- Hey this is Jake with The Verge.
We're here with Mac OS Mojave.
This is the new version of Mac OS.
It's gonna be available this fall,
but if you're interested, it just came out in public beta,
and so you can try it out if you want.
We're gonna look at some of the big features
and some of our favorites.
The first thing, and probably the most noticeable,
is that there's now a dark mode.
Dark mode has been a long requested feature for Mac OS
and probably every operating system and app forever,
and now it's finally available.
It's gonna ask you right when you start up Mojave
if you want to do light mode or dark mode,
and it's basically just gonna turn the chrome
around all of your apps into this, you know,
black or dark gray color.
It's kind of messing with me right now,
'cause I'm not used to it, but I'm sure that there are
a lot of people out there who are gonna like it.
Now the big deal about Mojave is a lot more technical
and in depth, and that is that iOS apps
are coming to the Mac.
So before, if and iOS app was coming to the Mac,
it had to be basically re toted from scratch.
Next year, Apple's gonna start letting developers
take their iOS apps, kinda tweak some of the code,
and put it on Mac OS.
Now third party developers can't do that yet,
but Apple's showing us what it's gonna look like
with four apps to start, and one of those is Apple News.
So, you can see right here, on the left side you have
this big column that's really no like anything
on Mac OS already, and then on the main pane,
you have something that basically looks like an iPhone app,
and you can click in, you get to swipe between stories.
There are the the normal iOS buttons
at the top left and top right to go back and forward.
Honestly, things look a little bit touchable,
and a lot of the iconography from iOS
comes over here as well.
It's not clear that this is how things
are gonna stay forever, if Apple'll make these
a little more Mac-like,
or if we're just gonna kinda get used to that sort of
hybrid app.
Apple also brought over Voice Memos and stocks.
Voice Memos is pretty basic, but it's nice to have here.
Stocks looks a lot like Apple News.
We have that bar on the left,
and all these news items in the middle that again,
you swipe between and you have those iOS icons on the top.
It's definitely a little bit weird,
but this is pretty important 'cause it's a first look
of what this new generation of apps is gonna look like.
Obviously a lot can still change.
This is very very early and we don't know if Apple
is going to make things look a little bit more like Mac OS,
but my suspicion is that we might want to get used to
this style, and the reason I say that is
because the next thing I want to show
is the App Store redesign.
So the App Store has been redesigned to look
a lot more like the iOS App Store,
but what's interesting is, this is a Mac App.
Apple hasn't really dramatically changed things here.
It just brought in a lot of its editorial content.
There's now a lot more banners,
and there's just a lot more to read and do.
I don't think it's really gonna dramatically change things,
but the Mac App Store has languished for a while,
and it's nice to see Apple's starting to revitalize it
a little bit, and I think we're probably gonna see
a lot more of that when these hybrid apps
start to flood that store.
So those are the really big things,
but there's also a bunch of smaller tweaks
all over the OS that are gonna help you just use Mac OS,
and one of those really nice ones is right on the desktop.
So if you're a person who normally has a messy desktop
that looks like this,
you notice you can use a feature called stacks,
which is gonna automatically stack them into groups
based on what they are.
So there's one for PDFs, one for images,
one for documents.
You just click on them and they're going to pop open
and show you everything that's inside them.
You just close them again and now everything
is nice and tidy.
This ties right into another feature that
I really I like in Mojave,
and that is updates to Quick Look,
which is the feature that let's you just
hit the spacebar to preview a file.
So now you can just hit the spacebar
and instead of just looking at the file,
you can actually interact with it.
So if it's an image, I can rotate it or I can jump in
and start annotating it.
You can do that in PDFs too, which is pretty handy.
That feature is also available in the Finder
in a new view mode.
So, if you remember Cover Flow, which was that option
that started in iTunes as a way to view album art
and then made its way to Finder and then I don't think
anyone ever used it.
Apple now has a, basically a more useful version of that
called gallery.
It shows one thing at a time, but it also shows information
about that item beside it, so it's givin' meta data,
and you have some options to interact with it.
I think this is gonna make more sense for some work flows
than for others, but it's a nice option to have,
and it's always good to see Apple paying attention
to the Finder.
The final thing I want to show you in Safari.
Now the really big thing here is that Apple has
added some privacy updates to stop Social Media sites
like Facebook from tracking you all across the web.
Now I can't really show you that,
but what I can show you is,
you know what, what I'm going to say is even more important,
and that is that you can now add Favicons to tabs in Safari.
So before it looked like this, where it just said
the name of the website.
Now, you can check this box and boom,
you have those icons,
and when you have a ton of tabs open,
this is just gonna make it way easier to read.
I don't know how this wasn't available before.
This is an immense update,
and probably the main reason to install Mojave.
(upbeat music)
That's gonna be pushing it a little bit.
Okay, another neat thing in Mojave is a new
screenshot interface.
You can now hit Command, Shift, five,
and it's gonna give you all these different options
for how you want to capture your screen.
You can start a screen recording,
which you see we're doing right now,
and one nice thing about the screen shot is,
once you take it, it's gonna appear right in the corner
of the screen like it does on the iPad,
so you can click it, go right in,
and start marking things up just like you would
in Quick Look.
So those are the big features in Mojave.
There's a lot more here.
You can try it all out if you want by installing
the public beta.
I will warn you, this is an early beta.
Things are still a little buggy and broken,
especially those transported iOS apps,
but if you want to wait for it,
it'll all be available this fall.
One other nice change is an update to the screenshot tool.
You can now hit Comman, Shift, five,
and it gives you, oh no.
The screen recording crashed.
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