7 macOS Ventura features that will take your new Mac to the next level - Macworld

Did you get a caller iMac, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, oregon Apple Studio Display? Brace yourself, due to the fact that here’s an unfortunate information astir those machines: the built-in FaceTime camera is simply a disappointment. But if you person an iPhone 11 oregon later, you tin skip that camera and usage a caller Ventura diagnostic that lets you usage your iPhone arsenic a webcam with Continuity Camera.

While you mightiness cognize the Continuity Camera diagnostic from erstwhile versions of macOS, successful Ventura, Apple has expanded the diagnostic with iPhone webcam support. You tin equine an iPhone to your Mac oregon spot it connected a basal and Ventura automatically senses the instrumentality and wirelessly connects to it. You tin past usage your iPhone’s camera successful FaceTime and different apps connected your Mac. 

With an iPhone arsenic a webcam, you’ll besides beryllium capable to usage Center Stage to support you successful the halfway of the frame, arsenic good arsenic Portrait mode. If you’re utilizing an iPhone 12 oregon later, there’s a Studio Light diagnostic that uses the iPhone flash to supply amended lighting. And finally, a nifty Desk View diagnostic creates a two-shot view, 1 of the person, and different of the desktop successful beforehand of the Mac, which is useful for demos.

Learn much astir utilizing the iPhone arsenic a webcam successful macOS Ventura.

If you’re having a hard clip proceeding the idiosyncratic you’re having a FaceTime telephone with, you tin usage the Live Captions diagnostic successful macOS Ventura. When it’s on, the spoken words of the idiosyncratic you’re talking to are transcribed successful a model connected the close broadside of the FaceTime window.

To activate this feature, spell to System Settings > Accessibility > Live Captions (Beta), and past successful the “In-App Live Captions” conception power connected Live Captions successful FaceTime.

Live Captions besides works extracurricular of FaceTime. For example, you tin usage it portion watching a video that doesn’t person captions. But arsenic it says successful the name, Live Captions is successful beta, which means you could tally into bugs, inaccurate captions, and different quirks.

Okay, truthful you whitethorn not request to usage this diagnostic close away, but it’s happened to each of us—we nonstop an email oregon substance to the incorrect person, marque a silly typo, oregon conscionable privation we could instantly instrumentality backmost the enactment we conscionable sent. Finally, you tin unsend messages successful macOS Ventura.

In Messages, right-click connected the connection bubble, and past successful the pop-up that appears, prime Undo Send. You person 2 minutes aft you nonstop the connection to unsend it. Once it’s unsent, the connection volition beryllium deleted but the recipient volition spot a enactment saying that the connection was deleted. This feature is besides available connected iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 and lone works lone erstwhile everyone progressive is utilizing iMessage. A substance connection sent from an iPhone to an Android telephone oregon different non-Apple instrumentality cannot beryllium unsent.

In Mail, aft you nonstop an email, you person 10 seconds to unsend it. At the bottommost of the Sidebar, an Undo Send nexus appears and you tin click it to undo the sent email. Get much details connected however this diagnostic works. This feature is besides available successful iOS 16 for iPhone and iPadOS 16 for iPad.

If you’ve been spending tons of clip successful an representation editing app to region the inheritance successful a photo, past you’ll emotion however overmuch of a time-saver this diagnostic is. This diagnostic automatically selects the taxable that you want, copies it, and past you tin paste it anywhere.

This diagnostic is disposable successful some the Preview and Photos apps that travel with macOS Ventura, and it besides works successful Quick Look erstwhile you prime a record successful the Finder and property the spacebar to spot a preview. All you person to bash is constituent the cursor implicit the subject, right-click it, and past rodent implicit Copy Subject successful the pop-up menu. Ventura senses the taxable and shows you what volition beryllium selected with a glowing outline. Then you really click the Copy Selection command, and you tin past paste it into a caller image.

This feature is besides available successful iOS 16 for the iPhone and iPadOS 16 for the iPad.

If you usage Photos to negociate your pictures, the app allows you to fell an representation from your provender if you right-click it and past prime Hide Photo. It gets placed successful a Hidden photograph album, but earlier macOS Ventura, anyone who has entree to your Mac relationship tin unfastened that album.

Finally, successful Ventura, the Hidden photograph album–as good arsenic the Recently Deleted folder–can beryllium password-protected. To crook this on, spell to Photos > Settings > General, and successful the Privacy section, cheque the container for Use Password. Now, erstwhile those albums are accessed, you’ll request to participate your idiosyncratic password oregon usage Touch ID. Just don’t hide it.

White sound tin assistance with your concentration, particularly if you’re successful an country with a batch of distractions, oregon it’s dormant silent. With macOS Ventura, you tin person achromatic sound play from your Mac, and you tin crook it connected and disconnected arsenic you like.

Go to System Settings > Accessibility > Audio. Scroll down to the Background Sounds section, and you tin flip the power to crook it on. You tin besides take the benignant of dependable you privation to play and set the volume. After it’s each acceptable up, you tin crook it connected and disconnected successful the Control Center. Learn much astir this feature.