Apple has pulled back the curtains on the new features it is adding to iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS 14 Sonoma, watchOS 10, and tvOS 17. Adam Engst recently wrote about his top features; here are 12 more that caught Julio Ojeda-Zapata’s eye.
Apple has pulled back the curtains on the new features it’s adding to iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS 15, watchOS 10, and tvOS 17. Here are the 12 that Adam Engst finds the most immediately interesting.
After becoming a convert to vertical tabs thanks to Arc, Adam Engst is now seeing and hearing about vertical tabs support all over the place. Though none are luring him away from Arc, he runs down the options in Brave, Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Orion, Safari, SigmaOS, and Vivaldi. So many browsers!
Patches five WebKit security vulnerabilities in Monterey and Big Sur. (Free, various sizes, macOS 11+)
Patches a WebKit security vulnerability in Monterey and Big Sur. (Free, various sizes, macOS 11+)
Patches security vulnerabilities in Monterey and Big Sur. (Free, various sizes, macOS 11+)
Patches a security vulnerability in Monterey and Big Sur. (Free, various sizes, macOS 11+)
Patches security vulnerabilities in Monterey and Big Sur. (Free, various sizes, macOS 11+)
Patches security vulnerabilities in Monterey and Big Sur. (Free, various sizes, macOS 11+)
Patches security vulnerabilities in Monterey and Big Sur. (Free, various sizes, macOS 11+)
Updates the Web browser's Tab Groups feature and provides several security updates. (Free, various sizes, macOS 11/12)
Patches a major security vulnerability for Big Sur and Catalina. (Free, various sizes, macOS 10.15+)
The results are in and wow, do people not use a lot of Apple’s features. In fact, only 4 of 20 features garnered more votes from those who used the feature than those who didn’t. Some of the usage patterns are no surprise—SharePlay, really?—but others caught us off guard.
Patches security vulnerabilities for Big Sur and Catalina. (Free, various sizes, macOS 10.15+)
In its ongoing effort to protect users’ privacy, Apple has built a series of related technologies into macOS 12 Monterey, iOS 15, and iPadOS 15. Unfortunately, they can cause network connectivity issues, such that you might want to disable one or more. Here is how we think they work.