![]() With this in mind it’s a pleasant surprise that the new (smarter) Start Page in Safari is actually really good, mainly because AI/Siri works pretty hard to populate the page with sites you go to. I’ve always tended to ignore browser start pages as these always seem to end up becoming quite cluttered – it’s ended up being easier to just type the URL I need. Safari is faster, smarter and more secure in Catalina. This didn’t impact me, but anyone relying on 32-bit versions of apps (such as older versions of Adobe Creative Suite or Office) will find the Catalina demands they upgrade the app. The TV app is where you'll find your movies and TV shows now. While before you connected your device to boot iTunes to engage in the task, now you will sync devices in the Finder. One of the biggest changes most Mac users will experience is in syncing an iOS device with their music and media library: There are lots of people promising to use this to bring apps across, but right now we have Apple’s TV, Music and Podcast apps, which work in much the same way as their iOS equivalents. ![]() All the young AppsĬatalina promises to bring a mass migration of iPad apps over to the Mac. Your information is not shared and any data that does need to ship between your devices is heavily secured, anonymized and so forth.Īpple doesn’t know what your images include, but your device (including your Mac) knows how to present them to you and make them better. Not only can the application identify great images, but when it generates a Memory (a curated collection of images around a topic, place or subject) it can figure out how to enhance an image to make it better using a combination of machine intelligence tricks and analysis.īetter yet, it does all of this work on the device itself. Photos is a brilliant illustration of how Apple wants to pour AI into your devices. ![]() It will find images for you, sort them, assemble them into useful albums, and is capable of intelligently analyzing your images to find the best shots you’ve got. IDG Photos: It’s not an app, it’s an intelligent curatorĪcross all its supported platforms, Apple’s vision for Photos is that the application acts more as a smart curator to help you get the best out of your images than merely as a simple photo archive.īack when Photos was first announced earlier this century, Steve Jobs likened it to a digital shoebox for all your old images that made them easier to sort through and enjoy. Using a combination of on-screen labels and grid references you can direct your Mac mouse to precisely where you want it to be. Using Voice Control to navigate the Mac is another revelation. Capitalize that,” still feels awkward to me, but it’s a lot less awkward than speech-to-text systems used to be – and it’s wild that this is now a free feature on every Mac. Making corrections – while a little cumbersome – is pretty easy, too. I’ve also found the system to be quite responsive when I want to add custom words. I have found some pronunciation challenges and Voice Control (beta) has sometimes been a little buggy, but not critically so. For me, it has been a real delight figuring out how to use my Mac with just my voice, though for many users it means so much more than that. Voice Control in macOS Catalina is possibly my favorite feature. While there’s lots of new additions buried inside the OS, Apple has protected the familiar Mac UI, so nothing feels too different – even though in some ways, it really is. ![]() However, once I installed Catalina I was impressed with how quickly I became familiar with it. But I imagine that since public testing has begun, we’ll see some of those features enter wider deployment. Some of the best features – such as Sign in With Apple or Find My – aren’t yet fully realized, because services haven’t adopted it yet. Remember this is beta software and sometimes things go wrong.Check software compatibility before you install, particularly for third-party applications that may be essential to your work.Backup all your data before you install.Don’t install the OS on a Mac you must rely on.These instructions may help you install the OS on your Mac.
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