It's a rather mature OS at this point. There are many dozens of tweaks and changes that optimise and make life a little easier. What sort of major changes would you like?
@@leebeeskee Agree, it’s almost perfect. Maybe I could imagine some basic program changes. For example Mail. For many years I’ve been waiting for improvements in work with attachments. It’s almost impossible to work with a huge number of files. Especially if your colleague uses Outlook. In other programs like Spark and Outlook attachments are located in special areas, but here it is just in a body of mail. As a marketer, I can send and re-send 10 images of the new banner, and you can’t imagine what a mess the threat of my colleague's Outlook
@@alex_g087 Oh wow, I finally read a comment from someone who has the same problem as me! I always wondered how people can work with apple mail... well, most probably don't work with it at all and are justing using it for private stuff... but i work in a print media agency and sending lots of attachments all the time and that these are all displayed inside of the mail is just stupid, so you have to use Outlook. Apple should add an option to have them shown inline or as an attachment, in the "special area" how you called it. I'm wondering why these basic things aren't adressed, this should have been fixed years ago. Well, we waited 10 years to have multiple timers on iPhone...
@@alex_g087 You hit on a very good one here. One of my complaints as well in the apple OS ecosystem. My other one is ability to select any email and make a meeting/calendar event easily with the contents of the email in the Notes section of the appointment including attachments. If it can be done I haven't found out how easily at least. I don't want to have to drag and drop when working on a laptop without dual monitors. Just click the option and build the appointment with full details not a link back to the email that will not pass to outlook users.
Sonoma (and the new iOS) can now look at a picture of a finished dish, and call up recipes to make it! I tried that with a pic of my lunch yesterday (a stir-fry that I just kinda made up) and it came up with four beef and one chicken recipes that were very, very close to what I made. Amazing!
This video is the best I've watched on Sonoma . Tim speaks much more clearly and a little slower than some so this oldie can follow better. I must say I am upset though because the little emoji on my Home Screen has become much smaller and is no longer animated . Wish there was a way to restore it .
I think you inherited all the Apple information coverage from Rene Ritchie, now that he has moved to Google. You are definitely the best TH-camr covering and how all their apps on the platforms work! Thank you for another informative video.
Sonoma is great and all, but what I really want to see a video on is your DualUp monitor in the background! I'm interested to see someone's first-hand experience with it with macOS, I wanted to use one as a third monitor for my Windows setup, but want to see how macOS handles it as well with scaling and whatnot.
Im so happy and excited for the new os update sonoma is such a huge upgrade i luv all the effects and add ons such a beautiful software update i luv widgets so helpful
Thank you. I really appreciate this type of video, as I am not one to go through all the settings to see which does what in a new version, or even which ones are indeed new. This saved me a lot of time. Adding widgets was the one for which I paused the video and updated on the fly. The web app and profiles are interesting and I'll investigate those more soon.
Thank you very much for calmly & easily explaining things. You are soothing to listen to, & I always learn something new. As avid Apple users, you have helped expand how we use our devices. 😊 Thank you
One small thing nobody is talking about -> open mail app and if you received some file (like *.pdf) and drag it to desktop -> it will have a small letter icon after the name, if you click this icon -> it will open the letter, from where you dragged it
nice channel im glad i subscribed when i did very clear, friendly & professional & informative keep up the good work, ive just subscribed to you newsletter as well
Thank You for making this video. I was wondering what , if anything, about sonoma would be worth 'upgrading to'. I can now confidently stay with Monterey for a little while longer.
everyone has been saying that widgets that appear on your phone will work on Mac even if there isn't a Mac app .... what about the fitness/activity app??? it would be soo helpful to see your rings on the Mac desktop
I ❤your english pronunciation, it makes, to a non natural english speaker, so easy to understand what you are saying 👍🙏. Uk? Anyway, congratulations my friend. New subscriber here. 👍 Thanks for your work 🙏
Why is the first feature that is mentioned (when talking about Sonoma) are the wallpapers. I understand that the new wallpapers are fun. And I know Apple has spent lots of effort to provide them. But how that doesn’t help me on a daily basis when I use my computer?
Is there a way to shuffle selected wallpapers/screensavers on Mac & mix with my photos? Love some of the screensavers, but not all, & I want to see my family & dogs also!
Never found spotlight search to be a particularly useful feature at all. When I type in a search it gives me options, when alls I want is a web search. Or maybe I'm just using it wrong. But I like all the other new features, and still enjoy the MacBook for my personal use case.
REALLY was hoping that the new Safari profiles would allow us to also configure separate privacy settings per profile but alas, no. Use case: banking sites that use separate billpay services (3rd party) via . Only way to get them to work is to allow cross-site scripting via the privacy settings in safari.
Widgets aren't exactly new, but that's Apple marketing for you 😉We had them back in 2005 with OSX Tiger, access to small, single-purpose applications that could display information like weather forecasts, stock prices, and more with a simple keystroke or mouse click. It was a part of the Mac OS X operating system until macOS Catalina (version 10.15), when it was officially deprecated and replaced by the Notification Center widgets in 2019. Great video - thanks.
Great video! I just updated to Sonoma and, for some reason, when I open a Finder window or my browser, the window now opens at a smaller size... roughly 75% of my screen size. Is there a way to set a default size in Sonoma so my windows all open at the same size? I used to be able to drag the window to my preferred size and it would stay that way after I opened and closed it, but now it does not. I have the 13" Macbook Air so having the window at the largest possible size is important. Thank you.
I have watched 8-10 videos about Sonoma introducing, but personally, I think this video is best for me. It is clear and useful, I learned a lot of tips from you , thank you,
Hi there, a couple of my staff have reported random issues (with Zoom, Dropbox, internet connection) since upgrading to Sonoma. Have you heard of any issues like that? I'm trying to troubleshoot it, but I am clueless. I personally updated to Sonoma without issues so far.
Sonoma seems to be heavy and ram consuming to my usage as I have a M1 8GB. Maybe I'll try disabling the wallpaper video. A video showing how to make it lighter would be a good ideia. 😉
Im sticking to Ventura im too busy doing actual work on creating in my Music studio my mac studiondoesnt havebtimevto show me screen savers or the dedktop
CMD+Space is the best part of a Mac. Still not sure I like the widgets on the desktop. I wish I could keep them grayed out all the time. I open apps taking up the whole screen most of the time, so I never see them grayed out. Always in full color.
The web apps have been a feature for a long time in Chrome and one draw back it has is that we cannot have multiple tabs open in the web apps.. technically they are apps like in phone, you would have to go one after the other.. personally, I open youtube and open all the videos I would like to watch in new tabs and continue.. but can't do that on web apps..
Hi, thanks for the great content. Just curious if you use Safari as your default browser. I use Firefox just because that’s what I’m used to. Is there any advantage to switching? Thanks again.
Does the Spotify widget have to be on an iPhone to work or can it be on an iPad instead? So much of this stuff seems like stuff that is already on Windows or even ChromeOS, like multiple profiles , passkeys, PWAs, and Notes to Pages is eerily similar to Google Keep's Copy to Docs. It will be nice to finally get these on my Macbook. I also can't wait until Apple invents touchscreens for Macbooks.
I have question regarding the wallpaper and screensavers: I tried to set the Sonoma wallpaper, and have one of those new landscape screensavers. Once I set the wallpaper and then select a landscape screensaver (one of those new moving ones), the wallpaper gets replaced by the landscape foto. It seems you can only choose one or the other. Am I right?
The thought that Apple developers spent even one nanosecond on having hearts and confetti appear in FaceTime, makes me want to scream. Doesn’t Timmy boy know there are serious user interface issues needing to be addressed? Steve is spinning in his grave.
Thanks!
another great video, thanks. Congrats to both of you on the arrival of your twins. Life will NEVER be the same again..
I love how clear and concise ALL your videos are! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us all. Sending you love 🤍🤍🤍
Useful and informative as always. Sad that changes in this version are so small.
It's a rather mature OS at this point. There are many dozens of tweaks and changes that optimise and make life a little easier. What sort of major changes would you like?
@@leebeeskee Agree, it’s almost perfect. Maybe I could imagine some basic program changes. For example Mail. For many years I’ve been waiting for improvements in work with attachments. It’s almost impossible to work with a huge number of files. Especially if your colleague uses Outlook. In other programs like Spark and Outlook attachments are located in special areas, but here it is just in a body of mail. As a marketer, I can send and re-send 10 images of the new banner, and you can’t imagine what a mess the threat of my colleague's Outlook
@@alex_g087 Oh wow, I finally read a comment from someone who has the same problem as me! I always wondered how people can work with apple mail... well, most probably don't work with it at all and are justing using it for private stuff... but i work in a print media agency and sending lots of attachments all the time and that these are all displayed inside of the mail is just stupid, so you have to use Outlook. Apple should add an option to have them shown inline or as an attachment, in the "special area" how you called it. I'm wondering why these basic things aren't adressed, this should have been fixed years ago. Well, we waited 10 years to have multiple timers on iPhone...
@@alex_g087 You hit on a very good one here. One of my complaints as well in the apple OS ecosystem. My other one is ability to select any email and make a meeting/calendar event easily with the contents of the email in the Notes section of the appointment including attachments. If it can be done I haven't found out how easily at least. I don't want to have to drag and drop when working on a laptop without dual monitors. Just click the option and build the appointment with full details not a link back to the email that will not pass to outlook users.
@@alex_g087 what nonsense. it's the best update in years.
Sonoma (and the new iOS) can now look at a picture of a finished dish, and call up recipes to make it! I tried that with a pic of my lunch yesterday (a stir-fry that I just kinda made up) and it came up with four beef and one chicken recipes that were very, very close to what I made. Amazing!
How do you do this?
where can I download desktop wallpaper like yours of the airport from above?
unrelated, & I think I speak for everyone when I say THANK YOU for keeping your intro's short, sweet & right to the point! 🤍
I’d like to see #tags being common across all apps (Reminders, Notes, Files) and of course devices.
#actuallyuseful 👍
I found this extremely useful. Many thanks for taking the time to create the video, and share it with fellow Mac users.
This video is the best I've watched on Sonoma . Tim speaks much more clearly and a little slower than some so this oldie can follow better. I must say I am upset though because the little emoji on my Home Screen has become much smaller and is no longer animated . Wish there was a way to restore it .
Wallpapers and screensavers looks nice, but to be honest most of other new features are as usefull as single chopstick.
Agree. This could have been dot release.
Unless you have skipped previous updates (like my better half 🤣 )
I think you inherited all the Apple information coverage from Rene Ritchie, now that he has moved to Google. You are definitely the best TH-camr covering and how all their apps on the platforms work! Thank you for another informative video.
He moved? I was wondering what happened to him.
This and Macmost are my two favorites…
Sonoma is great and all, but what I really want to see a video on is your DualUp monitor in the background! I'm interested to see someone's first-hand experience with it with macOS, I wanted to use one as a third monitor for my Windows setup, but want to see how macOS handles it as well with scaling and whatnot.
9:18 note-to-pages export was available already in ventura if not earlier, for me it was one of ways to export to local txt
Im so happy and excited for the new os update sonoma is such a huge upgrade i luv all the effects and add ons such a beautiful software update i luv widgets so helpful
I’ve always loved your informative and easy-to-learn videos. Thank you for the work you do.
Thank you Horacio. Appreciate the support 👍
Thank you Justin. Appreciate the support 👍
Just updated to Sonoma and really enjoying it so far. I've used your very helpful tips, thanks!
Thank you. I really appreciate this type of video, as I am not one to go through all the settings to see which does what in a new version, or even which ones are indeed new. This saved me a lot of time. Adding widgets was the one for which I paused the video and updated on the fly. The web app and profiles are interesting and I'll investigate those more soon.
can i get the link to that airport wallpaper? it looked so cool!
love the widgets. I saves me from having 3 or 4 full apps open clogging up my screen, my mind, my life
Thank you very much for calmly & easily explaining things. You are soothing to listen to, & I always learn something new. As avid Apple users, you have helped expand how we use our devices. 😊 Thank you
One small thing nobody is talking about -> open mail app and if you received some file (like *.pdf) and drag it to desktop -> it will have a small letter icon after the name, if you click this icon -> it will open the letter, from where you dragged it
Im late but congratulations on the twins. I am glad mom and babies are doing well
The first 2 were available 15 years ago, on my Mac book, Apple just recycling, I loved widgets.
Excellent video, as always. Your explanations are proper and honest. 😉
nice channel im glad i subscribed when i did very clear, friendly & professional & informative keep up the good work, ive just subscribed to you newsletter as well
Convert notes to pages - so basically copy and paste with a specific button assigned to it?
Thank You for making this video. I was wondering what , if anything, about sonoma would be worth 'upgrading to'. I can now confidently stay with Monterey for a little while longer.
Wow, you had your finger on the “Publish” button! 😂 Good job!
You can schedule to upload the video to youtube.
Love your videos. So calm and a great speaker! I’m too ADHD for that parking lot wallpaper, though :D
Still on Monterey and ready for Ventura
Thank you! I’ve just updated my laptop to Sonoma, and your video has been really helpful!
everyone has been saying that widgets that appear on your phone will work on Mac even if there isn't a Mac app .... what about the fitness/activity app??? it would be soo helpful to see your rings on the Mac desktop
Are the wallpapers low resolution? I have one of the LA wallpapers on and it doesn’t look HD.
I ❤your english pronunciation, it makes, to a non natural english speaker, so easy to understand what you are saying 👍🙏. Uk? Anyway, congratulations my friend. New subscriber here. 👍 Thanks for your work 🙏
Shame there’s no way to add a Spotify widget without an iPhone :(. Unless I’m unaware of something?
Why is the first feature that is mentioned (when talking about Sonoma) are the wallpapers.
I understand that the new wallpapers are fun. And I know Apple has spent lots of effort to provide them. But how that doesn’t help me on a daily basis when I use my computer?
Still want a digital clock as a widget. Stupid that Apple have a clock face widget but not digital time widget.
Widgets on the desktop is all I’ve wanted out of MacOS for years now 🎉
great info! I tried the command spacebar on my macbook air. Nothing happened for spotlight..
just updated and everything became more responsive!
Excellent, succinct and very professional. Great work!
Great video - I want to get updated now! Ha ha! So glad to see the dynamic wallpapers.
Is there a way to shuffle selected wallpapers/screensavers on Mac & mix with my photos? Love some of the screensavers, but not all, & I want to see my family & dogs also!
Never found spotlight search to be a particularly useful feature at all. When I type in a search it gives me options, when alls I want is a web search. Or maybe I'm just using it wrong. But I like all the other new features, and still enjoy the MacBook for my personal use case.
I love the Widgets on Mac!
Great video. Clear explanation. I love your lighting setup.
I would love to learn how to create this light and calming setup. Please share any tips
REALLY was hoping that the new Safari profiles would allow us to also configure separate privacy settings per profile but alas, no. Use case: banking sites that use separate billpay services (3rd party) via . Only way to get them to work is to allow cross-site scripting via the privacy settings in safari.
Geez, just set-up as a new user w/o admin rights and be done with it !!!
@@bennym1956 and then have to switch complete user profiles at the OS level just to use a website? lol no. 🤡
These new wallpapers are beautiful
Highly informative as usual, thank you xx
Any changes to Photos so we can separate RAW files from J Pegs and just delete one of them? - thanks for the video
Looking forward to updating but need to wait until it’s a go from Adobe as that’s my work environment
About to update tonight. As for the Notes/Pages sharing, you can already get good results by copying and pasting. All the formatting goes across.
Widgets aren't exactly new, but that's Apple marketing for you 😉We had them back in 2005 with OSX Tiger, access to small, single-purpose applications that could display information like weather forecasts, stock prices, and more with a simple keystroke or mouse click. It was a part of the Mac OS X operating system until macOS Catalina (version 10.15), when it was officially deprecated and replaced by the Notification Center widgets in 2019. Great video - thanks.
I used them a loy, especially sticky notes and was disappointed when they dropped them. It was good that there was a separate layer for them
Where are the downloads for the live wallpapers get stored and how can you delete the ones you don’t want anymore?
How did you manage it to get a Spotify widget ? I even got the app on my Mac but the widget just don't appear in the menu
Mate, what microphone are you using? Wicked sound!
Great video! I just updated to Sonoma and, for some reason, when I open a Finder window or my browser, the window now opens at a smaller size... roughly 75% of my screen size. Is there a way to set a default size in Sonoma so my windows all open at the same size? I used to be able to drag the window to my preferred size and it would stay that way after I opened and closed it, but now it does not. I have the 13" Macbook Air so having the window at the largest possible size is important. Thank you.
I have watched 8-10 videos about Sonoma introducing, but personally, I think this video is best for me. It is clear and useful, I learned a lot of tips from you , thank you,
Hahaha "Tim Apple" ! That was awesome :) LOL
Bloody hell mate another great video keep them coming
really good summary, thanks
Is the headline upgrade wallpaper? Apple is slacking in terms of their products and OS upgrades.
Absolutely nothing you mentioned I would use, so why would I have any incentive to upgrade from Ventura 13.5.2 to Sonoma?
I would like to get more information about “game” mode
No link in Descrip for how to use Spotlight.
Brilliant! Thank you for sharing this!
I now know what Sonoma can do for my MacBook Pro and that is CRASH Safari many times a day!
In Sonoma, is there any way to change the blinking cursor placeholder back to black instead of the new yellow (which I can't see)? TIA
Hi there, a couple of my staff have reported random issues (with Zoom, Dropbox, internet connection) since upgrading to Sonoma. Have you heard of any issues like that? I'm trying to troubleshoot it, but I am clueless. I personally updated to Sonoma without issues so far.
Yes do when is it coming to the iMac?
Sonoma seems to be heavy and ram consuming to my usage as I have a M1 8GB. Maybe I'll try disabling the wallpaper video. A video showing how to make it lighter would be a good ideia. 😉
Im sticking to Ventura im too busy doing actual work on creating in my Music studio my mac studiondoesnt havebtimevto show me screen savers or the dedktop
I'm just happy Safari now supports favicons. I know it is simple but it has been missing for so long.
The Notes to Pages feature: why is this different from Copy-Paste?
How’s it possible to clean up and arrange folders on desktop? I don’t see the option when I press right button…
Nice, straight to the point. Thanks
From Notes to Pages…
Can that just be done with doing Copy / Paste?
My Mac book air (M1 chip) shut down slower than before.
Otherwise all the same except the screen saver changed
Hey ! Do you know an app that hides the top notch. Top Notch app doesn't seem to work on Sonoma.
Another excellent video. Thank you.
Excellent high level overview of key features thanks as always!
Guess I need to run on my Mac Mini M2 at some point.
CMD+Space is the best part of a Mac. Still not sure I like the widgets on the desktop. I wish I could keep them grayed out all the time. I open apps taking up the whole screen most of the time, so I never see them grayed out. Always in full color.
I use safari tab groups, I don’t really see yet how I could combine them with Safari profiles.
The web apps have been a feature for a long time in Chrome and one draw back it has is that we cannot have multiple tabs open in the web apps.. technically they are apps like in phone, you would have to go one after the other.. personally, I open youtube and open all the videos I would like to watch in new tabs and continue.. but can't do that on web apps..
How is this update in old Intel MacBook? 2020 base model 256gb 8ram? Any crashes. Worth upgrading? I’m still stuck with Big Sur 😂
When my Mac's wallpaper started playing like a mini movie, I felt like I was in a Harry Potter movie with moving portraits
The web apps was already there? Am i missing something with this update?
When was the new OS ever announced? Damn
Have they fixed the terrible preferences panel?
Is there a way I can use Apple's USB SuperDrive with my IMAC? I have Sonoma 14.2.1. I have tried but the SuperDrive can't get power from the IMAC.
Hi, thanks for the great content. Just curious if you use Safari as your default browser. I use Firefox just because that’s what I’m used to. Is there any advantage to switching? Thanks again.
Does the Spotify widget have to be on an iPhone to work or can it be on an iPad instead? So much of this stuff seems like stuff that is already on Windows or even ChromeOS, like multiple profiles , passkeys, PWAs, and Notes to Pages is eerily similar to Google Keep's Copy to Docs. It will be nice to finally get these on my Macbook. I also can't wait until Apple invents touchscreens for Macbooks.
I have question regarding the wallpaper and screensavers: I tried to set the Sonoma wallpaper, and have one of those new landscape screensavers. Once I set the wallpaper and then select a landscape screensaver (one of those new moving ones), the wallpaper gets replaced by the landscape foto. It seems you can only choose one or the other. Am I right?
Does Notes support background sync yet? That's it's largest weakness.
The thought that Apple developers spent even one nanosecond on having hearts and confetti appear in FaceTime, makes me want to scream. Doesn’t Timmy boy know there are serious user interface issues needing to be addressed? Steve is spinning in his grave.
Can someone with Sonoma install if he noticed any hit in performance? I am a bit concerned about installing it
Keep your great videos coming 🙏 Can you recommend a product for keeping my Mac clean - for example a product lige CleanmyMac?
I am not sure why but I am unable to see/add battery percentage of my iPhone and Watch when adding widgets. Or is it even possible?
I can see only my Mac battery and it doesn't show my other Apple devices on the battery widget.. anyone know how to fix it?