hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is Mac OS Catalina Mac OS 10.15 now
this is available for developers right now it will release to the public in the
fall or usually late September around the time of iOS 13 or iPad OS when that
releases later as well and there's a few significant changes so let's first talk
about the wallpaper you can see this is Catalina Island here and if we go into
system preferences we can go to our desktop and screen saver
and we have just one wallpaper that's new this one here and we have light and
dark so if we go to dark you can see it's dark and then it will change
throughout the day if you have it said I'm automatic based on your time of day
similar to what Mojave did so maybe we'll have some more wallpapers later on
but there's not really anything significant in here at all maybe a few
of these don't look too familiar but I think they were there before so that's
it for the wallpaper right now but if we go back one you'll see we have account
information in System Preferences so our Apple ID is up here we also have our
Apple account and family sharing settings so those are now in system
preferences instead of being in iTunes where they
used to be and it was kind of a pain to manage now one of the big changes that
has come to Mac OS Catalina is there is no more iTunes and as you can see down
here there's no iTunes icon and instead it's replaced with music TV podcasts and
Finder Finder is the way you actually control your iPhone now if you want to
do updates so if I click on finder we'll go to desktop here and then let me
connect my iPhone 10s Macs so I have my 10 s max here I'll just plug it in with
a lightning to USB cable into the Mac here
there we go so now it's plugged in and on the side of finder we have my phone
so if we click on this it loads the data let's see if we can make this a little
bit bigger and now we have all of the same information in here that we had in
iTunes so we've got our music we've got our movies you can sync all of this
information TV shows podcasts audio books books photos files and then info
and if we go back to general you'll see we have our information if we scroll
down here let me see if we can bring this down here you've got information
and you can backup to iCloud or the computer backup now restore manage
backups so you'll do all of your updating right through here now on the
finder for all of your devices so it should be pretty good and see if we can
option click or control-click and check for updates and it works just like it
did before so it should be pretty good there no problems there so now let me
close this out and let's take a look at music now music is probably the closest
thing to iTunes but what they've done is split it out so they all look pretty
familiar and my device is here on the side as well but we have Apple music for
you browse and radio just like we did before so it takes a while to load right
now it's very slow but we'll go to browse we can browse then we go to radio
and if we play a song I'll just play one muted since I don't want to get any
copyright issues but you'll see here if I click this button we've got our lyrics
on the right they just pop up and then we can airplay from here as well so we
can airplay to wherever we want and it should work just fine it's pretty simple
and straightforward it will resize just like you would expect and if I click on
my phone here on the left it just shows me what's there so I can just see all of
my music on the phone itself or that was there before it did carry over all of my
playlists as well so there's quite a few here on the left now before I close this
out let's go to music and preferences and you'll see we have quite a few
preferences similar to before with the mini player
video playback on top of other windows we've got playback options files here
we have restrictions as well and advanced so we'll cancel this let's
close this out and let's take a look at podcasts so we'll go into podcasts
they've split this out from music and again it looks the exact same
so we've got podcasts but one thing that Apple said is you can search by context
so let's see if we can find something maybe maybe cereal which was a very
popular one we can search but if I knew maybe the name of the person in here
let's go in here and let's see it says heading back to court let's put that in
here and see if we can search for it now Apple says they search within podcasts
and this may not show up yet but they search within podcasts to find the
different words so that maybe we can find a podcast that is what we may have
heard on the radio or something like that or have something or that someone
mentioned so you've got listen now browse top charts recently updated shows
episodes and downloads and this will all sync with your iPhone app as well so
let's go to preferences we'll go to preferences and in here we've got a
couple different options not very much but there's a few different options here
now if we close that and go into TV this is the next app this is very similar to
the Apple TV app or the phone app and you'll see there's different movies
you've got your movies that you've purchased from iTunes takes a moment to
load and they'll also play with HDR and Dolby Atmos so here's a bunch of movies
you could purchase these or maybe we'll go to watch now
and here's movies that I own or I've purchased some of these I have not some
of them I have so we could watch this if we wanted to and it will play back in
HDR in with Dolby Atmos support which is really nice let's go into preferences
we'll just check that out quickly and you'll see it's very similar to music I
won't go through every option but I think you get the idea there so we have
those things that have replaced what we had in iTunes I don't know if it's
better that split out or not but that's what they've done now the next thing is
iPad apps and iPhone apps can move over to the Mac pretty simply and easily when
you're compiling the software and one example they showed was this game here
asphalt 9 legends and you'll see it looks like it will run I was not able to
find this in the App Store it's still sort of in beta so there are some other
things coming later on but right now that's what we have so aside from that
they've updated photos so I'll go into photos now photos is broken into the
same things we have on iPhone and iPad we have years months days and all photos
and you get the idea it's got the same thing here this is April let's go into
maybe this video or April and it's taking a while to load I think it's
because it's still syncing some information but I think you get the idea
it's got all of the same information and editing that's available on an iPhone so
let's go into this photo maybe we'll edit this photo and now we
have a bunch of different options let's go - I guess filters here we've got a
bunch of filters if we go to crop well you'll see it's buggy it just crash so
let's try that again like I said it is pretty buggy let me pick this photo once
it loads here well maybe I'll pick this one of the pixel
let's hit edit and we should have a bunch of adjustment
options now they're not all here they're not all the same as iPhone yet I imagine
that will change in the future you see as soon as I click crop it crashes so it
still needs some work now let's go into notes
here's notes and these are all notes about different videos and things you
can see that there is a gallery view now so that's one of the new things in notes
there's also shared folders so if I wanted to share a folder I could do that
now reminders has a whole redesign so let's see if we can open that here's
reminders it's very similar to the reminders app on the iPhone and the iPad
and it matches it perfectly so you've got scheduled and today and then you can
make a list if you wanted to make a list here or maybe you wanted to do something
based on location or a person you could do that and if you've made a reminder
based on a person it will actually remind you if you're texting them within
messages let's close out of that now Safari gets a few changes let's go
into Safari so in Safari we have a new start page with frequently visited
favorites and it will also have Siri suggestions they also have said that
it's going to be faster I'm not sure if that's true just yet but it seems to be
pretty quick at least the little that I've used it so far now there's another
feature that's built into preferences and that is screen time so if we go over
here you'll see we have screen time now now I don't use screen time but it is
something you can set up limits and let you know how much you use different apps
and things like that I do look from time to time but I don't have any limits
personally set right now but it's the same as iPhone and it will sync across
different devices now there's also a really neat feature that they showed off
called sidecar and that works with an iPad and I've shown this on my iPad OS
video but let me open up preferences here and then once we go to preferences
we just go down to sidecar click on this and since I connected it before it sees
my iPad I click on it and here's my iPad right here and now I'm in so I can use
it I can extend it but now I can use my iPad to control my Mac so if I want to
open Safari here maybe open the App Store
that's it I can do that on my iPad swipe it off the screen maybe go back to side
side car will go back into preferences here and then let's disconnect and now
we're back here with the same exact things open it's a really nice way to
extend your display or use it wirelessly or use touch on it as well so it's free
and built-in and also will work wired or Wireless now one of my favorite updates
they've shown has to do with accessibility and this is great for
people that have special needs but if we go to accessibility wait for it to load
here and then we go down to dictation under dictation is enable voice control
so if I turn this on let me change this to the internal microphone here there we
go so now I have this running on the internal microphone so it's on now you
can see I'm at my desktop and now we can control the whole Mac with our voice
it's a little bit difficult because you need to learn all of the commands but we
can do things like this open the app store
open app store you'll see I had to change how I said it
but once you learn it it seems to work show numbers
twelve scroll down
and I can't get the scrolling to work so let's try to open something else open
Safari
show numbers
seventy-eight
quit Safari
quit App Store and you'll see it works pretty well once
you learn all of the commands it should work for most everyone so I'll go back
in and turn that off now Apple has increased security and privacy and if
you have a t2 chip it's even more so and then it will ask you every time an app
tries to access a document if you want to open something and save it it will
ask you to access it so that you know what's going on now there is a new app
find my and that's on the iPhone as well so this is fine my and on the Left I
have all of these different devices and it locates where they're at and then
also you can find people if you're sharing location with them so if I click
on this so you can see there's a bunch of people in this area and they've
shared their location with me and this helps you find everything it gets rid of
Find My Phone it gets rid of Find My iPhone and gets
rid of find my friends or find friends let's close that now also Apple will
activation lock and a Mac now so if you have a Mac and it gets stolen someone
can't just use it again it will not allow them to install the OS aside from
that it also will help you locate it using find buy so it will use Bluetooth
beacons when it's even asleep so it can locate it using other people's devices
if they're nearby securely and encrypted it should be kind of interesting to see
how that works very similar to how tile works you also have the option to
approve with Apple watch now approve passwords and things like that and that
is really it for the major redesign you have dark mode we've had that for a year
it really hasn't changed now aside from that we also have folder sharing and
iCloud now we have a new feature called text hover that's kind of an
accessibility feature but if we go into say Apple's website here and we hold
down command while we're moving over text it will make it larger on the
screen so it makes it a little bit easier to read we can do that on any
text so if we just hold down command as our mouse cursor is over it will let us
see what it is and see it enlarge your font so that's really nice as well
now one thing they've done for security is Mac OS Catalina runs its own separate
read-only volume so it's separated from everything else so now it's separate
from anything else that can't be touched as far as the OS and it can be rolled
back if something was to be corrupted or something along those lines now
something coming later this fall has to do with Pro apps such as Final Cut Pro
and you'll see it says accelerated performance with metal so metal is the
underlying framework for performance basically on a Mac and it says it
dramatically accelerates graphical or graphics tasks like rendering
compositing real-time effects playback exporting and more so if you're using an
e GPU you can also select which GPU to use internal or external for peak
performance and that probably has to do with the new Mac Pro they announced as
well so this is incredibly expensive if you haven't heard this is six thousand
dollars to start and also this display is five thousand dollars without a stand
which also costs one thousand dollars however it's a six K display and nothing
even comes close for the price so it's actually not as unreasonable as it
sounds if you're in the Pro display HDR market and that's about it those are all
the features with Mac OS there's not a whole lot more to talk about but let me
know what you think in the comments below I'll link this wallpaper if you
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