macOS Sonoma Beta - 50+ New Features & Changes!

macOS Sonoma - 50+ New Features & Changes! | macOS 14 Sonoma Beta 1 Released - What's New Review

Apple just released their annual major software update for the Mac: macOS Sonoma (also known as macOS 14).

In this video, we will cover 50+ of the main new features and changes found in the software, including animated Lock Screen wallpapers, widgets on desktop, Safari changes, Presenter Overlay for video calls, and much more. Enjoy!

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Chapters:
0:00 Compatible Macs
0:46 Breathtaking Screen Savers
2:24 Small UI Changes
2:43 Widgets on Desktop (you CAN'T do this on iPhone!!)
4:55 Controversial Feature (but I LOVE it!!)
6:13 New Typing Indicator & Caps Lock
6:33 Predictive Text & Dictation for Keyboard
7:33 Hey Siri no more
7:46 Facetime AR Animations
9:00 Presenter Overlay (Major Feature!)
10:15 Safari 17 Changes
10:32 Safari Web Apps! Finally!!
11:13 Profiles
11:45 More New Safari Features & Changes
14:36 Game Mode
15:24 Hidden Gaming Setting Added
15:42 Photos
16:08 Weather
16:46 Mail
17:03 Reminders
17:40 Notes, Messages, Find My, Home
18:52 Privacy & Security, Accessibility

What do you think of macOS 14 Sonoma? Are you going to install the First Developer Beta?

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[BrandonButch]

Are you impressed or disappointed with this Sonoma update?

[YD_.]

The Sonoma beta is pretty nice. Quite stable and feature rich. I’m not in the developer program, but Apple gave everyone access. I accidentally installed it on my internal drive, but thankfully it’s a stable beta.

[thechristhetics]

This is beautiful. I’ve always wanted widgets on my Mac especially the battery. Also to add on, imagine having Notion widgets on your Mac?!! Can’t wait for the public release of this Mac OS 👏

[rainmarie]

My favorite feature is the monochrome widgets on the desktop. I think I’ll keep it like that indefinitely.

[the_hypnotoucan]

Brandon your videos are so helpful! The Mac community loves you.

[karissa]

love grocery list! I use reminder for this already and it works so well. So helpful so you don't have to backtrack ◡̈.

[the-tragic-magic]

Awesome video as always! Excited for the new features. Super funny when Brandon was demonstrating the reminder's new grocery list saying how good it is at automatically sorting your items into categories, that Dr Pepper was in produce, not beverages (17:33). Looks like I have been buying the wrong type of peppers in the store and need to look for those with a PHD😂 Love the video as always!

[WaffleBoi]

I was really hoping they would redesign Launchpad, maybe make it more App Library-like, but this update contains so much other awesome stuff that I’m not even mad. Loveee those screen savers 💗

[BackupBAGChannel]

The latest software update brings new features and enhancements to improve our productivity and creativity. I appreciate the video filled with useful information. 🙏🏻

[MatchaHusky]

These updates seem nice... but I really want some updates to Music. The layout is getting quite old to me, and I have a lot of library sorting problems where tracks from the same album appear as separate albums. The lack of automatic bitrate changes for external DACs is pretty annoying... There are just lots of silly issues I've been trying to work around for a while now.

[TheEricBooth]

I will be downloading as soon as public beta is available. Love the widget features and the changes to Safari. Hopefully they've fixed the reappearing of deleted tab groups.

[mbvx]

great QoL features! Good stuff. I'm happy.

[truefirstmagic]

Hitting <esc> will also return the app instantly when you’ve clicked on the background to hide it

[RonaldBrown]

There are some nice updates in Sonoma. Thanks for showing us the top 50.

[SubterraneanBruh]

NGL the moving lock screen background got me stressing over my M1 8GB air lol

[chevyselby]

Brandon you're the man. My go to for these type of videos for sure!

[Aljobritt]

Thank you for the video, I am saving it to watch again when OS Sonoma comes out!

[quentinw]

the widgets are definitly something I will use all the time on Mac now, also those animated wallpapers are sick!!

[Omegaparsec]

For users who use several languages, the language icon will show up next to the text cursor depending on the input method you use, like the Caps Lock indicator does.

[gsteele]

Brandon, could you please check whether Apple Music in Sonoma has implemented automatic bitrate switching to bring it in line with iOS?