OS Updates - Preview

Every September we take a look at the major releases of macOS, iOS and iPadOS to ensure you have the latest knowledge so you can use these operating systems to their full potential.

There are, however, a lot of features that get released over the course of the year that can go unnoticed. In this video, Lee rounds up some of the most popular updates since that last major release. He also showcases the Vision Pro app at the very end, for those of you who own Apple's spatial computing device.

These update apply to:

macOS 15.0 and above

iOS 18.0 and above

iPadOS 18.0 and above

This video covers

• macOS - Mail Categories [00:00:55]
• Mail Summaries [00:03:36]
• Smart Replies [00:03:58]
• Composing Text Using ChatGPT [00:04:59]
• iPadOS - Mail Categories [00:08:20]
• macOS - Type to Siri [00:08:48]
• Drag and Drop with iPhone Mirroring [00:10:03]
• Photo Clean Up [00:11:25]
• Photos - Natural Language Search [00:13:26]
• Memory Movies [00:15:06]
• New Options [00:16:25]
• iOS Updates [00:16:51]
• macOS - Genmoji [00:17:41]
• New Emojis [00:18:34]
• macOS - Weather App [00:18:49]
• Global - AI Opt-out [00:19:37]
• iOS - Priority Notifications [00:20:01]
• Visual Intelligence [00:20:53]
• Image Playground - Sketch [00:23:40]
• macOS - Screen Sharing and AirPlay [00:24:25]
• Podcasts - Category Search [00:26:27]
• New Widgets [00:28:24]
• Music and TV - Natural Language Search [00:29:26]
• Find My - AirTag Sharing [00:30:21]
• News+ Food [00:32:21]
• iOS - Ambient Music [00:35:10]
• Recent Searches in Safari [00:36:07]
• Calculator Fix [00:37:03]
• Vision Pro App [00:37:29]

Resources

ScreenCastsONLINE shows referenced in this video:

Show 1428 - iPhone Mirroring with Don

Show 1439 - Editing Photos on Mac with Allison