macOS Monterey Available Now

macOS Monterey is the most recent release of macOS, i.e. the Apple's desktop OS for Macintosh computers. It is the successor of macOS Big Sur. The announcement occurred at WWDC 2021 on June 7, 2021, when released on October 25, 2021, officially.

It comes with excellent new features using which users are capable of connecting in new ways, working seamlessly across the Apple devices. The FaceTime facility comes with additional audio and video features. Continuity tools such as AirPlay, Mac allow the Apple devices to perform even better. The Universal Control feature allows users for working effortlessly across the Mac and iPad. People can get this available as a free software update on Macs along with Intel-based Macs and Apple silicon.

Attached with FaceTime in New Techniques:

Using FaceTime, you can find sound even more than natural. On the other hand, SharePlay helps users to get connected with their family & friends and enjoy their time. Using the spatial audio feature, the voice will seem like these are coming from the place where people are positioned on the display.

It comes with two additional microphone modes. These provide additional control to the users over how their voice sounds. There is a Voice Isolation feature using which you can delete background noise. Thus, you can make your voice crystal clear. The Wide Spectrum feature enables the noise to come in due to which you can hear all the noise. Besides, there is available a new feature in FaceTime named Portrait mode. You can get it available in apps such as Webex and Zoom. These take the help of the Neural Engine in the M1 chip for keeping them in focus when they blur the background.

On the flip side, SharePlay is actually a strong set of features that allow you to have shared experiences on a FaceTime call. You are capable of enjoying different types of music, TV shows, movies, etc with your family as well as friends in real-time. If you want, you are capable of sharing their entire display or you can share any particular application. It makes it easy for you to collaborate with friends or coworkers on a call. You can use SharePlay with applications such as Apple Music, Apple TV+, and other famous third-party services.

Universal Control and AirPlay:

The Universal Control features allow you to work with a single mouse and keyboard. You move these easily between Mac and iPad. It allows users to keep their mobile phones next to each other. You can move the cursor immediately from one device to another. You don't require any setup. With the help of the Mac keyboard, you are capable of typing text on your device. Besides, you can perform drag and drop also between the devices.

If you prefer, you can use Apple Pencil also to draw. Then, you can keep the illustrations on the Mac and enjoy powerful capabilities at once. Users are capable of playing, presenting, and sharing any details from iPhone or iPad right to a Mac.

You can take the help of AirPlay for sharing the recent movies and games, photos, as well as presentations directly to the Retina display of Mac.

Visual Lookup and Live Text: 

It features Live Text that is capable of detecting text in photos such as phone numbers, websites, addresses, etc. As a result, you are capable of copying and pasting, making a phone call, opening a website, etc.

On the other side, the Visual Look Up feature allows you to find and know about animals, art, landmarks, plants, etc. You can use each of these— Live Text and Visual Look Up across macOS.

Compatibility: 

macOS Monterey supports multiple versions of the Macs. These can be used for running macOS Big Sur. However, it is not compatible with a few older MacBook Air as well as iMac models from 2013 and 2014.

iMac - Late 2015 and later 

iMac Pro - 2017 and later 

MacBook Air - Early 2015 and later 

MacBook Pro - Early 2015 and later 

Mac Pro - Late 2013 and later 

Mac mini - Late 2014 and later 

MacBook - Early 2016 and later

We have given here a few names that supported the prior macOS Big Sur update:

2015 and later MacBook

2013 and later MacBook Air

 Late 2013 and later MacBook Pro

 2014 and later iMac

 2017 and later iMac Pro

 2014 and later Mac mini

2013 and later Mac Pro

Collaborate with Notes:

Taking assistance from the Notes in Monterey, you can have new methods to collaborate, make notes, stay always organized, etc. With the help of the Quick Note, you are capable of jotting down notes while in any app. Therefore, you can capture ideas as well as thoughts at any time.

If you want, you can include links from apps to a Quick Note. These are useful while you require a website in Safari or you wanna find a location in Maps.

Using New collaboration tools, you can include mentions and see updates to a shared note with the help of the new Activity view. When you are in Monterey, you can organize with Tags with ease. It is a quicker process for categorizing notes. Besides, this feature allows you to search the new Tag Browser.

Seamless Automation on Mac:

With the help of the Shortcuts on the Mac, you can easily get peak productivity with the apps you use most. It contains a rich gallery of pre-built shortcuts that is useful for automating everyday tasks. For example, you can open the frequently used apps, add a reminder to notify you when you go to the market. You can use shortcuts such as menu bar, Finder, Spotlight, Siri, etc. You can run these at any moment.

Availability: It comes with 50GB storage with one HomeKit Secure Video camera. This will cost $0.99 per month. When it comes to 200GB storage, it offers up to five HomeKit Secure Video cameras costing $2.99 per month. If you want 2TB, you can get multiple HomeKit Secure Video cameras at $9.99 per month.

Apple Maps: New Ways to Explore Major Cities in 3D

After the rollout of iOS 15, Apple comes with its biggest update on maps. Now you can explore different cities in 3D by using Apple Maps. Mainly you can experience 3D Cities in London, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco with rich details, better navigation experience, and immersive walking directions.

And many more cities to come in 3D to explore it. In this world, we all use maps to find any route or direction of any location easily. But after this update, Apple completely changed the way of navigation and provided a 3D view in some cities. You can use it for driving navigation and view in 3D that helps you to explore more beautifully.

Using this 3D map, you can see your neighborhoods, districts, marinas, buildings, new roads, landmarks like Coit Tower, the stadium in LA, Statue in NYC, etc. You'll feel like you're exploring these cities, and Apple is mainly focused on landmarks for easy navigation systems. In maps, only Apple can provide this beautiful experience and advanced features to explode cities in 3D. Even if you're seeing it for the first time, this map helps you feel like you have already visited by giving you a better experience.

Explore Cities with Highly detailed Apple Maps

It's a completely new way of experiencing maps because now users can view locations in 3D with detailed information. Users can see buildings, new roads, landmarks, and many things covered in this Map. When you use this map for the first time, you'll feel like you're viewing whole cities from your eyes because it's completely 3D. Currently, you can explore cities like London, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco for a 3D experience, but soon many more cities will be added.

Improve Navigation System for better Experience

After launching the 3D map view, it is mainly useful for navigation systems. Because now anyone can see the map more beautifully in each corner, buildings, landmarks, new roads, bus, taxi, bridge and busy roads, highways. That helps users to navigate more easily and find the best route.

Never Miss a stop with powerful traffic updates

Now Apple Maps comes with better improvements in transportation because now you can find the best route in one click. You'll get real-time updates on your map. With this feature, you can see the bus and train routes' real-time location, and you can easily plan your journey.

Immersive Walking directions

It's a very eye-catching and useful Feature. You can see its step-by-step walking guidance in reality. Users can pick the phone, scan that location, buildings, and then you'll get suggestions for where you need to go on your screen.

Discover Great places where Curated Guides

Even before 3D maps, we're using maps to find the best places and guidance. But after these new features of 3D maps enhanced the experience of viewing Great places with updated guides for you. Users can click on the guide button in maps to access. A New Interactive Globe

Apple Maps comes with a three-dimensional globe with new ways of looking at the World. You'll get another level of experience when you use this 3D globe to explore different locations.

Maps & Privacy

Apple is highly committed to keeping your personal information safe and secure. There's no sign-in required to use maps; you can access without any login details. So you can rely on security and use Maps without any worry because later, Apple comes with more advanced securities.

iPhone 13 Pro - Phone Specifications

iPhone 13 Pro will be available in the market from Friday, September 24, but people can order this from Friday, September 17. It will be available in four excellent finishes: graphite, gold, silver, and recent sierra blue.

It comes with the most significant advancement for its camera system, battery life, quick performance, etc. that set a new standard for iPhone. In its latest pro camera system, you can get more excellent pro photography capabilities than previous such as enhanced telephoto zoom, macro photography, Photographic Styles, Cinematic mode, ProRes and Dolby Vision video, etc. The model comes with a Super Retina XDR display with ProMotion that can deliver excellent graphics performance.

Iphone 13 Pro Features: 

Improved Cameras:

This pro version is equipped with new sensors and lenses in all three rear cameras to deliver a seamless work experience with iOS 15. Besides, the new image signal processor (ISP) in A15 Bionic is perfect for tone mapping and enhanced noise reduction. 

The model comes with a big sensor with 1.9 µm pixels in its all-new Wide camera so that people can capture even more detailed pictures. This sensor is helpful in lightning conditions when a quicker shutter speed is required.

A large ƒ/1.5 aperture along with this sensor makes this smartphone perfect in low-light situations. It can capture images up to 2.2x and nearly 1.5x while comparing with iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max. What makes the iPhone 13 Pro unique is its sensor-shift optical image stabilization feature that helps to smoothen pictures and stabilize videos.

Excellent Video Quality:

Now, you can record videos of people, pets, and objects with a depth effect having automatic focus-changing features using its cinematography and vital rack focus feature. iPhone 13 Pro allows each person to capture cinema-style moments, not only for professional filmmakers. 

The creative control feature enables you to adjust focus during & after capture, and you can manage the Bokeh level too available in the Photos app and iMovie for iOS.

This smartphone includes a ProRes, an improved video codec feature delivering higher color fidelity and less compression at the final delivery format in feature films, commercials, broadcasts.

Connectivity:

Nowadays, the world is moving towards 5G, but don't worry as the model delivers an excellent 5G experience by sharing people's way of connecting, sharing, as well as enjoying moments. It comes in a customized hardware design with more 5G bands that enable people to use it in more places on 5G to get improved performance and more extensive coverage.

Long Battery Life And Excellent Design:

The model will be available in a premium flat-edge design made of unique materials like a surgical-grade stainless steel band and many more. 

This exceptional design delivers an elegant finish and resists corrosion and abrasion. Plenty of layers of nanometer-scale metallic ceramics are used for making the model available in four different colors. These metallic ceramics deliver a durable finish to this iPhone 13 Pro.

A Ceramic Shield front cover offers protection, fantastic durability, and drop performance to this iPhone model. This model includes more viewing area on the display that provides exceptional technologies like Face ID. It is the best secure facial authentication in any mobile phone. There is a rear camera system coming with nice stainless steel trim. 

Designers made this iPhone model for delivering the best protection against spills from common liquids. This phone has an industry-leading IP68 rating making the model more innovative. There are more power-efficient components available on the inside of the iPhone 13 Pro smartphone. 

This apple phone comes with the most extended battery life that can last up to one and a half hours a day than the iPhone 12 Pro version. Compared to the iPhone 12 Pro Max version, it can last up to two and a half hours long.

Pricing and Availability:

• This latest version of the iPhone can be available in different storage options such as 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and all-new 1TB. 
• People living in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, the United States, etc. can only pre-order this latest model. 
• In Turkey, people can get it available from Friday, October 1. People staying in Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea, and Thailand can start pre-ordering from October 8. 
• This model will be available for $41.62 (US) a month for two years or $999 (US) before trade-in. Users can get this in the Apple Store or from apple.com/store.

Apple Event: What Can You Expect on Tuesday?

Apple has announced its biggest event of the year on Sept. 14, Tuesday at 10:30 P.M sharp IST. Likewise, the previous year, considering the pandemic scenario, an online event will be streamed this year at Apple’s official site and some other platforms as well. According to expert predictions, you would see companies launching probably iPhone 13 series, Apple watch series 7, Apple AirPods new variants, or MacBook Pro Models. No one can confirm what’s exactly going to happen in Tuesday's event, but here are some leaks based on experts estimating what’s exactly going to happen in this launch event. Let’s have a look at all the estimated leaks: 

 Estimated Predictions in this Apple’s ‘California Streaming’ event according to experts: 

New variants of iPhone 13 models The new iPhone 13 model series consists of the maximum chances of launch in this event. It is also estimated that the iPhone 13 is not going to be very different from iPhone 12, though it would have a smaller notch. The reports also confirmed that the iPhone 13 would also come with the same lineup as iPhone 12 comes with - 13, 13 Mini, 13 Pro,13 Pro Max. However, there would be some great visible improvements also like 

• Camera Sensors are going to be more advanced 

• Camera sensor-shift stabilization feature might also be there. 

• Camera lenses are going to be wider. 

• Battery Life will also be increased by 18-20% 

• The best upgrade might be the 120Hz display rate. 

• It could have some advanced portrait cinematic features. 

• Display expansion 

• And much more Apple 

Watch Series 7

 A new variant of the Apple Watch series might also be launched at Tuesday’s event. And one thing is 100% confirmed that the time you'd see this time of the Apple watch would blow your mind. It has a touch of iPad Pro and iPhone 12, so this will be one of the stylish watches till today. It is not only going to have a significant improvement in its outer look but its battery life and processor speed will also be improved. 

Features like blood sugar monitoring and body temperature sensors are still circulating as a rumour, whether they are coming or not; it will be clear in Tuesday’s event only. 

 AirPods 3 

There has been no update in Apple AirPods for such a long time, and they need to update them now because even if it comes to Apple AirPods 2, they look so outdated now. So this can also be something that’s about to launch. There are no predictions in the market about the specs and features; still, there are chances that they could remove those silicone eartips and try something better. 

Other devices such as MacBook and iPad have lower chances to be launched in this event. But in the end, this is a curiosity of what will happen in this Tuesday’s event. 

How Can You Be a Part of this Apple Event? 

This event will take place on the 14th of September at 10:30 P.M. IST., and this is going to be streamed on Apple's official website, and YouTube as well so you can join wherever you want.

iOS 15 New Features [2021]

Yes! You have heard the right.

iOS 15 is going to launch very soon, officially. After iOS 14, this will work on the core of iOS, although it's not going to be an exciting update, and therefore, in the history of Apple, it would be the first time when you're not going to be forced by Apple to get this update. However, there is no sense of why you won't update your iOS if it is out. Though this update is not bringing any extra features, it will surely better the user experience and make it worthwhile for the customers.

So, without any further due, let's explore what's inside in this new update!

iOS 15 Release Date

Apple always launches new iOS updates with their new phone series, and it is estimated that this new update will also be officially launched with the iPhone 13 series.

Here Are The 7 Most Awaited iOS 15 New Features

Notifications Redesign

iOS has changed the interface of notifications completely. Now it will be easy to identify the contact and be arranged by priority based on the user's interaction with applications. All these processes and features will be based upon on-device intelligence.

Focus

This feature was recently introduced and helped reduce distraction by only allowing urgent notifications when using this feature.

Spotlight

This is the most amazing feature till now; you will be able to find the photos with the help of location, people, scenes, or objects. The spotlight will even be able to see text and handwriting in images.

FaceTime

iOS has improved the sound quality, especially if we talk about video calls; you will get the voice where the person is spotted on the screen. In addition, the user's voice and background noise will be separated, and you can even play with the background noise if you want. Even the portrait feature has also been introduced in this update.

SharePlay

In this feature, you will be able to share the experience. For example, you can easily share Apple Music Songs, Web series or films. You will even be able to share your screen while FaceTime calls.

FaceTimeLinks

Now, users will be able to share a link to FaceTime call through any third-party application. You can also open this link through a web browser, and you even need not worry about your security because these FaceTime calls are end-to-end encrypted.

Siri

This is going to work as a neural engine of the mobile phone. This will increase security and responsiveness, and there will also be no need for an internet connection. In short, Siri has become smarter now.

Maps

This feature has been enhanced now, and cities are more detailed now in a better 3D view. In addition, so many new modes are also introduced in this particular map feature after this big update, such as a unique 3D city-driving experience.

Wallet

This app supports many new keys as home, office, corporate, or hotel room key cards. You can control your car even with having your iPhone in your pocket. And so many new features are also joined with this update.

How to download and install

If you're also one of those who are a part of the developer program of Apple, you can easily download this new beta version. You'll get this OS publicly in July, so you need not worry if you don't have the developer program.

But if you're willing to download the beta versions on your primary phone, then you should probably drop the idea because these kinds of arrangements are usually buggy and not recommended to use.

iOS 15 Supported Devices

• iPhone 12 
• iPhone mini 
• iPhone pro 
• iPhone Max 
• iPhone 11 
• iPhone 11 Pro 
• iPhone 11 Pro Max 
• iPhone XS 
• iPhone XS Max 
• iPhone XR 
• iPhone X 
• iPhone 8 
• iPhone 8 Plus 
• iPhone 7 
• iPhone 7 Plus 
• iPhone 6s 
• iPhone 6s Plus 
• iPhone SE (1st generation) 
• iPhone SE (2nd generation) 
• iPod touch (7th generation)