-party Thread border router. Thread-enabled devices are able to locally pair and manage Thread accessories, which may require an update from the accessory manufacturer.
  16. Eligible users include Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers who have residential electrical service, including areas served by community choice aggregators. Users must be the utility account owner or authorized user of the utility account

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