Siri on macOS can respond to password requests with Mojave-just ask something like "what's my Netflix password?" to get a response. You can expect a burst of permission requests when you initially fire up apps after installing Mojave, and you can manage these and all the other permissions from the Privacy tab via Security & Privacy in the System Preferences dialog. 9) Take more control over app permissionsĪpp permissions already existed in macOS, but Mojave adds two crucial new ones-access to the microphone and the camera. Updates for the actual operating system itself, meanwhile, have been moved over to the About This Mac dialog (on the Apple menu). It should now be easier to find apps you're interested in, with highlights picked by Apple staff, themed collections of apps, and better use of images and video. The Mac App Store isn't new, of course, but it has a new look. Switch to your iPhone, snap the picture, and it transfers across. Open the Insert menu, then pick Import from iPhone, and then Take Photo. If you're using a Mac program that supports the Continuity feature, like Pages, you can drop in images straight from your iPhone's camera (if your Mac and iPhone are using the same Apple ID and on the same wifi network). If you don't like this new behavior, hit Shift+Cmd+5 to bring up the screenshot panel, then click Options, then untick the Show Floating Thumbnail entry. 6) Make quick edits to screenshotsįollowing the lead set by iOS, macOS Mojave shows thumbnails of newly taken screenshots in the corner of the screen as you snap them-click this thumbnail to make edits to the image before saving it. With a compatible file selected in Finder, hit Space, and in the Quick Look window that appears you'll see a Trim button up at the top-click on this and then adjust the handles at each end of the timeline to make your cuts. Quick Look has some new tricks in Mojave, including the ability to trim down video and audio. To audit yourself on this aspect of your digital security, open Safari and then pick Preferences from the Safari menu-go to the Passwords tab and you'll see yellow exclamation marks next to all the saved entries that have duplicate passwords. Just like iOS 12, macOS Mojave can warn you if you're using the same password across multiple sites and services. From the Desktop & Screen Saver screen in System Preferences, open the Desktop tab and choose one of the options under Dynamic desktop, making sure that Dynamic is picked from the drop-down menu above as well. They're "dynamic" in the sense that they change as the day goes on. Speaking of the desktop, Mojave supports dynamic wallpapers. You can switch it on by clicking General and then Dark in System Preferences-you'll notice there are some extra accent colors to play around with too, so you can customize the look of the OS just that little bit more than you could before. 2) Turn on Dark Modeĭark modes are certainly fashionable at the moment, and now macOS has one to call its own with the arrival of Mojave. Click on any Stack on your desktop to reveal the files contained therein. With the desktop in focus, choose View and then Use Stacks from the Finder menu-if you then go to choose View and Group Stacks By you can decide how they're organized. I didn't quite understand the conclusion, but it seems that although it's possible to stay with HFS+ when installing 10.14 it's going to prevent any updates etc.Stacks is a new desktop feature that groups files on the desktop by type or date, cleaning up the clutter in an instant. I did find a thread entitled Is it possible to install Mojave and keep HFS+ ? where the OP mentions having several disk-related apps which can't handle APFS, but as far as I remember I have none of those (or am aware of apps that specifically will only work with HFS+, but then again it's nothing I've ever investigated properly either.). Now I'm in the process of upgrading my mid-2012 Macbook Pro (from 10.13.6 High Sierra to 10.14) and understand I'm back in the same situation, but I can't remember why I shouldn't move over to APFS and the implications of it if I do, and if whatever was problematic back then have improved/been resolved with 10.14. I did what was suggested and stayed with HFS+. Last time I upgraded (from MacOS 10.9 Mavericks to 10.13 High Sierra) I was told that if you install it on an SSD it would convert the drive to the APFS format (which I should avoid, using a workaround option for installing it along with HFS+).
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