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I've used it for trying to make sense about the new and differentiated recommendations about face masks and social distancing from the WHO and CDC. My favorite is Quick Notes, which allows you to write notes while using other applications on the iPad, and can easily add links and quoted text from Safari to. Notes is also getting super-charged with two new features seen in iOS and iPadOS. Just look for the Shared With You section, as it's an easy way to find that thing someone sent that you can't find, or to take a trip down memory lane in photos. To see your cursor become a text select tool when you move it over text in an image is a sight to see.Īlso, images and links that you've been sent by others will now have their own sections in Photos, Safari, Apple News and other applications. For example, I could highlight text on a shirt I own that I took a photo of, or the nutrition label from a bottle. This is Apple's AI magic at work, and it just works. In Photos and Preview, among other apps, you can now select text from images, just as if you were using a document or PDF.

My favorite, without a doubt, is Live Text. MacOS 12 review: New features found on iOS 15 and iPadOS 15Īpple's rolling out a lot of new features across multiple operating system updates due out this fall, so macOS 12 Monterey gets to be just like iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 in a few ways.

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macOS 12 review: Compatibility and supported devicesĪpple's full list of approved and supported Macs for macOS 12 is below. That gives you the opportunity to see if other folks are running into trouble with this update.

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Again, this makes sense on mobile, but a little bit less so on a desktop.That said, bugs are inevitable, so if you're worried about a new software update slowing down your workflow, it doesn't hurt to wait until you've heard that the apps you love run on macOS 12 before you download.

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And yes, I'm still annoyed with how Apple broke up what was once iTunes so that we have separate Music, Podcasts, and Apple TV apps. I believe this feeling is tied to how Apple has hidden the feature behind the clock on the top right of the menu bar. For example, Notification Center, which seems essential on iPhone, is much less so on Mac. Safari changes and Focus aren't the only features that don't translate well to macOS.

Regardless, I'm sticking with the position Focus is nearly perfect on iPhone, but much less necessary on macOS. Now you're probably thinking, ' Bryan, just turn Focus off on your Mac.' And yes, that's exactly what I'll do when macOS Monterey arrives. Do we really need different Focus settings for work and sleep? Do our Macs care at all about when we're working out at the gym? Are our lives that busy that we can't read a text from one of our friends in the middle of the day? Instead, it's that it feels so unnecessary on desktop. My gripe isn't with the Focus feature itself, which is easy to set up in macOS Monterey. Among the Focus Groups, you can create ones for Work, Sleep, Gaming, Exercise, and anything else you want. I've tried to fall in love with this new feature, designed to make it easier for users to concentrate on what they're doing throughout the day by silencing unnecessary notifications and alerts. This brings me to Apple's new Focus tool.

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