macOS Sierra Now Available as a Free Update
September 20 2016 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Siri Comes to Mac with All-New Capabilities for the Desktop
Apple® today announced that macOS™ Sierra, the latest major
release of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, is
now available as a free update. macOS Sierra brings Siri® to the
Mac® with intelligent and helpful features users know and love from
iPhone® and iPad®, along with all-new capabilities designed
specifically for use on the desktop. Features like Universal
Clipboard, iCloud® Desktop and Documents, Auto Unlock and Apple
Pay® on the web help your Mac work even better with other Apple
devices. And Photos gets an update with a new Memories feature that
automatically creates curated collections of your favorite photos
and videos.
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macOS Sierra brings Siri to the Mac.
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Siri on the Mac can help send messages and email, find
documents, look up information, search a user’s photo library,
adjust system preferences and more. Users can also drag and drop
Siri results into documents or pin them into their Today view for
later reference. Universal Clipboard allows users to copy content
from an app on one Apple device and paste it into another app on a
different Apple device. With iCloud Desktop and Documents users can
now access the files on their Desktop from iPhone and iPad. And
Auto Unlock lets users automatically log into their Mac when they
are wearing an authenticated Apple Watch®.
Apple Pay on the web makes the online shopping experience in
Safari® more convenient and secure than ever. Shoppers can now
click the Apple Pay button at checkout on nearly 300,000
participating websites, including 1-800-Flowers, Gilt, Instacart,
Lululemon, Warby Parker and more, and then complete their purchase
with Touch ID® on iPhone 6 or later or with Apple Watch. 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.
Photos introduces Memories, which highlights favorite and
forgotten moments in users’ photo libraries by automatically
creating curated collections of occasions like birthday parties or
family vacations. Photos uses advanced computer vision to identify
faces, objects and scenes in your images, so photos can be searched
by who and what is in them. An all-new Brilliance editing tool
brightens dark areas and pulls in highlights to make photos look
richer and more vibrant.
Other great new features in macOS Sierra:
— Messages makes conversations more interesting, allowing users
to preview web links and play video clips from right within the
app; respond to messages with a Tapback like a heart, thumbs up and
more directly onto a message bubble; and send bigger emoji for more
message impact.
— Tabs are now available across Mac apps that support multiple
windows, including Maps, Mail, Pages®, Numbers®, Keynote®,
TextEdit, and even third-party apps.
— Picture in Picture floats video from Safari or iTunes® in a
window over the desktop. The window can be resized, dragged and
pinned to any corner of the screen so users can watch video while
they work.
— Optimized Storage frees up space when a Mac starts getting
full by storing infrequently used items in the cloud and helping
users remove apps and files they no longer need.
— Apple Music® in iTunes makes it even easier to discover new
music and browse exclusives and new releases.
Availability
macOS Sierra is available as a free update starting today from
the Mac App Store®. macOS Sierra supports all Macs introduced since
late 2009. Some features may not be available in all regions or all
languages. For more information, please visit:
www.apple.com/macos/sierra.
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction
of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in
innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
Apple’s four software platforms — iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS —
provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower
people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple
Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s 100,000 employees are
dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the
world better than we found it.
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