address in Maps. You can add Mentions to these
new Quick Notes and see other users’ edits in
a new Activity View, and categorize your Notes
with tags to ind them in a new Tag Browser. The
new Focus feature on iOS is also coming to the
Mac, allowing users to ilter out notiications
from apps and services unrelated to their current
activity. For example, if you’re in Work Mode,
you can turn of notiications from friends on
WhatsApp and iMessage and only receive alerts
from apps such as Slack and Safari. It’s the ideal
way to reduce the all-too-common burden of
information overload and should help users stay
more engaged.
Apple has given Apple Maps some attention
with this year’s updates and now ofers Globe
View on the Mac for the irst time, better
mimicking Google Earth and Maps. Apple
says that it ofers an “amazing, immersive, and
detailed city experience” so that users can
navigate and explore the natural world on the
large display of the Mac. Live Text comes to the
Mac, too, using on-device machine learning to
detect text in photos, such as phone numbers,
email addresses, websites, tracking numbers,
and more, so users can copy and paste content
from an image, similar to Google Lens. Visual
Lookup allows users to discover and learn about
animals, art, landmarks, plants, and more in
photos; once you’ve taken a picture at the zoo,
your Photos app will help you work out what the
animal is.
Apple made some signiicant changes to iCloud
and brings them to the Mac, introducing what it
calls iCloud+, ofering some premium features
that are available to paying iCloud users (or
those with Apple One) at no additional cost.