macOS Sequoia Preview (2024)

Writing, focus, and communication.

New Writing Tools and language capabilities help you write, summarize longer text, and prioritizenotifications.

Delightful images created just for you.

Create images to express yourself, craft Genmoji for conversations, or revisit favorite moments with your own memorymovies.

The start of a new era for Siri.

With richer language understanding and awareness of your personal context, Siri is more capable and helpful than ever.

Use your iPhone from yourMac

With iPhone Mirroring, you can view what’s on your iPhone and control it too, without having to reach forit.¹

Use your iPhone from yourMac

Access your iPhone anytime using the iPhone Mirroring app in the Dock. You can fully interact with your iPhone and its apps wirelessly, using your Mac keyboard, trackpad, or mouse. And your iPhone stays locked, so no one else can access it or see what you’redoing.

iPhone notifications onMac

Catch your iPhone notifications right alongside your Mac ones. Even better, you can take action and launch straight into an app when using iPhoneMirroring.

Seamless drag and drop betweendevices

Move files, photos, and videos between your iPhone and Mac as easily as you drag and drop between apps onMac.

Coming later this year

Easy window tiling

Drag windows to the edge of your screen to effortlessly arrange them into side-by-side tiles on your desktop, or place them in corners to keep even more apps inview.

Tiling with keyboard and menu shortcuts

Instantly move the app you’re using to a tiled position with dedicated keyboard shortcuts. Holding down the Option key while dragging a window shows you a preview of all your tiling options. And the green button on the top left of each window, along with the menu bar, gives you a quick way to choose from tilingoptions.

Presenter preview

See exactly what you’re going to share in video calling apps — your whole screen or a single app — before displaying it foreveryone.

Background replacements

Express yourself or just hide the laundry behind you with beautiful built-in backgrounds or your own photos, while industry-leading segmentation technology helps you look your best.

Introducing Highlights

Safari will automatically detect relevant information on a page and highlight it as you browse. Highlights display helpful information like directions and quick links to learn more about people, music, movies, and TVshows.

A smarter, redesigned Reader

With a table of contents and high-level summary, get the gist of an article before readingon.³

More control over web video

When Safari detects a video on a page, Video Viewer helps you put it front and center, while still giving you full access to system playbackcontrols.

All your credentials in oneplace

From passwords to verifications and security alerts, find them all securely stored in the Passwordsapp.

All your credentials in oneplace

Backed by secure end-to-end encryption and seamless syncing, the Passwords app safely stores all your credentials. It lets you filter and sort accounts by recently created, credential type, or whether an account is in a shared group, to quickly find accounts you’re lookingfor.

Securely synced across devices andapps

Access the Passwords app on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and AppleVisionPro, and on Windows with the iCloud for Windows app. All the passwords sync securely across your devices, and if you use AutoFill, your passwords will automatically be added to the Passwordsapp.

New and upcoming games forMac

Enjoy new and upcoming titles from game developers taking full advantage of Metal 3 and Applesilicon to deliver smooth frame rates and high-qualityvisuals.

All-new ways to play with text

In addition to bold, italics, underline, and strikethrough, you can instantly add playful, animated effects to any letter, word, or phrase in iMessage. Or let macOS suggest effects to apply as you type. Whether you want to emphasize some major news, bring your emoji to life, or you’re just blown away, text effects give you new ways to visually amplify your texts. Some words and phrases automatically display a suggestion, and you can also add one of the many new effects to anytext.

Tapback with any emoji orsticker

Now you can send a Tapback with any emoji or sticker, including Live Stickers made from your own photos and stickers from your favorite sticker packs, and quickly access the ones you and your friends usemost.

Schedule a message with SendLater

Whether it’s too late at night or too important to forget, you can now schedule a message to send at a specified time.

Topographic maps and trailnetworks

Maps now features topographic maps with detailed trail networks and hikes, including all 63 U.S. nationalparks.⁴

Save hikes for offlineaccess

Browse thousands of hikes that you can save to your other devices — along with any notes you want toadd.⁵

Custom walking and hikingroutes

Create and save custom walking and hiking routes with just a few clicks. Choose different route options, including “one way,” “out and back,“ or a loop.

Live audio transcription

Record audio sessions within your note and generate live audio transcriptions you can search through or combine with other comments, checklists, ordocuments.⁶

Math Notes

Crunch numbers, evaluate expressions, and assign variables — right from Notes.⁷ The app solves expressions inline as soon as you type an equalssign.⁸

Math Notes

In addition to basic math, Math Notes can solve all the same functions as the scientific calculator. You can even assign variables, use them in equations, and then adjust them to see how they affect your results. And you can save your Math Notes to revisit anytime.

Collapsible sections

Simplify and hide text with collapsible section headers, making it easy to manage your most text-heavy notes.

Highlighting

With the new highlight style feature, it’s easier to quickly mark up your notes and make text stand out.

Hands-free Siri Interactions

With Siri Interactions on AirPodsPro (2nd generation), you’ll have the ability to simply nod your head yes or gently shake your head no to respond to Siri. So if you’re on the bus to work or at home while the baby is sleeping, you can keep Siri working in the background without having to speak outloud.

Voice Isolation on AirPodsPro

Sound crystal clear on calls, even in windy conditions or areas with loud background noise, through advanced computationalaudio.

Personalized SpatialAudio forgaming

The same immersive experience that has transformed music and movies puts you right in the middle of the action of your favoritegames.⁹

Personalized SpatialAudio forgaming

Game developers are already using the new API to bring this experience to games with advanced sound design. In addition, voice quality improvements for in-game chat and streaming deliver 16-bit, 48kHz audio and support for dynamic head tracking. And AirPodsPro now deliver our best wireless audio latency ever for mobile gaming, giving you even more of anedge.¹⁰