Use Siri on the Mac, Access Your Desktop from Anywhere, Copy
and Paste Between Devices & Rediscover Favorite Memories in
Photos
Apple® today previewed macOS Sierra™, a major update to the
world’s most advanced desktop operating system, with new features
that make the Mac® smarter and more helpful than ever. Siri® is now
on the Mac with brand-new capabilities to help with the things
users do every day on their desktop. With Siri, users can look up
information, find documents, pin or drag and drop search results,
and even adjust system preferences. Seamless integration with
iCloud® makes everything from your Desktop and Documents folder
available on your iPhone® and iPad® so you always have access to
the files you need. Universal Clipboard allows you to copy content,
including text, images, photos and video from one Apple device and
paste it in another. Apple Pay® comes to the Mac in Sierra so it is
even easier to shop securely and privately online. And Photos now
helps you rediscover your meaningful memories, organize your
library and perfect shots like a pro.
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Siri makes its debut on the Desktop with
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“macOS Sierra is a major update that makes your Mac smarter and
more helpful than ever with improvements to the apps you know and
love and great new features throughout,” said Craig Federighi,
Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “With macOS
Sierra, you can get information, find files and multitask using
Siri, access your Desktop and Documents from anywhere, copy and
paste between Macs and iOS devices, and rediscover precious
memories in Photos.”
Siri Debuts on the Mac
Siri on the Mac is now just one click away. The familiar
features of Siri are now on the Mac with brand-new capabilities
specifically designed for the desktop. Easily accessible from the
Dock, menu bar or keyboard, Siri lets you use your voice to search
for information, find files and send messages. For example you can
ask Siri to locate a specific document you worked on last night,
add a meeting to your calendar or start a FaceTime® call. With Siri
on the Mac, you can also drag and drop items from Siri search
results into your documents or emails, pin Siri search results in
Notification Center to keep an eye on information like sports
scores or stock prices, and even adjust system preferences, set
reminders and search your Photos library. With its debut on Mac,
Siri is now on all four Apple software platforms — iOS, macOS™,
watchOS® and tvOS™ — and handles two billion requests per week
across 36 countries.
Your Desktop & Documents on All Your Devices
With macOS Sierra you can automatically have all the files on
your Desktop and in your Documents folder on any Mac, iOS device or
even PC. You simply save your files on your Desktop or within your
Documents folder as you usually do and you will have them
everywhere you need them. You can access your files on your iPhone
and iPad in the iCloud Drive® app and on iCloud.com or the iCloud
for Windows app. And when you log into a second Mac, your files are
automatically on the Desktop and in the Documents folder, exactly
where you saved them.
Copy & Paste Between Devices
Continuity across your Apple devices also gets better in macOS
Sierra. With Universal Clipboard, the contents of your clipboard
are available across all your Apple devices via iCloud. You can
easily copy and paste text, images, photos and video between your
Mac and your iPhone and iPad.
Tabs in Almost Every App
To help you navigate your Desktop with more efficiency, macOS
Sierra takes the popular Tabs feature from Safari® and makes it
available across Mac apps that support multiple windows, including
Maps, Mail, Pages®, Numbers®, Keynote® and TextEdit, and even
third-party apps. With Tabs you can browse multiple locations in
Maps without losing your place, copy and paste between Pages
documents in full screen, or quickly jump between multiple email
drafts in Mail.
Picture in Picture on the Mac
You can now keep an eye on one thing while working on another.
macOS Sierra lets you float video from Safari or iTunes® in a
window over your desktop as you work, and even resize, drag and pin
video to any corner of your screen. The video stays put when you
switch spaces, so you’ll never miss a thing.
Shopping on Your Mac with Apple Pay
Users love to shop online using their Macs and with macOS the
shopping experience in Safari is now even better. Apple Pay on the
web makes it easy to make secure and private purchases when
shopping on participating websites. You no longer need to share
credit or debit card numbers with an online merchant and actual
card numbers are not stored on your device, nor on Apple servers.
Just look for the Apple Pay button at checkout on many of your
favorite shopping sites and complete your purchase with Touch ID®
on your iPhone or by using your Apple Watch®. Strong encryption
protects all communication between your devices and Apple Pay
servers, and Apple Pay does not track your purchases.
Rediscover Memories with Photos
The new Memories feature in Photos helps you rediscover favorite
and forgotten moments deep in your Photos library by automatically
creating curated collections of occasions like a first birthday
party, wedding or family vacation. With new advanced computer
vision, Photos now understands the people, places and things inside
your images using on-device facial, object and scene recognition
and location information to group images into albums. The People
feature automatically groups your photos into Albums based on who
is in them. Places now displays your photos on a world map so you
can see where they were taken. And, perfecting your photos like a
pro is now even easier with the new Brilliance tool, which pulls in
highlights and adds contrast to enhance details throughout your
images.
Additional macOS Features
• Auto Unlock lets you simply walk up to your Mac while wearing
your authenticated Apple Watch and be automatically logged into
your desktop.
• Optimized Storage frees up space when your Mac starts getting
full by storing infrequently used items in iCloud and reminding you
to delete used app installers, and even clearing out duplicate
downloads, caches, logs and more.
• Messages makes conversations more interesting, now allowing
you to preview web links and watch video clips within the app, post
reactions like a heart, thumbs up and more directly onto a message
bubble with Tapback, and use bigger emoji for more message
impact.
• Apple Music® in iTunes makes it even easier to discover new
music and browse exclusives and new releases.
Privacy in macOS
Security and privacy are fundamental to the design of Apple
hardware, software and services. iMessage and FaceTime use
end-to-end encryption to protect your data by making it unreadable
by Apple and others. Services like Siri and Maps send data to
Apple’s servers, but this data is not used to build user profiles,
and Photos uses on-device intelligence to organize your images
using facial, object and scene recognition.
Starting with macOS Sierra, Apple is using technology called
Differential Privacy to help discover the usage patterns of a large
number of users without compromising individual privacy. In macOS
Sierra, this technology will help improve autocorrect suggestions
and Lookup Hints in Notes.
Availability
The developer preview of macOS Sierra is available to Apple
Developer Program members at developer.apple.com starting today.
Mac users can sign up for the macOS Sierra Beta Program today and
download the software starting in July at beta.apple.com. The final
version will be available for free from the Mac App Store® this
fall. For more information, visit apple.com/macos/sierra-preview.
Features are subject to change, and some features may not be
available in all regions or all languages.
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction
of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in
innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
Apple’s four software platforms — iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS —
provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower
people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple
Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s 100,000 employees are
dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the
world better than we found it.
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