

In the Reminders app when you have a shared list now you can assign individual items to a specific person. You can select text and use this Quick Format button to access all sorts of formatting controls. Under Notes app scans from your iPhone are supposed to be better. You'll also have the ability, for some apps, that when you have a subscription in the app you'll be able to share that with your family through Family Sharing. You'll be able to see your progress in games thanks to Game Center and also compare that to your friends. You can now get recommendations for games based on what your friends are playing. Also there are enhancements to Apple Arcade. But we do now have a specific category in the App Store for Safari extensions which will make those easier to find.
MACOS BIG SUR 11.0 1 20B29 MAC
The App Store is going to give you more privacy information about Mac apps, although that doesn't seem to be turned on yet. You can also mention people in a group chat by just typing their name. You can also reply to somebody in a group chat directly. Go to Details and you can change the group name and photo. Group chats can now be assigned an image so you can Control click here, for instance. You've got the ability to send Memoji stickers and also create new Memoji right here on your Mac. The Messages app has a ton of new features.
MACOS BIG SUR 11.0 1 20B29 FULL
You also have a full new collection of Alert sounds replacing the previous ones. One is you can decide whether or not you want the Mac Startup sounds. In System Preferences under Sound there are two big changes. There's also a Listen Now section in the Music app for Apple Music users.

The Podcast app has been updated with a special Listen Now page that will show you what you've been listening to and suggestions of what to listen to next. Also in general there's better support for predictive text for Chinese and Japanese language users as well as Indian fonts. For instance in the Dictionary app there are some more bilingual dictionaries that have been added. There's more international support in Big Sur. All you need to do is arrow down to it and then hit Return and then you'll get the Quick Look window here on the right. However anything that has an arrow next to it can have a preview. So when you search for something you'll see that you don't get the previews over here on the right. It's faster but also it's more streamlined. So you'll see this list of potential widgets grow as app developers add widget functionality to the apps that you have. Yes, third party apps will have the ability to add widgets. It will show hourly precipitation if it was raining and also give you weather alerts. So for instance here for the Weather widget we can choose a small, medium, or large one. You can search, you can look by category, you can look at all these different widgets and there are different sizes for the widgets as well. For the Widgets there's a new Widgets editor here. Notice, for instance, how you have an Options button here for this reminder and I can select an action. So I've got two messages in Notifications and they are grouped together.

The Notifications are at the top and the Widgets are at the bottom. It's now just one big list instead of a Notification Center and a Today view. MacOS Big Sur introduces the new Control Center here which brings up a variety of controls in one icon here in the Menu Bar and you can customize this in System Preferences.

Looking here at the Sidebars you'll find a lot of Sidebars now stretch all the way up to the top of the window including often the Red, Yellow, and Green buttons.
MACOS BIG SUR 11.0 1 20B29 PLUS
Plus if you look at the symbols here in the Toolbars and the symbols in the Sidebars as well you can see they are more consistent now across different apps using a very specific Apple icon language that they have created. So you can see here the title of this window is merged in with the buttons. Now if we take a look at Toolbars like here in the Finder we can see there's been a big change. Notice how the Dock now floats above the bottom of the screen and has these rounded corners as well. All the Apple apps are now these rounded rectangles with a whole new design. You can see them here in the Dock or in Launch Pad. So let's dive right in! First let's take a look at App Icons. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you could read more about the Patreon campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 750 supporters. Today let's take a quick look at everything that's new in macOS Big Sur. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Everything That's New In macOS Big Sur at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
