You can swipe between iPad apps using your Mac’s trackpad gestures. You can drag and drop files from your iPad onto your Mac in one smooth motion. No fiddly set-up process or wires to connect, it just happens automatically (thankfully, Apple’s Craig Federighi resisted the urge to call it “automagic”).īut Universal Control means you can do more than just control multiple screens. With this feature, you can simply plonk an iPad down next to a Mac and then move your pointer from one device to the other. Yet there was one MacOS feature that was beyond exciting: Universal Control. It was a “point five” version compared to last year’s major release. WWDC 2021 was a mixed bag, with plenty of great software ideas but with hardware conspicuous by its absence. And that is what is giving us a sort of halfway-house touchscreen Mac.

Instead, it is channeling its energies into the software. It is not building touchscreen panels into its Macs. You can finally run Windows 11 natively on an Apple silicon MacĪpple’s 12-inch MacBook might soon come back from the deadĪpple may launch a groundbreaking new Mac in a few weeksīut here’s the thing: By making these devices and their accompanying operating systems more like each other, Apple is not focusing on the hardware.

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