Apple’s keynote at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 10, 2024 was crowded with software news. The Mac’s share was macOS 15, codenamed “Sequoia,” which borrows from iOS 18 and adds Mac-only touches.
Automatic window tiling is one of them. Users can arrange windows on the screen without resizing each one by hand or going full-screen. iPhone Mirroring is another: it streams the phone’s screen to the Mac, so apps can be used with the Mac’s keyboard and trackpad while the phone stays locked for privacy. Apple’s own summary says it gives “full access to and control of iPhone directly from Mac.”
Gaming, messages and passwords
Gamers get the second version of Apple’s Game Porting Toolkit, meant to ease the job of moving Windows games to the Mac. Safari picks up Highlights, which helps surface information on a page. Apple also said Personalized Spatial Audio would put players “in the middle of the action.”
Some changes come over from iOS and iPadOS. Messages gets RCS support and a wider set of Tapback reactions. The Calculator app is redesigned, and the Notes app gains Math Notes, which solves typed equations. A new Passwords app is headed to all Apple platforms and to Windows, and Slashdot suggested it may replace standalone password managers.
Apple Intelligence
Apple said Apple Intelligence would help Mac users write more effectively, make images in seconds and communicate better. It runs on Apple silicon and its Neural Engine, and every Mac with an M-series chip will support it. Apple said on-device processing is a cornerstone. For bigger models, its Private Cloud Compute scales work onto dedicated Apple silicon servers.
The same keynote covered iOS 18, iPadOS 18, watchOS 11, visionOS 2 and tvOS 18.
A developer beta of macOS Sequoia went out that day. Public betas were set for July, with the full release planned for the fall.
Sources
- Apple Unveils macOS 15 'Sequoia' at WWDC, Introduces Window Tiling and iPhone Mirroring – Slashdot
- WWDC24 Highlights
