macOS Ventura is here, bringing fresh ways to boost your productivity and creativity. Check out a few of its coolest new features – along with apps and games to get the most out of them.
Organise your apps in Stage Manager
By automatically grouping apps you frequently use together – and letting you customise and create your own groups – Stage Manager gives you an all-new way to stay focused on the task at hand. For example, you might have a group for Microsoft Outlook and Things when planning your day, Safari and Craft when doing online research, and Twitter and Amazon Prime Video to live-tweet your favourite show.
Take Focus further
Whether you’re working, playing or spending time with family, setting up a Focus is a great way to establish boundaries. With the new Focus filters in macOS Ventura, apps can customise what you see based on the Focus you’ve enabled. For example, configure Fantastical to show only your personal appointments on the weekend, or have Agenda display projects in the Work category only during business hours. Try the feature with these compatible apps.
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Fantastical - Calendar
Reminders & Todo List
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Agenda - Notes meets Calendar
Organise your days
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Drafts
Where text starts
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Microsoft Outlook
Email and calendar
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Taskheat — project flowchart
Visual workflow & task manager
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Cardhop - Contacts
The contacts app you'll love
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MusicBox: Save Music for Later
Bookmark Songs to Listen Later
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Play: Save Videos Watch Later
Manage Channels and New Videos
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HazeOver • Distraction Dimmer™
Focus and reduce visual noise
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Accountit: Budget Tracker
Money planner, money organizer
Sync your extensions in Safari
Safari extensions enhance your browser by blocking ads, translating web pages, finding online coupons and much more. With macOS Ventura, iOS 16 and iPadOS 16, when you install a compatible extension, it shows (in Extensions settings) as available to download on your other devices, and its enabled/disabled status syncs everywhere it’s installed.
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Challenge your friends in Game Center
Ventura’s redesigned Game Center dashboard makes it easier to see which games your friends are playing, as well as their achievements, in updated games.
Sketch together with Freeform
The new productivity app Freeform gives you and your collaborators a flexible shared canvas. View others’ contributions in real time as they sketch and make notes. You can also add nearly any kind of file – images, video, audio, PDFs, documents and web links – to the canvas and preview it inline (iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2 or macOS 13.1 or newer required).
And much more...
Don’t miss these other new features that make Ventura the best macOS yet:
Continuity Camera: Use your iPhone as a webcam – simply put it on a stand nearby to unlock powerful video effects. With Center Stage, you’ll always be centered in the frame, and Studio Light and Portrait mode ensure you look your best. Or use Desk View to show your face and a demo on your desk at the same time.
Messages: Edit sent messages, unsend recent messages and mark a message as unread so you can respond later. Collaborate on notes, presentations, reminders, Safari Tab Groups and more right from within Messages, and use SharePlay to watch or listen to media together while chatting.
iCloud Shared Photo Library: Share photos and videos with up to five family members using a separate library seamlessly integrated into the Photos app – everyone can view, edit and organise.
Weather: New on Mac, the Weather app takes advantage of your Mac’s larger display with detailed forecast info, animated backgrounds and gorgeous weather maps.
Mail: Schedule messages for later sending, use Remind Me to deal with a message at a future date and time and unsend a message immediately after you send it if you realise you forgot something important.
Reminders: Pin your favourite lists for faster access, create templates for frequently used lists like a packing list, include rich text in notes and use the new Completed list to view all completed tasks – including the time and date you checked each item off.
Accessibility: Get Live Captions for video and audio and in FaceTime calls, type to speak in any audio or video conversation and combine inputs from multiple game controllers to work together in games.