hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and mac os 13 ventura has been out to public beta testers
for about a week or so and i want to go over the very best features now if you want to try this out
early before it's released to the public that's usually in the fall around september or october
you can do that by going to beta.apple.com but you'll need a supported device if we scroll up
here you can see all of the current supported devices and it's basically 2017 and later max so
the imac and imac pro 2017 and later macbook air 2018 and later macbook pro 2017 and later mac pro
2019 and later the new mac studio mac mini 2018 and later and macbook 2017 and later if you have
any of these devices you'll be able to install mac os ventura whether that be the beta program
or the final build when it's released to the public otherwise you'll have to get
other updates on older macs typically security updates to mac os monterey now as far as the first
best feature in my opinion that's stage manager so let's close out of this and we'll go up here
to the upper right and first i want to point out you can see that we have our macintosh hard drive
or solid state drive and a couple folders if we go into the control center click on stage manager
click off stage manager is available on all of the supported devices and maybe let's go into safari
safari opens up and now it sort of looks the same as it did before but it changes when i open an
app so if i click on music you'll see it moves to the side and music takes center stage so it's
managing all of these different stages and then maybe i want to open something else so we'll open
up the finder here we'll click on desktop and you'll see everything just sort of moves aside
i can click on them and bring them back quickly or if i click on maybe safari and i want music to be
off to the side i just click and drag it where i want of course i can still resize it or if i
want to move this further over to the side and get rid of it i can do that so we'll click on it again
drag it in and then let's maybe make this larger we'll bring this in over here and you'll see it
sort of slips over to the side and disappears but if i resize this and bring it in or i bring
my cursor to the left it pops back in so it's pretty nice it's an easy way to quickly organize
and if i want to get to my desktop i just click on the desktop everything moves aside and we have
our desktop items as well so it's a great way to organize especially if you have a lot of different
apps so that's the first feature that's sort of a standout feature we'll go ahead and minimize this
close this and close out of files now we'll turn off stage manager
and the next thing has to do with facetime facetime is something that i use a lot
but has a new feature called continuity camera that allows you to use your iphone
in place of the camera on a mac this works great and it's a much better camera now with continuity
camera you'll need an iphone 10r later and it will use the camera from the iphone instead of
the camera on the mac which isn't as good and so as you can see we need some way to easily adhere
there you can just use a tripod or anything else but i have this nice little attachment from belkin
that they sent along a little bit early and this was shown at wwdc it connects via magsafe we just
flip this open here we'll spin it around and then we'll just set it on the mac now my iphone
is locked it's locked and everything no issues there we'll just set it on top and we should be
good to go now we'll go into facetime so we'll go and bring up facetime and it dings and immediately
connects you don't have to do anything special if it doesn't show up you just click on video here
and select your phone it will unlock it and just use the camera the screen is off and you have
some great features in the upper right so we'll click on this and you can see the video effects
so we have center stage it will now follow me around and sort of zoom in as a cameraman
it uses the ultra wide camera and depending on your device you'll have different features so
you can see the features here and we have center stage portrait light studio light and desk view
now it really depends on the device which ones you'll have available for example portrait mode
is on iphone 10r and later studio light is on iphone 12 and later so if we click on portrait
mode it blurs the background if we want to brighten this even more for my face click
on studio light it darkens the background keeps my face in focus and nice and bright and then we have
desk view and you'll need the ultra wide for this so click on desk view and it brings up a desk view
of my hands here so you'll see my chair my hands the bottom of the microphone and this can vary a
little bit so this is something that works really well depending on what you're doing what the desk
is like so if i slide this back a little bit you'll see there's desk view and you can see my
hands it's using the neural engine to straighten my hands and sort of correct the overall lens of
the camera so with this you can just maybe show a different product and you can see both your face
and the desktop mode now you need that ultra wide camera to do the desk view so iphone 11 and later
and then of course we have the studio light center stage in portrait mode depending on
which device you have now one other thing to note is when you don't have these features on it can
use the better camera on your iphone if you turn on maybe center stage it switches to the ultra
wide which isn't as good so if you want the best quality turn that off maybe use portrait mode and
you're using the best camera on the iphone instead of the ultra wide it works really well again
studio light too but if you want center stage you'll need the ultra wide as well as desk view
so center stage is a game changer and like i said you don't need it on the back of your device you
can just take it off and you'll see here i'm hand holding it and it's working fine so you can put it
on a tripod or anything else but this works really really well now we have a new settings panel as
well and if we go into settings we'll talk about this in a moment but under accessibility go down
to live captions we have live captions and this is great for accessibility so we can turn it on in
app we'll turn it on sometimes it doesn't turn on right away but we have live captions that
will actually record what i'm saying in real time and then transcribe it now again this is in beta
so it's something you can use in facetime you can also hand off your facetime calls finally
between different devices so maybe you're on your mac you need to continue on your phone
and maybe you're going outside of the room you're in or an office you can continue and just hand it
off so these are features that are available in ventura and some of the best things i've seen
as far as really improvements on daily use type of features so something i'll be using regularly is
this continuity camera it's so much better using the camera on the iphone with mac os ventura
apple completely redesigned system preferences renamed it to system settings and made it look
more similar to what we have with ios and ipad os so some of you will absolutely love this others
will not like it if you prefer the traditional look however it's very familiar now so we have
our wi-fi bluetooth and network then of course our notifications sound focus and screen time
it's the same sort of layout as we get on ios so if we go into general we have about and software
update and storage and everything is very familiar so that's something i think a lot of people will
really appreciate especially if they're newer to mac if they're not of course this will be
a bit of a change as not everything seems to be here yet as well but if we scroll down you can
see if we go into wallpaper it looks a little bit different and you've got dynamic desktop
and then much more so if we scroll from left to right we can show all and then we have options
to fill the screen fit to screen stretch to fill screen or center so it's the same sort
of thing just laid out completely different the same is true with battery battery looks the same
it says battery health normal and i think this is something they should bring to ios as well so here
it's just saying normal your your battery's fine and if you want more information you click on the
eye and it tells you the current capacity of the battery so that's something i think is a great
way to view this and then of course you have the same sort of battery setup that we do on ios
if we scroll down even further apple has updated their keyboard and trackpad settings and added new
animations as well for the gestures so as you can see here scroll to zoom and then more gestures so
if maybe we want to go to the gestures and then we go to one of these gestures it shows with
different animations what those are and how to do it so the trackpad's on the left and then you have
your window on the right of course if you have a mouse this can change if you're in your settings
for that and then if we scroll down you've got your notifications and it's explaining how to use
everything very simple and straightforward as we mouse over mission control and app expose and more
so i think this is a nice update they didn't have these animations in the initial betas
of this but i think this is a very simple and elegant way to show how to use those features
three fingers down and you'll see it splits the windows out if you have multiple windows open
so if you love this i'd love to hear from you in the comments below or if you prefer
system preferences i'd love to hear from you there as well but it's definitely a change it's pretty
familiar but again many may not prefer it now just like ios and ipad os 16 mac os ventura gains
updates to messages these are super helpful if you use messages regularly and as you can see here
i'll just say this is a test message for a video and if i send this i can right click or option
click on it i can undo send within 15 minutes and i can also edit the message change what i want to
and then hit enter again and it updates and sends it now if someone is on a previous version it
will actually send another message saying that it's been edited so if they're not yet on ios 16
or ipad os 16 or maybe they're still on mac os catalina it will send a message to them
letting them know we can also recover recently deleted messages so if we go up here to view
we have recently deleted we have unread messages unknown senders and known senders so this is
something that's really nice to see and definitely makes using messages even better and adds features
some other messaging apps have had for a while also you can also share play via messages
collaboration invitations and updates can come through messages and also more apps can now show
who shared something with you in messages so not just the apple native apps can do that but other
apps can do that as well now mal gets some major updates also if we go into mail and within mail
it doesn't look too different right now but if i click on create a message and then maybe i send
a message to myself and this is a test message and we'll just say hello this is a test message
and then we go to send it next to the send option we have some new options such as send now
send at 9 pm tonight or send later so those are some nice new options where we don't have to
send it immediately we can get whatever we want ready and then send it and then also of course
all of your regular fields here as well now once we've sent this we'll let it send now we can also
undo send within five minutes and then also if we option click or right click on an email we
can have it remind us to follow up remind me in an hour remind me tonight tomorrow or remind me later
also if someone has sent you an email asking for a follow-up it intelligently knows and will actually
give you an option to follow up with that person so a lot of smart new features built in
there's also smart search suggestions smart search corrections so maybe you're searching
for something you misspell and it will still find those it'll also let you know if maybe you needed
to include an attachment and you forgot to send it if someone was asking for that
and also it has rich links also brand indicators for message identification so features we've seen
in other mail apps but now it's built in and it's all private and done by the neural engine
these are some great features now if we go back into settings there's something that will be
really helpful in the future and that has to do with software updates we'll click on software
update click on the i and as you can see here it says install security responses and system files
and this is really helpful in that it will install different files other than the whole update
so maybe mac os ventura 13.1 comes out well in between that if they find security issues they can
push another update just like you can with regular updates you don't have to install them right away
it can do it automatically or you don't have to have it do that but it will at least give you the
option and it can install them in the background if you turn it off you'll still see it and you'll
be able to install it but it's great that they don't have to update the whole os now every time
they need to send a security update there's also another major feature we've wanted for a while
and that has to do with photos so if we go into photos so we're within photos and you can see
there's a bunch of m2 macbook air photos these were just used to take one for the thumbnail of
the m2 macbook air video but if we go up to photos in the upper left click on settings you'll see we
now have the option for a shared library we can share an icloud photo library with someone else
instead of having them constantly split between devices so you can share with a spouse a loved one
significant other family member or friend you can share with anyone just add a participant and then
you have them shared you also get some options with that so you have the option to view both
libraries your own library or the shared library and you don't have to share all photos with them
you can share some of them so there's a lot of great ways to share some of these photos and with
ios 16 there's a button so that when you take a photo it can share automatically or not at all so
some great options with that and you get to see them on the photos app on your mac there's other
options and changes in photos as well but that's the major one spotlight search gets a major update
as well so if i hit command space we can bring up spotlight search or you can click the little
magnifying glass in the upper right and if we search for photos of a car just something
simple give it a moment it finds some and if i click on one and then press the space bar we can
preview it now so this is something we couldn't do before we can preview different documents and more
and websites and everything else so it's really nice that they've updated that
there's additional changes it can search for more and if we go into system settings go into settings
go to siri and spotlight you can see all of the different things it can search for everything from
calculator contacts conversations siri suggestions spreadsheets system settings and more so a lot of
things that it can do now something else other than spotlight search is we have the clock and
the weather app they've brought those to mac os so we have our clock app we also have the weather app
and we can just run those in a window like we always would so you have your world clocks alarms
stopwatch and timer so basically the same thing we get on ios just making everything more and more
similar across the platforms now there's a lot of different changes when it comes to accessibility
and more if you go under accessibility other than the one i already mentioned under accessibility
you have things such as background sounds under audio scroll down we have background sounds
apple has added a lot of the things that we get with ios to mac os as well and so if you want
to see all of the additional features there's a ton of them but i went over the major features
if you go to apple.com click on mac then click on monterey once this is updated it will be easier to
access but if we scroll down just a little bit you can see see the preview of mac os ventura
click on that and then you can click on all new features and this shows everything that's new from
spotlight to safari to pass keys to messages and much more i cover the major features that
most people will notice but there is a lot of different changes from continuity camera to a
new app called freeform for collaboration that's coming later this year to the redesign of settings
security updates accessibility and more so a lot of changes throughout some are big some are small
but those are the major ones and the best ones i think most people will notice
in mac os ventura let me know which feature is your favorite in the comments below and of course
if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link it in the description like i normally do
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