Essential Apple User Magazine

macOS 14: Sonoma

This year’s update to macOS is a useful mix of exciting new features and improvements to what’s already there. It has some great new ways of personalising your Mac experience, with stunning new screensavers and interactive desktop widgets. There’s new video conferencing features, Safari updates such as Profiles and Web Apps, and the Mac’s gaming capabilities get a boost too.

“macOS is the heart of the Mac, and with Sonoma, we’re making it even more delightful and productive to use. We think users are going to love macOS Sonoma and the new ways it enables them to personalise”
Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering

Sensational Screensavers

creensavers have come on a long way since the flying toasters (remember those?). Sonoma brings some amazing new ones to the Mac, featuring slow-motion video footage of skylines from across the world. Look out for the sweeping skyline of Hong Kong, the sandstone buttes of Arizona’s Monument Valley and the rolling hills of Sonoma in Northern California. Look out too for further landscape, Earth and underwater

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