hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and Mac OS Big Sur is the next big release
for Mac OS bringing us to Mac OS 11 but I wanted to share with you the top 5
best features or at least that I've seen so far and so the first thing is
extremely simple and if you miss that startup sound from Mac you can bring it
back in previous versions but Apple eliminated it some time ago
so if you want to hear this sound Apple has enabled this within your system
preferences by going to sound and then play sound on startup you can of course
turn this off or turn it back on if it's already turned off but now they've given
us this option and I think this is something that's very nice that many of
us really missed and is nostalgic and of course if it's annoying turn it off but
I think it's a great feature that people overlooked in this particular update and
so I wanted to point that out now the next thing is Safari now I know a lot of
people prefer Chrome or Firefox or maybe another browser as well maybe even
Microsoft's a new edge browser but Safari with Mac OS Big Sur is a major
update that has a lot to offer it should be 50% faster than other competitors
according to Apple and it has a lot of features you can see I have a desktop
background here we can change it with these buttons on the Left we'll just
switch between different pictures we can select whatever we'd like and so you can
switch to maybe we want to switch to the Catalina shoreline now we've got that
you could switch it to your family or whatever you'd like
it gives us a privacy report on all the different trackers that we've been
prevented from being tracked by from different websites and so I've checked
out my own website here where I just use Google Analytics to see who's visiting
but many sites have a lot of different trackers and so you have websites that
are tracking and then also here the trackers specifically so you'll see 66%
that contacted trackers which is pretty high and not surprising these days and
you have other things as well such as your reading list or other things from
handoff from different Mac's or different devices so it's super nice
and really fast but it has a couple extra features built in that I really
like one of them is trans so if we go to pooja FR in France
I can't read this personally because I don't speak French so let's translate it
to English so I can see what's going on here
so it says offers at the moment enjoy our offers of the moment go further in
your project so we can view any website that might be in a different language
Apple will translate it on the fly on the device so you can read it or you can
change it to a different language if you prefer something else any supported
language should work so it has all of that built in along with all this
privacy and you'll see it just blocked 41 trackers so that's super convenient
to have that built in and of course it has extensions now too that are super
secure so you'll have extensions that pop up in the app store and will be
available to Mac OS Big Sur so you can have all sorts of different extensions
so this will be really nice once it's out for everyone to use or it
might be out by the time you're watching this but if you want this kind of
privacy throughout your Mac not just with your web browser
that's where today's sponsor comes in Antigua software where they have virus
barrier in their suite of programs called x9 and so as you can see here it
says your Mac is not safe turn on real-time scanning so you can adjust
your settings for that keep it on place files in quarantine attempt to repair
them and it's a simple way to keep everything safe not only your browsing
within Safari or Chrome or whatever you're using but you can schedule scans
as well and so if you want to scan your Mac you can do that if you have an
iPhone plugged in you can scan that and then once you find something you can
quarantine it delete it and enable that real-time scanner if you want to use it
and it keeps up to date regularly so you can see the last definition update was a
couple days ago so we should be good to go now if you're looking for a good
virus program I would recommend the virus barrier or at least trying their
free trial and if it's something you like and it works for you along with all
of their other software a personal backup washing machine that barrier and
content barrier be sure to try those out with their free trial and be sure to
click the link in the description below for 50% off now the third great feature
with Mac OS Big Sur is control center we've had this on iPads and iPhones for
quite some time we can control everything from the keyboard brightness
if you're on a MacBook to sound and everything else
if you want to create a shortcut you can just drag it up here to the top and now
you also have a way to turn dark mode on or off you can switch it on the fly or
change it back if you don't want it so takes a little bit here there's a little
bit of a delay but you'll see it switches and we're good to go we have a
quick way to access all of our settings and I think it's a really nice way to
access everything it's kind of long overdue and I'm glad they added it now
another huge feature that's been updated using all new code is messages now
messages has been completely rewritten not only with new emoji but also the
effects we expect on our iPhone such as message effects or memo G stickers so if
you click on memo G stickers it takes a moment and then we have our stickers so
we can select whatever we want we want this one and then we could send it and
say look at this and then we can also include a message effect and so we want
balloons or whatever we'd like we can send it and then we'll have balloons
with our new emoji sticker so orme emoji stickers depending on what you're using
so we have all of the different things we'd like included but we can also pin
conversations there's group enhancements and everything else so if you want to
pin something or a conversation pin it and it will always appear above this
line if I want to pin this one from my brother Zach I can just pin it and now
it's above this line always ready for me to use and so we've got all of the same
things we expect from iOS and iPad OS on Mac OS and then finally one of the major
changes with Mac OS Big Sur is of course it is Mac OS 11 as you can see here and
this is currently a beta version but you get the idea that this is Mac OS 11 it's
a complete overhaul of the OS to make it ready for the new ARM based or apple
silicon based Macs and you can see all of the icons are different and this is
one of the most striking things to a lot of people some people love it some
people don't all of these icons may not be finalized at this point but one that
particularly stands out is the battery icon
hopefully they change this in the future but you'll see everything's been
rewritten from the ground up it should be faster hopefully a lot more stable
than what we had before and we should be pretty
good with this version as far as speed and everything else so there are a lot
of other changes such as updates to passwords and things so if you're using
keychain for example keychain will now let you know when you have a password
that's been compromised so that's a new feature built in which i think is super
helpful and all about security Mac OS Big Sur is all about security it will
keep you safe and in addition to Safari and Mac OS keeping you safe be sure to
check out virus barrier in the description below let me know what your
favorite app or changes with Mac OS Big Sur some of these icons are great some
are not let me know what you like most about it in the comments below if you
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next time