- Hey guys, it's Justine, and if you haven't heard,
Apple has announced a new version
of macOS called macOS Sonoma.
It's coming to an Apple computer near you this fall
but the public beta recently went live.
So, here we are.
We're gonna check it out right now.
Now there's a lot of new stuff.
Safari has new browsing and privacy features,
Messages has some good upgrades,
and there's some crazy new screensavers.
There's a high performance mode for screen sharing
as well as better experiences for Notes and PDFs.
But what's probably most exciting are the new features
for widgets, video conferencing, and gaming.
We're gonna go over all of that stuff in this video
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(somber music)
Anyway, moving on.
First, let's check out these new screensavers
because these are just so cool.
First of all, the login screen has been redesigned
with the date and display up on top.
So it kind of feels like your iPhone lock screen now.
So, you can see that they've moved the login experience
down to the bottom of the screen,
and this clears the frame to feature whatever screensaver
or wallpaper that you have.
So, these are the new screensavers.
They're actually slow motion videos of imagery
from different places around the world.
And then when you log in, the video just seamlessly settles
into the desktop wallpaper.
It's pretty cool.
I think I might stick with this Hawaii one.
Now, Safari has now introduced profiles
so you can separate your browsing into different topics.
You could have one profile for work,
one for browsing or one for gaming,
or even one for planning a trip.
Now, I really like this
because your profiles will have separate history,
cookies, extensions, and favorites,
and everything will go across all of your devices.
So, you'll see I have my two different profiles
that I have here.
So, I've got my home and my work.
So, right now, when you are viewing Safari,
you can tell where you're at in your profile.
So right here, we have work
and you can designate different colors.
So, easily be able to tell which profile you're in.
This is pretty cool.
Now on Sonoma, you can also use Safari to make web apps.
So with this, you can add your favorite websites
right into the doc, and when you launch one,
it's more of an app-like experience
with a simplified toolbar.
I'm a big fan of this feature.
Now, Messages, we covered a little bit in my iOS 17 video
so if you haven't seen that yet,
make sure to go check it out after this one.
But we're gonna take a look at Messages here
because I actually really use Messages on my Mac a lot.
So now what's really cool is all of the live stickers
that you make on your iPhone or your iPad,
you can use here on the Mac.
So this gives you the same little popup feature.
So, if I click into stickers,
you'll see the ones that I made,
and here we are, we're gonna send that to my sister, Jenna.
I think she'll enjoy it.
What's this one?
There we go. We sent her two stickers. (chuckles)
Love to see it.
Now, another Messages feature that I really like
is catch up.
So now you can easily jump to the top
of your unread messages in group chats.
Now, new in screen sharing,
there's a new high performance mode
that uses the media engine in Apple silicon
to make remote access super responsive
with low latency audio and high frame rates.
This is a professional level workflow
so if you're a creator or a video editor,
you can now access your content from anywhere,
and you could even use Final Cut Pro
or resolve to edit remotely with ultra high definition.
And this will give you a seamless workflow
from wherever you are.
This, of course, will require
a pretty fast internet connection and I'm pretty excited
because I do have two gig up, two gig down
so this could be my future.
Like, I definitely could see making a whole video about this
and incorporating some of this into my remote workflows.
Hmm.
Now in Notes and PDF, there is a new experience
for reading PDFs right inside of Notes.
You can just flip through the pages
and you can preview multiple PDFs inside the same notes.
And then when you're ready,
you can continue working on your note in Pages
just by going into the share menu.
All right, so now, onto the features
that we all want to know about.
You can now interact with widgets in macOS Sonoma,
and also place them right on the desktop.
You can even use widgets
from your iPhone on your Mac and vice versa.
You can actually interact with these widgets,
and they have the same larger widget design
that we have seen with the iPad OS.
I mean, this looks so slick.
Now when you wanna add a new widget,
and you just go into the newly redesigned library
and you can browse through your available widgets,
it's so nice.
These widgets will automatically adapt to your desktop.
The tint will change based off your background wallpaper,
and when you see them next to the files
the system will automatically shift stuff around
and make room on your desktop.
So, files and stacks wrap around the widgets
adapting to your available space.
Another thing that I'm very excited about
in the new macOS are the upgrades in video conferencing.
Unfortunately, I mean, it's just a part of life
at this point.
I do quite a few of conference calls every week
so these updates are pretty exciting.
There's now some system-wide improvements
to make video calls more functional and engaging.
So now when you're sharing your screen,
you can choose the new presenter overlay effect
and this will superpose you
over whatever content you're showing.
This is great because if you're on a big call
and someone is presenting,
you might not always know who is speaking
if you can't see them.
So, this lets you see the content
and the person at the same time.
There's also now some animated reactions
for video calls as well.
So, without interrupting, you can send a heart
or a thumbs up just by doing some hand gestures.
Now I like this because a lot of time on Twitter spaces,
I love to feel like I'm interacting
and giving kind of, like, a little part
or a little shout out here,
and it's represented by a digital graphic.
So the fact that you can now kind of do this on video calls,
I'm so excited.
I do feel like these have taken it to a whole another level
'cause it basically is a whole animated screen
but I love it.
And now the moment that you've all been waiting for
or maybe I'm the only one that's waiting for it
because I just wanna play video games on my Mac.
macOS Sonoma now has a dedicated game mode
that will optimize your Mac
for high performance gaming experience.
So, this basically gives games
the highest priority on the CPU and GPU
and gives less bandwidth to your background tasks
enabling smooth, consistent frame rates.
They've also drastically lowered the latency
when gaming with AirPods, which I'm pretty excited about.
And they lower the input latency for game controllers
by doubling the Bluetooth sampling rate.
So if you've ever played any video games before
on wireless devices like a controller or Bluetooth headsets,
the more noticeable that lag is
the less immersive your gaming experience is.
Now this will work with any game
and they're adding a bunch of new and upcoming ones as well.
So, that my friends is some of the top features
in macOS Sonoma.
I'm definitely excited to try this out.
I know when most of these OSs come out,
I do tend to wait a few months
because I wanna make sure that all of my editing plugins
are updated and if I'm editing and I don't have them
and they're not updated, I usually do wait a little while.
But man, it's been so fun testing this out
and I can't wait to actually use it.
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