Apple Intelligence
On Mac models with Apple silicon, macOS Sequoia introduces Apple Intelligence, which draws on your personal context to give you intelligence that’s most helpful and relevant for you.*
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Sharp as a Mac.
Lay out your workspace on the fly, browse the web with focus, and even mirror your iPhone wirelessly. And Apple Intelligence helps you simplify and accelerate tasks big and small.
Continuity
Use your iPhone from your Mac
With iPhone Mirroring, you can view what’s on your iPhone and control it too, without having to reach for it.1
Use your iPhone from your Mac
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’re doing.
iPhone notifications on Mac
Catch your iPhone notifications right alongside your Mac ones. Even better, you can take action and launch straight into an app when using iPhone Mirroring.
Seamless drag and drop between devices
Move files, photos, and videos between your iPhone and Mac as easily as you drag and drop between apps on Mac.
Productivity
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 in view.
Tiling with keyboard and menu shortcuts
Lay out your workspace on the fly.
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 tiling options.
Presenter preview
See exactly what you’re going to share in video calling apps — your whole screen or a single app — before displaying it for everyone.
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.
Safari
Introducing Highlights
Quickly pull up relevant info from a site.2
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 TV shows.
A smarter, redesigned Reader
With a table of contents and high-level summary, get the gist of an article before reading on.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 playback controls.
Passwords app
All your credentials in one place
From passwords to verifications and security alerts, find them all securely stored in the Passwords app.
All your credentials in one place
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 looking for.
Securely synced across devices and apps
Works across Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Vision Pro, and Windows.
Securely synced across devices and apps
Access the Passwords app on Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro, 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 Passwords app.
Gaming
New and upcoming games for Mac
Enjoy new and upcoming titles from game developers taking full advantage of Metal 3 and Apple silicon to deliver smooth frame rates and high-quality visuals.
Games list, row 1: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Frostpunk 2, Dead Island 2, Assassins Creed: Shadows, Valheim, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
- Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
- Frostpunk 2
- Dead Island 2
- Assassins Creed: Shadows
- Valheim
- Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
- Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
- Frostpunk 2
- Dead Island 2
- Assassins Creed: Shadows
- Valheim
- Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Games list, row 2: Sniper Elite 4, RoboCop: Rogue City, World of Warcraft: The War Within, Control, Palworld, Riven
- Sniper Elite 4
- RoboCop: Rogue City
- World of Warcraft: The War Within
- Control
- Palworld
- Riven
- Sniper Elite 4
- RoboCop: Rogue City
- World of Warcraft: The War Within
- Control
- Palworld
- Riven
Messages
All-new ways to play with text
Type with tone, flair, and feeling.
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 any text.
Tapback with any emoji or sticker
Express yourself in more ways than ever.
Tapback with any emoji or sticker
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 use most.
Schedule a message with Send Later
Whether it’s too late at night or too important to forget, you can now schedule a message to send at a specified time.
Maps
Topographic maps and trail networks
Maps now features topographic maps with detailed trail networks and hikes, including all 63 U.S. national parks.4
Save hikes for offline access
Browse thousands of hikes that you can save to your other devices — along with any notes you want to add.5
Custom walking and hiking routes
Create your own routes.
Custom walking and hiking routes
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.
Notes
Live audio transcription
Record audio sessions within your note and generate live audio transcriptions you can search through or combine with other comments, checklists, or documents.6
Math Notes
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
Make text standstand outout withwith color.color.
Highlighting
With the new highlight style feature, it’s easier to quickly mark up your notes and make text stand out.
AirPods
Hands-free Siri Interactions
Say yes with a nod, or no with a shake.
Hands-free Siri Interactions
With Siri Interactions on AirPods Pro 2, you’ll have the ability to simply nod your head yes or gently shake your head no to respond to Siri.9 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 out loud.
Voice Isolation on AirPods Pro
Sound crystal clear on calls, even in windy conditions or areas with loud background noise, through advanced computational audio.
Personalized Spatial Audio for gaming
The same immersive experience that has transformed music and movies puts you right in the middle of the action of your favorite games.10
Personalized Spatial Audio for gaming
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 AirPods Pro now deliver our best wireless audio latency ever for mobile gaming, giving you even more of an edge.11
And so much more.
Calculator.
Updated basic and scientific calculators introduce new tools like history and unit conversions. You can also enter and continue to view complete expressions with parentheses, trigonometry, and multiple operations before hitting equals for the final answer.
Calendar.
Create, view, edit, and complete reminders from the Reminders app right in Calendar.
Freeform.
Scenes let you organize and present your board section by section. Send a copy of your board to anyone with just a link. An improved diagramming mode makes it easier to form connections on your canvas. Align your board content just the way you like by snapping items to the grid. And easily pan around your board by clicking and dragging the canvas while pressing the spacebar.
Photos.
Collections automatically organize your library by helpful topics in the sidebar, like Days, Trips, People and Pets, and Featured Photos.
Weather.
The Feels Like temperature appears prominently near the actual temperature when they differ significantly. You can also add your home and work locations from Contacts to your list of locations in the Weather app.
Privacy.
An improved Privacy and Security settings menu makes it easier to manage how much information you’re sharing with apps.
macOS Sequoia is compatible with these devices.
- iMac 2019 and laterLearn more
- iMac Pro 2017 and laterLearn more
- Mac Studio 2022 and laterLearn more
- MacBook Air 2020 and laterLearn more
- Mac mini 2018 and laterLearn more
- MacBook Pro 2018 and laterLearn more
- Mac Pro 2019 and laterLearn more