The new Mac operating system is finally available. Discover all the new features before installing it.
macOS Mojave is officially available for everyone to download. With this new version, Apple inaugurates a more modern interface, punctuated with functions and optimizations that should appeal to more than one. macOS has been reworked from every angle to perfectly adjust to user needs and provide an ever more intuitive experience.
Compatible with Macs from 2012 (as well as Mac Pro equipped with a Metal-compatible GPU), the macOS 10.14 update can be downloaded for free from the Mac App Store. However, for those who would like to perform a complete reinstallation of their machine can still create an installation USB key to do it manually.
Dark mode
The first big novelty of macOS is obvious and will please many. Claimed for years, Apple has finally integrated a dark mode in its operating system. Window treatments change to space gray to provide a visually more comfortable working environment, especially if you are used to working in low light conditions.
Applications native to macOS are already compatible with this dark mode, and third-party applications can and will adopt it as well. Although it will take a bit of work for the developers to adapt their program.
To accompany you throughout your working day, thanks to the dynamic desktop, the wallpaper of your desktop will change according to the moment, morning, noon, afternoon, evening, etc.
Another novelty of the office, the organization of the files it contains in Stacks. Often chosen as the default directory to temporarily store a document, the office can quickly turn into a mess.
With Mojave, Apple is trying to remedy this by automatically organizing the files in stacks. Each of them groups the files according to their type, their date, or their tag if you have decided to assign some to your documents. With one click, you can expand the stack of documents to see a complete overview of the items grouped there.
Finder
The nerve center of macOS, Finder, features a new gallery layout template, which lets you browse your files instantly at a preview, with the ability to view the file’s metadata, displayed in a dedicated pane.
Quick actions are also grafted to the Finder and allow you to rotate your misdirected images, create PDFs, shorten your videos, or even quickly annotate a document.
To complete this paraphernalia, the Quick Look mode, which allows you to display the preview of a selected file by pressing the space bar, introduces new functions. Now, it is possible to perform quick actions on your documents directly from Quick Look without having to open them in an application. You can annotate your PDFs, rotate your images, crop them, trim your audio and video files, and more.
Finally, the macOS dock now displays the last three applications open on the machine in its right end, just next to the recycle bin.
Screenshot
The macOS screenshot utility is also evolving. If the Cmd + Shift + 3 and Cmd + Shift + 4 shortcuts are still valid, Mojave welcomes a new shortcut, Cmd + Shift + 5 which displays a menu dedicated to captures. It allows you to capture the screen, the window, a specific zone, but also to launch a recording of the screen or of a defined zone without having to go through Quicktime.
It is also from this menu that it is possible to choose a save location other than the one configured by default, to activate a timer or even to display the mouse cursor in the captured capture.
Continuity
Inaugurated with Yosemite and iOS 8, the continuity feature allowed switching from an iOS device to a Mac in an instant to continue a task started on another device.
With macOS Mojave, the Continuity feature now offers the ability to immediately import an image captured with an iPhone. From macOS, click the File menu to Insert Photo, then shoot someone or scan a document using iPhone’s camera. After validation of the snapshot, the image captured with the iPhone can be displayed immediately in a document, or available as a PDF file in the case of a scan.
New applications
The arrival of Mojave also marks the launch of certain iOS applications on macOS. Stock Exchange, Home (Home) and Dictaphone land on macOS in a redesign adapted to follow the price of your shares, to manage your HomeKit compatible accessories, or to record voice memos in one click.
New Mac App Store
The Mac App Store is getting a makeover. Like the App Store on iOS, the Mac App Store adopts a new look and above all, puts the package on the editorialized content: thematic selections of applications, major software updates, and other new features are put in place. highlighted by Apple’s editorial team with the help of articles aimed at guiding you in your choices.
In addition to the categories that have been redesigned, the Mac App Store offers thematic tabs to explore the catalog according to your uses (Create, Work, Play, etc.), with, again, selections edited by Apple teams. .
Developers also have new tools to highlight their software since the Mac App Store now allows them to offer video previews of the features or interface of their program.
Finally, if the OS is installed from the Mac App Store, all future updates are now done from the System Preferences panel. You can also make sure that Mojave is kept up to date without your intervention.
Security
On the security and confidentiality side, Mojave now offers more control over your data by forcing installed applications to ask for your authorization to access your messages and emails, on the microphone or even on your Mac’s camera.
On the Web, an effort has been made in Safari to limit advertising tracking. The macOS web browser now only shares a simplified system profile to prevent sites you visit from tracking you by creating your “fingerprint.”
Finally, to close the security aspect, macOS Mojave, like macOS, secures your various accounts thanks to Safari’s password manager, now able to suggest reliable and unique passwords, and to indicate the accounts for which the pass have been reused elsewhere to help you identify them for modification.
Group Facetime
As on iOS FaceTime will allow users to make group calls of up to 32 participants. Available in the macOS beta, group calls are not yet active in the final version of Mojave and should land sometime in the fall.
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