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Coming to Mac this autumn –with stacks of must-use features
While Apple Intelligence was the headline act of Apple’s WWDC keynote, the Mac got plenty of love too with some great new features coming courtesy of macOS 15 Sequoia later this year. W Of these, the most surprising is that Apple is bringing the iPhone to the Mac via Continuity and a new feature it calls iPhone Mirroring. This shows your iPhone screen right on your Mac’s display and enables you to fully interact with it – even if your iPhone is locked and in your pocket or bag.
You’ll be able to do things like use your apps, swipe between Home Screens and view and respond to notifications. You’ll even be able to use your Mac’s mouse, trackpad and keyboard to do so.
Surfing the web with Safari will also be smarter, with Highlights helping you pinpoint exactly what you’re looking for on any web page, while Reader can summarise a page for you, bringing out its more pertinent details. And there’s a new Video Viewer, which will make watching online videos easier, with playback and Picture in Picture controls.
Sequoia is also promising to help you stay organised, suggesting suitable tiled locations for windows on your desktop. Plus, there’s a standalone Passwords app, meaning you will no longer have to go rummaging around in System Settings to find passwords and passkeys like you had to in Sonoma.
Not surprisingly, Apple Intelligence features appear throughout – helping you find things faster and easier in things like Siri; find images and videos and perform smart edits with Clean Up in Photos; and generate original images in apps such as Freeform and Keynote as well as via the standalone Image Playground app. Other apps that stand to benefit include Notes, which will be able to transcribe audio recordings and create smart summaries – handy for things such as lecture notes.
Compatbility
Other changes include an enhanced Game mode, which will now have Personalised Spatial Audio, while Apple is hoping to bring even more triple-A games to the Mac with its Game Porting Toolkit 2 available for developers.
You’ll be able to install macOS 15 Sequoia on all Apple silicon Macs when it becomes available later this year with some older Intel models supported too. As with the previous OS, though, not all features will be supported on Intel.
iPhone gets even smarter
U nsurprisingly, it’s iPhone that got some of biggest new features at WWDC – and not only because of Apple Intelligence. One of the biggest changes comes to the H
