

Redesigned sidebar: Manage your tab groups, bookmarks, Reading List, and Shared with You links in the redesigned sidebar. Tabs fluidly adapt as you add more, shrinking or stretching to fit the page. Redesigned tabs: Tabs have a rounder and more defined appearance, making them easier to work with. Tab groups: Intelligent Tracking Prevention now also prevents trackers from profiling you using your IP address. Click the site’s name to expand and reveal the page’s full address or type your search right into the name field. Integrated Smart Search field: Search from your active tab with the integrated Smart Search field.

Streamlined tab bar: The streamlined tab bar takes up less room on the page and adjusts to match the colors of each site, extending your web page to the edge of the window. Here are some of the functions coming to the new Safari: Safari also received a major redesign with macOS 12 Monterey. A wired connection is useful when you want to ensure that there’s no latency or you don’t have access to Wi-Fi. AirPlay works both wirelessly and wired using USB.

Multiple device support: Connect over FaceTime on the iPhone while watching video on the Apple TV or listening to music on the HomePod.Smart volume: Dynamically responsive volume controls automatically adjust audio so you can hear your friends even during a loud scene or climactic chorus.Synced playback: Pause, rewind, fast-forward, or jump to a different scene while in perfect sync with everyone else.Share your screen: Bring web pages, app, and more into your conversation.

Shared music queue: When listening together, anyone in the call can add songs to the shared queue.Listen together: Share music with friends.Watch together: Bring TV shows and movies to your FaceTime call.With SharePlay, here’s everything you can do: With Voice Isolation mode it isolates your voice from all the other noises and with Wide Spectrum mode, you can hear anything that’s happening in your friend’s surroundings.įaceTime is also receiving the Grid view feature and with a FaceTime link, you can invite friends into a FaceTime call with a web link on Windows and Android devices. It works exactly as it does on the iPhone camera. With this on, you can blur your background and put the focus on yourself. With this function, Apple says it creates a “sound field that helps conversations flow as easily as they do face to face.”Īnother function available is Portrait mode in calls. The video call app will feature, for example, Spatial Audio. FaceTime and SharePlayįaceTime is receiving a lot of love from Apple with macOS 12 Monterey. The Shortcuts app on the Mac also integrates with Spotlight, appears in Finder, supports multitasking, and increases with the Menu bar. You can build new shortcuts, access existing shortcuts, and more. The app on the Mac looks similar to Shortcuts on the iPad. Automator will continue to be supported in this release and Automator workflows can be imported into Shortcuts. Universal Control was worth the wait – here’s how it’s changing the way I workĪpple called Shortcuts the future of automation on Mac, and the first steps in Monterey are part of a multi-year transition.It uses Bluetooth beaconing, peer-to-peer Wi-Fi, and the iPad’s touchpad support to allow the devices to know they’re closer to one another. It’s possible, for example, to drag a Procreate logo on the iPad to a Final Cut project on the Mac. MacOS 12 Monterey brings Universal Control, which allows the user to easily use an iPad with a Mac, as the keyboard and mouse seamlessly move over to each device. Now, with macOS 12 Monterey, Apple is refining the Big Sur experience with a redesigned Safari, Universal Control feature, AirPlay to Mac, and much more.
