![]() ![]() Screen effects like fireworks and balloons are sadly reduced to parenthetical descriptions for now too. You can also view a lot of the new Messages effects like invisible ink, handwritten messages, and stickers, although you can’t create these from the Mac and iMessage apps aren’t supported. Emoji are much larger now, you can use Tapback to react to specific messages, and rich inline previews show you URLs, tweets, video embeds, and more without you having to click. You need iOS 10 to unlock the full potential of iMessage with features like drawing, stickers, and screen effects, but macOS Sierra has some new Messages smart included. ![]() macOS Sierra includes the latest version of iTunes out of the box. The benefit is that you can see your desktop across multiple Macs and on iOS and the web with the iCloud Drive app and .Īpple recently released an updated version of iTunes that overhauls the Apple Music experience similar to the changes on iOS 10. ![]() If you pay for upgraded iCloud storage (or just don’t have much to sync), iCloud Drive on macOS Sierra lets you set your desktop and documents folders to sync. When you select Apple Pay at checkout, your iPhone or Apple Watch will ask you to verify the transaction then the whole process is complete. You can test Apple Pay on the web with and plenty of other sites are already offering Apple’s mobile payment service at checkout. If you have iPhone 6 or later running iOS 10 or an Apple Watch with watchOS 3, you can actually checkout with websites on your Mac using Apple Pay in Safari is skip the process of filling out your billing and shipping information. Watch our video below to see how, and read the full tutorial here. This is handy for those of you who wish to facilitate clean installs of macOS Sierra. We also have a tutorial that shows you how to create a macOS Sierra USB install drive. Creating a macOS Sierra USB install drive You can access the Mac App Store by clicking the Apple () icon in the top left corner of your display, then click Mac App Store to launch it. If your Mac is compatible, you can open the Mac App Store and look for the macOS Sierra banner or link on the right sidebar, then click and follow the prompts to update. Auto-Unlock, for example, requires 2013 or new Macs due to Bluetooth limitations so my 2012 Mac mini doesn’t make the cut. Apple says these Macs are compatible with macOS Sierra:Īs for feature requirements, you may want to check this page to see if a feature that you want works with your Mac. Once your Mac is backed up and your data is safe if anything goes wrong, it’s time to update. Backup options – Learn about alternative options for backing up your Mac.iCloud – Use iCloud to backup your music, photos, calendars, etc.Time Machine – Learn how to backup your Mac using Time Machine.These are the quick links for OS X El Capitan: Apple has a handy page for learning how to backup OS X Lion through OS X El Capitan using Time Machine, iCloud, Time Capsule, external hard drives, and alternative backup options. Here’s how to update and what to try in macOS Sierra:īefore you do something major to your Mac like update the whole operating system, it’s always a good idea to make sure you have a functional backup of your important data (like documents, photos, and other media). You can even bypass your lock screen with your Apple Watch thanks to auto-unlock. You can free up space on your Mac with a new optimized storage feature, sync your clipboard (and desktop and documents folders) between your Apple devices, watch videos from Safari with picture-in-picture, and use Apple Pay on the web to easily make purchases. As its name cleverly suggests, macOS Sierra brings Siri to the Mac for the first time since the voice assistant was introduced in 2011 with the iPhone 4s. OS X is officially no more long live macOS (version 10.12 to be precise). It’s been a week since iOS 10 debuted on iPhone and iPad, and now it’s the Mac’s turn with macOS Sierra. ![]()
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