Enjoy your favorite iPad apps now on your Mac. Extend your workspace and expand your creativity with iPad and Apple Pencil. And discover smart new features in the apps you use every mean solar day. Now y'all can take everything you do to a higher place and beyond.

What's the difference between the macOS combo and the regular update?

The macOS regular update only includes the files needed to update from the immediate previous version, for example from 10.5.2 to 10.5.3. The combo update includes all the files necessary to update from the last major version. You would desire to download the combo update if you're going from 10.5.0 to 10.5.three.

The supplemental update focuses on security issues only.

Music, Telly, and podcasts accept middle stage.

iTunes forever changed the fashion people experienced music, movies, TV shows, and podcasts. Information technology all changes again with three all-new, dedicated apps --- Apple Music, Apple Goggle box, and Apple Podcasts --- each designed from the basis upward to be the all-time way to savour entertainment on your Mac. And rest bodacious; everything you lot had in your iTunes library is still attainable in each app. iCloud seamlessly syncs everything beyond your devices --- or y'all tin can back up, restore, and sync by connecting the device directly to your Mac.

Presenting Apple Music on Mac.

The new Apple Music app is the ultimate music streaming experience on Mac.1 Explore a library of 50 million songs, discover new artists and tracks, notice the perfect playlist, download and listen offline, or enjoy all the music you lot've collected over the years. And find it all in your music library on all your devices.

Apple TV. Premiering on Mac.

The Apple tree Tv set app for Mac is the new home for all your favorite movies, shows, premium channels, and --- coming presently --- Apple TV+. Sentry everything directly in the app or relish it offline, and discover the best of what's on in the Spotter Now tab. You lot tin even option up where you left off on any screen, beyond all your devices. And for the first time, 4K2 and Dolby Atmos3-supported movies are available on Mac.

Listen up. Podcasts on Mac.

More than 700,000 of the best entertainment, one-act, news, and sports shows are now bachelor on your Mac with Apple Podcasts. Search for podcasts by title, topic, guest, host, content, and more than. Subscribe and be notified equally soon as new episodes become bachelor. And in the Heed Now tab, yous can easily choice up where you left off across all your devices.

The apps you lot honey. Right on your Mac.

Experience your favorite iPad apps at present on your Mac. With Mac Goad, developers tin easily create Mac apps from the iPad apps you already know and love. They run natively alongside your existing Mac apps then you can drag and drop content between them. They take full advantage of the larger screen and powerful compages of your Mac. And because they are congenital from their iOS versions, they provide a seamless experience beyond your devices. Enjoy a wide range of Mac apps --- from travel, entertainment, and gaming to banking, education, and projection management.

The Twitter for Mac app takes total advantage of the native Mac features like multiple windows, drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts, and more than. See more of what's happening on a larger screen and easily work alongside your other Mac apps.

The apps you use every day, made extraordinary.

With macOS Catalina, the apps you love are now more than beautiful and intelligent than ever. So your everyday tasks are easier than ever.

Photos. Focus on your best shots.

Photos has a new immersive, dynamic expect that showcases your photos and memories. Run across only the all-time shots in your library, without the duplicates and clutter. Browse your favorite photos by days, months, and years and get larger previews of all your photos. And Photos is even smarter, so it tin highlight important moments similar birthdays, anniversaries, and trips.

Notes. Easier to observe. And easier to share.

A new gallery view and more than powerful search help yous find your notes quicker than always. Shared folders let you collaborate on unabridged folders of notes with another person or a group. And new checklist options allow you lot movement completed items to the bottom, quickly reorder items using elevate and drop, and more than.

Organization. Reorganized.

The Reminders app has been completely rebuilt, with an all-new design and new ways to easily create, organize, and keep track of reminders. Add together attachments to reminders, create or alter reminders with the quick edit buttons, and permit Siri suggest new ones establish in Letters. Smart lists automatically organize and brandish your upcoming reminders. And if you tag someone in a reminder, you'll be notified the side by side time y'all're chatting in Letters.

What'due south New:

macOS Catalina Security Update 2021-003 is recommended for all users and improves the security of macOS.

macOS Catalina ten.15.6 introduces local news in your Today feed in Apple News and improves the security and reliability of your Mac.

Apple News

  • Local news in your Today feed provides extensive coverage of San Francisco, the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Houston, and New York Metropolis
  • More stories bachelor from local news providers with a subscription to Apple News+
  • Your daily newsletter from Apple News can at present exist personalized with stories that reflect your interests

This update also includes bug fixes and other improvements.

  • Adds a new choice to optimize video streaming on HDR-compatible Mac notebooks for improved battery life
  • Fixes an issue where the computer name may change after installing a software update
  • Resolves an issue where certain USB mouse and trackpads may lose connection

What's New in macOS ten.5.5:

macOS Catalina 10.fifteen.5 introduces battery health direction in the Energy Saver settings for notebooks, an option to command automatic prominence of video tiles on Group FaceTime calls, and controls to fine-tune the built-in calibration of your Pro Brandish XDR. The update likewise improves the stability, reliability, and security of your Mac.

Bombardment Health Management

  • Battery wellness direction to help maximize battery lifespan for Mac notebooks
  • Energy Saver preference pane now displays bombardment condition and recommends if the battery needs to be serviced
  • Selection to disable bombardment health direction
  • For more than information, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211094

FaceTime Prominence Preference

  • Option to control automatic prominence on Group FaceTime calls and then video tiles practise non change size when a participant speaks

Calibration Fine-Tuning for Pro Display XDR

  • Controls to fine-tune the born calibration of your Pro Display XDR by adjusting the white point and luminance for a precise match to your own display calibration target

This update also includes problems fixes and other improvements.

  • Fixes an consequence that may prevent Reminders from sending notifications for recurring reminders
  • Addresses an issue that may forestall password entry on the login screen
  • Fixes an effect where Organization Preferences would keep to testify a notification badge even after installing an update
  • Resolves an issue where the built-in photographic camera may not exist detected when trying to employ it later using a video conferencing app
  • Addresses an effect for Mac computers with the Apple tree T2 Security Chip where internal speakers may non appear every bit a sound output device in Sound preferences
  • Fixes a stability event with uploading and downloading media files from iCloud Photo Library while your Mac is asleep
  • Resolves a stability issue when transferring large amounts of data to RAID volumes
  • Fixes an issue where the Reduced Motion Accessibility preference did not reduce the speed of animations in a FaceTime group telephone call

macOS Catalina 10.fifteen.4 introduces iCloud Bulldoze folder sharing, Screen Time communications limits, Apple Music time-synced lyrics view, and more. The update too improves the stability, reliability, and security of your Mac.

Finder

  • iCloud Drive binder sharing from Finder
  • Controls to limit access only to people yous explicitly invite, or to grant admission to anyone with the folder link
  • Permissions to choose who tin make changes and upload files and who can but view and download files

Screen Time

  • Communication limits for decision-making who your children can communicate with and be contacted by throughout the twenty-four hours and during downtime
  • Playback command of music videos for your children

Music

  • Time-synced lyrics view for Apple tree Music, including the ability to jump to your favorite part of a song by clicking a line in lyrics view

Safari

  • Option to import Chrome passwords into your iCloud Keychain for easy AutoFill of your passwords in Safari and across all your devices
  • Controls for duplicating a tab and for endmost all tabs to the correct of the current tab
  • HDR playback back up on compatible computers for Netflix content

App Store with Apple Arcade

  • Universal Purchase support enables the use of a singular purchase of a participating app across iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, Mac, and Apple tree TV
  • Recently played Arcade games appear in the Arcade tab so y'all can continue playing on iPhone, iPod affect, iPad, Mac, and Apple Tv set

Pro Brandish XDR

  • Customized reference modes that yous can tailor to specific workflow needs past selecting from several color gamut, white signal, luminance, and transfer function options

Accessibility

  • Caput arrow preference for moving a cursor on the screen based on the precise movements of your caput

This update also includes bug fixes and other improvements.

  • High Dynamic Range output to HDR10-compatible third-party displays and TVs connected with DisplayPort or HDMI
  • OAuth authentication back up with Outlook.com accounts for improved security
  • CalDav migration back up when upgrading to iCloud reminders on a secondary device
  • Resolves an effect where text copied betwixt apps may announced invisible when Dark Fashion is active
  • Fixes an issue in Safari where a CAPTCHA tile may brandish incorrectly
  • Resolves an issue where Reminders may send notifications for completed reminders
  • Fixes an upshot with screen brightness for the LG UltraFine 5K display later on waking from slumber

What's New in Catalina 10.15.3:

The ‌macOS Catalina‌ 10.15.3 update improves the stability, reliability and security of your Mac, and is recommended for all users.

This update:

  • Optimizes gamma handling of low grey levels on Pro Display XDR for SDR workflows when using macOS
  • Improves multi-stream video editing operation for HEVC and H.264 encoded 4K video on the sixteen-inch MacBook Pro (2019)

What'southward New in Catalina 10.15.2:

The macOS Catalina 10.15.2 update improves the stability, reliability and performance of your Mac and is recommended for all users.

This update adds the following features:

Apple News

  • New layout for Apple News+ stories from The Wall Street Journal and other leading newspapers

Stocks

  • Go links to related stories or more than stories from the aforementioned publication at the finish of an article
  • "Breaking" and "Developing" labels for Summit Stories
  • Stories from Apple tree News are now bachelor in Canada in English language and French

This update also includes the following bug fixes and improvements:

Music

  • Restores the cavalcade browser view for managing the music library
  • Resolves an issue that may forestall anthology artwork from actualization
  • Fixes an issue that may reset music equalizer settings during playback

iTunes Remote

  • Adds support for using an iPhone or iPad to remotely control the Music and Telly apps on a Mac

Photos

  • Resolves an outcome that may crusade some .AVI and .MP4 files to appear as unsupported
  • Fixes an outcome that prevents newly created folders from appearing in Albums view
  • Addresses an issue where manually sorted images in an album may exist printed or exported out of gild
  • Fixes an issue that prevents the zoom-to-crop tool from working in a print preview

Mail

  • Addresses an effect that may cause Postal service Preferences to open up with a blank window
  • Resolves an consequence that may prevent using undo from retrieving deleted mail

Other

  • Improves the reliability of syncing books and audiobooks to your iPad or iPhone through Finder
  • Fixes an issue where reminders may be out of order in the Today smart list in the Reminders app
  • Resolves an issue that may cause slow typing operation in the Notes app

New features bachelor with macOS Catalina:

Music

  • Designed for Apple Music: Stream and download more than than fifty one thousand thousand songs advertizing-costless. Every time yous open the app, y'all'll get the best of Apple tree Music personalized to your tastes with For You.
  • Music Store: For users who still similar to ain their music, the iTunes Store is merely a click away.
  • At present Playing: The new Music app includes an updated player. Easily see lyrics while you lot're listening and control the music that volition play next with just a click. Or switch to MiniPlayer to listen while multitasking.
  • Library: All your music organized in one identify. Encounter artists, albums, songs, playlists, and contempo additions with a familiar carte du jour in the new sidebar. And now, type what y'all're looking for in the updated library pages to quickly observe the verbal vocal in your music collection.

TV

  • Library: Easily discover all your purchased movies and shows in the updated Library tab. Scan by recently added, downloaded, genres, and more than.
  • Movies and Television: Buy or rent new-release movies or explore the catalog of more than than 100,000 movies and shows --- including the largest catalog of 4K HDR titles.2
  • Apple Tv set channels3: Endeavour new Apple TV channels, including HBO, Showtime, Starz, and more. Subscribe and share with up to six family members. Channels play in the Apple Television app advertizing-free, online or off --- no boosted apps, accounts, or passwords needed. Try them free and cancel anytime.
  • Home for Apple Goggle box+: Apple's new premium streaming service brings y'all a wide range of sectional original shows and films from the world'southward greatest talent. Apple Idiot box+ will exist available in the Apple TV app this fall.
  • Lookout Now: Sentry Now is your home in the Apple Goggle box app. Discover expertly curated collections and personalized recommendations picked just for yous.
  • Up Next: Watch Now includes Upward Adjacent, which helps you quickly find and sentry your favorites. It also lets y'all resume what y'all're watching from the moment yous left off, across all your devices.
  • Kids: A new dedicated Kids section helps you detect great, editorially handpicked shows and movies for kids of all ages.
  • Apple Tv set app everywhere: Y'all can pick up where you left off on Apple Tv, iPad, iPhone, select smart TVs, and now Mac.
  • Dolby Atmos: Bask a thrilling surround sound feel with Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital, or Dolby Digital Plus soundtracks in the Apple Idiot box app using the built-in speakers on certain Mac models.

Podcasts

  • Mind At present: Continue listening to your favorite podcast episodes or see when a new one is available. Or discover other shows you might like based on the ones y'all're already listening to.
  • Library: The Apple Podcasts library is the one place for all the shows you've subscribed to or added --- organized past evidence championship or episode championship. Download your favorite episodes to listen offline.
  • Browse: With over 700,000 shows in the catalog, our editors choice the best shows for you to browse each week. Try a show from New & Noteworthy or check out which shows are trending in Top Charts.
  • Search: Search provides better results when you're searching for a topic or people --- even detect episodes featuring a specific guest or host.

Syncing

  • Media syncing: All 3 services --- Apple tree TV, Apple Music, and Apple Podcasts --- sync your content through the cloud across your devices. Or sync it from each of the apps if you adopt using a cablevision.
  • Support, update, and restore through the Finder: Each fourth dimension you connect a device, you can find it in the Finder sidebar. From there you can support, update, and restore your device.

Photos

  • All-new Photos tab: A beautiful new browsing experience showcases your photos and memories.
  • Twenty-four hour period, month, and year organization: Photos is organized by twenty-four hours, calendar month, and year views so it'southward piece of cake to discover photos or relive your memories. Animations and transitions go along your spot in the timeline then yous tin can switch between views without losing your place.
  • Large photograph previews: Photo previews are larger to help you distinguish between shots. Photos uses intelligence to find the all-time part of your photo in previews, so you see the full, unedited version when yous open the photo.
  • Auto-playing Live Photos and videos: Live Photos and videos begin playing every bit you roll, bringing your library to life.
  • Personalization: Using motorcar learning on your Mac, Photos can understand who's in your photos and what's happening to highlight of import moments like birthdays, anniversaries, and trips.
  • Your best shots: Photos intelligently showcases the best shots in your library, removing duplicates and clutter.
  • All Photos: The All Photos view displays all your photos and videos in a grid. Choose to zoom in for large previews, or zoom out to get an overview of your entire collection. You can also choose to view your photos and videos in square or original format.
  • Memory movies: Now you tin can view Retentivity movies on your Mac and edit the duration, mood, and title. Edits sync to your other devices when you lot use iCloud Photos.

Notes

  • Gallery view: The all-new gallery view displays your notes as visual thumbnails, making it easier than ever to apace find the notation you're looking for.
  • Shared folders: Collaborate on entire folders, including all the notes and subfolders inside. Invite others to a binder, and anybody tin add notes, attachments, or subfolders.
  • View-only collaboration: You can now share notes or entire folders as view-just and so that y'all're the only 1 who can make changes.
  • More powerful search: Search can now recognize objects or scenes within the images you've added to your notes and can help y'all find specific text in the items you've scanned using the built-in document scanner. Search is as well helpful before you type, with suggested searches that you can but click to view.
  • New checklist options: Rapidly reorder checklist items using elevate and drib or keyboard shortcuts, and move checked items to the lesser and out of the fashion. If y'all've completed the checklist and want to utilise information technology once again, yous can click to uncheck all the items and start over.

Reminders

  • All-new design: The Reminders app has been completely rebuilt with an all-new user interface and more powerful features, making it easier than ever to create, organize, and go along runway of reminders.
  • New edit buttons: Quickly add together dates, times, locations, or flags to reminders using the new edit buttons, all without having to go to another view.
  • Enhanced Siri intelligence: You lot can type longer, more descriptive sentences and Reminders understands and provides relevant suggestions. Siri intelligence on your device tin also help anticipate your needs by suggesting that yous create a reminder while you make plans in Messages.
  • Attachments: Add together attachments to your reminders to brand them more than informative and useful. You can add together photos, scanned documents, or even spider web links that accept y'all direct to a website related to the reminder.
  • Tasks and grouped lists: At that place are more options for organizing your reminders. You can capture tasks associated with a top-level reminder. Yous can also grouping multiple lists.
  • Smart lists: All-new smart lists automatically organize your upcoming reminders into easy-to-find categories like Today, Flagged, Scheduled, or All to see them in a single list.
  • Customize list appearance: Customize the appearance of your personal or shared iCloud lists, choosing from 12 cute colors and 60 expressive symbols.
  • Messages integration: Tag someone in a reminder and the adjacent time y'all're chatting with the person in Messages, you'll be reminded that now might be a skilful fourth dimension to talk.

Safari

  • Updated start page: An updated showtime page blueprint includes favorites, frequently visited, and Siri suggestions that surface relevant websites in your browsing history, recently visited sites, bookmarks, reading list, iCloud Tabs, and links you receive in Messages.
  • Weak password warnings: When you sign in to an account in Safari with a weak, like shooting fish in a barrel-to-judge countersign, Safari warns you and helps you supercede it with a stronger one.
  • PiP from the tab sound button: Quickly enable Picture in Picture from the tab audio button.
  • Switch to open tab from the Smart Search field: If yous start typing the address of a website that's already open up, Safari directs yous to the open up tab.

Mail service

  • Block sender: Postal service can cake all e-mail from specified senders and motion their messages directly to the trash. Just as in Messages, you tin admission this feature past clicking the sender's proper noun in whatever email header.
  • Unsubscribe: An unsubscribe link for email messages from commercial lists now appears above the email header. Clicking Unsubscribe requests removal of your email address from the list.
  • Mute Thread: Mute Thread prevents notifications from an overly active email thread.
  • Updated classic layout: Arranges the Postal service viewer in a cavalcade layout, with an selection to preview the current message below or to the right of your message list.

Sidecar

  • Extended desktop: Apply your iPad equally a second brandish for additional screen space. Refer to one app while yous work in another, or meet how a presentation looks in presentation mode on your iPad while editing information technology on your Mac.
  • Mirrored desktop: Mirror the screen on your Mac to have two screens displaying the same content, making it perfect for sharing with others.
  • Wired or wireless: Connect your iPad to your Mac using a cable to go along it charged, or use it wirelessly --- within 10 meters --- for greater mobility.
  • Apple Pencil: Employ the precision and intuitiveness of Apple Pencil with your favorite creative Mac apps that support drawing tablets. Draw and write naturally, edit a photograph or graphic, and use it to betoken and click as you do with a mouse.
  • Gestures: Use the same Multi-Touch gestures you're familiar with on iPad, along with all-new text editing gestures that allow you cut, copy, paste, and disengage without lifting your hands from the onscreen keyboard.
  • Sidebar: Become easy access to your most commonly used controls from the sidebar. Use modifier keys to enable shortcuts in pro apps, and access buttons that allow you to undo every bit well as display or hide the menu bar, Dock, and keyboard.
  • Touch on Bar: For apps with Touch Bar back up, the controls appear at the bottom of your iPad screen --- fifty-fifty if your Mac doesn't have a Touch Bar.
  • Developer support: Developers don't need to do annihilation for Sidecar support --- information technology only works. Apps with advanced stylus back up tin can utilize Tablet Events in AppKit to enable pressure and tilt for Apple tree Pencil. Additionally, developers can specify custom behavior for double-tap on the side of Apple Pencil through a changeMode event.

Continuity Markup and Sketch

  • Continuity Markup: Write and sketch on PDFs or mark up your documents with Apple Pencil. Run across the updates live on your Mac as you mark them up on your iPad.
  • Continuity Sketch: Create a sketch on your iPad using Apple Pencil and easily insert it into whatsoever document on your Mac.

Screen Fourth dimension

  • Usage reports: Screen Time creates usage reports that show you lot how much time is being spent on your Mac, which apps are used nigh, and how many notifications are received. With iCloud, Screen Time combines all your usage information and syncs Reanimation settings and App Limits beyond iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
  • Downtime: With Screen Time, yous can schedule downtime so you (or your child) tin can only use specific apps yous've approved.
  • App Limits: With App Limits, you tin set the amount of time you want to use your apps and websites. Set App Limits for total fourth dimension, categories, or specific apps.
  • Combined Limits: Create combined limits with a combination of app categories, specific apps, or websites.
  • One More Minute: When a limit is met, you can tap "One more than minute" to give you time to quickly save your work or wrap upwardly a conversation.
  • Advice Limits: Communication Limits let you control who your children tin communicate with and who tin communicate with them throughout the 24-hour interval and during reanimation.
  • Managed contact list for children: Parents can utilize Screen Time to manage the contacts that appear on their children'south devices.
  • Family unit Sharing: Parents can configure Screen Fourth dimension from whatsoever device --- iPhone, iPad, or Mac --- and accept everything set up for their kids on all their devices.

Security

  • Enhanced Gatekeeper: Gatekeeper volition ensure that all new apps you install --- from the App Store or the internet --- have been checked for known security bug by Apple before you run them the first time and periodically thereafter. This extends the protection from the app's source to include automated checks for what's in the app.
  • Information protections: macOS Catalina checks with you before allowing an app to access your data in your Documents, Desktop, and Downloads folders; iCloud Drive; the folders of third-party cloud storage providers; removable media; and external volumes. In addition, you're asked before an app can perform primal logging or capture a however or video recording of your screen.
  • Activation Lock: All Mac models with the Apple T2 Security Chip at present support Activation Lock --- only like your iPhone or iPad. So if your Mac is ever misplaced or lost, the only person who can erase and reactivate it is you lot.
  • Dedicated organization volume: macOS Catalina runs in a defended, read-but system volume --- which ways it is completely separate from all other data and helps ameliorate the reliability of macOS.
  • DriverKit and user space organization extensions: Previously many hardware peripherals and sophisticated features needed to run their code directly within macOS using kernel extensions, or kexts. Now these programs run separately from the operating organisation, merely like any other app, then they can't affect macOS if something goes wrong.

Notice My

  • Two great apps in one: Find My iPhone and Find My Friends are now combined in a unmarried, piece of cake-to-use app to help you locate the people and devices that are important to you.
  • Find offline devices: Locate a missing device even if information technology'due south non continued to Wi-Fi using crowd-sourced location. When you lot mark your device every bit missing and another Apple user's device is nearby, it can detect your device'southward Bluetooth signal and report its location to y'all. It'southward completely anonymous and encrypted end-to-finish, so everyone'south privacy is protected.
  • Enhanced location notifications: Location notifications include the ability to schedule notifications for different days of the calendar week, more useful place names, and enhanced privacy controls.

Approve with Apple Watch

  • View passwords: Anywhere you demand to blazon your Mac password, such every bit viewing passwords in Safari preferences, you can at present double-click the side button on your Apple tree Watch to authenticate on your Mac.
  • Approving app installations: Unlock a locked note, approve app installations, unlock settings in Organisation Preferences, and modify root files, all with your Apple Sentinel.

Accessibility

  • Phonation Control: Vocalisation Command is a new fashion to fully control your Mac, iOS, and iPadOS devices entirely with your voice.
  • Accurate dictation: Voice Control improves on the existing Enhanced Dictation characteristic using the Siri speech recognition engine, and then you get the latest advances in motorcar learning for audio-to-text transcription.
  • Add custom words: Whether you're writing a biological science written report, filling out a legal document, or emailing about a favorite topic, you lot tin can add custom words to ensure that Vocalization Control recognizes the words you commonly utilise.
  • On-device processing: All audio processing for Vox Control happens on your device, ensuring that your personal data is kept private.
  • Rich text editing: Thanks to rich text editing commands, you don't take to rehearse before y'all speak. Making corrections is quick and piece of cake. Y'all can replace phrases by proper noun. Try saying "Supersede I'k almost there with I simply arrived." Fine-grained selection also makes information technology simple to select text. Endeavour saying "Move upwards two lines. Select previous discussion. Capitalize that."
  • Discussion and emoji suggestions: If you need to right a word, there's a new interface just for that. But ask to correct a discussion, and y'all'll exist presented with a listing of suggested replacements.
  • Seamless transitions from dictation to commands: Voice Control understands contextual cues, so you tin can seamlessly transition between text dictation and commands. For case, say "Happy Birthday. Tap send." in Letters, and Vocalization Command sends "Happy Altogether" --- just as you intended. You tin can also say "delete that", and Voice Control knows to delete what you simply typed.
  • Comprehensive app navigation: You lot can rely entirely on your vox to navigate an app. Comprehensive navigation is provided by navigation commands, names of accessibility labels, numbers, and grids.
  • Navigation commands: Navigation commands give you quick ways to collaborate with macOS and apps. You can open apps, search the spider web, open Spotlight, and more.
  • Names: You can easily navigate past telling Vocalisation Control to select the name of an accessibility label for buttons, links, and more.
  • Numbers: Say "show numbers" to see numbers appear adjacent to all clickable items onscreen. Apply this to quickly navigate complex or unfamiliar apps. Numbers automatically announced in menus and whenever you need to disambiguate betwixt items with the same name. Just say a number to click information technology.
  • Grids: If you ever need to affect a role of the screen that doesn't have a command, apply Grid overlays. Saying "show grid" superimposes a filigree on your screen and allows y'all to precisely do things, like select, zoom, drag, and more than.
  • Hover Text: Hover Text displays high-resolution zoom of text, text fields, menu items, buttons, and more in a dedicated window. But press the Command key when hovering over text with your cursor, and a window with zoomed text appears alongside the standard interface --- helping you stay contextually aware. Text is crisply displayed in a font and color of your pick. And you can collaborate with buttons and type correct in the zoomed window.
  • Zoom Display: While using a second display, you tin can see the same screen upwardly close and at a distance simultaneously. Yous tin go on one monitor zoomed in and another at a standard resolution. Or keep a personal Mac zoomed in while giving a presentation.
  • Simplified tab navigation: VoiceOver users volition bask simplified keyboard navigation that requires less drilling into unique focus groups. The Tab cardinal more than simply advances through selection of elements --- such as window stoplights, toolbar buttons, and scroll bars.
  • Punctuation in iCloud: VoiceOver users ofttimes customize the style punctuation marks are spoken. These customizations are now stored in iCloud, giving you a consistent experience across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS.
  • Additional international braille tables: macOS Catalina adds more international braille tables and lets you quickly switch between them.
  • Improved VoiceOver support in Xcode: VoiceOver at present reads aloud warnings, line numbers, and breakpoints in the Xcode text editor.
  • Brandish color filters: Users with color vision deficiencies can adapt brandish colors using new color filter options. Your Mac shifts the colors onscreen, helping y'all easily differentiate areas of confusion. And you tin can turn this preference on and off through the Accessibility Options pane using Command-Selection-F5.
  • Tint your entire display: A new display option lets you lot tint your entire screen using a color of your choice. Some users may discover that certain color tints assist make text easier to read.

Apple ID Business relationship Information

  • One place for your Apple tree ID account details: Now you tin admission all your important Apple ID business relationship information right from Arrangement Preferences on your Mac.
  • Overview and helpful notifications: A new overview pane allows you to quickly review important tips and notifications to aid ensure that your business relationship is properly signed in and secure, and that all the features you expect are ready and working correctly.
  • Basic business relationship and security details: Easily review business relationship details such as your name, contact info, countersign, security details, payment and shipping info, and e-mail newsletter preferences.
  • iCloud settings: Review and update your iCloud settings and manage or upgrade your storage plan someday.
  • Media and purchases: Become easy admission to your current subscriptions, past purchases, and account settings related to the App Store, iTunes Store, Apple Music, Apple tree Books, Apple News, Apple Tv, and more.
  • Family unit Sharing: View which subscriptions yous're sharing, which services are enabled, who has Ask to Purchase turned on, and more.
  • View all your devices: View a list of all the devices you're signed in to with your business relationship. Review device details such as last backup completed, Find My status, and more than.

QuickTime Player

  • Motion picture in Moving-picture show (PiP): With a single click in the navigation controller, you lot can play video in a resizable window that isn't blocked by other windows, allowing you to watch while working on other things.
  • Enhanced Moving-picture show Inspector: The Movie Inspector pane shows you even more than in-depth technical information virtually the currently open media file. Run into key details such equally video color infinite, HDR format, bit depth, scale, and aspect ratio.
  • Open up Paradigm Sequence: Create an H.264, HEVC, or ProRes-encoded moving-picture show file by navigating to a folder of sequentially numbered images, then choosing your desired resolution, frame rate, and encoding quality.
  • Timecode back up: When QuickTime Actor opens a media file with embedded timecode, information technology shows the time information in the onscreen navigation controller.
  • Transparent video support: Transparency in ProRes 4444 files can optionally exist preserved when exporting to the HEVC format.

Habitation

  • HomeKit Secure Video: With a dwelling house hub such as an Apple TV or HomePod, securely tape video to iCloud when activity by a person, animal, or vehicle is detected past your HomeKit-enabled cameras. Choose to receive notifications when clips are recorded and view them in the Home app on your Mac. In the Home app, a timeline of recordings is available to play from iCloud. Y'all can besides share a recording, delete it, or save it to your Photos library.
  • Audio in scenes and automations: HomePod and AirPlay 2-enabled speakers tin can at present play songs, playlists, and radio stations from Apple tree Music in scenes and automations with your other HomeKit accessories.

International Features

  • New multilingual setup for macOS: Choose your languages, including those for keyboard and dictation, in Setup Banana, and customize your language preferences from the outset.
  • New relationship labels in Contacts: Contacts now includes hundreds of new, more specific relationship labels to assistance you manage your contact list. Examples include "younger cousin" and "elderberry cousin."
  • Cantonese keyboard predictions: The new Cantonese predictions for Traditional Chinese Cangjie, Sucheng, Stroke, and Handwriting keyboards bring more than relevant graphic symbol and emoji predictions to Cantonese users.
  • Improved Japanese predictions: A new neural language model takes words typed before in the sentence into business relationship, so predictions are more than grammatically consistent and relevant to the subject field affair.
  • New fonts for Indian languages: Get 34 new fonts, including four system fonts and 30 document fonts, for languages similar Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Odia, Panjabi, and many more.
  • New Indian English Siri voices: All-new Indian English language male and female Siri voices allow Siri to be more natural and expressive.
  • New dictionaries: New dictionaries include Thai-English language and Vietnamese-English.

Other Features

  • iCloud Drive folder sharing:Y'all can now share folders with a private link. Anyone who has access can run into the folder in iCloud Drive, add new files, and get the latest versions of files.
  • Restore from snapshot: If your third-party software is incompatible with an update you just installed, utilize macOS Recovery to restore from a snapshot of your estimator taken right before the installation. macOS and all your apps will work simply as they did before you lot installed the update.