Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and today apple released mac os big sur 11.3 to the public
this is available to all mac os big sur supported devices and is available around the world at the
same time now as you can see it was 5.71 gigabytes that's on my mac pro it can vary from about two to
three gigabytes all the way up to 12 gigabytes depending on the version you're coming from
if you're on mac os big sur 11.3 betas or release candidate the release candidate is the exact same
version as this version uninstall your beta profile or beta install profile and you'll
be able to just have the normal version there will be no update for you let's go ahead and close this
we'll take a look at the build number and then talk about what's new so we'll go to the apple
in the upper left then go to about this mac and as you can see it says mac os big sur version 11.3
if we click on it you'll see it says 20232 this is the current version of macos that's available now
now if you're not seeing the update you can go to software update here
you can also go to software update in your system preferences and then by clicking on
software update it will check for a new update if it's not showing up click on advanced click ok and
check again it will generally show up after maybe a couple tries if it doesn't show up initially
now this update has a few significant changes in it actually quite a few changes in it and this was
released along ios 14.5 ipad os 14.5 tv os 14.5 and watch os 7.4 and also homepod os 14.5 a lot
of updates came out at the same time now the first change here is if we click on the service tab at
the top and i got to this again by going to apple and then about this mac click on service and under
service if you don't already have apple care plus you'll have the option to subscribe to it or add
it to your mac once you've added it to your mac it tells you when it expires in my case it's december
15 2022 and then you can get support and see details it gives you all of your information here
they've changed this around compared to previous versions for example so it's just a little bit
different here now if we close this one of the first options or first changes they've made is
if you have a homepods mini or homepod mini click on the little icon here you can see that it says
officedesk and that's because i have two homepod minis in stereo pairs so you can now use this as
an audio source it is a little bit laggy if you were to watch a youtube video for example it sort
of lags behind but once it's playing it's just fine so you can't use it to edit a video but it is
a nice option to listen to audio through so it's there if you have a stereo pair of homepod minis
now the next thing is apple has updated mac os 11.3 to support air tags the new air tags that
were announced now work if we go to find my you'll now have a new tag that says items in find my
and if you've added air tags to your iphone for example they'll show up here you'll see it says
keep track of your everyday items add accessories or other items that are compatible with find my
and they will appear here so if you have those items they'll show up here as well as third-party
items such as maybe a bicycle that supports find my so third-party developers or creators can make
different products that support this as well so that's available in find mine we'll go ahead and
close that and there's some additional updates specific to the m1 max so we'll talk about those
and then talk about everything else as well now as you can see i'm on the m1 macbook air and
one thing all of the new m1 versions of macbooks get or mac mini is a hibernation mode to save more
power so that's something they've added in this update now additionally on this update if you're
using iphone or ipad apps which you can do only on m1 max there's some new options so if we go
into launch pad glo go to this one in particular we'll just open it up since i know it works wait
for it just a moment and if we go in the upper left click on modern ops click on preferences
we'll open up preferences and you'll see we have some new options so we now have the option to make
the window size smaller or larger we also have touch alternatives so we can use the the keyboard
for things like the controller for example or just sort of motion control using your trackpad if you
have one of those and you also have the option for game control again you can assign your game
controls to different locations on the keyboard so as you can see here we have x y r 1 b for example
assigned to different keys on the keyboard and then you can use the trackpad so you have that
option on the new m1 specifically nothing else so you have all of those now we also have the option
to make an iphone or ipad app full screen so if i go into overcast for example we have sort of the
ipad version we can click on this button here and make it full screen if we want to do that that's
a new option in here as well specific to the m1 style max now just like ios 14.5 if we go into
messages we have new emoji this is to comply with the new unicode 13.1 standard there's a total of
217 new emoji you can see some of them here head in the clouds hard on fire and apple specifically
says that there's support for separate skin tones for each individual and all variations
of the couple kissing emoji and couple with heart emoji also there's new face emojis heart emojis
women with a beard emoji so that's specifically what they say as well as you can see there's a
syringe and headphones now look like airpods max so those have all been added that's just
to comply to the unicode standard that's available on other devices as well that are not ios or mac
so we'll close this and there's some new additions to siri if we go to system preferences
and then we click on siri under siri we now have four different voices you'll see if we go
to voice one i'll have you hear each one of them hi i'm siri choose the voice you'd like me to use
hi i'm siri choose the voice you'd like me to use hi i'm siri choose the voice you'd like me to use
hi i'm siri choose the voice you'd like me to use so that has been added to this particular version
and you can also have it listen to hey on the headphones and respond to phone calls coming in
using siri as well so they've added all of those and it will not default to one of these voices
upon startup as long as you're not signed into an apple id if you're signed into an apple id it will
remember what you selected previously now another change they've added has to do with the new imacs
they announced now you can't see this specifically right away you have to add it if you don't have an
imac and i'll leave instructions on how to do that in the description below but if you go to desktop
and screen saver click on cr screen saver there's now a new hello screen saver and there's some
options here so if we go to screen saver options you can see soft tones spectrum minimal or all
and it says show hello in all languages and match system appearance so that's something new you'll
see there's all the different colors there as well so that's a new option within screen savers
but again you have to add this if you don't have a new imac now apple music gets some updates so
we'll go into music and mostly we'll click ok on this i have the volume turned down and something
they've done is make it more consistent with ios for example so if we go into this album here and
maybe we'll play this song here and we'll click on the the three dot menu in the upper right you can
see playing next we now have the infinity symbol for autoplay it will keep playing similar songs
and just keep going as you're listening to music that's similar to it so it will pick the next song
and just keep going until you tell it to stop so that's something new similar to what we have on
iphone for example now another change they've made has to do with city charts if we go to browse you
can see these here chart toppers in cities around the world so you've got new york city los angeles
miami houston san juan and we'll just keep going all the way over to berlin barcelona for example
you have all of these options and there's even more from around the world so this is something
new within apple music again they've added things to make this a little bit more consistent with
different icons for different songs you might want to download so you have new download symbols
a similar menu to what you have on iphone for example it's just very consistent across
everything and the same thing carries across to podcasts you'll see podcast is loading here if
we go to browse we'll wait for it to load and you have just a slight redesign if we go to listen now
maybe go to this podcast the show page is a little bit different they've redesigned the overall show
page to make it a little bit easier to see and easier to follow along so that's something they've
done also you have options to save and download episodes automatically after adding them to your
library so maybe you're following someone if you go to podcasts and then preferences you can now
download episodes when saving automatically delete played episodes and you also have the option to
hide played episodes if you don't want them to show up so they've updated some of that as well
as automatic downloads under general as well so all of these things are available within podcasts
i think it's very helpful as apple is adding subscriptions to podcasts as well
we haven't seen that turned on just yet but that is something coming soon also there's
top charts as well so this is new there's top charts for all the different categories
and if we go to search we now have categories as well so there's they're in rectangles again
very similar to what we have on ios now if you go into the podcast app so you can go into comedy for
example and see all the comedy podcasts they're just making it a little bit easier to navigate
and again adding consistency if we go into news there's some updates if you have news plus as well
so if we go to news plus for example under news plus they've redesigned the overall look of it
and it just makes it a little bit easier to find things that you've subscribed to such as magazines
or newspapers and your downloads for example so it makes that a little bit easier to browse
and then you've got some options in the upper right for sorting so those things are new here
also if you go to search you can now search by category or interest so i use the same example
in the ios video i did but if i search for cars you now have that as a topic you can search it
will find anything related to cars in both news and magazines as well you could search for music
if you'd like and you can search topics based on music or music festivals music videos for
example so all of these things have been updated within the news app now with all of the privacy
that came to ios that carries across to mac os as far as safari so if we go into safari now
within safari they've now given us the option to customize what we see here on our start page
so we have our frequently visited and privacy report and things like that but if we click
the menu in the bottom right and maybe we want to move privacy report to the top we click and hold
and drag to the top now it's at the top we can do the same move it around wherever we'd like
turn sections off if we don't want them there so we can have the option to turn them on or off
based on what we'd like there's also additional web extension apis that let developers offer
extensions that replace the new tab page so you can have different extensions that
use more features as well as speech api that lets developers incorporate speech recognition
into their web pages for real-time captioning dictation and voice navigation so that's great
for accessibility also they've added support for webm support as well as vorbis audio so if you
have webm video you could play this video here if you wanted to and that support has all been added
within safari with mac os 11.3 now let's go ahead and close this and head over to reminders under
reminders wait for it to open now within reminders if we click on today we can now sort our reminders
so if we click and drag we can move them back and forth maybe we have a bunch of different ones
we'll have that option as well that's very similar to what we have on the iphone again and also we
have support for syncing across all the devices as well if it wasn't working properly so it will
sync not only your reminders but the order of the reminders in the list across the devices so it
should sync more completely this time around also you have the option to print reminders so if maybe
you have a ton of reminders you can go to file and print if you select those reminders so if you want
to do that you have the option now another thing they've added support for is something people have
wanted for a very long time that's xbox series x and xbox series s wireless controller support as
well as sony's ps5 or playstation 5 dual sense controller support so if you want to use those
to play a game you have the option to do that now now as far as anything else there's small
changes throughout with consistency like i said but they have fixed some things as well and one
of those things again has to do with reminders specifically when you create a reminder via siri
and maybe unintentionally sets it for an early morning hour that will no longer happen also
if you have icloud keychain enabled maybe you're using your icloud keychain and you want to turn
that off sometimes you wouldn't be able to do that before you should now be able to do that
and then automatic switching of airpods should now work properly that's something people have been
having issues with for a while and that should work properly now between devices so not only that
but also the notifications for switching between devices so maybe you're switching your airpods
pro between your mac and your iphone that should now switch properly and the device notifications
will pop up once and not be duplicated so all of those things should be working now
also external 4k monitors should show the proper resolution if you're using usbc now
and then specifically on the mac mini the m1 mac mini the login window sometimes wasn't showing
properly after restarting the mac mini that should work properly as well and then also if you're
using dwell with accessibility maybe you're using the accessibility feature specifically for that
it should now work properly in the accessibility keyboard so that's fixed within this update now
other than that apple has updated security as well in mac os 11.3 so if we go to safari and
we're at apple's security updates you can scroll down and see all of them from safari to icloud
for windows but we'll go to mac os big sur 11.3 and if you want you can look through all of these
i'll link them in the description but you can see there are a ton of security updates in mac os 11.3
so all of these apply to this particular update and so that leads me to should you update to mac
os 11.3 i would say absolutely it's working fine for me and things like final cut pro for example
so i've had no issues with editing i've been using the betas all along and it's working
okay especially with the release candidate and the final version and it's working just fine
so no issues there with any of my apps i don't know if that carries across to
all audio apps for example but so far i've had no issues with the audio apps i use
so right now it seems to be working okay and i would definitely recommend installing it now if
you'd like to get your hands on the iphone version of this wallpaper i'll link it in the description
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