WWDC 2022 Key Updates macOS 13 Ventura

Jay Buddhdev
Simform Engineering
4 min readJun 10, 2022

After launching Mavericks in 2013, Apple has been naming its operating systems after a landmark or area in California. This year Apple has given the name Ventura to macOS 13.

macOS Ventura improves the things you do most on Mac. With powerful new ways to get more done, share and collaborate in your favorite apps, you can immerse yourself in next-level games and take full advantage of your other devices like iPhone and iPad.

Stage Manager

Like iPadOS 16, Stage Manager automatically arranges apps and windows into a single view, allowing you to stay focused while easily switching between tasks on any Mac.

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1. Mail

In macOS Ventura, mail has got updated to another level. You can now undo a recently sent mail, schedule messages to be delivered whenever you want, and receive reminders to follow up or return to a message later. You may also include rich links in your email to provide your recipients with even more information at a glance. And if you neglect to include an attachment or a recipient, mail will detect the error and prompt you to provide the missing information.

2. Spotlight

In macOS Ventura, Spotlight has leveled up as now you can find images in photos, messages, notes, the finder, and the web right from Spotlight, and you can use live text to find an image depending on the text it contains.

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Spotlight can now be used to rapidly set an alarm, start a focus, use Shazam to find the name of a song, run a shortcut, and more.

Credits: Tenor

Spotlight also provides richer search results, including everything you need to know about people, albums, bands, movies, TV series, actors, sports, and businesses. By pressing the Space bar, you may see huge, scrollable previews of your files in Quick Look.

3. Continuity Camera

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Use your Mac and the iPhone’s excellent camera system to perform things that a webcam can’t. Simply bring your iPhone close to your Mac, and it will automatically switch the camera input to iPhone. It directly connects through wifi, so there’s no need to plug anything in.

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Thanks to the iPhone’s Ultra-Wide camera, the Center Stage feature is now available on any Mac. So you can stay centered in the camera frame even if you move around during video conversations or meetings!

Center Stage is a feature that helps you to remain in the center during a video call or meetings.

4. Advanced Gaming Features

Now new Mac can play demanding games as it includes Apple’s silicon and Metal 3, which provides developers with strong features to help them take their games to the next level. For example, MetalFX Upscaling allows games to render complicated scenes at higher frame rates, giving them a more responsive feel and stunning images.

Metal 3 also has a new fast resource loading API, which helps to reduce game loading times.

5. System Settings

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A new sidebar style in system settings, which is instantly familiar to iPhone and iPad users, makes navigating settings and configuring your Mac easier than ever.

macOS 13 Supported Devices

  • MacBook 2017 and later
  • MacBook pro-2017 and later
  • MacBook Air 2018 and later
  • Mac Pro 2019 and later
  • Mac Studio 2022
  • Mac Mini 2018 and later
  • iMac Pro 2017
  • iMac 2017 and later

To know more features about macOS 13 Ventura, which are available across all other operating systems, please refer to this blog

Conclusion

macOS Ventura brings powerful productivity tools and new continuity features that improve the Mac experience. Apple has released iOS 16, iPadOS 16, watchOS 9, and some Hardware also. There are a series of blogs we have published regarding WWDC 2022; please find the links below,

iOS 16 and iPadOS 16

watchOS 9

Hardware introduced at WWDC 2022

Hope this article has helped you learn something new today. If you’ve enjoyed reading this article, be sure to throw me a couple of claps!👏

Happy Learning :)

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Jay Buddhdev
Simform Engineering

Software Engineer at Simform Solutions | iOS — Swift | Android — Kotlin