{"id":168367,"date":"2016-06-13T19:45:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T17:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=168367"},"modified":"2016-06-13T21:12:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T19:12:57","slug":"os-x-is-now-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/168367-os-x-is-now-macos.html","title":{"rendered":"OS X is now macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has confirmed at its 2016\u00a0Developer Conference that it will rename OS X to macOS.<\/p>\n<p>The new version of the operating system will be called macOS Sierra.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to a name change, Apple\u2019s Craig Federighi announced a number of new features for the operating system.<\/p>\n<p>These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Auto Unlock<\/strong>: if you are wearing an Apple Watch, you do not have to enter your password.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Universal Clipboard<\/strong>: the next Continuity update &#8211; copy and paste will work across all Apple devices.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apple Pay:<\/strong>\u00a0when you shop online, you&#8217;ll see a Pay With Apple Pay button, and you can authenticate your purchase with TouchID or Apple Watch via Continuity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tabs:<\/strong> all multi-window apps will automatically receive support for tabs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Picture-in-picture:<\/strong> videos may be placed in a resizable box which sits on top of all other windows, including those in fullscreen mode.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Federighi also announced improvements to iCloud. Documents placed in iCloud Drive are made available to both iOS and macOS devices.<\/p>\n<p>You will also be able to upload old mail attachments, photos, and other files to iCloud to save disk space. These files will be available on demand, said Federighi.<\/p>\n<p>Apple will launch a public beta of Sierra in July, the final version will roll out to users &#8220;this fall&#8221; (22 September \u2013 21 December).<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on Apple<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/168357-apple-watchos-3-will-drastically-improve-performance.html\"><strong>Apple watchOS 3 will drastically improve performance<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/energy\/168019-apple-has-created-an-energy-company.html\"><strong>Apple has created an energy company<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/167116-apple-to-launch-5k-monitor-with-built-in-graphics-card-report.html\"><strong>Apple to launch 5K monitor with built-in graphics card: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/166108-apple-iphone-6-prices-south-africa-vs-the-world.html\"><strong>Apple iPhone 6 prices \u2013 South Africa vs The World<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/166060-new-apple-macbook-pro-details-and-release-window-report.html\"><strong>New Apple MacBook Pro \u2013 details and release window: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has confirmed that OS X will be renamed to macOS, and announced the name of the new release of the operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":168385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,605,12469,37653,37651,25285],"class_list":["post-168367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-craig-federighi","tag-macos-sierra","tag-maxos","tag-os-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168369,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168367\/revisions\/168369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}