#IMAC EL CAPITAN VS SIERRA MAC#

For photo/selfie lovers out there, this feature will recognize the face in your photos and will group or categorize them accordingly. Google Photos has a feature similar to this. This feature is available in both iOS 10 and MacOS Sierra public beta. So that’s one more thing that needs to be improved as a lot of work related tutorials are available in YouTube and it would make all our lives a lot easier. The only con about this feature is that it doesn’t work on YouTube videos, but I’ve tried it with Vimeo and it works fine. When you are watching a video you can click on the “Picture on Picture” icon and it send the video to the corner of your desktop so you can watch it while working on something else. It’s a feature used mostly by people who multi task. In the Sierra public beta, you can use Picture in Picture mode when using Safari. If you are familiar with the browser Helium, then this feature might be something you already use. This is still the public beta phase anyway, so I’m still optimistic that it will improve. In pages you have to click View> Show Tab Bar to activate tabs.To show or hide tabs in Keynote you’ll have to press Command + Shit + T, however, this shortcut does not work on pages.In order to add tabs for Keynote and Pages you’ll have to click View > Show Tab Bar.Command + T works for new tabs in Maps, but It doesn’t work for Keynote and pages.When I said that the tab support is uneven in some apps I meant it. Another way is by clicking View> Show Tab Bar. In the Keynote app, you need to press Command + Shift + T to activate the tab bar, only then can you add new tabs. It’s still in the beta phase so my fingers are crossed for the improvement of this feature. The tab support is very uneven everywhere else. In the duration that I’ve used Sierra, I noticed that the Notes app has no tabbing. The MacOS Sierra boasts tabs in almost all applications, take note “almost” all. This might be one of the features I would like to be improved. This feature is also very helpful to those who have smaller storage or SSDs in their Mac. There’s no need for you to go through all your files and see if the ones you have locally stored are duplicated in the I Cloud Drive and needs to be deleted which is definitely and daunting and time-consuming task. Once you space is required on your Mac, the OS will remove copies of a file from the local storage and store them only in the iCloud Drive. Sierra also does all the storage cleaning for you. This hits two birds with one stone, Storage Optimization and File Accessibility. You can choose store you files in the iCloud Drive if the Desktop and Documents folders are almost full. This feature might be familiar to iPhone users as this is readily available in your Photos app.Īnother feature also helps you not just optimize your storage but allows you to access files across all you Apple devices. Not only can you manually delete these files, you can also optimize your storage by choosing to automatically delete files in the Trash that are older than 30 days. It will help you decide which files you need to delete or which ones are taking most of your storage space. Now you can see the actual file types that occupy your storage space. It really makes work faster and more efficient.īefore MacOS Sierra, you’ll see clock indicating whether storage is used for app, audio, documents etc. The Universal Clipboard really embodies Apple’s Handoff and Continuity feature. I used to send the text I want to copy through an email or a note app, but with the Universal Clipboard a few clicks will do the trick.

#IMAC EL CAPITAN VS SIERRA MAC#

You can copy any text from your Mac and paste it to your iPhone via Bluetooth. If you’re wondering what’s so special about a clipboard, then let me explain how it works. The additional features that Siri can do will be endless as long as third-part apps keep popping up every now and then.Īfter using this feature, you won’t be able to imagine how you survived without it all your life. Just imagine asking Siri to get you ride via Uber, or even send messages to your friends in WhatsApp. Siri definitely saves a lot of time than clicking through several icons in your Mac.Īnother thing I’m excited about Siri is that Apple’s going to open her up to third-party app developers. You can also ask her about your Mac’s specifications, I asked her how fast my Mac was and she replied with the processor’s name and clock speed. It can adjust or switch some features on or off for you, from you Mac screen’s brightness, to connectivity feature like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi etc.

Whatever she can do for you on your iPhone she can also do for you on you Mac. Siri is still the same helpful AI you get from the iPhone. You can also use your keyboard to launch Siri, just long press Command + Space.

To launch Siri, you can click the Menu bar icon right beside the Notification Center icon. I can say that having Siri in my Mac has been an amazing experience.

Imac el capitan vs sierra