All the Top New Features in MacOS Sequoia

MacOS Sequoia, besides known arsenic macOS 15, is the latest mentation of Apple's desktop operating system. The caller OS adds a fewer caller capabilities to the Mac, including a password absorption app, videoconferencing tools, and updates to Safari, arsenic good arsenic each the features that travel with Apple Intelligence—the company’s artificial-intelligence–powered system. Below, we interruption down however to download it and each the latest goodies successful this bundle update.

Be definite to cheque retired our iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 roundup for each the caller features successful your iPhone and iPad, on with each the latest features connected the Apple Watch with watchOS 11.

Updated March 2025: We've added details connected macOS 15.4.

MacOS Sequoia Features

Below, you'll find each the large features included successful macOS 15. Apple has much details here.

Sometimes, your iPhone is successful different country oregon heavy successful your bag. For those moments erstwhile you request to usage it but don't consciousness similar getting up to find it, you tin propulsion it up connected your computer. As portion of Apple's Continuity features, iPhone Mirroring lets you entree and interact with your iPhone wirelessly utilizing your Mac.

When the diagnostic is successful action, you'll spot your iPhone's customized location surface appear. From there, you tin usage the keyboard, trackpad, oregon rodent to resistance and driblet contented (like photos, videos, and files) betwixt some devices, unfastened and usage immoderate of your apps, swipe done each the pages connected your location screen, arsenic good arsenic presumption and respond to notifications. While you're doing each this, your iPhone volition stay locked. It besides works portion your iPhone is successful Standby mode, a diagnostic from iOS 17 that turns your iPhone into a astute show portion charging.

MacOS Sequoia offers a fewer caller features to Safari. With Highlights, Safari volition usage instrumentality quality to amusement you applicable accusation from the webpage similar directions, links, summaries, and edifice reviews. Apple besides redesigned the Reader to minimize distractions. In summation to a sleeker presumption of the article, you tin besides spot a summary and a array of contents (for longer articles). If the webpage includes a video, Viewer volition bring it to the forefront portion inactive giving you entree to playback controls (Picture successful Picture included).

Anyone who ever keeps a ton of browser windows unfastened simultaneously volition admit the Window Tiling diagnostic that helps signifier them for a amended viewing experience. When you resistance a model to the borderline of the screen, macOS volition automatically suggest a tiled presumption connected your screen. (It's akin to Snap connected Windows.) You tin past driblet the model into place, put aggregate windows broadside by side, oregon spot them successful immoderate of the 4 corners to marque country for much apps. For quicker organization, you tin usage keyboard and paper shortcuts too.

In 2023, Apple added caller videoconference tools with macOS Sonoma including Presenter Overlay, Reactions, and assorted features for the Mac's built-in webcam. In macOS 15, the institution is adding a fewer more. With apps similar FaceTime and Zoom, you tin entree a caller presenter preview capableness to spot what you're astir to stock earlier sharing it. Meanwhile, the built-in backgrounds diagnostic allows you to use strategy wallpapers, colour gradients, oregon your ain photos arsenic a backdrop for video calls. This diagnostic is disposable connected FaceTime and third-party apps similar Webex.

If you ne'er loved Keychain, present you person a amended option: macOS Sequoia comes with a caller Passwords app that allows you to entree each your passwords (Wi-Fi passwords included), passkeys, and verification codes successful 1 place. It keeps each your Apple devices successful sync, runs connected Windows machines (using the iCloud for Windows app), and supports end-to-end encryption.

A fewer caller Messages features are coming to macOS Sequoia—and by extension, to iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 arsenic well. You tin format your texts wrong Messages utilizing bold, italic, underline, and strike-through benignant treatments. You tin besides adhd animated effects to a circumstantial connection wrong a text. For immoderate phrases and words, suggestions look arsenic you type. Apple added caller Tapbacks too—instead of utilizing the accepted heart, thumbs-up, thumbs-down, question mark, oregon exclamation point, determination are options for emojis and stickers. Another standout caller diagnostic is the enactment to docket your messages up of clip truthful they'll beryllium sent later.

• Apple Maps: With Maps, you'll person entree to thousands of hiking trails crossed each 63 nationalist parks successful the US, each of which tin beryllium filtered by elevation, length, and way type. You tin besides prevention them to entree aboriginal successful the wilderness without a information signal.
• Calculator App: Apple gave the Calculator app an upgrade by adding caller features similar the quality to participate and proceed to presumption implicit expressions (with trigonometry, parentheses, and aggregate operations) earlier pressing equals to spot the last answer. If you pat the equals motion twice, you tin repetition the astir caller mathematical function. You're present capable to spot a past of your calculations arsenic well.
• Calendar: Within the Calendar app, you tin spot some events and tasks from the Reminders app. There's besides an updated Month View meant to marque it easier to spot each your appointments astatine a glance—all of which are colour coded.
• Photos: A caller Collections diagnostic wrong the Photo app volition automatically signifier your room by topics, including Trips, Recent Days, and People & Pets. With Pinned Collections, you tin rapidly entree definite collections and albums. You tin besides spot your Favorites medium look nether Utilities and successful Pinned Collections, and wide your Recently Shared medium and Recently Viewed past too.
• Game Mode: This diagnostic was primitively announced successful 2023 with macOS Sonoma. With macOS Sequoia, Apple improved Game Mode with smoother framework rates and “advanced powerfulness absorption features” to boost show crossed its Macs. It besides supports Personalized Spatial Audio and reduces audio latency with the AirPods Pro (2nd generation).
• Home App: Apple is adding impermanent entree that allows you to negociate however and erstwhile radical tin participate your house. There's a caller diagnostic that shows however overmuch energy you're utilizing and however overmuch it's costing you, based connected the existent inferior rates.
• Battery: The quality to crook connected Low Power Mode was introduced with macOS Monterey. Now it's disposable successful the Battery paper successful the top-left country of your surface truthful you nary longer person to excavation done System Settings.
• Find My: Within the Find My app, you'll present spot a caller Lost AirTag conception that allows you to stock the determination of your AirTag with up to 5 different people, to assistance way it down. Soon, you tin stock it with airlines arsenic good (if your luggage is lost). Simply nonstop the circumstantial nexus via Messages, Notes, Mail, AirDrop, and more. They'll person to authenticate it utilizing their Apple account, and the nexus volition expire aft a week.
• Emoji: Apple added 8 caller emojis to its library, including basal vegetable, leafless tree, fingerprint, look with bags nether eyes, harp, a emblem of Sark, splatter, and shovel.
• AirPods Max: The AirPods Max with USB-C present supports lossless audio, truthful it tin enactment files with a solution of up to 24 bits/48 kHz. It supports ultra-low latency too, for improved gaming performance, on with upgraded fidelity and effect clip for songwriting, bushed making, and different euphony accumulation usage cases. Plus, these are the lone headphones that let users to grounds and premix utilizing Personalized Spatial audio with caput tracking via Logic Pro for Mac.
• Quick Start: You tin present scan a codification connected your iPhone oregon iPad erstwhile mounting up a caller Mac. From there, each your settings volition transportation to your computer.

Apple Intelligence Features

In summation to the features above, Apple Intelligence—the company's “personal quality system”—is built into macOS Sequoia arsenic good arsenic iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. These features are lone disposable successful Sequoia 15.1 and newer. It's besides worthy noting that Apple Intelligence is present connected by default with Sequoia 15.3. For step-by-step instructions connected however to manually crook it off, work our tutorial here.