MacOS Sierra What is the official version of the practical features

its full name is MacOS Sierra, with the exception of the name change (OS X's name has been in use for many years), the function also has a lot of updates. Sina Digital for you to sum up a few practical functions.

Unlock Mac with Apple Watch

Officials call this feature "unlock across devices." We measured within 0.5 meters, an Apple Watch close to an Apple computer, you can unlock the computer, no longer enter the password.

Using Apple Watch to unlock the mac using Apple Watch to unlock the Mac is a concrete embodiment of the ecosystem-related devices associated with Apple products. To achieve this function there are several conditions: 1, the watch computer must be the latest system (watchOS 3+macos Sierra); 2, the watch is not locked; 32 devices have logged on with the same Apple ID icloud;4, your Apple ID has been set to "double verify" , the note is not "two-step verification" (if two-step verification has been turned on, please go to the Apple website to close it first, then turn on double authentication)

On the Mac, go to Settings-security and privacy-general, you can see this option, after the check, wake up from hibernation later Mac no longer need to enter the password.

Unlock the Mac with your hands before you have to check this out. Previously in the MacOS public beta, the unlock process takes 5 seconds to see the waiting interface's progress circle to turn two laps. And after the upgrade of the official version, the speed has been improved, the current basic 1-3 seconds unlock.

Apple declined to disclose the rationale for the feature. I guess similar to airdrop, do not need networking, Bluetooth and WiFi are involved, because turn off any one, unlock can not succeed.

Siri Collaborative Office

Before it was released, I thought it was not a bright spot to move a mature product from one other platform to a Mac, but after that, it became the most impressive feature on the new system.

When you start Siri, the way to start Siri on the Mac is to click on the app icon or press fn+ space to build it, and then pop the Siri dialog on the right side of the screen, and the interface is familiar.

It can do a lot of things, such as the recent NBA scores, or security next game time, in addition to giving results, can also point to the top right corner of the result card +, the tournament results or notice added to the right of the "Today" menu.

The MAC has permission to invoke hardware. For example, to ask about the next game time, do not deliberately say that Beijing is called the national security team, it will understand their own, ask the weather and the like will call the positioning service, the default selection of the user now region.

In the office environment, Siri can help improve the efficiency of the office, such as sending e-mail without typing, directly to say "I want to send a mail to XXX", it will continue to ask the subject of the message, the body, then say "send" can be.

In this process, there is no need to touch the keyboard or mouse, except the point keypad to start Siri. But you have to be sure it won't make your co-workers feel weird.

Email with Siri just move your mouth. On the Mac platform, Siri really has an assistant. For example, I'm writing a report that needs to check Sina's share price, tell Siri to let it search, and then drag the results directly into the article with the trackpad.

Siri's results can be dragged directly to similar commands in other apps and: "Help me find a document that I created today"--it can look in the finder for what's created today; Help me find an app in the App Store "--you can call the app. store;" Help me brighten the screen (or turn the volume off WiFi) "--it can call the hardware directly," Help me check this Mac warranty period, "help Me Clockwork Micro bo", "Help me open micro-letter", "help me open NetEase cloud Music" ... Wait

In fact, Siri can also find similar results on the iOS platform. But it came to a large platform, with the mouse keyboard, for the Mac input method added a dimension, Siri is no longer just to chat with the boredom of toys, can improve office efficiency.

Of course, the premise is that as long as you and your colleagues do not mind changing from "hands" to "move" in the office.

Let the iphone and Mac copy and paste each other

"It is so, Wang, you in your home computer press CTRL + C, and then to the company's computer press CTRL + + is definitely not." No, no, no more expensive computers. ”

The joke is out of date after more and more devices are added to the cloud concept.

And, Apple took it a step further, between the mobile phone and the computer, can also copy sticky paste.

This function also does not need networking, it is the data transmission between devices, the shape of airdrop (Apple's own file Transfer Protocol), but more natural than airdrop.

Its experience with the previous copy of the paste and no difference, see a piece of text on the computer, select and press "Command+c", on the iphone to find a place to enter text to press "Paste", this paragraph will be pasted to the phone.

This process can be reversed, from the phone pasted to the computer. And not only text, it can also paste pictures or video.

When you copy more content, you will see the Paste progress bar on your Mac.

When copying and pasting across devices, there are progress bars. Third-party software such as Pasteasy has similar features, but Apple did it by itself, improving the speed of transmission through wifi+ Bluetooth, and without learning costs.

Copy and paste the photos on the iphone to the Mac, the same demand as the watch unlocking the computer, the phone and the computer are not networked, but Bluetooth and WiFi are turned on. The key is that you have to make sure that several devices are up to date and that you are logged on to the same Apple ID.

Use "cloud" to store data

In MacOS, Apple blends the local hard drive with the cloud, creating several features. The core appeal is to allow users to use these two kinds of storage smoothly, incidentally, push users into the cloud era.

In the past the Finder only icloud drive is the cloud disk, now "desktop" and "document" also joined the icloud directory.

icloud a few more "desktops" and "manuscripts" in the Finder File Manager, which means that simply throwing a map on the desktop of the Mac system immediately synchronizes to the icloud and sees the same picture in the same location on your other Mac desktop; in the iphone, You can view what's saved on your Mac by icloud Drive, and if it's a Windows computer, install a icloud.

Help to save space for entry-level Mac

For entry-level Macs with 128GB or even 64GB capacity, the MacOS helps to compress space.

Compared to the previous version of the MacOS Storage management has changed a lot of the "management" button

If the computer's local hard drive is below 10GB, the optimized storage mechanism will be activated, storing infrequently used files, email attachments, photos, etc. in the cloud, saving local space.

Users can also be optimized manually.

Manual management of hard disk space MacOS will analyze the user hard disk situation, the space is sufficient time, the cloud and the local hard drive both keep a copy of the data (after all, or the local open fast), not enough space, will be relatively old (set up earlier) files to throw to the cloud.

Of course, all this means that the free 5GB cloud space given by Apple may not be enough, and to make this function work properly, you need to buy a larger space. My own is to pay 6 yuan a month to choose the 50GB version.

Pay for the computer with a mobile phone

In the latest MacOS, Apple put Apple Pay mobile payment on the Web page, the user sees something on the electric dealer's website, clicks on the Apple Pay button, the phone pops up to verify, uses the Touch ID fingerprint as the key.

Strictly speaking, this is not a specific function, but a safari browser under the interface, as long as the payment properties of the site can be accessed.

The Web page version of Apple Pay uses the schematic that Apple wants to give its own Apple Pay more opportunities to use, not just the few supermarkets on the line.

At present, the support of the web version of Apple Pay shopping platform Wayfair,big Commerce, Shopify and Stripe, and so on, Apple seems to want to get some small but the United States to buy a shopping site, and then expand the other. It's not easy, it's a long-term task.

Similar to the web version of Apple Pay, there are also video painting features, it needs the help of HTML5 to achieve. But at home, a real problem is youku, such as mainstream video station play box or flash, can not support.

This involves a third party to achieve the function can only slowly improve, with the appeal of Apple to unify the standard.

Summarize:

Different categories of hardware to promote each other rather than a single story, in fact, when the WWDC2011 has begun. Only the latest version of MacOS embodies this strategic mindset and incorporates the new hardware of Apple Watch.

The system is continuously related, the hardware plays more, the use experience is better, retains the user, the complete purchase own product. And, if you want to experience the best, it's best to upgrade your hardware every year.

This is the result of Apple's Hardware + software's big eco-expectations, which are not currently available to Windows or the Android camp. This feeling is similar to what the iOS system is now-you see some good features and you have an urge to upgrade.