Apple announced MacOS Ventura, the latest version of its Mac operating system, at its WWDC 2022 on Monday, June 6. MacOS Ventura is the successor to MacOS Monterey and brings many new features to the Mac.
Ventura adds a new feature called Stage Manager, which helps you rearrange and group your open windows. At the same time, Spotlight updates will allow you to search for images on the Internet and search within images.
Multitasking gets a whole new life with Stage Manager
If you had to remember only one feature during the presentation of macOS Ventura, it’s Stage Manager. Activated from Control Center, the utility will automatically arrange your open apps to the side of your screen while centering the one you’re working on. Users can also drag desktop icons to sidelined app icons to import them quickly.
Spotlight (macOS’s search bar) also gets new search features, including the ability to find photos in your collection, search for items on the web, and search for images by the text in the image. herself. Spotlight also offers the ability to perform tasks directly from Spotlight, such as creating new documents or running shortcuts.
A cascade of new features for native applications
Ventura is also bringing updates to the Mail app and Safari. In Mail, you’ll be able to undo and schedule sent messages, and Apple touted “more accurate and comprehensive results” in Mail’s search function when announcing the new operating system. In Safari, you’ll be able to share groups of tabs and create Passkeys, unique login credentials for each individual site that requires login.
macOS Ventura also includes Metal 3, a graphics API upgrade that allows games to be developed and ported to the Mac. These upgrades will allow the MacBook Air to run games at 1080p resolution, and Mac Studio devices will be able to play at up to 4K. It remains to be seen if the developers will be thrilled, the Mac having struggled to convince them since the beginning of its history…
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Mac (finally) gets Weather and Clock apps
With macOS Ventura, Apple is bringing a native weather app to the Mac, along with a new Clock app that lets users set timers, see world clocks, set alarms, and more. Until now, these applications were only present in the form of greatly limited widgets in terms of functionality.
Availability of macOS Ventura
According to Apple’s macOS Ventura support, the next version of macOS is limited to the following Macs:
- Mac Studio (2022)
- Mac Pro (2019 and later)
- Mac mini (2018 and later)
- MacBook Pro (2017 and later)
- MacBook Air (2018 and later)
- MacBook (2017 and later)
- iMac Pro (2017 and later)
- iMac (2017 and later)
MacOS Ventura will go through a public beta in July, before being released to everyone in the fall.
Source : Apple
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