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macOS Loftier Sierra is packed with new features and refinements. There'south a new file system, AFS, for better security, reliability and speed in file transfers. Improve graphics and VR supported accept too been included along with backwards compatibility and so you lot install the new OS in auto even from late 2009. Finally, applications like Safari, Spotlight, Notes, Apple Mail, and other have been polished up.

Take a photograph right to your Mac.

Now you lot can apply your iPhone to shoot or scan a nearby object or certificate and take it automatically appear on your Mac. Simply choose Insert a Photograph from the File menu. You can take a photo of something on your desk and instantly come across it in your Pages document. Or scan a receipt, and a straightened version is immediately bachelor in the Finder as a PDF. Continuity Photographic camera works in the Finder, Mail service, Messages, Notes, Pages, Keynote, and Numbers. It's some other mode iPhone and Mac just click.

What's New:

The macOS Loftier Sierra x.13.6 Update adds AirPlay 2 multiroom audio back up for iTunes and improves the stability and security of your Mac. This update is recommended for all users.

  • Added download links for Security Update 2019-001, which is recommended for all users and improves the security of macOS.
  • The macOS Loftier Sierra ten.xiii.six Supplemental Update improves the stability and reliability of MacBook Pro with Touch Bar (2018) computers and is recommended for all users.
  • The macOS High Sierra x.13.6 update adds AirPlay 2 multi-room sound support for iTunes and improves the stability and security of your Mac.

AirPlay 2 for iTunes

  • Command your home audio organization and AirPlay ii-enabled speakers throughout your house
  • Play music at the aforementioned time on multiple AirPlay 2-enabled speakers in your house, all in sync

Other improvements and fixes

  • Fixes an issue that may prevent Photos from recognizing AVCHD media from some cameras
  • Fixes an issue that may foreclose Post users from moving a message from Gmail to another account

Previous release notes:

The macOS Loftier Sierra ten.xiii.5 update improves the stability, performance, and security of your Mac and is recommended for all users.

This update adds support for Messages in iCloud, which lets you shop messages with their attachments in iCloud and costless upwards space on your Mac. To enable Messages in iCloud, go to Preferences in Messages, click Accounts, and so select "Enable Messages in iCloud".

The macOS High Sierra ten.xiii.iii update improves the security, stability, and reliability of your Mac.

This update:

  • Addresses an issue that could cause Messages conversations to temporarily be listed out of lodge
  • Adds support for 70 new emoji including food types, animals, mythical creatures, clothing options, more expressive smiley faces, gender-neutral characters and more than
  • Fixes a issues where Bluetooth may be unavailable during Apple tree Pay transactions
  • Improves the reliability of Microsoft Commutation message sync in Mail
  • Fixes an issue where Spotlight may non accept keyboard input

Features:

Get things done by asking Siri, the intelligent assistant now on your Mac:

  • Enjoy your favorite features from iOS as well as new ones optimized for Mac.
  • Send messages, create reminders, search the web, and more than while you piece of work.
  • Drag and driblet or copy and paste Siri results into your documents.
  • Pin Siri results in Notification Middle and reference them afterwards.
  • Discover files, adjust settings, and get arrangement information merely by asking Siri.

Re-create and paste between your devices with Universal Clipboard.

  • Re-create a quote, prototype, or video from an app on one device and paste it into an app on some other device.

Automatically log in with Machine Unlock.

  • Log in to your Mac automatically when you wearable your Apple Picket --- no demand to type your countersign.

Savour the convenience and security of Apple Pay when you shop on the web.

  • Utilize Apple Pay to make easy, secure payments when shopping in Safari on your Mac.
  • Complete your buy with Touch ID on your iPhone or with your Apple Watch.

Admission files on your Mac desktop from your iPhone with iCloud Desktop and Documents.

  • Automatically shop all the files on your desktop and in your Documents folder in iCloud, and access them from all your devices.
  • Keep the same desktop and Documents folder on your other Mac.

Easily gratis upwards infinite on your Mac with Optimized Storage.
  • Automatically store seldom-used files in iCloud, where they'll be bachelor on demand.
  • Additional tools help you remove files yous don't need, to salve fifty-fifty more than space.

Get control of your desktop with tabs in apps.

  • Apply tabs to manage multiple windows in Maps, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, and more.
  • Piece of work with tabs in your favorite 3rd-political party apps --- no developer adoption required.

Continue an centre on the big game or your favorite video with Picture in Pic.

  • Float a video window from Safari or iTunes over your desktop as you piece of work.
  • Place the Pic in Picture window in whatever corner, and information technology stays put when you switch spaces or work in full screen.

Rediscover the about meaningful moments in your Photos library.

  • Enjoy favorite and forgotten occasions from your photo library with Memories.
  • View your images past who's in them. Photos uses avant-garde face recognition technology to automatically group photos of the aforementioned person together.
  • Search your photos by what'due south in them, such as beaches, dogs, or concerts, thanks to intelligent search that tin recognize objects and scenes.
  • Rails your photo expeditions across an interactive world map.

Enjoy an all-new Apple Music experience in iTunes.

  • Easily navigate your library with the redesigned Apple tree Music.
  • Discover not bad new music thank you to proficient curation and avant-garde machine learning that requite you the best recommendations.

Liven up your Messages conversations.

  • See web content previews and watch spider web videos right in a conversation.
  • Respond to messages with quick, handy Tapbacks.
  • Express yourself with 3x larger emoji.
  • View the stickers, Digital Impact, invisible ink, and handwritten letters that friends ship from their iOS devices.

Some features may not be available in all regions or all languages. Some features have hardware requirements. Some features require an iCloud storage plan.

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