From the course: macOS Ventura Essential Training

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From the course: macOS Ventura Essential Training

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New features in macOS Ventura

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- [Nicholas] Like every new version of macOS, Ventura comes with some exciting new features. But this course is designed to help people learn the most essential features of macOS. We're not going to cover all of the features in Ventura, but in this video, I want to give you a quick roundup of the most exciting new features. If you've used a previous version of macOS, then the biggest change for you in Ventura will certainly be in System Settings. But wait, are you wondering if I meant to say System Preferences? Nope, one of the changes is that Ventura does not use the word preferences. It uses the word settings instead. So if you go to the System menu, you'll find the option here for System Settings, not System Preferences. And this is the new interface for System Settings. For a comparison, I'll open a picture I have of what the System Preferences panel looked like in previous versions of macOS. In the old System Preferences panel, you would click on these big icons to go into the different categories to make changes to various features on your Mac. Looking at the new System Settings panel, you'll see those categories are there, but they are organized as a list on the left side of the window. You can click on a category to see the adjustments that you can make. And this makes it a little easier to browse through the categories because they will always stay on the left side of the window. And there is some reorganization here. So these categories are not exactly the same as the categories in the old System Preferences, but they are close. You'll find most things where you expect to find them. And of course, you can always use the search field up at the top if you can't find something. And if you use an iPhone or iPad, you may notice the real reason for this new layout. The interface design and the organization of these categories are almost exactly the same as on an iPhone or iPad. So there's more consistency across your devices. And that change from preferences to settings extends to individual applications as well. So if I go over to Safari, for example, and I go to the main Safari menu up at the top, I see an option here for Settings, not Preferences. This is where you can change settings for this specific application. And this option is there in many different applications, but now it's labeled as Settings. Next, let's look at some new features in Messages and Mail, where you have some options to fix mistakes. In the Mail application that comes with macOS Ventura, when you're ready to send an email, you now have the option to open this menu next to the Send button, and you can schedule that message to be sent in the future. Or if you do send an email message normally, there will be an Undo Send button over on the sidebar on the left in Mail, and that will stay there for 10 seconds after you send your message. So you can undo sending a message after you've sent it. Switching over to the Messages application, you can send your message here. And after the message is sent, you can right-click on it and you have the options to undo send from here or edit that message. The Undo Send option is only available for two minutes after you sent the message, and it will remove that message from the Messages app on your device and from the recipient's device. The edit option will be there for 15 minutes after the message has been sent. So I can click Edit and I can make a change to the message. And when I'm done, I can click this check mark to send that edited message. Just be aware, these features only work if you and the people you are messaging are using macOS Ventura, iOS 16, iPadOS 16, or a newer version in the future. If anybody in the conversation is on an Android device or an older Apple system, the Undo Send option will not work at all, and the Edit option will just send out a new revised message, so the recipient will see the original message and the edited message. But if everybody is on current Apple software, these features will work normally. Now, another significant feature is a new tool that will help you easily switch between applications when you have lots of windows open on your screen. So let's leave Messages open and we'll go back to Mail, we'll go back to Safari, and I'll even open System Settings again. With so many windows open, the screen can get cluttered, and there are some windows that I can't even see. So I can go to the Control Center by clicking the Control Center icon in the Menu bar near the top right. And here we have the option for Stage Manager. I'll click on that to enable it. And now, I only see one window on the screen at a time. All of my other windows are pushed over to the left edge, but they are still running. And I can switch between windows by clicking on them over here on the left. So I can see everything, but everything is not piling up on my screen. Now, sometimes, you do want more than one window on the screen, so you can drag a window from the left side over to the main part of the screen. And now, these two windows will be grouped together. So as I switch to other windows or other groupings, they will stay together. There are some options and more details to Stage Manager, which we will see in this course. We'll spend more time with all of these features. But, of course, there are many more new features in macOS Ventura. You can go to the Apple website to see some of the other changes, but this course focuses on the essentials, the core features that are the most important things for users to know and the changes we just saw fit that description. But of course, there are other new features to be discovered, even if they are not essential features. Now that you've had a preview of what's new in Ventura, we can jump into the rest of the course.

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