App: macOS Sonoma
Developer: Apple
Genres: Utilities

macOS Sonoma brings all‑new capabilities that elevate your productivity and creativity. Personalise your Mac with stunning screen savers and widgets that you can add to your desktop. Elevate your presence on video calls with a new way to present your work that keeps you a part of the presentation. Safari profiles and web apps help you organise your browsing in all-new ways. Game Mode boosts gaming performance. And when you upgrade, you get the latest security and privacy protections available for Mac.

Screen Savers
• Stunning screen savers of locations from around the world seamlessly become your desktop wallpaper when you log in

Widgets
• Widgets can be placed anywhere on the desktop and adapt to the colour of your wallpaper while working in apps
• iPhone widgets can be added to your Mac when your iPhone is nearby or on the same Wi-Fi network
• Interactive widgets let you take actions directly from the widget such as running a shortcut, pausing media and more

Video Conferencing
• Presenter Overlay keeps you front and centre while sharing your screen (Mac with Apple silicon)
• Reactions layer 3D effects like hearts, balloons, confetti and more around you in video calls (Mac with Apple silicon, Continuity Camera with iPhone 12 and later)

Safari and Passwords
• Profiles keep your browsing separate for topics like work and personal
• Web apps let you use any website like an app, complete with an icon in the Dock for faster access and a simplified toolbar for easier browsing
• Enhanced Private Browsing locks your private browsing windows when you’re not using them, blocks known trackers from loading and removes tracking that identifies you from URLs
• Password and passkey sharing with trusted contacts

Messages
• Search filters for people, keywords and content types like photos or links
• Swipe to reply inline on any iMessage bubble

Gaming
• Game Mode gives games the highest priority on the CPU and GPU, delivering more consistent frame rates and lower latency to wireless controllers (Mac with Apple silicon)

Keyboard
• Improved autocorrect accuracy makes typing even easier by leveraging a more powerful transformer-based language model
• Inline predictive text shows single- and multi-word predictions that you can add by pressing the Space bar
• Improved Dictation experience supports using your voice and keyboard together to enter text

AirPods
• Adaptive Audio delivers a new listening mode that dynamically blends Active Noise Cancellation and Transparency to tailor the noise control experience based on the conditions of your environment (AirPods Pro (2nd generation) with the latest firmware)
• Press to mute and unmute your microphone when on a call (AirPods (3rd generation), AirPods Pro (1st and 2nd generation) or AirPods Max with the latest firmware)
• Improved AirPods automatic switching now detects Mac up to 2x faster (AirPods (2nd and 3rd generation), AirPods Pro (1st and 2nd generation), AirPods Max with the latest firmware)

Privacy
• Sensitive Content Warnings can be enabled to help prevent users from unexpectedly viewing sensitive images in Messages
• Expanded Communication Safety protections for children now detect videos containing nudity in addition to photos shared through Messages and the Photos picker

Accessibility
• Made for iPhone–compatible hearing devices can be paired and used with Mac (MacBook Pro (2021), Mac Studio (2022) and Mac computers with M2 chip)

This release also includes other features and improvements:
• Single-use verification code AutoFill from Mail helps you quickly sign in to sites in Safari
• Shopping Lists in Reminders automatically group related items into sections as you add them
• Option to say “Siri” in addition to “Hey Siri” for a more natural way to activate Siri (Mac with Apple silicon, AirPods Pro (2nd generation))

Some features may not be available in all regions or on all Apple devices.

Release notes:
This update provides important bug fixes and security updates and is recommended for all users.