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It does, however, make using my MacBook feel a lot more like using an iPad. The intention of Stage Manager appears to be to eliminate distractions when you need to focus, but as someone whose work generally requires them to have lots of things open at once, it’s a no-go for me. Your open apps are all organized on the side of the screen, and you can only have one open at a time (unless you’ve grouped it with another app, which is a thing you can do, though it took a while for me to figure out how.) Opening something new closes what you already have open.

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The other feature Apple appears to be most excited about is Stage Manager, a new way to organize your apps and windows that’s activated in Control Center. Here’s Mitchell using the Continuity Camera over FaceTime. Here’s Mitchell using the regular camera over Zoom. Here’s Mitchell using Continuity Camera over Zoom. I asked Apple about both of the above questions, and they have not yet provided a response. well, one could see how that could go south. He could get it to show the desk by tilting his phone manually, but that positioned the front camera to point at his lap. However, when my coworker Dan Seifert tried this out, Desk View was showing his chest or lap rather than his desk. In theory, Desk View is supposed to leverage Continuity Camera to let you show your desk and your face at the same time using Zoom’s screen share function. There’s one feature that still seems to have some kinks in it: Desk View. They also, interestingly, looked worse in FaceTime than they did in Zoom, despite being right next to their router in both cases. It was a bit disconcerting to see their position change when they swapped between the two shooters, the MacBook’s and the iPhone’s cameras, but it was easy for them to do. As you might expect, they did look clearer on our call when using Continuity Camera. My coworker Mitchell Clark did hop on a few calls with me when they had the feature up and running with an iPhone 12 Mini and an M1 MacBook Pro. Here’s Mitchell setting up Continuity Camera.

The phone also plays a handy sound when you connect. But my colleagues who have used the feature up report that it’s no problem to set up - your Mac automatically detects the connected iPhone, and you can select it as you would another external webcam.

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I haven’t been able to test this myself yet because I’m still clinging to my ancient iPhone 8 that is barely sputtering along with iOS 15 (I’ll get you more impressions for the full review). Your Mac automatically detects the connected iPhone, and you can select it as a camera Mac computers tend to have not-great cameras, while modern iPhones have excellent ones, so this would be a reasonable decision for people to make. This feature allows you to use an iPhone running iOS 16 as a substitute webcam for a Mac that’s running Ventura. Ventura continues that journey with Continuity Camera. The continuity continuesīig Sur iOS-ified macOS’s design, and Monterey brought the Mac some of the iPhone’s key features. Broadly, the changes I’m seeing seem to fall into two of the agendas that Apple’s been pushing with macOS the past few years: bringing it closer to iOS (for those already immersed in the ecosystem) and catching up with third-party competitors (for those who have eggs in multiple baskets). With the usual caveat that you should avoid downloading betas onto a crucial device because you never know when bugs might pop up, I’ve had no issue with the operating system so far on my M2 MacBook Pro. Ventura also isn’t full of bugs or glitches that are ruining workflows or bricking computers, so there’s that. Unlike with Monterey (I feel like we literally just got Universal Control a few days ago), those significant features are basically all up and running in the beta now, and they seem mostly solid. Many of the most significant features of this operating system are things that many users may not ever know about or use.īut things could definitely be worse. Nothing was particularly wrong with the operating system - it just looks and feels exactly the same as Monterey did. “Everything looks the same,” one of my colleagues lamented. As my colleagues downloaded the public beta of macOS Ventura, the underwhelmed reactions began to roll in.