Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Let's take at what Apple redesigned for macOS Ventura.
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So in addition to adding new features and apps for macOS Ventura, Apple also redesigned some
parts of macOS. Now nowhere is this more apparent that the System Settings App. In
System Preferences in Monterey things looked pretty much like they have for years. But with
Ventura comes a complete redesign of this app and it is now called System Settings. You can see how
it looks very different with topics on the left, settings on the right, and I have a whole video
on what's changed between System Preferences and System Settings so I won't go into this too much.
But nowhere is this more apparent than if you look at someplace like Wallpaper which
is a whole new section here that used to be called Desktop Background and it used to be
combined with Screen Saver and it used to look very different than this. But all the
same functionality is there. It's just a new design. It's much more of a List View where
you can scroll through all of your options and all the controls are much more modern.
But besides System Settings what else has changed? Well, one of the things that you may notice if you
ever Print is when you go to File both Page Setup and Print are different. In Monterey Page Setup
looked like this. But now in Ventura it has a redesign. It looks like this. There's not that
much here in Page Setup in most cases so it is going to be pretty easy to make the adjustment.
Print, however, used to look like this in Monterey and it's looked pretty much the same for a long
time. But now in Ventura it looks like this. You could see here on the left you've got a List of
all of the pages that will print and the controls here to the right, they have a List View as well.
You've got the main settings here at the top. They don't scroll. You've got your Printer and your
Presets as before but now all of these controls scroll. So if you want to get to something you
may have to scroll down and then open up the section here to get to it. What's nice is it's
not hard to see what is there. For instance, a lot of times before I would tell people to
go to Layout and in Monterey and before you would actually have to choose from a
pop-up menu layout. You wouldn't see it there unless you knew which menu to activate to get
to it. But now you can see everything and if I say go to layout you can see where that is.
Another thing that has changed is the About This Mac window. Here's what it looked like in
Monterey. Now in Ventura it is simplified a little bit. You get the basic information there but you
don't really have much more you can do except go to More Info. More Info is going to take you
inside of Systems Settings. Notice how it launched System Settings here, into General, and into About
inside of General. This is where you'll continue to find more information and be able to get
details, be able to go to the Storage Manager here and get to the System Report. Note that you can
still choose the Apple Menu and hold the Option Key down to right to the System Information App.
Now depending upon what you do you may never have used the Font Book App on your Mac or
may use it all the time. Well, it finally gets a redesign. I don't know if it has been redesigned
since the earliest days macOS 10. So here is what it used to look like. But now it takes on
a much more modern appearance with a regular sidebar here on the left. Notice how you get
little previews of all the fonts in the list. So it is a little bit easier to choose a font
that you want to see. This is just the Grid View. If you go to List View you actually get a better
view of all the fonts and in some of these you can expand and see all the variations.
Now Spotlight kind of looks the same but there has been some fundamental design changes. Most
notably in Monterey and before if you would go to a file that you would find in the list
you could press Tab and get a preview of it right there in the Spotlight window. Now in
Spotlight you can't get a preview of a document inside the window. But as a replacement you can
now use Quick Look. So, I've selected this file here and the result, if I press the spacebar,
it opens up the Quick Look window. If you've grown used to seeing Previews inside Spotlight
you're probably not going to like this change. But if you're one of the people
that wanted to have Quick Look integrated with Spotlight then you're probably pretty happy.
Now Siri looks a little different as well. Results show up a little
differently. Like in Monterey this is what you would get as a result. Now in Ventura
(what's 6 X 9. it's 54). Also redesigned is the Share Sheet. So if you wanted to share a
webpage say here in Safari you would click the Share Button up here and you could see that it
looks a little different. It now has a little bubble shape instead of a menu shape. You also
get a list of people that you frequently share things with here so you can quickly
share it with them. This makes it work a lot more like Sharing in iOS. Here if I
want to share a file I can click there and you could see the new Share Sheet there as well.
So there's some design changes to look out for in macOS Ventura. Thanks for watching.