Discover the main novelties of MacOS Monterey |Macgeneration

Available for all tomorrow, Monday, October 25, after a beta test cycle started in June, MacOS Monterey will arrive at a lot of novelties and directly in 12.0.1.Few, however, those specific to the Mac platform (without even exaggerating you could say that if you are comfortable with iOS 15 or iPados 15 then you made the biggest way!).We go around some of these changes, whether they are clean or not at Mac.

The essential novelties of iOS 15 and iPados 15

New Safari interface, concentration, fast notes, live text, shared with you ... If these functions are familiar to you on mobile devices you will find them on Mac.Apple does not merge its mobile and office bones but the functions take their neighborhood on each side to standardize the user experience.

We come back here on some key changes.To find out more and discover what is hidden in the corners - these developments which Apple has little or not advertising - we publish like every year our book on all the new features of the last macOS.

Safari moves the tabs

The first thing to try with Safari 15 is his new interface.Test the "Compact" presentation for a few days which installs the tabs in the bar which already contains the tools of the tools and the address field.

This presentation has been debated and Apple has put her work on the trade several times - she tends to tamp many elements in one place and the field for the URL no longer has a fixed location.In return we give a little more space to the page below.This presentation is disengageable by selecting the "separate" option to put the tabs back in their own bar.

If you nevertheless opt for this compact presentation, also try to check the "Display color ..." option in the advanced browser preferences tab.The new bar will abandon its immutable gray to take the dominant color of the site or the pages visited (provided that the webmaster has adapted its site).

The intention is to somehow merge the content (of the page) with the container (the Safari interface).This can become visually weighing when several windows in trenched colors are open, but it all depends on the sites you are used to going to see.We can also consider this as a way to quickly find a site with a well identified color (ours are good examples for that ...).

Always in the management of open pages management, you have the groups of tabs.As the name suggests, this amounts to gathering tabs in a file that share a theme or you need for a presentation in progress, or for a shopping session or an apartment search, for example.You get rid of your main tab window that you don't need at the time but that you don't want to lose by closing them.

Create a group of tabs from the Files menu.Fill it by sliding tabs on its icon in the sidebar, or using the context menu (function "Move to the group of tabs") or by opening new tabs directly in a group.The groups of tabs are synchronized between Mac, iPhone and iPad.

Sharing messages to applications

The main novelty of messages lies in its ability to distribute content to your contacts to the apps..You receive an url by messages, you find it in the "Shared with you" section of Safari.We sent you images, they will be in an album "Shared with you" photos.And so on for podcasts, for links to series (with the TV app) or for content shared from Apple Music.

Stay focused

Monterey concentration mode does not really differ from those of iOS 15 and iPados 15.It is an extension of the function not to disturb.We can now create several activity profiles during which we want to remain quiet and more or less drastically limit people whose notifications are allowed.

The mode you have activated can also appear as a status in the conversation window of your correspondents - those who have not been allowed to overcome your temporary blockage.They will know why you delay responding (mail thirds can display the enabled concentration mode if their developers adapt them).

Concentration modes are shared and synchronized between your devices.As for their configuration on Mac, it is done in system preferences, "Notifications and concentration" tab.They are activated from the control center (unless you have provided automatic activation criteria).

Overview of the iOS 15 concentration mode and MacOS Monterey

Quickly a quick note

A quick note is a note that you can create in Notes without launching the application.The most direct way is to go bump with your mouse against the lower right corner of the screen.An area appears and serves as a button to display a entry window.The rapid note created will be added in the new file of the same name of the Utility Notes (and synchronized to iPhone and iPad).

By default it is always the last quick note used that is offered when returning to the corner.But go to the preferences of notes to change this behavior and prefer the one where we create a new quick virgin note each time.

The creation of a quick note also appears in the sharing menu of any application.In a browser you will obtain for example a quick note containing the link of the visited page.

To change the activation corner of the quick note, go to system preferences, "Mission Control" tab and "active corners" button.Or use a keyboard shortcut, modifiable in system preferences, "keyboard" tab then "shortcuts" and "mission control".

Still in notes, we note the arrival of tags as a classification system of a note (ex: #recette or #shopping) that you will create yourself according to your needs.Notes then displays a tag browser in its side column to see them all.Smart files can be created on the basis of a tag or a combination of several.

Text photos

The texts in the images and photos are no longer sentenced to remain prisoners there.The live text function allows you to copy paste these whole words or passages that the system will have detected and analyzed in a visual.It works in photos, in preview, in a previewed image with glance or in those displayed by Safari within a web page.

The ability to select a text sometimes materializes by a cursor that takes the form of that used in the editing mode (the vertical bar) but it is most often enough to try to select a text by passing on it with the cursor.

It happens that it is necessary to wait (so that MacOS finishes his work of image analysis) or take it several times.There is no immediate and clear indication that an image contains selectable text.

MacOS Monterey: Live text is also Intel compatible

FaceTime opens up to all

FaceTime is decompartmentalized in Monterey.In Calendar, when creating an event intended to be shared, the camera button adds a connection link that all the guests will have.

And no need to be in the Apple ecosystem to make a facetime.It is a limit that was well felt in periods of containment.Users on Windows and Android can now join an audio or video conversation using a web browser and without it being necessary to create any account.They use the link you give them and they are content to find a nickname for the duration of the exchange.

The host keeps his hand to confirm the presence of the guests and each has the necessary to cut his microphone or his camera.An important point, Firefox is not supported for non-Apple guests, they will need Chrome or its Microsoft cousin Edge.

Among the other novelties from the frontTime this year we can report the mode of isolation of the voice which strives to erase or reduce noises in the background (formidable efficiency with vacuum cleaners, less with otherstypes of more irregular noise pollution).It activates from the control center by clicking the "microphone mode" button.

As for the "broad spectrum" option is sort of the transparency mode of the airpods applied to the Mac in order to amplify the sound environment around you.If you have Pro or Airpods Max airpods, the space audio will simulate the position of the people on the screen (its most right for a face displayed on the right in the window).You need an Apple Silicon processor to take advantage of it (previously Apple promised it to all Mac of 2018).

Finally, the display in portrait mode with the blurred background behind you is offered in FaceTime, on the condition of also having an Apple processor mac.

Facetime overview on iOS 15, macOS Monterey… and the web

The Mac receives Airplay

With Monterey we no longer just send content by Airplay from his Mac, the Mac becomes an Airplay receiver for content issued from iPhone, iPad (or other Mac).Start by authorizing it by going to system preferences, "sharing" panel (where you will also define who has the right to use your Mac to this end).

Some applications are reluctant to this type of sharing (Netflix for example), others will use the Mac as a secondary screen while the main one, on the iPhone for example, will serve as a browser in the content (photos or Keynote).

To send images, sounds and videos in this way to a Mac, you need at least an iPhone 7, an iPad Air 3, an iPad 6, an iPad Mini 5 and an iPad Pro 2.For Mac issuers you need a 2018 MacBook Pro/Air, an IMAC 2019, an iMac Pro 2017, a Mac Mini 2020 or a Mac Pro 2019.Apple, however, offers wider compatibility possibilities under certain conditions:

Split View chases a window by another

Among the meager handful of new features in window management, one of the new features relating to Split View.When two windows share your screen, you can replace one with another window that is already open.To do this, prolonged the green button and select "Replace the mosaic window" to choose the replacement.

Mail puts a veil on your activity

The subject of privacy results in additional options in mail.In software preferences, go to the "Confidentiality" tab.There are new options to prevent your IP address from being communicated to certain advertising email shipments.

It is also a question here of filtering the functioning of "transparent pixels", these discreet little cookies which relate to their sender that their email has been open.

iOS 15, macOS Monterey: the fight against invisible pixels in Mail worries the newsletter sector

There are still many other small and large novelties (also read Apple adjusts the list of new products from Monterey just before its release).The arrival of shortcuts on Mac is a big piece of Monterey, but too big to be summarized in a few lines.Let us also cite plans, accessibility functions, battery management on laptops ... As many things that we approach in our new guide on the new features of MacOS Monterey, now on sale.