Copy some text from your Mac and paste it on your iPhone instead of typing! The only unfortunate aspect of this capability is that it has been provided by a variety of third-party apps so far, and they may have trouble competing with Apple’s Universal Clipboard unless they can offer additional capabilities.Īpple is enhancing iCloud Drive in an interesting way. We just published a big article about the clipboard (see “ OS X Hidden Treasures: Copy and Paste,” 11 June 2016), but it will need updating once macOS Sierra ships, thanks to Universal Clipboard, which extends the clipboard concept across all your devices. Watch eliminated all requests for your Apple ID password, on all your devices? I’d pay for that. Apple said nothing about other authentication capabilities, but wouldn’t it be great if wearing an Apple Regardless of the improvements in watchOS 3, Auto Unlock may spur Apple Watch sales on its own - I get sick of typing my login password repeatedly and would have a stronger one yet if I seldom had to enter it. For instance, the new Auto Unlock feature eliminates the need to enter your login password if you’re wearing an associated Apple Watch. Tying the Apple Ecosystem Together - Most striking among the changes in macOS Sierra are those that integrate the Mac more deeply into Apple’s hardware ecosystem. With Sierra, Apple is once again alluding to a rock formation, although a much bigger one than Yosemite’s El Capitan - the Sierra Nevada mountain range in this case. So we’ll be writing about macOS 10.12 Sierra for the next 18 months. And while the “X” in OS X both moved on from Mac OS 9 and referenced the new Unix underpinnings, all of Apple’s operating systems are now based on Unix, and that’s not the selling point it was when Macs were much less stable.Īpple is continuing both the same version numbering and its recent practice of naming versions of the operating system after inspiring locations in California. It’s a good move - as a name, “OS X” had no connection with the Mac, ever since Apple dropped the word “Mac” during the days of 10.7 Lion. The change that will affect the most people is the least technical - Apple is renaming its Mac operating system from OS X to macOS to make it consistent with the company’s other operating systems, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS. MacOS 10.12 Sierra to Succeed OS X 10.11 El Capitanĭuring the WWDC 2016 keynote today, Apple took the wraps off the replacement to OS X 10.11 El Capitan. #1668: Updated Rapid Security Responses, OS public betas, screen saver bug fixed, “Red Team Blues” book review.#1669: OS security updates, ambiguity of emoji, small business payments with Melio, Twitter now X.#1670: Arc Web browser hits 1.0 release, “Do You Use It?” polls about Apple features.#1671: Apple Q3 2023 earnings, new Beats headphones and earbuds, Stage Manager adoption rate, do you use Spotlight?.1672: The hidden power of Google Sheets, Launchpad usage levels, Emergency SOS via satellite in the Maui fires, do you use proxy icons?.
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