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Apple<\/a> (release notes<\/a>, full installer<\/a>, IPSW<\/a>, Hacker News<\/a>, MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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macOS Ventura takes the Mac experience to a whole new level with groundbreaking capabilities that help users achieve more than ever. New features like Continuity Camera enable users to seamlessly work across their Apple devices, and productivity tools including Stage Manager help users stay focused and easily move between tasks. Safari ushers in a passwordless future with passkeys, and big updates come to popular apps including Mail and Messages.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

The latest versions of my apps<\/a> are compatible, and DropDMG can help you create a macOS install disk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Every time there’s a major new version of macOS, people ask me whether the Mail data loss bug<\/a> has been fixed yet. I don’t know. It’s still present in recent versions of Monterey, but I don’t have any reported sightings on Ventura yet. Neither Apple nor anyone who was seeing it before has told<\/em> me that it’s fixed in Ventura. I’ve definitely seen a decline in the frequency of bug reports, but it’s not clear whether this is mostly<\/em> because Apple has mitigated the bug, because I’ve encouraged SpamSieve users to switch<\/a> to a setup that avoids the bug, or because it was so intolerable that most of the affected users have switched to other mail clients and not looked back.<\/p>\n\n

Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Below, we’ve selected 50 new features and lesser-known changes that are worth checking out if you’re upgrading, and we’ve put together a video highlighting 25 of them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

John Voorhees<\/a> (tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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So, from an everyday workflow standpoint, Ventura is an excellent release that delivers on the promise of an OS that moves in step with Apple’s other OSes and erases artificial barriers to users coming from iOS and iPadOS. And yet, I worry about the clouds on the horizon.<\/p>\n

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Shortcuts<\/a> was in rough shape when it launched on the Mac last year. The app is in a much better place today, although bugs continue to be a problem. More concerning to me, though, is the lack of new system-level actions on the Mac.<\/p>\n

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System Preferences was long overdue for a refresh, but System Settings<\/a> isn’t the redesign we needed. Instead, it’s a clear example of why you can’t just graft iOS or iPadOS design onto macOS and call it quits.<\/p>\n

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I’m a big fan of Scheduled Send, which offers to send your message later at suggested times or one you pick yourself. It’s great for those times when a message doesn’t need to be delivered immediately, but you don’t want to get into a back-and-forth with someone at the moment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Andrew Cunningham<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

But it does feel like the software side of the Mac is lacking its own unique direction and identity lately. Overwhelmingly, new features for macOS merely help it keep pace with what is happening on the iPhone and iPad. That feels doubly true in Ventura, where a core system app has been rewritten from the ground up to mirror its iOS counterpart, where a new window management feature is being implemented in the same way on the iPad, and where new apps and updates to old ones are increasingly just iPad apps running inside macOS windows.<\/p>

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After mapping out System Settings and taking a couple of months to get used to it, my second and more considered reaction is mostly… eh. […] I’m left feeling frustrated that Apple totally blew up System Preferences and replaced it with something that still suffers from many of System Preferences’ old issues, plus a few new ones. […] The overarching problem is that System Settings bends or breaks some of Apple’s own rules<\/a> about what makes a good Mac app<\/a>.<\/p>

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Case in point, the proliferation of indie projects<\/a> that all make it easy to create virtual machines on macOS. Few are as feature-rich as Parallels (which, unlike Apple’s official solution, can support the ARM version of Windows), but most are more streamlined and less janky than VirtualBox, so on balance, it’s a win for casual users of virtualization software. This post<\/a> has a good overview of some of the features added in Ventura and the potentially useful features that could still be added (official support for snapshots is one).<\/p>\n

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System Preferences used to have a “Network Locations” feature, where you could set up profiles that would change your network settings based on where you were—for example, if you used a fixed IP address on your Ethernet connection at home but wanted to use DHCP at work or if you wanted your computer to use wired Ethernet first at home but prioritize Wi-Fi at work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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So here’s the good news about macOS Ventura: In using it the last few months<\/a> as my primary operating system, I’ve found it to be not appreciably different than macOS Monterey. It looks the same, software acts the same, I haven’t noticed any bugs… it’s been solid. Upgrading to macOS Ventura will probably not be particularly dramatic for those who do it, and that’s a good thing.<\/p>\n

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In terms of the cornerstone features of this release, however, it’s more of a mixed bag. The new Continuity Camera instantly gives any Mac user with an iPhone access to a remarkably high-quality webcam (if you can find a way to mount it). Seven years after introducing iCloud Photos, Apple’s new iCloud Shared Photo Libraries feature finally lets people curate a shared photo collections with their loved ones. Both are huge updates, and huge improvements to the Mac experience.<\/p>\n

But some other key features feel unfinished. Stage Manager, a new way of grouping windows together, creates too much window-management busy work to make it worth the trouble. The new System Settings app replaces the long-in-the-tooth System Preferences app that’s been with macOS since OS X 10.0, but lacks coherent organization and offers an inconsistent and frustrating interface.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Kirk McElhearn<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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In this article, I’m going to show you how to use the System Settings app and how to change some essential settings for your Mac.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Jason Meller<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I am happy to report that MANY of things mentioned in this thread are completely fixed or much better.<\/p>

Is the new macOS Ventura System Settings app perfect? No but that wasn’t expected.<\/p>

Is it orders of magnitude better than the betas? Oh yeah.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Damien Petrilli<\/a>:<\/p>\n