


There are also new entries to the M1 Apple Silicon chip lineup, first unveiled last year. Dragging and dropping content from one Mac to another Mac is also promised. All that’s needed is for you to put your devices next to each other and move your cursor between them. Universal Control, which Apple says is coming “ later this fall”, will allow a single mouse or other pointing device and keyboard to work across multiple Macs and iPads. The one feature we’re most excited about here actually didn’t make it in time for the official October 25 release. Features like Focus, AirPlay to Mac, and Shortcuts will be familiar to those already with iDevices, and especially those running iOS 15 or later. All of the marquee features of macOS 12 Monterey either have their origins on iOS or are designed to make your iPad, iPhone, and Mac work together more easily, or at least more similarly to one another. That was followed quickly by a Dorico for iPad update that made it even easier for users to work on the iPadby removing the player limit, and just this week by the release of Sibelius on iPhone that literally puts Sibelius in your pocket.īack to the Mac… just as we expect many Dorico and Sibelius features to make their way to both platforms, so too is the case for the macOS operating system itself. While they are still worlds apart in many ways, this does feel like a pivotal year for the ways in which you could work on your Mac and iPad and be lulled into believing you were using one device or the other - and not just because of what the engineers and designers based in Cupertino have created.Įlsewhere around the globe, the London-based Dorico team and the Montréal-based Sibelius team took successful plunges into iWorld, with 2021 seeing both Dorico for iPad and Sibelius for Mobile on iPad released within one day of each other (our heads are still spinning).

Another year, another Mac operating system - and another year that the Mac and iOS underpinnings get ever closer to each other.
