Savour your favorite iPad apps now on your Mac. Extend your workspace and expand your inventiveness with iPad and Apple Pencil. And notice smart new features in the apps you lot utilize every day. At present you tin take everything y'all do above and beyond.

What's the departure between the macOS combo and the regular update?

The macOS regular update only includes the files needed to update from the firsthand previous version, for example from 10.5.ii to 10.5.iii. The philharmonic update includes all the files necessary to update from the last major version. Y'all would want to download the combo update if you're going from 10.five.0 to x.5.3.

The supplemental update focuses on security issues simply.

Music, TV, and podcasts have middle stage.

iTunes forever changed the way people experienced music, movies, Tv shows, and podcasts. It all changes again with 3 all-new, dedicated apps --- Apple tree Music, Apple tree TV, and Apple tree Podcasts --- each designed from the ground up to be the best way to bask amusement on your Mac. And remainder assured; everything yous had in your iTunes library is still attainable in each app. iCloud seamlessly syncs everything across your devices --- or yous can back up, restore, and sync by connecting the device straight to your Mac.

Presenting Apple Music on Mac.

The new Apple Music app is the ultimate music streaming experience on Mac.1 Explore a library of 50 meg songs, discover new artists and tracks, discover the perfect playlist, download and listen offline, or enjoy all the music you've collected over the years. And find it all in your music library on all your devices.

Apple TV. Premiering on Mac.

The Apple TV app for Mac is the new home for all your favorite movies, shows, premium channels, and --- coming shortly --- Apple TV+. Watch everything directly in the app or relish it offline, and discover the all-time of what's on in the Watch Now tab. You lot tin fifty-fifty pick up where you left off on whatsoever screen, across all your devices. And for the commencement time, 4K2 and Dolby Atmos3-supported movies are available on Mac.

Listen upwards. Podcasts on Mac.

More than 700,000 of the all-time entertainment, one-act, news, and sports shows are now available on your Mac with Apple Podcasts. Search for podcasts past title, topic, guest, host, content, and more. Subscribe and be notified equally before long as new episodes go bachelor. And in the Mind At present tab, you lot tin can hands pick upwards where you lot left off across all your devices.

The apps you love. Right on your Mac.

Experience your favorite iPad apps now on your Mac. With Mac Catalyst, developers can hands create Mac apps from the iPad apps you already know and honey. They run natively alongside your existing Mac apps so you tin drag and drop content between them. They take full advantage of the larger screen and powerful architecture of your Mac. And because they are built from their iOS versions, they provide a seamless experience across your devices. Enjoy a broad range of Mac apps --- from travel, amusement, and gaming to banking, instruction, and project management.

The Twitter for Mac app takes full reward of the native Mac features similar multiple windows, drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts, and more. See more of what'due south happening on a larger screen and easily piece of work aslope your other Mac apps.

The apps you employ every day, made extraordinary.

With macOS Catalina, the apps you dear are now more beautiful and intelligent than ever. And so your everyday tasks are easier than ever.

Photos. Focus on your best shots.

Photos has a new immersive, dynamic look that showcases your photos and memories. Encounter only the best shots in your library, without the duplicates and clutter. Scan your favorite photos past days, months, and years and go larger previews of all your photos. And Photos is even smarter, and so it tin highlight important moments similar birthdays, anniversaries, and trips.

Notes. Easier to find. And easier to share.

A new gallery view and more powerful search assistance yous find your notes quicker than ever. Shared folders let you interact on entire folders of notes with another person or a grouping. And new checklist options let you lot motion completed items to the bottom, speedily reorder items using drag and drib, and more than.

Organization. Reorganized.

The Reminders app has been completely rebuilt, with an all-new blueprint and new ways to easily create, organize, and keep track of reminders. Add together attachments to reminders, create or change reminders with the quick edit buttons, and permit Siri advise new ones found in Messages. Smart lists automatically organize and display your upcoming reminders. And if you tag someone in a reminder, yous'll be notified the next time you're chatting in Messages.

What'southward New:

macOS Catalina Security Update 2021-003 is recommended for all users and improves the security of macOS.

macOS Catalina ten.xv.half dozen introduces local news in your Today feed in Apple News and improves the security and reliability of your Mac.

Apple News

  • Local news in your Today feed provides extensive coverage of San Francisco, the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Houston, and New York City
  • More than stories available from local news providers with a subscription to Apple News+
  • Your daily newsletter from Apple News can at present be personalized with stories that reflect your interests

This update likewise includes bug fixes and other improvements.

  • Adds a new option to optimize video streaming on HDR-compatible Mac notebooks for improved battery life
  • Fixes an result where the calculator proper name may change after installing a software update
  • Resolves an result where certain USB mouse and trackpads may lose connection

What'south New in macOS x.5.v:

macOS Catalina x.15.5 introduces battery health management in the Energy Saver settings for notebooks, an option to command automated prominence of video tiles on Group FaceTime calls, and controls to fine-tune the born calibration of your Pro Display XDR. The update also improves the stability, reliability, and security of your Mac.

Battery Health Management

  • Battery health management to help maximize bombardment lifespan for Mac notebooks
  • Energy Saver preference pane at present displays bombardment condition and recommends if the battery needs to be serviced
  • Option to disable battery wellness management
  • For more information, delight visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211094

FaceTime Prominence Preference

  • Choice to control automated prominence on Group FaceTime calls and then video tiles do not change size when a participant speaks

Scale Fine-Tuning for Pro Display XDR

  • Controls to fine-tune the congenital-in calibration of your Pro Display XDR past adjusting the white bespeak and luminance for a precise friction match to your own display scale target

This update also includes bug fixes and other improvements.

  • Fixes an effect that may prevent Reminders from sending notifications for recurring reminders
  • Addresses an issue that may prevent password entry on the login screen
  • Fixes an issue where System Preferences would proceed to bear witness a notification bluecoat fifty-fifty after installing an update
  • Resolves an event where the built-in camera may not exist detected when trying to utilise it after using a video conferencing app
  • Addresses an result for Mac computers with the Apple T2 Security Bit where internal speakers may not appear as a sound output device in Sound preferences
  • Fixes a stability issue with uploading and downloading media files from iCloud Photo Library while your Mac is asleep
  • Resolves a stability event when transferring large amounts of information to RAID volumes
  • Fixes an issue where the Reduced Motion Accessibility preference did not reduce the speed of animations in a FaceTime grouping call

macOS Catalina 10.15.4 introduces iCloud Drive folder sharing, Screen Fourth dimension communications limits, Apple tree Music time-synced lyrics view, and more. The update as well improves the stability, reliability, and security of your Mac.

Finder

  • iCloud Drive binder sharing from Finder
  • Controls to limit access only to people you explicitly invite, or to grant admission to anyone with the folder link
  • Permissions to cull who tin can make changes and upload files and who can merely view and download files

Screen Time

  • Communication limits for controlling who your children tin can communicate with and be contacted past throughout the day and during downtime
  • Playback control of music videos for your children

Music

  • Fourth dimension-synced lyrics view for Apple Music, including the ability to jump to your favorite role of a song by clicking a line in lyrics view

Safari

  • Choice to import Chrome passwords into your iCloud Keychain for easy AutoFill of your passwords in Safari and across all your devices
  • Controls for duplicating a tab and for closing all tabs to the correct of the current tab
  • HDR playback back up on compatible computers for Netflix content

App Store with Apple Arcade

  • Universal Purchase support enables the employ of a singular buy of a participating app across iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV
  • Recently played Arcade games appear in the Arcade tab so yous can proceed playing on iPhone, iPod bear upon, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV

Pro Brandish XDR

  • Customized reference modes that you tin tailor to specific workflow needs past selecting from several color gamut, white point, luminance, and transfer office options

Accessibility

  • Head pointer preference for moving a cursor on the screen based on the precise movements of your head

This update also includes bug fixes and other improvements.

  • High Dynamic Range output to HDR10-compatible tertiary-political party displays and TVs connected with DisplayPort or HDMI
  • OAuth authentication support with Outlook.com accounts for improved security
  • CalDav migration back up when upgrading to iCloud reminders on a secondary device
  • Resolves an result where text copied between apps may appear invisible when Nighttime Mode is agile
  • Fixes an issue in Safari where a CAPTCHA tile may display incorrectly
  • Resolves an upshot where Reminders may send notifications for completed reminders
  • Fixes an upshot with screen brightness for the LG UltraFine 5K display afterward waking from slumber

What's New in Catalina 10.15.3:

The ‌macOS Catalina‌ 10.15.3 update improves the stability, reliability and security of your Mac, and is recommended for all users.

This update:

  • Optimizes gamma treatment of low grey levels on Pro Display XDR for SDR workflows when using macOS
  • Improves multi-stream video editing performance for HEVC and H.264 encoded 4K video on the 16-inch MacBook Pro (2019)

What's New in Catalina 10.15.ii:

The macOS Catalina 10.15.ii update improves the stability, reliability and performance of your Mac and is recommended for all users.

This update adds the following features:

Apple News

  • New layout for Apple News+ stories from The Wall Street Journal and other leading newspapers

Stocks

  • Go links to related stories or more stories from the same publication at the terminate of an article
  • "Breaking" and "Developing" labels for Meridian Stories
  • Stories from Apple tree News are now available in Canada in English and French

This update also includes the following bug fixes and improvements:

Music

  • Restores the column browser view for managing the music library
  • Resolves an issue that may prevent album artwork from appearing
  • Fixes an event that may reset music blaster settings during playback

iTunes Remote

  • Adds support for using an iPhone or iPad to remotely control the Music and TV apps on a Mac

Photos

  • Resolves an event that may cause some .AVI and .MP4 files to appear equally unsupported
  • Fixes an event that prevents newly created folders from actualization in Albums view
  • Addresses an result where manually sorted images in an album may be printed or exported out of order
  • Fixes an issue that prevents the zoom-to-crop tool from working in a print preview

Mail

  • Addresses an issue that may crusade Mail service Preferences to open up with a blank window
  • Resolves an issue that may forbid using disengage from retrieving deleted postal service

Other

  • Improves the reliability of syncing books and audiobooks to your iPad or iPhone through Finder
  • Fixes an issue where reminders may exist out of order in the Today smart list in the Reminders app
  • Resolves an issue that may cause slow typing operation in the Notes app

New features available with macOS Catalina:

Music

  • Designed for Apple Music: Stream and download more than fifty million songs ad-gratis. Every time y'all open up the app, you'll become the best of Apple Music personalized to your tastes with For You lot.
  • Music Store: For users who nonetheless similar to ain their music, the iTunes Shop is just a click away.
  • Now Playing: The new Music app includes an updated player. Easily see lyrics while y'all're listening and control the music that will play next with just a click. Or switch to MiniPlayer to listen while multitasking.
  • Library: All your music organized in 1 identify. Encounter artists, albums, songs, playlists, and recent additions with a familiar card in the new sidebar. And at present, type what you're looking for in the updated library pages to speedily find the exact song in your music collection.

Television

  • Library: Easily find all your purchased movies and shows in the updated Library tab. Browse by recently added, downloaded, genres, and more than.
  • Movies and TV: Buy or rent new-release movies or explore the catalog of more than than 100,000 movies and shows --- including the largest catalog of 4K HDR titles.2
  • Apple Goggle box channels3: Try new Apple Telly channels, including HBO, Showtime, Starz, and more. Subscribe and share with upward to six family members. Channels play in the Apple Television set app advert-free, online or off --- no additional apps, accounts, or passwords needed. Try them free and cancel anytime.
  • Dwelling for Apple Goggle box+: Apple'southward new premium streaming service brings you a wide range of exclusive original shows and films from the world'southward greatest talent. Apple TV+ will be available in the Apple TV app this fall.
  • Watch Now: Watch At present is your home in the Apple Tv app. Find expertly curated collections and personalized recommendations picked just for you.
  • Up Next: Watch Now includes Up Adjacent, which helps you quickly find and watch your favorites. It too lets you resume what you're watching from the moment you left off, across all your devices.
  • Kids: A new dedicated Kids section helps you discover great, editorially handpicked shows and movies for kids of all ages.
  • Apple TV app everywhere: You can pick up where you left off on Apple tree TV, iPad, iPhone, select smart TVs, and now Mac.
  • Dolby Atmos: Enjoy a thrilling environment sound feel with Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital, or Dolby Digital Plus soundtracks in the Apple Goggle box app using the built-in speakers on certain Mac models.

Podcasts

  • Mind At present: Go along listening to your favorite podcast episodes or run into when a new ane is available. Or find other shows you lot might like based on the ones you're already listening to.
  • Library: The Apple Podcasts library is the one place for all the shows you've subscribed to or added --- organized by show championship or episode title. Download your favorite episodes to listen offline.
  • Browse: With over 700,000 shows in the catalog, our editors pick the best shows for you to scan each week. Try a prove from New & Noteworthy or bank check out which shows are trending in Top Charts.
  • Search: Search provides better results when you're searching for a topic or people --- even find episodes featuring a specific guest or host.

Syncing

  • Media syncing: All iii services --- Apple Television, Apple Music, and Apple Podcasts --- sync your content through the deject across your devices. Or sync it from each of the apps if you prefer using a cable.
  • Dorsum upward, update, and restore through the Finder: Each time you lot connect a device, you can find it in the Finder sidebar. From at that place you tin dorsum upwardly, update, and restore your device.

Photos

  • All-new Photos tab: A beautiful new browsing experience showcases your photos and memories.
  • Day, month, and yr organization: Photos is organized past solar day, month, and year views so information technology'south easy to find photos or relive your memories. Animations and transitions keep your spot in the timeline so you can switch between views without losing your place.
  • Big photo previews: Photo previews are larger to assistance you distinguish between shots. Photos uses intelligence to find the all-time office of your photograph in previews, and then you run into the full, unedited version when you open the photo.
  • Auto-playing Live Photos and videos: Alive Photos and videos begin playing as you scroll, bringing your library to life.
  • Personalization: Using machine learning on your Mac, Photos can empathize who's in your photos and what's happening to highlight important moments like birthdays, anniversaries, and trips.
  • Your best shots: Photos intelligently showcases the best shots in your library, removing duplicates and clutter.
  • All Photos: The All Photos view displays all your photos and videos in a filigree. Choose to zoom in for large previews, or zoom out to get an overview of your entire collection. Yous tin can also choose to view your photos and videos in foursquare or original format.
  • Memory movies: At present you tin view Memory movies on your Mac and edit the duration, mood, and title. Edits sync to your other devices when yous use iCloud Photos.

Notes

  • Gallery view: The all-new gallery view displays your notes every bit visual thumbnails, making it easier than always to chop-chop find the note yous're looking for.
  • Shared folders: Interact on entire folders, including all the notes and subfolders inside. Invite others to a folder, and anybody can add notes, attachments, or subfolders.
  • View-only collaboration: You lot can now share notes or entire folders as view-only so that you're the only ane who can make changes.
  • More powerful search: Search can now recognize objects or scenes within the images you've added to your notes and can help you find specific text in the items yous've scanned using the built-in document scanner. Search is besides helpful before you lot type, with suggested searches that you tin can merely click to view.
  • New checklist options: Quickly reorder checklist items using drag and drop or keyboard shortcuts, and move checked items to the lesser and out of the mode. If you lot've completed the checklist and want to employ information technology again, you can click to uncheck all the items and start over.

Reminders

  • All-new design: The Reminders app has been completely rebuilt with an all-new user interface and more powerful features, making it easier than ever to create, organize, and keep track of reminders.
  • New edit buttons: Quickly add dates, times, locations, or flags to reminders using the new edit buttons, all without having to go to another view.
  • Enhanced Siri intelligence: Y'all can blazon longer, more than descriptive sentences and Reminders understands and provides relevant suggestions. Siri intelligence on your device can besides assist anticipate your needs by suggesting that you create a reminder while you lot make plans in Messages.
  • Attachments: Add attachments to your reminders to make them more informative and useful. You tin can add photos, scanned documents, or fifty-fifty web links that take you directly to a website related to the reminder.
  • Tasks and grouped lists: In that location are more than options for organizing your reminders. Y'all can capture tasks associated with a pinnacle-level reminder. You can also group multiple lists.
  • Smart lists: All-new smart lists automatically organize your upcoming reminders into easy-to-observe categories like Today, Flagged, Scheduled, or All to see them in a unmarried listing.
  • Customize list appearance: Customize the appearance of your personal or shared iCloud lists, choosing from 12 beautiful colors and 60 expressive symbols.
  • Letters integration: Tag someone in a reminder and the side by side fourth dimension you're chatting with the person in Messages, you'll be reminded that now might be a proficient fourth dimension to talk.

Safari

  • Updated start page: An updated start page blueprint includes favorites, frequently visited, and Siri suggestions that surface relevant websites in your browsing history, recently visited sites, bookmarks, reading list, iCloud Tabs, and links you receive in Letters.
  • Weak countersign warnings: When y'all sign in to an account in Safari with a weak, easy-to-approximate password, Safari warns you lot and helps you supercede it with a stronger one.
  • PiP from the tab sound push button: Apace enable Picture in Moving picture from the tab audio push.
  • Switch to open tab from the Smart Search field: If you starting time typing the accost of a website that'southward already open, Safari directs y'all to the open up tab.

Mail service

  • Block sender: Mail can block all email from specified senders and move their messages directly to the trash. Just as in Messages, you tin access this feature by clicking the sender'south name in any email header.
  • Unsubscribe: An unsubscribe link for email messages from commercial lists now appears above the electronic mail header. Clicking Unsubscribe requests removal of your email address from the list.
  • Mute Thread: Mute Thread prevents notifications from an overly active email thread.
  • Updated classic layout: Arranges the Mail viewer in a cavalcade layout, with an option to preview the electric current bulletin beneath or to the correct of your message list.

Sidecar

  • Extended desktop: Apply your iPad as a second display for additional screen space. Refer to one app while yous work in another, or see how a presentation looks in presentation mode on your iPad while editing it on your Mac.
  • Mirrored desktop: Mirror the screen on your Mac to have two screens displaying the aforementioned content, making information technology perfect for sharing with others.
  • Wired or wireless: Connect your iPad to your Mac using a cablevision to keep it charged, or use it wirelessly --- within 10 meters --- for greater mobility.
  • Apple Pencil: Utilize the precision and intuitiveness of Apple Pencil with your favorite creative Mac apps that back up drawing tablets. Draw and write naturally, edit a photo or graphic, and utilise information technology to point and click as you lot practice with a mouse.
  • Gestures: Use the same Multi-Bear on gestures you lot're familiar with on iPad, along with all-new text editing gestures that permit y'all cut, copy, paste, and undo without lifting your hands from the onscreen keyboard.
  • Sidebar: Get easy admission to your most commonly used controls from the sidebar. Use modifier keys to enable shortcuts in pro apps, and access buttons that permit you to undo equally well as display or hide the menu bar, Dock, and keyboard.
  • Touch on Bar: For apps with Impact Bar support, the controls appear at the lesser of your iPad screen --- even if your Mac doesn't have a Touch Bar.
  • Developer support: Developers don't demand to do anything for Sidecar support --- it merely works. Apps with advanced stylus support tin can employ Tablet Events in AppKit to enable pressure level and tilt for Apple Pencil. Additionally, developers can specify custom behavior for double-tap on the side of Apple Pencil through a changeMode upshot.

Continuity Markup and Sketch

  • Continuity Markup: Write and sketch on PDFs or mark up your documents with Apple Pencil. See the updates live on your Mac as you mark them up on your iPad.
  • Continuity Sketch: Create a sketch on your iPad using Apple tree Pencil and hands insert information technology into any document on your Mac.

Screen Time

  • Usage reports: Screen Time creates usage reports that testify you how much time is being spent on your Mac, which apps are used most, and how many notifications are received. With iCloud, Screen Time combines all your usage information and syncs Downtime settings and App Limits across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
  • Downtime: With Screen Time, y'all can schedule downtime so you (or your kid) can only utilise specific apps you've approved.
  • App Limits: With App Limits, y'all tin can set the amount of time yous want to use your apps and websites. Ready App Limits for total time, categories, or specific apps.
  • Combined Limits: Create combined limits with a combination of app categories, specific apps, or websites.
  • I More than Infinitesimal: When a limit is met, you can tap "One more minute" to requite yous time to quickly save your work or wrap upward a chat.
  • Communication Limits: Communication Limits allow you command who your children can communicate with and who can communicate with them throughout the day and during reanimation.
  • Managed contact list for children: Parents can utilise Screen Time to manage the contacts that appear on their children'south devices.
  • Family Sharing: Parents can configure Screen Time from any device --- iPhone, iPad, or Mac --- and have everything set upwards for their kids on all their devices.

Security

  • Enhanced Gatekeeper: Gatekeeper volition ensure that all new apps you install --- from the App Shop or the net --- have been checked for known security issues by Apple before you run them the first time and periodically thereafter. This extends the protection from the app'south source to include automatic checks for what's in the app.
  • Data protections: macOS Catalina checks with you lot before allowing an app to access your information in your Documents, Desktop, and Downloads folders; iCloud Drive; the folders of third-political party cloud storage providers; removable media; and external volumes. In addition, you lot're asked before an app tin can perform key logging or capture a nonetheless or video recording of your screen.
  • Activation Lock: All Mac models with the Apple T2 Security Scrap now support Activation Lock --- only like your iPhone or iPad. So if your Mac is e'er misplaced or lost, the only person who tin can erase and reactivate information technology is you.
  • Dedicated system volume: macOS Catalina runs in a dedicated, read-only arrangement volume --- which means information technology is completely carve up from all other data and helps improve the reliability of macOS.
  • DriverKit and user space system extensions: Previously many hardware peripherals and sophisticated features needed to run their code straight within macOS using kernel extensions, or kexts. Now these programs run separately from the operating system, merely like any other app, and so they can't affect macOS if something goes wrong.

Find My

  • Two great apps in i: Find My iPhone and Find My Friends are now combined in a single, easy-to-employ app to assist you locate the people and devices that are important to you.
  • Find offline devices: Locate a missing device even if it's not connected to Wi-Fi using crowd-sourced location. When you mark your device as missing and another Apple user's device is nearby, it can detect your device'south Bluetooth indicate and report its location to you lot. It's completely bearding and encrypted end-to-end, so anybody's privacy is protected.
  • Enhanced location notifications: Location notifications include the power to schedule notifications for unlike days of the calendar week, more than useful place names, and enhanced privacy controls.

Approve with Apple tree Picket

  • View passwords: Anywhere you need to type your Mac countersign, such as viewing passwords in Safari preferences, you can now double-click the side push button on your Apple Picket to authenticate on your Mac.
  • Approval app installations: Unlock a locked notation, approve app installations, unlock settings in System Preferences, and modify root files, all with your Apple Lookout man.

Accessibility

  • Vocalism Control: Vocalism Command is a new mode to fully control your Mac, iOS, and iPadOS devices entirely with your voice.
  • Accurate dictation: Voice Control improves on the existing Enhanced Dictation characteristic using the Siri speech recognition engine, and so you become the latest advances in auto learning for sound-to-text transcription.
  • Add custom words: Whether you're writing a biology report, filling out a legal certificate, or emailing almost a favorite topic, you lot can add custom words to ensure that Voice Command recognizes the words you normally utilise.
  • On-device processing: All audio processing for Voice Command happens on your device, ensuring that your personal data is kept individual.
  • Rich text editing: Thank you to rich text editing commands, you don't accept to rehearse before you speak. Making corrections is quick and easy. You can replace phrases by name. Endeavor saying "Replace I'm almost there with I just arrived." Fine-grained selection besides makes it unproblematic to select text. Try saying "Motility up ii lines. Select previous give-and-take. Capitalize that."
  • Discussion and emoji suggestions: If you need to correct a word, at that place's a new interface just for that. Only inquire to correct a word, and you'll be presented with a list of suggested replacements.
  • Seamless transitions from dictation to commands: Voice Command understands contextual cues, and so you lot can seamlessly transition betwixt text dictation and commands. For example, say "Happy Birthday. Tap send." in Messages, and Vocalisation Control sends "Happy Birthday" --- only as y'all intended. You can also say "delete that", and Voice Control knows to delete what you only typed.
  • Comprehensive app navigation: You can rely entirely on your voice to navigate an app. Comprehensive navigation is provided by navigation commands, names of accessibility labels, numbers, and grids.
  • Navigation commands: Navigation commands requite you quick ways to collaborate with macOS and apps. You lot tin can open up apps, search the web, open Spotlight, and more.
  • Names: You lot tin can hands navigate by telling Voice Command to select the name of an accessibility label for buttons, links, and more.
  • Numbers: Say "bear witness numbers" to run into numbers appear next to all clickable items onscreen. Use this to speedily navigate complex or unfamiliar apps. Numbers automatically appear in menus and whenever you need to disambiguate between items with the same name. Just say a number to click it.
  • Grids: If you ever need to impact a part of the screen that doesn't accept a control, use Grid overlays. Saying "bear witness grid" superimposes a grid on your screen and allows you to precisely do things, like select, zoom, elevate, and more.
  • Hover Text: Hover Text displays high-resolution zoom of text, text fields, card items, buttons, and more in a dedicated window. Only press the Command key when hovering over text with your cursor, and a window with zoomed text appears alongside the standard interface --- helping yous stay contextually aware. Text is crisply displayed in a font and color of your pick. And you tin can interact with buttons and type right in the zoomed window.
  • Zoom Display: While using a second display, yous tin see the same screen upwards shut and at a distance simultaneously. You tin proceed i monitor zoomed in and some other at a standard resolution. Or keep a personal Mac zoomed in while giving a presentation.
  • Simplified tab navigation: VoiceOver users will enjoy simplified keyboard navigation that requires less drilling into unique focus groups. The Tab cardinal more simply advances through selection of elements --- such as window stoplights, toolbar buttons, and whorl bars.
  • Punctuation in iCloud: VoiceOver users often customize the style punctuation marks are spoken. These customizations are now stored in iCloud, giving y'all a consistent experience across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS.
  • Additional international braille tables: macOS Catalina adds more international braille tables and lets you quickly switch between them.
  • Improved VoiceOver back up in Xcode: VoiceOver now reads aloud warnings, line numbers, and breakpoints in the Xcode text editor.
  • Display color filters: Users with color vision deficiencies can adjust brandish colors using new color filter options. Your Mac shifts the colors onscreen, helping you easily differentiate areas of confusion. And you tin can turn this preference on and off through the Accessibility Options pane using Command-Selection-F5.
  • Tint your entire brandish: A new brandish option lets you lot tint your entire screen using a colour of your choice. Some users may detect that sure colour tints help make text easier to read.

Apple tree ID Business relationship Data

  • Ane place for your Apple ID account details: Now you can access all your of import Apple tree ID account information right from System Preferences on your Mac.
  • Overview and helpful notifications: A new overview pane allows you lot to speedily review important tips and notifications to assistance ensure that your account is properly signed in and secure, and that all the features y'all expect are set upwards and working correctly.
  • Basic business relationship and security details: Easily review account details such every bit your name, contact info, password, security details, payment and shipping info, and email newsletter preferences.
  • iCloud settings: Review and update your iCloud settings and manage or upgrade your storage plan anytime.
  • Media and purchases: Get like shooting fish in a barrel access to your current subscriptions, by purchases, and account settings related to the App Store, iTunes Store, Apple Music, Apple tree Books, Apple News, Apple Tv set, and more.
  • Family Sharing: View which subscriptions you're sharing, which services are enabled, who has Ask to Purchase turned on, and more.
  • View all your devices: View a list of all the devices you lot're signed in to with your account. Review device details such as concluding backup completed, Discover My condition, and more.

QuickTime Histrion

  • Motion picture in Moving picture (PiP): With a unmarried click in the navigation controller, y'all tin can play video in a resizable window that isn't blocked by other windows, allowing you lot to watch while working on other things.
  • Enhanced Movie Inspector: The Motion picture Inspector pane shows you even more than in-depth technical information nigh the currently open media file. Run across key details such equally video color space, HDR format, scrap depth, scale, and aspect ratio.
  • Open Epitome Sequence: Create an H.264, HEVC, or ProRes-encoded motion picture file by navigating to a folder of sequentially numbered images, then choosing your desired resolution, frame rate, and encoding quality.
  • Timecode support: When QuickTime Histrion opens a media file with embedded timecode, information technology shows the time information in the onscreen navigation controller.
  • Transparent video support: Transparency in ProRes 4444 files tin can optionally be preserved when exporting to the HEVC format.

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  • HomeKit Secure Video: With a habitation hub such as an Apple tree TV or HomePod, deeply record video to iCloud when activity by a person, fauna, or vehicle is detected by your HomeKit-enabled cameras. Choose to receive notifications when clips are recorded and view them in the Abode app on your Mac. In the Home app, a timeline of recordings is bachelor to play from iCloud. You can besides share a recording, delete it, or relieve information technology to your Photos library.
  • Audio in scenes and automations: HomePod and AirPlay 2-enabled speakers can now play songs, playlists, and radio stations from Apple Music in scenes and automations with your other HomeKit accessories.

International Features

  • New multilingual setup for macOS: Choose your languages, including those for keyboard and dictation, in Setup Assistant, and customize your language preferences from the start.
  • New relationship labels in Contacts: Contacts now includes hundreds of new, more than specific relationship labels to help you lot manage your contact list. Examples include "younger cousin" and "elder cousin."
  • Cantonese keyboard predictions: The new Cantonese predictions for Traditional Chinese Cangjie, Sucheng, Stroke, and Handwriting keyboards bring more relevant character and emoji predictions to Cantonese users.
  • Improved Japanese predictions: A new neural linguistic communication model takes words typed earlier in the sentence into account, and then predictions are more grammatically consistent and relevant to the subject matter.
  • New fonts for Indian languages: Get 34 new fonts, including four arrangement fonts and 30 document fonts, for languages like Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Odia, Punjabi, and many more.
  • New Indian English language Siri voices: All-new Indian English male and female Siri voices let Siri to exist more natural and expressive.
  • New dictionaries: New dictionaries include Thai-English language and Vietnamese-English language.

Other Features

  • iCloud Bulldoze binder sharing:You tin can now share folders with a private link. Anyone who has access can see the folder in iCloud Drive, add new files, and get the latest versions of files.
  • Restore from snapshot: If your third-political party software is incompatible with an update yous just installed, apply macOS Recovery to restore from a snapshot of your computer taken right before the installation. macOS and all your apps volition work just as they did before you lot installed the update.