Every year a new operating system from Apple is traditionally released. The release of macOS Mojave features many small new features and an even deeper integration of iOS and macOS.
macOS Mojave 10.14
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System Requirements
MacBook (2015 or later)
MacBook Air (Mid 2012 or later)
MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 or later)
Mac mini (Late 2012 or later)
iMac (Late 2012 or later)
iMac Pro (all models)
Mac Pro (Late 2013 or later plus mid-2010 or mid-2012 models with a recommended graphics card that supports Metal)
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- Pros
- Stacks are useful
- Quick view
- Many iOS features adopted
- Negatives
- Dark mode a bit sparse
On land, at sea and in the air. After a start in the ocean, Apple steps down from the mountains and introduces us to the California desert: the Mojave Desert. OS X Mavericks (10.9) was the first operating system the tech giant made available for free, and through Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra and High Sierra, it's now Mojave's turn, aka macOS 10.14.
dark mode
The desert is a place of extremes and this is immediately reflected in one of the important new features of the operating system, the dark mode. You turn on the mode from the control panel. What happens is that the Apple menu bar, your dock background, and the program bars and backgrounds go dark. Your desktop background will also automatically change to a dark version. That is, if you're using one of macOS's two dynamic wallpapers. If you choose your own background, it will simply remain in the same colors. The feature is useful, but still feels a bit limited: there's no option to switch between normal and dark mode via a shortcut in the menu bar, you can only change the accent color, and it's not possible to turn dark mode on automatically. to activate at a specific time.
Stacks
A major annoyance, your desktop is always full of files and that makes it look very cluttered. Mojave can help you clean up your desktop automatically. You are familiar with stacking documents from the Dock, where you can, for example, stack files in the download folder. If you right-click on the desktop in macOS Mojave, you can choose the option Use stacks. Mojave now automatically sorts files: screenshots are piled up, all your photos are stacked on top of each other and PDFs and video files are no longer mixed up. Conveniently, new files are automatically assigned to a stack when you copy them to the desktop. How the files are organized in a stack can be determined by choosing in the context menu Group stacks on.
Quick view
It was already possible in macOS to view files without opening them, but the Quick Look feature now allows you to do certain editing options directly from the Finder. The feature is actually a combination of Quick Look and Mark Up, features that have been in the operating system for years. When you press the spacebar on an image, you will see two new options at the top: you can immediately rotate the image 90 degrees and you can click the Mark Up button to, for example, add a note to the image, cut or sign a document with your signature. In the Finder you'll also find another view option: the gallery. This is useful if you want to scroll through many photos to find a particular snapshot. In addition, you can now view much more metadata of a file and you can easily trim an audio or video file, just like you are used to in iOS.
iOS
There are more iOS options baked into Mojave, by the way. For example, when you take a screenshot in Mojave, it immediately stands out, it is displayed in the bottom right corner. You click on it to edit the image or immediately send it via iMessage or email. Apps from iOS have also been adopted in Mojave, for example, the Dictaphone app can now be found in the program folder and you can control devices in your home with the Home app. The integration with iOS 12 is also useful if you take a photo on your iPhone. Once both devices are on the same Wi-Fi network and signed in to the same Apple ID, you can easily import photos into an app on your Mac. It's been rumored for some time that Apple wants to make iOS and macOS more integrated, and at WWDC 2018, the company hinted that developers should be able to run their iOS apps on macOS. Apple denies in all tonalities that it wants to combine both operating systems in the long term.
Safari 12
New to Mojave is Safari 12. The latest version focuses on privacy by hiding social media buttons by default and ensuring that trackers who don't have permission to follow you can't get to work. Visually handy is that you can now see the icon of the website in a tab. Safari 12 can also be downloaded for other operating systems, you need at least Sierra 10.12.6 or High Sierra 10.13.6.
Conclusion
MacOS Mojave brings iOS and macOS a little closer together. The operating system is not an update with completely new apps, groundbreaking new functions or a completely new design. Much more, Mojave picks up where High Sierra left off and Apple is committed to improving workflow with features like desktop stacks, expanded quick view, and dark mode. Overall, the update feels targeted, there are no noticeable bugs, and the added features are useful.
