Some will hate the new icons, but I think most people will be used to them from the iPhone. Even the program icons, which are now squircles (half square, half circle), look like those on an iPhone but with slightly more depth and detail in their designs. The translucent menu bar, dock and interface all mimic that found on iPadOS. Photograph: Appleīig Sur is more like an iPad than ever before.

I think Google is thinking that my profile matches the Ads but it doesn’t know that I’ve already seen/skipped it in the past.The new squircle icons sit on the new flat, translucent dock, which now matches the one in iPadOS 14. But, I think Apple needs to improve this as from the last two days I’m seeing exactly the same Ads on YouTube. In just a couple hours of using it, I was able to block over 100 trackers which I wasn’t aware of. Once clicked, it shows what all trackers are being blocked by Safari.

Apple is going big on privacy and there is a new icon in Safari which gives you a privacy report.

New Safari looks a lot better and allows you to change the background of the default page. You’d feel like home when judging between devices. Inbuilt Mac OS apps like messages are getting a lot of iOS 14 features which makes a consistent experience for its users. Sounds like, error tone, deleting something, emptying the recycle bin, etc. This was not called out in the keynote, but I straight away noticed it when I first installed the beta. During my initial testing, I was not able to find any design que of the last OS version.Īll the actions we take in the OS have a new sound. Gone are the round icons and this year we have all new square icons with a rounded edge, similar to what we have on the iPhone and iPad. The stock icons including the dock design are brand new. Starting from the top bar being translucent to a new sidebar (for apps like Safari, finder, etc) and from new icons to subtle sounds. Mac OS looked similar in the last few years dating all the way back to Mac OS Yosemite (2014) but this year things are finally different. I only had one device to test and post install a few things stopped working - as expected. I’d say, the built is not that bad overall but would be better if you don’t install it on your main device (don’t do what I did). As of now, the OS is still a developer beta and I took the step to install it on my personal MacBook Pro 13” 2017. Apple recently launched the next version of their Mac OS this month - MacOS Big Sur.

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