Apple® today announced OS X® Yosemite, a powerful new version of OS X
redesigned and refined with a fresh, modern look, powerful new apps and
amazing new continuity features that make working across your Mac® and
iOS devices more fluid than ever. The new Today view in Notification
Center gives you a quick look at everything you need to know, all in one
place; iCloud Drive™ is located within the Finder and can store files of
any type; and Safari® has a new streamlined design that puts the most
important controls at your fingertips. Mail makes editing and sending
attachments easier than ever; Handoff lets you start an activity on one
device and pass it to the other; and Instant Hotspot makes using your
iPhone’s hotspot as easy as connecting to a Wi-Fi network. Yosemite even
gives you the ability to make iPhone® calls on your Mac.
OS X Yosemite introduces a refined new design, powerful apps and amazing new continuity features. (Photo: Business Wire)
“Yosemite is the future of OS X with its incredible new design and
amazing new apps, all engineered to work beautifully with iOS,” said
Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering.
“We engineer our platforms, services and devices together, so we are
able to create a seamless experience for our users across all our
products that is unparalleled in the industry. It’s something only Apple
can deliver.”
With Yosemite, OS X has been redesigned and refined with a fresh modern
look where controls are clearer, smarter and easier to understand, and
streamlined toolbars put the focus on your content without compromising
functionality. Translucent elements reveal additional content in your
app window, provide a hint at what’s hidden behind and take on the look
of your desktop. App icons have a clean, consistent design and an
updated system font improves readability.
The new Today view in Notification Center gives you a quick look at
everything you need to know with widgets for Calendar, Weather, Stocks,
Reminders, World Clock and social networks. You can even download
additional widgets from the Mac App Store℠ to customize your Today view.
Spotlight® now appears front and center on your desktop and adds new
categories of results, so you can view rich suggestions from Wikipedia,
Maps, Bing, App Store, iTunes Store®, iBooks Store™, top websites, news
and movie showtimes.
Built right into the Finder, iCloud Drive stores files of any type in
iCloud®. iCloud Drive works like any other folder on your Mac, so you
can drag documents into it, organize them with folders and Tags and
search for them using Spotlight. With iCloud Drive, you can access all
your files in iCloud from your Mac, iPhone, iPad® or even a Windows PC.
Safari has a new streamlined design that puts the most important
controls at your fingertips. A new Favorites view gives you quick access
to your favorite websites, and a powerful new Tabs view displays
thumbnails of all your open web pages in one window. Safari also gives
you more control over your privacy, with separate Private Browsing
windows and built-in support for DuckDuckGo, a search engine that
doesn’t track users. When you search for popular or common terms, new
Spotlight Suggestions appear along with the suggestions from your search
provider. Safari supports the latest web standards, including WebGL and
SPDY, and with support for HTML5 Premium Video Extensions, you can watch
Netflix HD videos for up to two hours longer.1 Powered by the
Nitro JavaScript engine, Safari is over six times faster than Firefox
and over five times faster than Chrome when executing JavaScript found
in typical websites.2
Mail makes editing and sending attachments easier than ever. With Markup
you can quickly fill out and sign forms and even annotate images and
PDFs from within Mail. Mail Drop allows you to easily send large videos,
images or files up to 5GB from the Mail app to any email address.
Messages has a new look and delivers even more options for communicating
with friends and family. Now you can add titles to ongoing message
threads so they are easy to find, add new contacts to ongoing
conversations, or leave those conversations you no longer want to
follow. With Soundbites you can create, send and listen to audio clips
right in Messages.
Continuity features in Yosemite make your Mac and iOS device perfect
companions. When your iPhone or iPad is near your Mac, Handoff lets you
start an activity on one device and pass it to the other. Instant
Hotspot makes using your iPhone’s hotspot as easy as connecting to a
Wi-Fi network.3 Now the SMS and MMS messages that previously
only appeared on your iPhone appear in Messages on all your devices. You
can even send SMS or MMS messages directly from your Mac and make or
receive iPhone calls using your Mac as a speakerphone.4
Yosemite delivers platform technologies that make it easier for
developers to create amazing new Mac apps. SpriteKit makes it easier to
incorporate realistic motion, physics and lighting in games, and
integrates with SceneKit to bring 3D casual gaming within reach of any
developer. Storyboards for Yosemite and Xcode® 6 take advantage of the
new View Controller APIs in AppKit to make it easier to build apps that
navigate between multiple views of data. New APIs allow developers to
integrate Handoff into their own apps and create Today view widgets for
distribution through the Mac App Store. Share Menu extensions add new
destinations to the Share Menu, and new APIs let developers create
custom Share Sheets.
The developer preview of Yosemite is available to Mac Developer Program
members starting today. To help make OS X even better, Apple is
introducing the OS X Beta Program, which gives customers early access to
Yosemite and invites them to try out the release and submit their
feedback. Mac users can participate in the OS X Beta Program for
Yosemite this summer and download the final version for free from the
Mac App Store this fall. Customers interested in signing up can visit www.apple.com/osx/preview
for more details.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with
OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital
music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has
reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store,
and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with
iPad.
1 Testing conducted by Apple in May 2014 using 1.4GHz Intel
Core i5 MacBook Air with 4GB of RAM, prerelease OS X v10.10, and
prerelease OS X v10.9.3. Prerelease Safari 8.0 tested with HD 1080p
Netflix content; prerelease Safari 7.0.4 and Silverlight plug-in
v5.1.30317.0 tested with HD 720p Netflix content. Systems tested with
WPA2 Wi-Fi network connection while running on battery power.
2 Testing conducted by Apple in May 2014 using JSBench Suite
2013.1 JavaScript performance benchmark on 1.4GHz Intel Core i5 MacBook
Air with 4GB of RAM and prerelease OS X v10.10. Tested with prerelease
Safari 8.0, Chrome v34.0.1847.137, and Firefox v29.0.1.
3 Check with your carrier for hotspot availability.
4 Cellular data charges may apply.
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