![]() But Apple’s got a broader audience to serve with the Mac-there are more Mac users today than ever before, and the Mac installed base just keeps growing-and it’s never really been satisfied with the available window-management tools on the Mac. You, an expert Mac user, may be fine with the way things are. ![]() But for some users, the Mac’s windowing metaphor has led to confusion and frustration, whether it’s windows covering other windows or hidden or minimized windows being unfindable. For decades, it’s been a huge productivity boost to savvy Mac users, since it allows multiple panes of information of arbitrary sizes to be arranged arbitrarily on a user’s screen. Managing multiple overlapping windows has been a defining feature of using a Mac since 1984. Stage Manager: Another crack at windowing Stage Manager lets you group windows together, while displaying groups as thumbnails on the edge of the screen. But it’s a long summer, and there’s a lot more to be done (and many more words to be written) before macOS Ventura arrives this fall. It’s not that the small stuff doesn’t matter-it can matter a lot. In this first look at Ventura on the occasion of its release in a Public Beta, I’m going to focus on the big stuff. And it’s thrown out the venerable System Preferences app, a part of Mac OS X since the early days, and replaced it with a new System Settings app that’s reminiscent of iOS. It’s recognized that families might want to share their iCloud Photo Libraries. It has enlisted the optics of the excellent cameras on the iPhone to act as a substitute for often-lackluster Apple webcams. ![]() In Ventura, Apple has added an entirely new way to manage the many windows can can litter our screens. There are dozens of small changes, and if one of them hits an app or feature you rely on, the change may make (or break) the entire upgrade for you. On the small side, it’s improved search in Spotlight and Mail, expanded Handoff support to include FaceTime calls, and provided some much-needed new features to Messages. Apple’s macOS Ventura, an update due to ship this fall that has arrived Monday as a public beta preview, is full of both little feature refinements and big swings at improving Mac productivity.
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