System introduction
macOS Sonoma brings new features to boost your productivity and creativity. Add more personalization to your Mac with stunning screensavers and widgets to your desktop. Present yourself in a new way while presenting your work on a video call, and make yourself a part of the presentation to increase your presence. Safari User Scenarios and Web Apps help you organize your browsing activities in new ways. Game Mode boosts performance while gaming. When you upgrade your Mac, you get the latest security and privacy protections.
Screensaver
• Stunning screensavers from all over the world that seamlessly turn into your desktop wallpaper when you log in
Widgets
• Widgets can be placed anywhere on the desktop, and they adapt to the wallpaper color as you work in the app
• Add iPhone widgets to your Mac when your iPhone is nearby or connected to the same Wi-Fi network
• Interactive widgets let you take actions directly from the widget, such as running shortcuts, pausing media playback, and more
Video conferencing
• Front Presenter can put you in the forefront when sharing your screen (Mac with Apple silicon)
• Reactions lets you trigger 3D effects around you during a video call (Mac with Apple silicon, Continuity Camera on iPhone 12 and later)
Safari and passwords
• User scenarios allow you to separate browsing scenarios such as work and personal
• Web apps let you use websites like apps, with icons in the Dock for faster access and simplified toolbars for easier navigation
• Enhanced Private Browsing locks a private window when you're not using it, prevents known trackers from loading, and removes tracks that identify you in URLs
• Share passwords and passkeys with trusted contacts
Information
• Live Stickers sync from iOS and iPadOS to macOS, giving you access to Live Stickers created on iPhone and iPad
• Search criteria include content types such as contacts, keywords, and photos or links
• Swipe the iMessage bubble to reply with one line
Game
• Game Mode runs games on the CPU and GPU with the highest priority, providing more consistent frame rates and lower latency for wireless controllers (Mac with Apple silicon)
keyboard
• Improved Dictation experience allows you to enter text with your voice and keyboard at the same time
AirPods
• Adaptive Audio dynamically blends Active Noise Cancellation and Transparency modes based on your environment to create your own noise control experience, resulting in a new listening mode (AirPods Pro 2nd generation with the latest firmware)
• Press to mute and unmute the microphone during a call (AirPods 3rd generation, AirPods Pro 1st and 2nd generation, or AirPods Max with the latest firmware)
• Improved AirPods auto-switching now detects your Mac up to 2x faster than before (2nd and 3rd generation AirPods, 1st and 2nd generation AirPods Pro, or AirPods Max with the latest firmware)
privacy
• Sensitive Content Warning can be enabled to help prevent users from accidentally seeing images with sensitive content in Messages
• Communications Safety further expands child protections by detecting explicit content in videos shared through Messages and the photo picker in addition to photos
Accessibility
• Live Voice lets you type and speak what you want to say in a FaceTime call or face-to-face conversation
• Personal Voices helps users at risk of aphasia use on-device machine learning to create voices that sound like themselves in a private and secure way
• Made for iPhone compatible hearing devices can be paired and used with your Mac (2021 MacBook Pro, 2022 Mac Studio, and Mac computers with M2 chip)
This update also includes additional features and improvements:
• Autofill one-time codes from Mail help you quickly sign in to websites in Safari
• Inline PDFs and scanned documents in Notes are rendered in full format for easy viewing
• The Grocery List in Reminders automatically groups related items into sections as you add them
• High Performance mode in Screen Sharing improves responsiveness when accessing a Mac with Apple silicon remotely
Some features may not be available in all regions or on all Apple devices.