TheApple Pencil willnow workwith
creative macOS apps thanks to Catalina
T
he fact that iTunes has been
removed from iOS 13 and Catalina
may be a concern for some at
first. In macOS, however, this change
brings with it some new features that
we have been wanting for some time.
Three apps effectively replace iTunes
and now you have full access to Apple
Music on your Mac and it works just as
it does on iOS, only on a much bigger
screen to help you manage an ever
growing music library.Better than ever
Any changes or additions you make will
be mirrored on all of your other devices
and if we are truthful the new macOS
Apple Music app feels light years ahead
of iTunes which was beginning to look
a little long in the tooth. Whether in the
coffee shop or working from home, you
and your Mac now have access to 50
million songs at any time and near-
perfect music discovery is now available
wherever you are.W
ith Sidecar enabled you have
the ability to use your Apple
Pencil in apps such as Affinity
Photo and Illustrator with no extra
financial outlay at all. You will be creating
on your iPad and the input will be instantly
displayed on the macOS screen which not
only gives you a second screen to play in,
but the kind of input tool for your Mac that
would otherwise cost a lot of money. The
Sidebar on the iPad also gives you extra
controls within reach such as Command
and Shift, and in the early beta versions
latency is not too bad at all. On top of thisyou can mark up PDFs and screenshots,
add sketches to documents from your
iPad and do so many other things
throughout the operating system. You
can set it up in System Preferences and
from then on you can effectively use your
Apple Pencil whenever Sidecar is running
which brings your Mac, iPad and Apple
Pencil together in a seamless triangle of
productivity. As time passes Apple is likely
to make Sidecar and Apple Pencil work
in many more areas and of course extra
third-party apps will bring the functionality
to their feature sets.Apple Music
arrives in style
A new and free
creative Mac
input device