WWDC 2024: macOS 15 Sequoia announced with iPhone Mirroring, Math Notes, more

WWDC 2024: Apple hosted the keynote address of its annual developers’ conference, dubbed as, the Worldwide Developers’ Conference or WWDC 2024, at its headquarters in Cupertino, California today. At the annual event, the company announced macOS 15 Sequoia. The newly announced macOS 15 Sequoia succeeds macOS 14 Sonoma that was announced at WWDC 2023 last year and it brings a host of new updates to the Apple PCs including improvements to Maps, and upgrades to the Continuity feature. Additionally, it brings Apple Intelligence to the company’s PCs.

Before the macOS 15 Sequoia becomes available to Mac users, take a peek at its availability, supported devices and top features.

macOS 15 Sequoia: Availability

As far as availability is concerned, Apple said that macOS 15 Developer Beta will be available today, while the Public Beta of the OS will arrive next month. macOS 15 will be available on all supported devices in the fall this year.

macOS 15 Sequoia: Supported devices

As far as supported devices are concerned, at the time of roll out, macOS 15 will be available on:

— 2019 iMac and newer versions

— 2022 Mac Studio and newer versions

— 2018 Mac Mini and newer versions

— 2019 Mac Pro and newer versions

— 2017 iMac Pro and newer versions

— 2020 MacBook Air and newer versions

— 2018 MacBook Pro and newer versions.

macOS 15 Sequoia: Top features

Coming to the features, macOS 15 Sequoia comes with a new Continuity feature dubbed as ‘iPhone Mirroring’. This feature lets users view what’s on their iPhones and control it without having to reach for it. Additionally, it brings iPhone notifications to supported devices. Users can interact with these notifications even when their iPhones are not around. Users can also move files, photos and videos between their iPhones and Mac seamlessly.

macOS 15 also brings an Easy Window Tiling feature that lets users drag windows to the edge of their screens to effortlessly arrange them into side-by-side tiles on their desktop or place them in corners to keep even more apps in view.

The feature called ‘Presenter Preview’ lets users see exactly what they are going to share in video calling apps, including FaceTime and Zoom — before displaying it for everyone. On the other hand, a feature called ‘Background replacements’ lets users ‘hide the laundry behind you with beautiful built-in backgrounds or your own photos’.

Safari is also getting a major update with macOS 15. Users can now quickly pull up relevant information from any site they are accessing on Safari. A redesigned Reader gives users a high-level summary of the content on the website that they are accessing. Safari will also give users more control over web videos. “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,” Apple says.

Apple is also bringing its Passwords app to macOS 15. It will store all of a user’s credentials in one place.