-macOS VENTURA-[2022] - -KINGDOM OF JOGA-

-as of [16 AUGUST 2024]–

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-[macOS Ventura] (version 13) is the 19th major release of ‘macOS’, apple’s ‘desktop operating system’ for [macintosh computers]-

New features available with macOS Ventura

macOS Ventura makes the things you do most on Mac even better, with powerful new ways to get more done

Flexible canvas

Freeform’s canvas is perfect for diagramming new projects, aggregating important assets, or just brainstorming on a board limited only by your imagination

Fully collaborative

With real-time collaboration, you can view others’ contributions as they add content and make edits, just as if you were together, standing in front of a real whiteboard

Rich communication

Freeform leverages the Messages Collaboration API so you can start a session from FaceTime and see updates from your collaborators right in your conversation in Messages

Rich multimedia support

Embed images, video, audio, PDFs, documents, and web links.

You can add virtually any kind of file to the canvas and preview it inline, without leaving your board.

Refreshed design
System Preferences gets a refreshed design that’s easier to navigate and a new name: System Settings.

Simpler navigation
The sidebar makes it easy to move through different settings panes, so you can quickly configure your device — without having to drill into and out of views.

Organized by category
Settings are organized by category, with similar categories grouped close together — providing more consistency across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS.

More spacious panes
With more space in each settings pane, it’s simple to find the settings you want right away.

Powerful search
If you don’t know where to find an option in System Settings, you can search in the search field at the top of the new sidebar.

AirPods Settings
Access and customize AirPods features and settings in one place. When AirPods are connected, an AirPods menu will appear at the top of Settings.

Lock Hidden and Recently Deleted albums in Photos
The Hidden and Recently Deleted albums are locked by default and can be unlocked using your login password or Touch ID.

Rapid Security Response
Get important security improvements to your devices even faster. This isn’t a standard software update. These improvements can be applied automatically between normal updates.

Lockdown Mode
This new security mode provides extreme protection for the very small number of users who face grave, targeted threats to their digital security. It further hardens your device’s defenses and strictly limits certain functions, sharply reducing the attack surface that could potentially be exploited by highly targeted mercenary spyware.

Background sounds for Mac
Background sounds are now available on Mac. You can play calming sounds, such as ocean or rain, to mask unwanted environmental noise and help minimize distractions.

Buddy controller
Combine inputs from multiple game controllers into one so your care provider or friend can support you in getting to the next level in your game.

BetaLive Captions
Transcriptions are generated automatically in real time for users who are deaf or hard of hearing so they can follow along more easily with conversations, audio, and video.7

BetaLive Captions in FaceTime
See automatically transcribed dialogue integrated into your FaceTime video calls. With speaker attribution, it’s easy to follow along with group conversations.7

Voice Control call hang up
You can now hang up FaceTime calls with Voice Control. Just use the voice command “hang up” when Voice Control is turned on (participants on the call will hear you).

New languages and voices for VoiceOver and Spoken Content
VoiceOver and Spoken Content are now available in over 20 additional languages and locales, including Bangla (India), Bulgarian, Catalan, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. You can also select from dozens of new voices optimized for assistive features.

Text checker for VoiceOver
Discover common formatting issues such as duplicate spaces and mistakenly capitalized letters in documents and email before sharing with others.

Type to Speak with Live Captions on Mac
Type out your response and have it spoken out loud in real time when you use Live Captions during a phone call or FaceTime call or with any video conferencing app on your Mac.

Voice Control spelling mode
Dictate names, addresses, or other custom spellings letter by letter using Voice Control spelling mode.11

Redesigned payment sheet
More easily see and manage your information, add cards directly from the Apple Pay experience, and review details about your purchase with an improved summary view.

New to Mac
The Clock app on iPad and iPhone is now available on Mac, enabling seamless continuity between devices.

Set world clocks, timers, and alarms
See the local time in different time zones around the world or set an alarm that plays a custom alert sound at a specific time.

Ask Siri
Ask Siri to set timers and alarms or ask for the time in another city.

Extend with shortcuts
Extend Clock functionality to meet your needs using shortcuts that you can access from the menu bar or the Finder or by asking Siri.

Automatic punctuation
Dictation inserts commas, periods, and question marks for you as you dictate.12

Emoji support
Insert emoji using your voice while dictating on device.13

New dictionaries
Five new bilingual dictionaries are available: Bangla–English, Czech–English, Finnish–English, Hungarian–English, and Turkish–English.

Focus filters
Set boundaries within Apple apps like Calendar, Mail, Messages, and Safari to draw boundaries for each Focus you enable. For example, choose a set of Tab Groups to show up in Safari while in the Work Focus, or hide your work calendar when you’re using the Personal Focus.

Focus filter API
With the new Focus filter API, developers can use the signal that you’re using to enable Focus to hide distracting content.

Focus schedules
Have a Focus turn on automatically at a set time or location or while using a certain app.

Easier setup
Get started with Focus with a personalized setup experience for each option.

Allow and silence list
When you’re setting up a Focus, select apps and people you want to receive notifications from by either allowing them or silencing them.

Font gallery
Browse your fonts in the new grid and sample modes.

Multifield search
Search fonts by name, family, designer, character, and copyright.

Streamlined installation
Preview multiple font families and manage installation options in a single window.

All-new Home app
The Home app has an all‑new design that makes it easier to navigate, organize, view, and control all your accessories. Improvements to the underlying architecture enhance your smart home’s performance and make it more efficient and reliable.14

Whole-house view
See your entire home at a glance in the redesigned Home tab. Rooms and favorite accessories are integrated into the app’s main tab, giving you easier access to accessories you use most.

Categories
Categories for Lights, Climate, Security, Speakers and TVs, and Water let you quickly access all the relevant accessories organized by room, along with more detailed status information.

Updated sidebar
An updated sidebar layout includes categories and rooms so you can get to them quickly.

New camera view
Up to nine camera views are displayed front and center in the Home tab, and with just a scroll, you can see any additional camera views in your home.

Tile design
Accessory tiles have been redesigned so the different accessories are more visually recognizable through shape and color. Accessories can be controlled directly from their tiles by clicking the tile’s icon, or you can click the accessory name for more detailed controls.

Coming later this yearUpdated architecture
Enhancements to the underlying architecture enable faster, more reliable performance, especially for homes with many smart accessories. Communicate with and control connected accessories more efficiently from multiple devices at the same time using the Home app.14

Matter support
Matter is a new smart home connectivity standard that will enable compatible accessories to work together seamlessly, across platforms. Matter will allow you to choose from even more compatible smart home accessories and control them with the Home app and Siri on Apple devices.15

New Shuangpin layout
An additional layout called Changyong is now available for Shuangpin users.

Cantonese input
Users can now input Cantonese words and phrases using Jyutping and other phonetic methods.

Sichuanese dialect support
Extends the regional dialect to include Sichuanese.

New languages for autocorrect
Autocorrect supports three new languages: English (New Zealand), English (South Africa), and Kazakh.

New languages for emoji search
Search for emoji in 19 new languages including Albanian, Armenian, Azeri, Bangla, Burmese, Estonian, Filipino, Georgian, Icelandic, Khmer, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Marathi, Mongolian, Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu, and Uzbek (Latin).

New languages for keyboard layouts
New languages supported are Apache, Dzongkha, Samoan, and Yiddish, and the English Dvorak keyboard is now available.

Live Text in videos
Text is completely interactive in paused video frames, so you can use functions like copy and paste, lookup, and translate. Live Text works in Photos, Quick Look, Safari, and more.

Quick actions
Data detected in photos and videos is actionable with a single click. Track flights or shipments, translate foreign languages, convert currencies, and more.

New languages for Live Text
Live Text adds recognition of Japanese, Korean, and Ukrainian text.

Multi-stop routing
Plan a driving route with multiple stops on your Mac and it will automatically sync to your iPhone when you’re ready to go.

Transit fares
See how much your journey will cost with transit fares.

More sticker poses
Memoji stickers include six new expressive poses.

Contact stickers
All Memoji stickers can be used as contact pictures, and there are three new contact sticker poses to choose from.

More hairstyles
Choose from 17 new and updated hairstyles, including new curly styles, updates to tight curl styles, box braids, and boxer braids.

More headwear
Style your Memoji with a bonnet.

More noses
Choose from more nose options when you customize your Memoji.

More neutral lip colors
Customize your Memoji with more options for a neutral lip color.

Keep track with favorites
Keep track of the artists you care about most with new music notifications and improved recommendations.

My Sports
Follow your favorite teams, leagues, and athletes in Apple News. Customize your My Sports feed to see the latest stories, watch highlights, and get scores, schedules, and standings for the teams and leagues you love.

Home pages
Get more in‑depth coverage from your local city and top newspapers with home pages.

More local news
Local news is available in more markets, and you can find local stories in Top Stories and the Today widget.

Favorites
Quickly access the channels and topics you care about most with a customizable Favorites group in the sidebar.

Enhanced Smart Folders
Automatically organize notes in a Smart Folder based on powerful new filters. Create rules for Date Created, Date Modified, Shared, Mentions, Checklists, Attachments, Folder, Quick Notes, Pinned Notes, and Locked notes.

Lock with password
Encrypt locked notes end-to-end with your login password.

Notes grouped by date
Notes are grouped by chronological categories like Today and Yesterday for easy reference in your list and gallery views.

Collaborate with a link
Share notes that allow anyone with the link to join.

Filter by any or all
Choose whether to filter for any or all of the criteria in a Smart Folder or the Tag Browser.

Duplicate detection
Photos identifies duplicates in a new sidebar item, so you can quickly clean up your library.

Lock Hidden and Recently Deleted albums in Photos
The Hidden and Recently Deleted albums are locked by default and can be unlocked using your login password or Touch ID.

Copy and paste edits
Copy the edits you’ve made to a photo and paste them onto a batch of photos.

Sort people alphabetically
Sort your People album alphabetically.

New Photos picker in system apps
A new Photos picker makes it easy to import photos and videos into system apps from your Photos library. Search your library to find just what you’re looking for.

Tap to restart a video in Memories
When a video is playing in a memory, you can restart the video and play it from the beginning while the music continues to play.

New memory types
New memory types for This Day in History and children playing.

Apple Music in Memories
Apple Music subscribers can add any of the tens of millions of songs from the Apple Music library to enjoy on their devices.

Turn off featured content
Disable Memories and Featured Photos in Photos and the Photos widget.

Reference Mode with Sidecar
Use the 12.9-inch iPad Pro as a secondary reference display for your Mac with Apple silicon.17

Pinned lists
Pin your favorite lists to get to them quickly.

Templates
Save a list as a template to reuse it for routines, packing lists, and more. Create a link to publish and share a template with others, or download templates that others have shared.

Completed Smart List
View all your completed reminders in one place, along with details like time of completion.

Improved Scheduled and Today Lists
Time- and date-based grouping makes it easier to view and add reminders. The Today List is grouped by Morning, Afternoon, and Tonight to help divide your day. The Scheduled List has new week and month groups to help with longer‑term organization.

Improved list groups
Click a group to see a combined view of the lists and reminders it contains.

Notifications in shared lists
Get notifications when tasks are added to or completed in your shared lists.

Richer notes
Create bullets and underline, bold, or strike through text when adding notes to your reminders.

Filter by any or all
Choose whether to filter for any or all of the criteria in a Custom Smart List or the Tag Browser.

Refreshed design
Siri receives an updated design with more focused results, so you get just the information you’re looking for.

Earnings dates
See the date for a company’s upcoming earnings report and add it to your calendar.

Multiple watchlists
Create multiple custom watchlists to organize the tickers you follow. Group symbols using any criteria you choose, such as sector, asset type, ownership status, and more.

New widget options
Use a new two‑column layout in the medium‑size and large Stocks widgets to see even more symbols.

Collections
You can now access collections by theme and interest.

New languages
System-wide translation adds support for Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese, Polish, Indonesian, and Dutch.

Lift subject from background
Lift the subject from an image or isolate the subject by removing the background. This works in Photos, Screenshot, Quick Look, Safari, and more.

New domains for Visual Look Up
Visual Look Up adds recognition of birds, insects, and statues.18

Weather app on Mac
The Weather app comes to Mac, with a design optimized for the larger display, including immersive animations, detailed maps, and clickable forecast modules.

Severe weather notifications
Get a notification when a severe weather alert has been issued near you.

More weather details
Click any module in the Weather app to reveal a deeper set of data such as hourly temperature and precipitation over the next 10 days.

Animated backgrounds
Enjoy thousands of variations of animated backgrounds that represent the sun position, clouds, and precipitation.

Air quality
Monitor air quality using a color‑coded scale that displays the air quality level and category. Easily see if air quality is better or worse than the previous day. View air quality on a map and see related health recommendations, pollutant breakdown, and more.

Forecasts
See the most important weather information in a smart layout that adjusts to the current conditions.

Weather maps
View weather maps showing precipitation, air quality, and temperature. Explore the map alongside the location view or in full screen.

The successor to macOS Monterey

it was announced at WWDC 2022 on June 6, 2022

It is named after the city Ventura in California, following the home state naming system that started with OS X Mavericks.

The first developer version was released on June 6, 2022,

while the public beta is expected to become available in July 2022.

The final release is expected in late 2022

History

Updates

The first developer beta of macOS 13 Ventura was released on June 6, 2022.

Version Build Release date Notes

13.0 beta 2 22A5286j June 22, 2022 macOS 13 Ventura Beta 2 Release Notes

New features and changes

macOS Ventura features a number of changes and new apps, many of which are related to productivity; some of the new apps were ported from iOS and iPadOS

Weather for the Mac

Because of this, the Weather Widget no longer redirects to The Weather Channel’s website.

Clock for the Mac: an app which displays world time and manages alarms, stopwatches, and timers

Because of this, the Clock Widget no longer redirects to the Date & Time section of System Settings.

Stage Manager, a new tool for organizing windows on the desktop

Improvements to search, email organization, and formatting in Mail

Richer search results in Spotlight

A new version of Safari which includes Shared Tab Groups and Passkeys, a technology for password-less account management, and a redesigned sidebar.

Updates to Messages, which allow the user to edit and unsend recent iMessages

Handoff for FaceTime: the ability to transfer an ongoing call between multiple Apple devices

New features for videoconferencing, including the ability to wirelessly use an iPhone as a webcam

System Preferences was given a complete overhaul, with System Settings as its new name, and with a new user interface and better organised categories, modeled after that of the iOS/iPadOS Settings app

“About This Mac” has a new user interface.

iCloud Shared Photo Library which allows multiple people (members of iCloud Family Sharing) add, edit, and delete photos in the same photo library

Redesigned Game Center dashboard

Visual redesign of Font Book

Freeform, a productivity app like a whiteboard for real-time collaboration

Support for routes with multiple stops in Maps

Updated design for Siri, to match iOS and iPadOS.

AV1 and AVIF support

Supported hardware[edit]

macOS Ventura supports Macs with Apple silicon or Intel’s 7th generation Kaby Lake chips or newer,[6] and drops support for various models released from 2013 to 2017. Ventura supports the following Mac models:

iMac (2017) and later

iMac Pro

MacBook (2017)

MacBook Air (2018) and later

MacBook Pro (2017) and later

Mac Pro (2019)

Mac Studio

Mac Mini (2018) and later

References[edit]

^ Adorno, José (June 22, 2022). “macOS 13 Ventura beta 2 now available to developers”. [[1]]. Retrieved June 22, 2022.

^ “macOS 13 beta 2 (22A5286j) – Releases – Apple Developer”. Apple Developer. Apple Inc. June 22, 2022. Retrieved June 22, 2022.

^ Chin, Monica (6 June 2022). “Apple announces macOS Ventura with new Stage Manager organization tool”. The Verge. Vox Media. Retrieved 6 June 2022.

^ Stolyar, Brenda (June 6, 2022). “All the New Features Coming to Your Mac This Fall”. Wired.

^ “macOS Ventura Preview”. Apple. 2022-06-06. Retrieved 2022-06-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

^ Haslam, Karen. “macOS 13 Ventura compatibility: Can your Mac run the latest version?”. Macworld. Retrieved 2022-06-12.

Timeline of Macintosh operating systems

Those changes include

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Developer Apple Inc.

OS family

Macintosh

Unix, based on Darwin (BSD)

Source model Closed, with open source components

Latest preview 13.0 beta 21[2] (June 22, 2022; 6 days ago) [±]

Update method Software Update

Platforms x86-64, ARM64

Kernel type Hybrid (XNU)

License Proprietary software with open-source components and content licensed with APSL

Preceded by macOS Monterey

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