By now you've probably used a service that will send you a text message that includes a specific code sent to you in a text message, usually in an effort related to security measures while logging into something.
With macOS Big Sur launching this fall, many of your favorite third-party apps could be stuck with what will by then be frowned upon as an outdated Mac icon system. User interface designer Raven Yu took it upon himself to solve your first world problem with a custom designed set of more then a hundred Big Sur-optimized icons for popular third-party apps like VLC, Things, Adobe CC, Microsoft Office, Google Chrome, Spark, Twitterrific and so forth.
While some folks may still prefer Touch ID, it's hard to argue that Apple doesn't trust Face ID to be the go-to biometric security option for devices like the iPhone and iPad. But what about the Mac?
macOS 11.0 Big Sur brings an overhauled interface, but that's hardly the only major change: the Mac system sounds have been overhauled as well in the new OS. Watch these videos showcasing system and alert sounds in macOS Catalina vs. their replacements in Big Sur.
Apple on Thursday made its upcoming iOS 14, iPadOS 14, tvOS 14, watchOS 7 and macOS Big Sur software updates available for public beta testing ahead of commercial releases this fall.
iPhone and iPad apps which have been ported over to the Mac using Apple's Catalyst framework will support the company's Apple Pay mobile payment solution with the release of iOS 14, iPadOS 14 and macOS 11.0 Big Sur in the fall.
Apple today seeded second developer betas of the iOS 14, iPadOS 14, macOS 11 Big Sur, watchOS 7 and tvOS 14 updates ahead of public testing opening later this month. The latest betas arrived more than two weeks following the inaugural developer releases, which became available following Apple's successful virtual WWDC 2020 keynote talk, held on June 22.
You may have read complaints on social media written by opinionated users who think that Apple pretty much phoned in the work for the icons in macOS Big Sur, but what about the rest of the interface? Thanks to app designer Andrew Denty, we now have a great visual comparison of the user interface changes between macOS Catalina and macOS Big Sur.
Hardware limitations have made Mac users miss the boat when it comes to 4K HDR and Dolby Vision content from streamers like Netflix when using the Safari web browser, but it looks like that little hurdle has finally been put behind us.
The first Developer Transition Kits started arriving for registered developers recently, giving them the ability to port their apps to a machine using Apple's custom silicon in preparation for Apple's transition to ARM-based Macs later this year. And now the first benchmarks have been revealed for the hardware, but there is a huge caveat.
Apple has officially left OS X behind as it welcomes macOS 11.0 Big Sur into the family. So here's a look at some of the most exciting features coming to the desktop operating system.