All the Top Features in MacOS Sequoia

MacOS Sequoia, additionally generally known as macOS 15, is the model of Apple’s desktop working system that launched in 2024. The OS replace provides a number of new capabilities to the Mac, together with a password administration app, videoconferencing instruments, and updates to Safari, in addition to all of the options that include Apple Intelligence—the corporate’s artificial-intelligence-powered system. Under, we break down the best way to obtain it and all the most recent goodies on this software program replace.

Make sure you take a look at our iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 roundup for all the brand new options in your iPhone and iPad, together with all the most recent options on the Apple Watch with watchOS 11.

Up to date Might 2025: We have added particulars on macOS 15.5.

MacOS Sequoia Options

Under, you will discover all the key options included in macOS 15. Apple has extra details here.

Typically, your iPhone is in one other room or deep in your bag. For these moments when you have to use it however do not feel like getting as much as discover it, you may pull it up in your pc. As a part of Apple’s Continuity options, iPhone Mirroring enables you to entry and work together together with your iPhone wirelessly utilizing your Mac.

When the characteristic is in motion, you will see your iPhone’s customized dwelling display seem. From there, you should utilize the keyboard, trackpad, or mouse to tug and drop content material (like pictures, movies, and information) between each gadgets, open and use any of your apps, swipe by means of all of the pages on your house display, in addition to view and reply to notifications. When you’re doing all this, your iPhone will stay locked. It additionally works whereas your iPhone is in Standby mode, a characteristic from iOS 17 that turns your iPhone into a wise show whereas charging.

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MacOS Sequoia affords a number of new options to Safari. With Highlights, Safari will use machine intelligence to indicate you related data from the webpage like instructions, hyperlinks, summaries, and restaurant opinions. Apple additionally redesigned the Reader to reduce distractions. Along with a sleeker view of the article, you may also see a abstract and a desk of contents (for longer articles). If the webpage features a video, Viewer will convey it to the forefront whereas nonetheless providing you with entry to playback controls (Image in Image included).

Anybody who all the time retains a ton of browser home windows open concurrently will admire the Window Tiling characteristic that helps arrange them for a greater viewing expertise. While you drag a window to the sting of the display, macOS will robotically counsel a tiled place in your display. (It is much like Snap on Windows.) You possibly can then drop the window into place, organize a number of home windows facet by facet, or place them in any of the 4 corners to make room for extra apps. For faster group, you should utilize keyboard and menu shortcuts too.

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In 2023, Apple added new videoconference instruments with macOS Sonoma together with Presenter Overlay, Reactions, and varied options for the Mac’s built-in webcam. In macOS 15, the corporate is including a number of extra. With apps like FaceTime and Zoom, you may entry a brand new presenter preview functionality to see what you are about to share earlier than sharing it. In the meantime, the built-in backgrounds characteristic permits you to apply system wallpapers, colour gradients, or your personal pictures as a backdrop for video calls. This characteristic is on the market on FaceTime and third-party apps like Webex.

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In the event you by no means beloved Keychain, now you might have a greater choice: macOS Sequoia comes with a brand new Passwords app that permits you to entry all of your passwords (Wi-Fi passwords included), passkeys, and verification codes in a single place. It retains all of your Apple gadgets in sync, runs on Home windows machines (utilizing the iCloud for Windows app), and helps end-to-end encryption.

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A number of new Messages options are coming to macOS Sequoia—and by extension, to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 as effectively. You possibly can format your texts inside Messages utilizing daring, italic, underline, and strike-through sort remedies. It’s also possible to add animated results to a particular phrase inside a textual content. For some phrases and phrases, ideas seem as you sort. Apple added new Tapbacks too—as a substitute of utilizing the normal coronary heart, thumbs-up, thumbs-down, query mark, or exclamation level, there are alternatives for emojis and stickers. One other standout new characteristic is the choice to schedule your messages forward of time in order that they’ll be despatched later.

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• Apple Maps: With Maps, you will have entry to hundreds of mountaineering trails throughout all 63 nationwide parks within the US, all of which might be filtered by elevation, size, and route sort. It’s also possible to save them to entry later within the wilderness and not using a information sign.
• Calculator App: Apple gave the Calculator app an improve by including new options like the flexibility to enter and proceed to view full expressions (with trigonometry, parentheses, and a number of operations) earlier than urgent equals to see the ultimate reply. In the event you faucet the equals signal twice, you may repeat the latest mathematical operate. You are now in a position to see a historical past of your calculations as effectively.
• Calendar: Inside the Calendar app, you may see each occasions and duties from the Reminders app. There’s additionally an up to date Month View meant to make it simpler to see all of your appointments at a look—all of that are colour coded.
• Photographs: A brand new Collections characteristic throughout the Picture app will robotically arrange your library by matters, together with Journeys, Latest Days, and Individuals & Pets. With Pinned Collections, you may shortly entry sure collections and albums. It’s also possible to see your Favorites album seem below Utilities and in Pinned Collections, and clear your Lately Shared album and Lately Considered historical past too.
• Sport Mode: This characteristic was initially introduced in 2023 with macOS Sonoma. With macOS Sequoia, Apple improved Sport Mode with smoother body charges and “superior energy administration options” to spice up efficiency throughout its Macs. It additionally helps Personalised Spatial Audio and reduces audio latency with the AirPods Professional (2nd era).
• Residence App: Apple is including visitor entry that permits you to handle how and when individuals can enter your own home. There is a new characteristic that reveals how a lot electrical energy you are utilizing and the way a lot it is costing you, based mostly on the present utility charges.
• Battery: The power to activate Low Energy Mode was launched with macOS Monterey. Now it is out there within the Battery menu within the top-left nook of your display so that you not should dig by means of System Settings.
• Discover My: Inside the Discover My app, you will now see a brand new Misplaced AirTag part that permits you to share the situation of your AirTag with as much as 5 different individuals, to assist monitor it down. Quickly, you may share it with airways as effectively (in case your baggage is misplaced). Merely ship the particular hyperlink by way of Messages, Notes, Mail, AirDrop, and extra. They’re going to should authenticate it utilizing their Apple account, and the hyperlink will expire after per week.
• Emoji: Apple added eight new emojis to its library, together with root vegetable, leafless tree, fingerprint, face with luggage below eyes, harp, a flag of Sark, splatter, and shovel.
• AirPods Max: The AirPods Max with USB-C now helps lossless audio, so it may well assist information with a decision of as much as 24 bits/48 kHz. It helps ultra-low latency too, for improved gaming efficiency, together with upgraded constancy and response time for songwriting, beat making, and different music manufacturing use instances. Plus, these are the one headphones that permit customers to file and blend utilizing Personalised Spatial audio with head monitoring by way of Logic Professional for Mac.
• Fast Begin: Now you can scan a code in your iPhone or iPad when organising a brand new Mac. From there, all of your settings will switch to your pc.
• Display screen Time: When setting Display screen Time restrictions in your kid’s gadgets, you will obtain a notification when the passcode is used to override it.

Apple Intelligence Options

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Along with the options above, Apple Intelligence—the corporate’s “private intelligence system”—is constructed into macOS Sequoia in addition to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. These options are solely out there in Sequoia 15.1 and newer. It is also value noting that Apple Intelligence is now on by default with Sequoia 15.3. For step-by-step directions on the best way to manually flip it off, learn our tutorial here.