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Macs and MacBooks will soon be able to benefit from a new evolution of the macOS operating system, called Ventura. A lot of small improvements are on the program, as Apple presented to us at WWDC 2022.
WWDC 2022 was an opportunity for Apple to introduce its new, ever more powerful M2 processor and a new MacBook Pro that incorporates it. On the computer front, the event also allowed the company to present macOS Ventura, a new version of the operating system for its Macs and MacBooks. The main new features are to be found on the side of Stage Manager, Spotlight or Safari, while assuming a visual and practical rapprochement of macOS with iOS, in order to offer an experience that is as unified as possible within the ecosystem. A very important point for users who have several Apple devices in their possession, and in particular a Mac and an iPhone (which can work together through features such as Universal Control).
Stage Manager and its automatic organization of open applications on the side of the desktop © Apple
Internship Manager
Activated through the macOS Control Center, Stage Manager will help users better manage open applications by automatically organizing them to the side of the screen, keeping the application in use at the center. Spotlight, for its part, will now be able to search for images in its photo library and identify the text present on an image. Another interesting addition, the search will find a Shortcut. New features which, once again, should make this search tool even more powerful.
Spotlight is always looking for more things in a flash © Apple
Safari
Safari will include a new tab sharing feature, which will allow friends and collaborators to see the tabs you want in real time. The Internet browser will now also manage “biometric” passwords to replace traditional sesames on compatible platforms. In other words, we can identify ourselves on different services with Touch ID.
Tab sharing in Safari © Apple
Continuity Camera
Other cool additions include new FaceTime call handling between iPhones and Macs, with the ability to easily switch between devices without hanging up. Also, iPhones being equipped with much better photo/video sensors than MacBook webcams, macOS Ventura will allow you to use your Apple phone as a webcam. This function, called Continuity Camera, even works in portrait mode for an even more qualitative rendering.
Small redesign for the management of its FaceTime calls on several devices © Apple
And as holding your iPhone properly to use it as a webcam is not easy, Apple is paving the way for a new line of dedicated supports (a model designed by the props designer Belkin was presented).
One of the iPhone stands designed for webcam mode © Apple
Metal 3
Finally, the macOS Ventura segment ended with the announcement of Metal 3, a new version of the low-level graphics acceleration API for its GPUs. Metal 3 which, in the words of Apple, should unlock the full 3D potential of GPUs integrated into Apple Silicon processors for years to come. “It’s really a new era that opens for gaming on Mac“, assures the company.