macOS Ventura: Everything We Know | MacRumors

Messages

The Messages app didn’t get major design changes, but there are features that Messages users have been wanting for years. An edit option allows iMessage to be edited for up to 15 minutes after it’s sent, and there’s also an option to unsend any message, also for up to 15 minutes after it’s sent.

Editing and unsending messages can only be done with “blue bubble” iMessages, and it does not work with SMS. It also requires all parties to have iOS 16 or macOS Ventura installed.

If you get a message but don’t want to deal with it right away, you can mark it as unread so you remember to check in on it later. There’s also now an option to recover recently deleted messages for up to 30 days after deleting them, so if you accidentally delete something, it’s no longer gone for good. Deleted messages can be found in the filtered section of the Messages app.

Notably, Messages has been updated to work with SharePlay in addition to FaceTime. With SharePlay, you can chat with friends while watching movies, listening to music, playing games, doing workouts, using apps, and more. SharePlay works with FaceTime or Messages so you can collaborate with friends and family and chat with a Messages convo or a video chat.

Apple has updated Memoji that can be used in Messages with additional stickers, new nose options, and 17 hairstyles.

Safari

Apple in macOS Monterey added Tab Groups, and in macOS Ventura, there’s now Shared Tab Groups. With Shared Tab Groups, a group of people can share a set of tabs. Everyone can add tabs and see the Tab Group update as tabs are added.

Tab Groups have their own start pages in macOS Ventura, so each one can have a customized background image and favorites. Pinned tabs work in Tab Groups as well.

There are new web extension APIs for developers to create new kinds of Safari web extensions, and extensions will now sync across devices. Website settings such as page zoom and automatic Reader view will also now sync across all devices.

Apple has added support for opt-in notifications from Safari pages on macOS, and text in images on the web can be translated using the Live Text feature. Wi-Fi passwords can be managed in Network Preferences, and the strong passwords that Safari suggests can be edited to match site-specific requirements.

Mail

To bring the Mail app more in line with third-party email apps, Apple made a number of changes in macOS Ventura. There are tools for unsending an email within 10 seconds if you make an error, and an option to schedule email messages to be sent in the future. A Remind Me option lets you get a reminder to reply to an email message if you can’t send a response right away.

Search in the Mail app is faster and more accurate than before, with the Mail app anticipating what you might want to search for and providing a richer view of content from the moment you start a search. Search also automatically corrects for typos and searches for synonyms to help you find what you’re looking for.

If you haven’t gotten a response to a message that you sent, the Mail app can move a sent email to the top of your inbox so you can get a reminder to follow up. If you forget to include an attachment or a cc’d recipient, the Mail app is able to let you know.

Like Messages, Mail now supports rich links to give more context to weblinks and other information included in email messages.

FaceTime

FaceTime in macOS Ventura works with Handoff, so a FaceTime call can be accepted on the iPhone and then transferred over to the Mac, or vice versa. FaceTime Handoff works seamlessly between your devices, and when a call is handed off, if you have a Bluetooth headset connected, it will also transition to the new device.

macOS Ventura supports a new collaboration feature for working with others in apps like Files, Keynote, Numbers, Pages, Notes, Reminders, and Safari. In these apps, you can start a FaceTime call with your collaborators so you can video chat about what you’re working on.

On Apple silicon Macs, there’s an option to see automatically transcribed dialogue for FaceTime video calls, with speaker attribution so you can tell who’s speaking.

Photos

If you have duplicate images in your Photo Library, macOS Ventura can detect them and merge the duplicate images together. The people album can now be sorted alphabetically, and edits made on one photo can be copy and pasted to another photo.

There’s a revamped Photo picker for importing photos and videos into system apps from the Photos library, and there are options to Disable Memories and Featured Photos in Photos and the Photos widget for people who do not like those features.

This Day in History and children playing are new memory types, and Apple Music subscribers can now add Apple Music songs to their Memories to listen to on their devices.

Apple locked the Hidden and Recently Deleted albums in the Photos app in macOS Ventura so they can only be accessed with a Mac’s login password or Touch ID.

Clock

The Clock app on the iPhone and iPad has been made available on the Mac. It supports Siri integration for setting timers, alarms, and checking the time in another city.

The local time can be seen in different time zones around the world, and there’s support for alarms with custom alerts. With Shortcuts integration, the Clock functionality can be extended.

Weather

Apple brought the Weather app to the Mac, and while it has the same design as the Weather apps for iPad and iPhone, the Mac version has been optimized for a larger display. It features immersive animations, detailed maps, and clickable forecast modules.

The Mac app has all of the features of the iOS app, including animated weather backgrounds that change based on the weather at your location, severe weather notifications, air quality monitoring, weather maps, and forecasts.

Home

The Home app has been overhauled with a design that makes it simpler to navigate and organize smart home accessories, plus Apple says that the app features improvements to the underlying architecture to make smart home devices more efficient and reliable.

With the dedicated Home tab, all of the accessories in the entire home are visible on one screen. All rooms and favorited accessories are aggregated into a single tab for easier access to the most often-used accessories. Accessory tiles have been redesigned to make each different type of accessory more obvious at a glance.

A selection of categories is available at the top of the app, and it organizes accessories into Lights, Climate, Security, Speakers, TVs, and more, so you can get to the accessories that you are looking for quickly. Apple has added a new sidebar layout for access to accessories by room, and there is a new camera view that displays up to nine cameras front and center in the Home tab.

The Home app in macOS Ventura supports Matter, the new smart home connectivity standard designed to allow accessories from Apple, Google, Samsung, and other smart home manufacturers to work together seamlessly across platforms, for more versatility when it comes to smart home products.

Maps

The Maps app supports multi-stop routing for the first time, so you can plan out a trip with multiple stops on the Mac and then sync it over to the iPhone when you’re ready to leave. There’s also an option to calculate how much a transit trip will cost with a transit fare addition.

Notes

Notes are automatically organized into Smart Folders based on new filters in macOS Ventura. Rules are available for Date Created, Date Modified, Shared, Mentions, Checklists, Attachments, Quick Notes, Folder, and more.

Apple has also made it so notes are grouped by chronological categories like Today and Yesterday for quick reference, plus there are filter options for Smart Folders and the Tag Browser.

Locked notes can be encrypted end-to-end with the Mac’s login password, and the Notes app supports the collaboration features that allow anyone with a link to a note to join in and work on it.

Reminders

There are several new features in the Reminders app in macOS Ventura.

• Pinned Lists – Favorite lists can be pinned for quicker access.
• Templates – Lists can be saved as a template that can be reused for routines, packing lists, and more. Templates can be published and shared with others, and templates other people have created can be downloaded and used in your Reminders app.
• Completed Smart List – All completed reminders can be viewed in one place, with info like time of completion.
• Scheduled Lists – The Scheduled list has new week and month groups to help with long-term organization.
• Today Lists – The Today list is now grouped by Morning, Afternoon, and Tonight for a better division of the day.
• List Groups – You can click on a list group and see a combined view of the lists and reminders that it contains.
• Richer notes – When adding notes to your reminders, you can include bullets, underline, bold, and strike-through text.
• Notifications in shared lists – When tasks are added to or completed in shared lists, Reminders will send a notification.
• Filters – In the Tag Browser and Custom Smart Lists, there are options to filter for any or all criteria selected.