Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and mac os monterey 12 release candidate is now available
now this has been out for a day or so and this particular update version is a little different if
we go to about this mac you'll see it says version 12.0.1 even though it's a release candidate
the final version is not out yet but apple says that this will be made available to the public
on monday october 25th so apple has said that and this should be the final version if we click on
this version number you'll see the build number is two one a five five eight and so if apple does not
find any additional issues with this this will be the first version released to the public of
mac os monterey now as you can see it's got a dot one at the end which is unusual but it looks like
apple's going to push this one out now as far as if you're on the beta program and you want to
remove that you can always do that by going to your preferences then going to software update
click on advanced click ok it will recheck and once it does you'll have the option here
to unenroll your device or restore defaults so you can just restore the defaults here go back
however i would wait to make sure they don't push out another version of mac os monterey
before they do that on monday so just hold off a little bit and then maybe restore at that point if
you want to remove the beta from your device now mac os monterey gets a lot of features that ios 15
received everything from facetime with spatial audio and voice isolation and wide spectrum it's
very hard to show you since i'm screen recording but it gets portrait mode and
more and that's what it gets with this along with grid view and facetime links for inviting friends
so facetime you're probably familiar with this i'll try and show it in the final version of
the video but you're probably already familiar with this also with messages you now get shared
with you if someone shares with you something in messages and you go into say safari within
safari you can see that we have shared with you so people that have messaged me directly
there's links to what they've shared i can click on this and it will open messages
also within messages you have photos displayed as stacks so if we go into messages within messages
you can see that there's a bunch of photos here i can just swipe through so i can swipe left to
right just like we can in ios 15 now so you have that option and all of those shared for you or
shared with you options carry over so if someone shares something from say your messages for photos
it will show up in photos if they share a link in safari it will show up in safari and so on
now safari gets some updates as well you may have already noticed it looks a little bit different
and if we go to apple we'll go to apple here and maybe we'll add a tab you'll see we have our tabs
at the bottom however they've given us the option to change this around just like we can on ios
and ipad os so if we go into our preferences we have a tab layout of compact or separate
separate will make it look like it did before and then you have that option you can also create tab
groups just like you can in ios 15 and mac os so you can see here i had some issues with my
bathtub so i'm looking for parts i created a group here's an apple group here's another one and if i
want to see all the tabs you can just click on it see the different tabs if there's tabs open so you
can create groups of different tabs that you use regularly so that's something that they've updated
here now they've also brought focus to the mac as well so just like we have it on ios we now have
it on mac os so if we click this button here we have our different focus modes and you'll see the
different focus modes here we can fully customize these by going to focus preferences so if we want
to set up do not disturb and allow certain people to communicate with us we can do that we can turn
it on from here or adjust notifications it's the same thing you have on ios and they all sync
across all devices so you'll have all of your different preferences here so focus modes has
been there and also quick notes that carries over from ipad is here as well if you're on a website
with a note for example you have the option for quick notes so if we go to safari again
maybe go to apple if i had a quick note created for apple here we'd be able to see that here
with a link in it as well you're probably already familiar with that but you have that now as well
within notes if we open notes back up you can see here's the notes for mac os monterey
we now have the option for tags so there's tags in here and also if you're sharing this with someone
maybe you're using the share option in the upper right you'll now have the option to see when they
mention you or when they update something you're working on it will now pop up and show you that
so that's something they've updated we also have the option to airplay to mac now so i can airplay
from my phone so let me do that so now you can see i'm screen mirroring from my iphone air playing
it through my mac so it works through here you can do that with music as well if you want to
airplay to a different device you have that option and then of course you can go back if you don't
want to use that but it's a really nice way to easily share between your iphone or ipad and mac
now within photos we get that live text feature as well so if we go into photos and within photos
here you can see the ios 15.1 beta 3 and if we just hover our mouse over it here we can
highlight this text and then we can copy it if we want to do that we can look it up copy it paste it
somewhere else so it works with that you also have visual lookup as well so if we go to a landmark
now you can see here's a landmark and we have the inspector or the eye and there's two little stars
here if i click on those you'll see i have the little landmark icon and if i click on that it
identifies what it is one world trade center tells us more information about it about the area and
more so it gives us more information this works with flowers and pets and so and that sort of
thing as well and we just have more information in photos just like we do on our iphone as well
so visual lookup is built in now with mac os monterey we gain shortcuts we've had it on
ipad and iphone for a while and now we have the same thing on mac so we have all of our shortcuts
synced between devices and we can create new ones and then they'll sync back to iphones so if you
want to work with a full-size keyboard maybe do a little bit of scripting you can do that and
just drag that in and create a shortcut now you still have automator but this is basically going
to be automator for the future so this is a way to kind of do most of those things and then you
have all of your different options here as well as i scroll down so they've added shortcuts and it's
great to have it easily sync between all of them as well now in maps they've updated that as well
so if we go into maps and within maps you can see that i have an interactive globe now this is on
m1 max for some reason only it's a 3d globe with enhanced detail from mountains oceans and more so
if maybe i zoom into los angeles here we'll just keep going in or maybe we'll pick san francisco
we can get a little closer there those maps are updated as well we can get a lot more detail so if
we zoom right in we'll keep going we'll go to the golden gate bridge and as we continue to zoom in
you'll see we have a lot more detail and so we have the bridge itself and we'll have overpasses
and underpasses and if we switch to 3d we can sort of see underneath it if we move over here
you'll see that it's a 3d model of the bridge and then we have different things such as trees and
more so they're much more detailed maps is updated with that we even have elevation and landmarks and
more so you do need an m1 to have a lot of this detail but it is updated for mac os monterey
now there's additional privacy in this update as well and some of the privacy has to do with
mail so there's mail privacy protections that help prevent senders from tracking your mail activity
they've also added the record indication as you can see here with the little orange dot
to let you know that the microphone is in use since i'm recording this video you'll see the
little record indicator just like we did on iphone before now we also have icloud plus with private
relay but that's in beta right now and also hide my email so those things are available for safari
and mail but are still in beta at this time now there are a lot of other little additions as
well to mac os monterey universal control is still not here so if we go to displays
wait for it here and we can switch or mirror but we still don't have universal control
that's enabled so maybe we'll have that in the future but we don't have it apple has said that
it's coming later on so right now we don't have universal control which allows us to use the mouse
seamlessly between a mac and another mac with the same keyboard and mouse or a mac and ipad and back
and forth just drag to the edge and it will jump to the ipad no special software required so that's
something that will be coming later on now of course there's additional updates with this update
such as siri and more and the control center and notifications and more so everything has
been updated in this update if you've watched any of the other beta updates all of those things are
here but what i just mentioned everything is still included in mac os monterey there may be some
additional features coming down the road though like i said earlier mac os monterey is available
on october 25th as you can see here so you'll be able to install it on all supported devices and
there will be a lot of other features as well such as shareplay and more so if you want to see all
the new features you can go here if you just want to review them if you haven't seen them in a while
and of course i'll be doing a separate video covering everything that i can here as well
if you have any other additional things you've found i'd love to hear from you in the comments
below and i'm looking forward to universal control as well but again we'll have to wait
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