You can use a keyboard shortcut, a screen hot corner, or menu shortcuts to create a note that gets saved to the Notes application. (Photo: Edward Mendelson)Ī new Quick Note feature works systemwide but is especially useful in Safari. Firefox users need to install an extension to get similar functionality. As in Google Chrome, you can collect tabs into tab groups, but Safari’s implementation is more elegant and flexible than Chrome’s, because you can save and organize tab groups in Safari’s sidebar. As you visit a few sites, you'll notice that the toolbar and tab bar change color to be more consistent with the color scheme of the page in the current tab, so you'll get a black tab bar when you visit but a brown tab bar when you visit. For example, when you start up Safari and open a few tabs, you’ll see that the old, familiar tabs now look like buttons, with the current page getting a larger button than the rest, and with a three-dot overflow menu that leads to sharing, bookmarking, and other features. Meanwhile, you can see the other visible changes now. In Apple’s it-just-works tradition, this feature won’t require any setup. You can work in your iPad, for example, modifying a photo, and then drag your work back to the Mac. The most technically spectacular feature, called Universal Control, isn’t enabled in the first beta, but when it arrives, it will let you drag your cursor to the edge of the screen and then drag it into an iPad sitting next to it. I’ll divide this preview into Monterey’s visible, in-your-face improvements and its significant hidden improvements. Expert users may want to create a separate volume on their hard disk and install Monterey into it while continuing to use Big Sur on an existing volume, but I strongly recommend against trying this, at least until a later release of the public beta. Either install it on a Mac that you don’t absolutely need or don’t install it at all, because things will always go wrong and Apple makes it extremely hard to downgrade to a previous version, especially on an Apple Silicon Mac. By contrast, Microsoft has released few major updates to Windows 10 over the past couple years, though Windows 11, which also entered public beta this week, breaks with that pattern in a major way.Īs always with beta versions of operating systems, and especially with early betas, you shouldn’t install the Monterey beta on the Mac you use for work. Updates in odd-numbered years, like 2021’s Monterey, look more or less like the previous version, but come with under-the-hood improvements that may do more for you than dazzling interface changes. Massive updates arrive on even-numbered years, like the 2020 update to macOS Big Sur that was also the first version that ran on Apple Silicon hardware. This is because Apple’s annual updates to the Mac operating system tend to have a regular rhythm. As you get more familiar with Monterey, however, you find improvements and conveniences everywhere and may wonder how you managed without them. Exceptions include Safari, which gets a dynamically resizing tab bar and other conveniences, and FaceTime, which gets a background-blurring portrait mode and screen-sharing features. The share button is also back in the default toolbar and available in the toolbar customization menu.The public beta of macOS Monterey, released today by Apple, two weeks after the first release to developers, doesn’t look surprisingly new. Notably, with the new default Safari tab bar, the refresh button is back in the search/url bar (not hidden behind a … button). PSA: You can revert the Safari redesign in macOS Monterey beta 3 - here’s how.However, you can revert to the new unified design by heading to Safari > View > and unchecking “Show Separate Tab Bar.” (Now Safari > Preferences > Tabs > Compact in beta 4). The new default Safari design in Monterey beta 3 goes from the unified tab/search/url bar to having the tab bar sit below the top url/search/toolbar (first spotted by Mario Guzman). And it saw complaints about the overall design as well as things like hiding the refresh page and share buttons which make things more visually minimal but more difficult to access. Here’s a look at the revised default tab bar, updated toolbar options, and more in Safari with macOS Monterey beta 3.Īpple delivered a bold new version of Safari with the first two Monterey beta releases that used a unified and modern tab bar. Now with the third beta, Apple has taken a step back with the Safari design after hearing criticism from those testing the software. Apple brought major changes to Safari in both macOS Monterey and iOS 15 with the first two beta releases.
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