Hi everyone aaron here for Zollotech and today Apple released
mac os catalina 10.15.6 to the public this is available for all mac os
catalina supported devices and can be downloaded right away now
this particular update is all about a couple bug fixes some new features
and some security updates so don't expect any major changes
until mac os big sur later this year probably at the end of september or
sometime in october now i took a screenshot of
the update this was 3.35 gigabytes on my mac pro
this is a 2019 mac pro and so it's a fairly large update but it didn't take
that long to install now let's talk about what's new in this
particular update and the first thing is with apple news so if we go into news
we'll open up news here and news gains a couple new features so not only do you
have your normal news or things like that
but what it adds is if you live in a couple different major metro areas such
as san francisco the bay area los angeles houston and new
york city it adds more localized news for those
particular areas now this isn't really applicable to me because i don't live in
those areas but if you care about those areas
this news is updated for you now also there's more stories available from
local news providers with a subscription to apple plus
or apple news plus so if you're using apple news plus
like this you'll have more options as far as that goes with local news
providers now if you're familiar with apple news you'll probably be familiar
with getting the email every day with your latest news updates that can now be
personalized to your interests so if we go up here to file we can now
manage notifications in email so if we go here wait for it to open we
can now select email that you'll get in notifications
with your icloud devices so you can select that you've got more
channels whatever you want and then from apple news if you want to
turn these off on whatever you want you can
arrange these however you want and then email from apple news
so you can turn that off as well so just select what you'd like
sign me up opt out of it whatever you'd like sign me in
and if you don't want that email turn it off it's really nice that they've added
that option i really don't want that newsletter i
just want to go to the app if i want to use it now apple has added
a new feature specific to macbook so you can see here this is
a different computer this is my 16 inch macbook pro
and if we go to our system preferences and then go to energy saver
click on battery we now have an option to optimize video streaming
while on battery power this will enable the
computer to get a little bit better battery life when trying to stream hdr
and it's specific to those macs that can actually stream hdr video
or have hdr quality displays so this is just a new option that's available
specifically to those devices now if you've had an
issue where your computer name keeps changing
after you do an update well they fixed that as well so
that was an issue before and it should be resolved now
and then finally as far as resolved issues they've resolved an issue where
certain usb mice or mouses or me whatever you want
to call it and track pads may lose connection
so whatever you're using for your track pad or your mouse i'm just using the
common apple ones but maybe you're using something else
it now should be a more stable connection so
that is all of the major features but something else that's available at least
on ios that i hope is available here and i'd love to hear from you if you're
watching this video is if you're in the united arab emirates
facetime may work for you now and so hopefully you'll be able to use facetime
if you're in that region i'd love to hear from you in the comments below
i know it's been activated with ios 13.6 that was also released at the same time
now keep in mind some of those news features i mentioned as well
may only be available in regions that support apple news so keep that in mind
and then on top of the things i've already mentioned apple also updated
security so you can see all the different security updates here
i'll link them in the description but if you want to look through them there's
about 19 of them listed here from everything from find my
to calendar to the kernel and everything else so
just about anything you can imagine has been patched at least for security so
that's great to see i always welcome more security updates so if you
don't care too much about the features this alone is a reason to update other
than that there's nothing else new in this particular update expect the same
performance and then expect much better performance once mac os big sur comes
out so i look forward to that later this
year now if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper of course i'll link it
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as always thanks for watching this is Aaron i'll see you next time
you