Part 1: What's New in macOS Ventura?
Dark Mode
That's right! Apple finally gave us a full, system-wide Dark Mode for Mac, not just for Menu bar, but for built-in apps, and the Mac App Store. All the users interfaces have been adjusted accordingly with the Xcode to adapt to the black. It turns the dock, taskbar, and the chrome around your apps into a dark gray. Besides, the macOS Ventura wallpaper are changing with the time in a day. After all, as the name Ventura implies, the light and shadow in the desert is very wonderful.
Updated: The latest macOS Ventura Beta 5 added some wallpaters which are adaptive with Dark Mode, such as wallpapers of Ventura desert. Meanwhile, the beta 5 allows users to selectively enable eGPU acceleration across applications, including iMac and MacBook Pro built-in screens. Prior to this, the user needs to implement it through a terminal command.
Apple News, Voice Memos, Home, and Stocks
Except the Dark Mode, moving iOS apps to macOS could be the most striking macOS Ventura feature. Apple announced its plan to bring UIKit to the Mac at WWDC, which is a multi-year project. It specifically said that it will not be merging iOS and macOS. And right now, it's testing to extend the iOS interface frameworks to work well on the Mac windowing system in the latest macOS Ventura 10.14. In the first stage, iOS apps such as Stocks, News, Voice Memos, Home are transplanted to macOS Ventura through Sneak Peak. Such apps don't appear to be doing much they can't on iPhone, but being able to sync your files across devices is always a big help.
All-New Mac App Store
In Ventura, Mac App Store gets a complete redesign with a new look and rich editorial content. The all-new Mac App Store will recommend applications each week, offer a larger-scale app graphics interface display, more detailed application description and editors' recommended application. As always, Mac users can download apps from Mac App Store with confidence that Apple has approved them for safety and security.
By the way, Ventura will still support your 32-bit apps. But don't get too excited. Apple noted in its presentation about Ventura that it is the last macOS to support 32-bit apps and games. If you want your favorite Mac apps to work well on your Mac in 2019, you'd better update them to 64-bit ones.
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It's worthy noting that if you're keen to collecting DVD discs, you don't have to worry about your DVDs stuck on Ventura as Apple would upgrade DVD Player app to 64-bit. Thus there is no problem to watch DVD movies on your Macbook Pro/Air, iMac, along with 64-bit DVD Player and superdrive or built-in drives.
Screenshot and Continuity Camera
macOS Ventura add the new features of screenshot and continuity camera. After you finish the screenshot in Ventura, there will be a small screenshot tool at the lower right corner of the interface that users can do something simple with the pictures. This feature was previous available on iOS 11. Meanwhile, the Continuity Camera feature allows users ro sync iOS recorded photos to the macOS Ventura document that they're editing. Syncing iPhone photos to Mac is used be done with iTunes, iCloud, MacX MediaTrans.
Finder Update
There's now a new view in finder called "gallery view", which helps you view image information quickly and even edit pictures with the built in quick editing feature. When you choose several photos at once, the Down shortcut allows you to create a PDF file at one click. Meanwhile, Apple is also adding ways to view metadata inside a finder window and quick actions you can perform on files, like rotating a photo or changing the text in the preview PDF file.
Privacy and Security
Mac users could control many permissions on macOS Ventura, not only including the previous Camera, Location, Photos, Calendar, Camera, Microphone, Reminder, but also Mail database, Message history, Safari data, Tine Machine backups, iTunes device backups, System cookies etc. In Safari, the enhanced Intelligent Tracking Prevention helps block social media Like or Share buttons and comment widgets from tracing users without permission.
In addition to the macOS Ventura key features above, there are many other small updates. For example, Desktop stacks will make your desktop organized by kind, date or tab. Group FaceTime makes it possible to chat with multiple people at once. From the salient features of macOS Ventura, it's totally worthy for macOS Ventura update.
