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macOS High Sierra is packed with new features and refinements. There's a new file arrangement, AFS, for amend security, reliability and speed in file transfers. Better graphics and VR supported have also been included along with backwards compatibility and then yous install the new OS in machine even from late 2009. Finally, applications like Safari, Spotlight, Notes, Apple Mail, and other have been polished upward.

Accept a photo right to your Mac.

Now yous tin can employ your iPhone to shoot or browse a nearby object or document and accept it automatically appear on your Mac. But cull Insert a Photo from the File menu. You can accept a photo of something on your desk and instantly come across it in your Pages document. Or scan a receipt, and a straightened version is immediately available in the Finder every bit a PDF. Continuity Camera works in the Finder, Postal service, Letters, Notes, Pages, Keynote, and Numbers. It's another style iPhone and Mac just click.

What'south New:

The macOS High Sierra 10.13.half dozen Update adds AirPlay two multiroom audio support for iTunes and improves the stability and security of your Mac. This update is recommended for all users.

  • Added download links for Security Update 2019-001, which is recommended for all users and improves the security of macOS.
  • The macOS High Sierra 10.thirteen.half dozen Supplemental Update improves the stability and reliability of MacBook Pro with Bear on Bar (2018) computers and is recommended for all users.
  • The macOS High Sierra 10.xiii.vi update adds AirPlay 2 multi-room audio support for iTunes and improves the stability and security of your Mac.

AirPlay 2 for iTunes

  • Control your home audio system and AirPlay two-enabled speakers throughout your house
  • Play music at the same time on multiple AirPlay 2-enabled speakers in your house, all in sync

Other improvements and fixes

  • Fixes an issue that may forbid Photos from recognizing AVCHD media from some cameras
  • Fixes an issue that may foreclose Postal service users from moving a message from Gmail to another account

Previous release notes:

The macOS High Sierra 10.xiii.5 update improves the stability, functioning, and security of your Mac and is recommended for all users.

This update adds support for Messages in iCloud, which lets you store messages with their attachments in iCloud and free up infinite on your Mac. To enable Messages in iCloud, get to Preferences in Messages, click Accounts, then select "Enable Messages in iCloud".

The macOS High Sierra ten.13.iii update improves the security, stability, and reliability of your Mac.

This update:

  • Addresses an issue that could cause Messages conversations to temporarily be listed out of order
  • Adds support for seventy new emoji including food types, animals, mythical creatures, clothing options, more than expressive smiley faces, gender-neutral characters and more
  • Fixes a bug where Bluetooth may be unavailable during Apple Pay transactions
  • Improves the reliability of Microsoft Substitution bulletin sync in Postal service
  • Fixes an issue where Spotlight may not accept keyboard input

Features:

Become things washed by asking Siri, the intelligent banana now on your Mac:

  • Savor your favorite features from iOS as well as new ones optimized for Mac.
  • Send messages, create reminders, search the web, and more while you lot work.
  • Elevate and drop or copy and paste Siri results into your documents.
  • Pin Siri results in Notification Eye and reference them later.
  • Find files, adjust settings, and get system data just by asking Siri.

Copy and paste betwixt your devices with Universal Clipboard.

  • Re-create a quote, image, or video from an app on i device and paste information technology into an app on another device.

Automatically log in with Auto Unlock.

  • Log in to your Mac automatically when you lot wear your Apple tree Scout --- no demand to type your countersign.

Enjoy the convenience and security of Apple Pay when you lot shop on the web.

  • Use Apple Pay to make easy, secure payments when shopping in Safari on your Mac.
  • Complete your purchase with Touch ID on your iPhone or with your Apple Watch.

Access files on your Mac desktop from your iPhone with iCloud Desktop and Documents.

  • Automatically store all the files on your desktop and in your Documents folder in iCloud, and admission them from all your devices.
  • Keep the same desktop and Documents folder on your other Mac.

Hands gratuitous upward space on your Mac with Optimized Storage.
  • Automatically store seldom-used files in iCloud, where they'll exist available on demand.
  • Additional tools help y'all remove files you don't demand, to save even more space.

Get control of your desktop with tabs in apps.

  • Employ tabs to manage multiple windows in Maps, Pages, Keynote, Numbers, and more than.
  • Work with tabs in your favorite 3rd-party apps --- no programmer adoption required.

Keep an center on the large game or your favorite video with Picture in Picture.

  • Float a video window from Safari or iTunes over your desktop as yous work.
  • Identify the Pic in Picture window in any corner, and it stays put when you switch spaces or piece of work in full screen.

Rediscover the most meaningful moments in your Photos library.

  • Bask favorite and forgotten occasions from your photograph library with Memories.
  • View your images past who'south in them. Photos uses advanced face recognition technology to automatically grouping photos of the aforementioned person together.
  • Search your photos by what's in them, such as beaches, dogs, or concerts, thanks to intelligent search that can recognize objects and scenes.
  • Track your photo expeditions across an interactive world map.

Enjoy an all-new Apple Music experience in iTunes.

  • Easily navigate your library with the redesigned Apple tree Music.
  • Discover bully new music thank you to adept curation and advanced auto learning that give you lot the best recommendations.

Liven up your Messages conversations.

  • See web content previews and watch web videos right in a conversation.
  • Respond to letters with quick, handy Tapbacks.
  • Express yourself with 3x larger emoji.
  • View the stickers, Digital Touch on, invisible ink, and handwritten messages that friends ship from their iOS devices.

Some features may not exist available in all regions or all languages. Some features have hardware requirements. Some features crave an iCloud storage plan.

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