macOS Ventura (version 13) is the nineteenth and current major release of macOS, Apple's desktop operating system for Mac computers. The successor to macOS Monterey, it was announced at WWDC 2022 on June 6, 2022, and launched on October 24, 2022.[6]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 It is named for the city of Ventura and is the tenth macOS release to bear a name from the company's home state of California.

The first developer version was released on June 6, 2022, while the first public beta was released on July 11, 2022.

 

New features and changes[edit]

macOS Ventura includes changes, many related to productivity, and new apps, some of which were ported from iOS and iPadOS.[8]

New apps[edit]

• Weather for the Mac.

  • Because of this, the Weather Widget no longer redirects to The Weather Channel's website.

• Clock for the Mac: displays world time and manages alarms, stopwatches, and timers.

  • Because of this, the Clock Widget no longer redirects to the Date & Time section of System Settings.

• Stage Manager, a tool for organizing windows on the desktop.

• Freeform, a productivity app like a whiteboard for real-time collaboration.

Changes[edit]

• Mail adds "send later" and "undo send" and improvements to search, email organization, and formatting.

• Spotlight produces richer search results.

• Safari adds Shared Tab Groups and Passkeys, uses WebAuthn for password-less account management, and gets a redesigned sidebar.

• Messages now allows the user to edit and unsend recent iMessages.

• FaceTime gets Handoff, the ability to transfer a call between multiple Apple devices.

• Video conferencing gets the ability to wirelessly use an iPhone as a webcam.

• System Preferences is renamed System Settings and gets a new user interface and re-organized categories modeled after the iOS/iPadOS Settings app.

• "About This Mac" has a new user interface.

• iCloud Shared Photo Library allows multiple members of iCloud Family Sharing to add, edit, and delete photos in the same photo library.

• Game Center dashboard is redesigned.

• Font Book gets a new visual design.

• Maps adds support for routes with multiple stops.

• Siri gets redesigned to match iOS and iPadOS.

• Apple Music adds the ability to Favorite artists, listen to Favorites in Listen Now, and New Music Updates notifications from artists you favorite.

• AVIF support.[9][10]

• Login Items settings section now includes background applications

• Optionally automatic Security Updates

• The Network Locations feature was removed

• the Preview app on Mac no longer supports PostScript (.ps) and Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) files; such files can be printed by dragging them to a Printer Queue

• Ambient "Background Sounds", as an Accessibility feature, in System Settings.

• New backgrounds and screensaver.

Supported hardware[edit]

macOS Ventura supports Macs with Apple silicon and Intel's 7th-generation Kaby Lake chips or later,[11] and drops support for various models released from 2013 to 2017. Ventura supports the following Mac models:[citation needed]

• iMac (2017 or later)

• iMac Pro (2017)

• MacBook Air (2018 or later)

• MacBook Pro (2017 or later)

• Mac Pro (2019)

• Mac Studio (2022)

• Mac Mini (2018 or later)

• MacBook (2017)

By using patch tools, macOS Ventura can be installed on earlier computers that are officially unsupported, such as the 2017 Macbook Air and the 2016 MacBook Pro.

 

 

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