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If you love tabs, macOS Sierra will thrill you, because it will feature a tweak that lets apps spawn new windows as tabs inside an existing window. Some people love windows, and other people love tabs.

ICloud Drive is being extended in some interesting ways, including automatic syncing of the Desktop folder, and a systemwide storage optimization feature that does for your files what Photos did for your photo library-offload it into the cloud when you’re running low on drive space. A new picture in picture feature will let you float a video in the corner of the screen, just as you currently can on the iPad. Apple Pay will be integrated with Safari for easy web purchases. You’ll be able to unlock your Mac with an Apple Watch, and sync your clipboard among all your Apple devices. The California place names, however, remain intact, as this name refers to our very own mountain range, the Sierra Nevada.Īs has been the case with most recent macOS updates, Sierra has a lot of features that connect the Mac with other Apple devices. After a decade and a half, Apple has retired the X-all hail macOS. It’s been necessary in order to address some major shortfalls of the product’s initial release last fall I hope this pace of progress will continue in the future. Unlike some of Apple’s other platforms, this feels like one that’s in constant flux, with new features and fixes being pushed out a lot more regularly than once a year. TvOS is still in need of a lot of refinement. And those who prefer to watch their TV in the dark will have their retinas saved by a new dark mode.
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The Remote app will finally become a full Siri Remote. More live TV deals make the box more appealing for cord cutters.
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The tvOS update seemed to be the most minor of the four Apple platforms, but still: Single sign-on will make it much easier for cable or satellite TV subscribers to take advantage of video streaming apps without having to repeatedly log in with their credentials. Over the past year, we’ve all learned a lot about how the Apple Watch works in the real world. When the Apple Watch was first announced, Apple was taking a guess about how it would be used. Fitness apps will have more power, including the ability to run in the background and have access to all watch sensors. You can “scribble” text replies and watch as they’re converted to text, the same idea Google recently introduced for Android Wear. One of the most common tasks of the Apple Watch, responding to messages, will become much less complex.

They did the right thing: merging Glances with apps retasking the side button with bringing up the new app dock and allowing key apps to run in the background and launch quickly. Here’s a quick gloss on the major announcements: watchOS 3Īpple had the choice between doubling down on some of the bad design decisions of the original Apple Watch OS, or tossing them away and coming up with something new.
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(For some audio reactions to the contents of the keynote, check out Upgrade 93, recorded 90 minutes after the event ended.) Thus begins an annual tradition, the summer of new Apple software. Hardy users will test-drive public releases of the new operating systems starting in July. Developers will now spend their summer planning new versions of their apps to take advantage of new features of those operating systems. That Monday was today, and we got to see previews of iOS 10, tvOS 10, watchOS 3, and macOS Sierra.
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Developers get access to an early test version of the operating system that day the general public will get the option to upgrade for free sometime in the fall. This is how Apple advances the four operating systems it develops: On a Monday in June at its annual developer conference, it announces the high-level details of the next major update of those operating systems. Note: This story has not been updated for several years. WWDC 2016: Four platforms, quick reactions
