macOS Big Sur: everything they have explained in Keynote

Big Sur

The guys from Cupertino have been faithful to the tradition of the last few years. For quite some time now, each new annual version of macOS has been named after a charismatic place in California. There were several bets with very popular place names, but none of them appeared Big Sur.

Big Sur is a coastline very touristy Californian that goes from Carmel to San Simeon. Obviously in today's presentation, Tim Cook and his collaborators have explained much more about the new macOS Big Sur. Let's see them.

New user interface

macOS Big Sur represents the major change in design of the Mac operating system since OS X was first released in 2001. It's cleaner, more attractive, more futuristic-looking, and brings many of the improvements also announced for iOS and iPadOS to the desktop and laptop lines for the first time. .

For starters, most of the app icons have been redesigned from the ground up with a feel visual 3d, and the corners of the Dock are more rounded than before. Many of the native apps, the ones that ship with macOS, now have a translucent sidebar with more vertical spacing between items.

For example, the application Mail it shows a more rounded selection of rows (what you get when you click on a specific message in the app), and the little icons indicating folders, trash, etc… are all very clean and colorful.

Interface

macOS Big Sur launches a new interface.

La Menu bar macOS is now completely translucent as well, and once again the layout of the menu items gives each item more vertical space. In a sense, that could be a bit of a problem for those of us who have used Macs since 1984, as we've built up muscle memory about the distance to move a pointer to select an item. We'll check it out when we have the first developer beta.

El Control center now moving from iOS and iPadOS to macOS. With a click of a menu bar icon, a simple panel offers access to a large number of controls simultaneously. Mac users can also more easily customize the menu bar by dragging items from the Control Center onto the bar. Widgets found on iOS and iPadOS are now moved to macOS as well, sharing screen space with Notification Center.

Messages like on the iPhone

Application posts From macOS you get all the features of the versions found on iOS and iPadOS, including a way to easily search for messages, edit Memoji on the Mac, and the ability to pin important conversations to the top of the Messages app. It is the Catalyst version of Messages for iOS and iPadOS.

Maps

Maps

Maps for macOS also has interesting news.

The Maps app in macOS Big Sur now gets much closer in functionality and looks at its siblings iOS and iPadOS. One feature is the ability to create guides - collections of places in one location. For example, let's say I'm going to visit Cuenca and its surroundings. I can create a Cuenca guide, add restaurants, places to see, friend locations to visit, etc.

safari

It appears that Apple's native browser, Safari, has suffered a major renovation. Now it will be faster and safer than its predecessor, although it seems impossible. Now a new privacy tracker icon appears that will appear for every website you visit. If you click, you can see which trackers were blocked by Safari.

The Passwords that are saved for websites will now inform you if they have been compromised during a security breach. This is useful for secure websites like those of banks and credit card companies, as they are popular targets for hackers, and Safari can send a warning to users immediately if security has been breached.

safari

Safari now introduces new tabs.

Now there will be more control over Extensions. You can select which sites and at what times they can be used. If an extension loads, it has a little button on the Safari toolbar that you can click for preferences.

We will have a customizable home page, which can include custom backgrounds (including personal photos) and content like iCloud tabs. Speaking of tabs, they now have icons associated with each website (favicons) on the tab for easier identification, and hovering over a tab brings up a preview of the web page.

If you like to visit websites that are published in other languages, native translation of those pages is integrated into Safari. You will no longer have to resort to Chrome for this. I'm writing this article and the developer betas have just been released right now. This means that we will soon be able to expand all these new features already tested by ourselves.


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