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It also borrows an iPad feature for watching video while you work and offers ways to automatically free up storage space.

The company has announced that macOS Sierra, the latest version of Apple’s desktop operating systems, is now available as a free update!

Everything in one tab – One of the best ones included in the MacOS Sierra software is the option of merging all tabs that was found earlier in web browsers and Apple has made it available in its software.

Before you go looking at the specific system requirements needed to run the new OS, you’ll need to make sure you have a Mac that’s from late 2009 or newer. Once booted, you’ll be able to install or upgrade Sierra as you normally would. I would love to write more but I’m nearly ready to install the new OS and get started using it though it is a taking awhile as many have seemingly already begun downloading a large program and, well, Guatemalan internet just isnt that fast.

You can retrieve a list of things that Siri can do by simply asking, “What can you do?”. Users’ credit or debit card information is not shared with online merchants and strong encryption protects all communication between a user’s device and Apple Pay servers.

On 20 September, Apple will make macOS Sierra available for the public to download.

Messages have also received a long due overhaul and now allow users to preview web links and play video clips from right within the app. Users can also choose to respond to messages with a Tapback like a heart, thumbs up and so on. Just copy content in the usual way on one device, and paste it into another.

This feature proved crucial on a train when I typed a passage in a Word document but didn’t have Wi-Fi to send it in before a deadline. My boss didn’t need to know I wasn’t in the office yet. For example some Adobe CS 6 apps doesn’t work, Quicken Essentials, WhatsApp Desktop and others may crash. When I see an interesting website on the phone, I can paste a relevant passage into a Mac document without revisiting the site. In my testing, it’s quite a magical experience after all those years of typing my password.

With Siri’s arrival on the Mac, owners of Apple’s computers no longer have to look at iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch owners with envy.

Optimised storage is also a key feature in this update with older files automatically getting uploaded to the cloud to cut down on storage space in the device. Normally, you need to manually empty the trash can every now and then.

Before installing macOS Sierra you should also remove EasySIMBL or SIMBL if they’re installed, and then reinstall the latest versions once macOS Sierra has completed its installation, first ensuring they’re again macOS Sierra-compatible.

While some are organized and store all their files in carefully organized folders, many just have everything dumped on the desktop and locked on a single machine. iCloud Drive desktop can now sync files and folders on the desktop between machines and to iPhones or iPads, so everything not organized is accessible from multiple machines.

By deleting files and taking advantage of iCloud Drive on my cramped MacBook Air, I got back almost 19GB of storage. Videos must comply with the HTML5 standard and the developer may have to turn on a control to get it work.