macOS 10.13 All The Little Things!

[NazgulRR]

Mail:
If you are using an application in fullscreen mode and receive a mail notification, clicking that notification opens the mail in split view mode next to the app you are using. Previously that would open the mail in normal window which would force a switch to a desktop away from the app you are using.

I think that's a really cool feature. Does it work with other apps and their notifications as well?

 

[redheeler]

• Copy File Pathname in Finder.

Introduced in OS X El Capitan I think it was. Definitely present in Sierra.

But well done on finding / posting rest of them.

 

[SuperSven]

It seems the work with Cisco paid off. In beta 17A291m I finally get instantly a separate splash (disclaimer page) window when I connect to Guest WiFi on the Cisco WLC 5508. I Sierra we needed to connect wifi, open safari with a non https page to force the disclaimer.

 

[ZornGottes]

Is the Spotlight-window finally resizeable ?

 

[fisherking]

Is the Spotlight-window finally resizeable ?

it is indeed...

 

[Ritsuka]

It was already resizable in Sierra, or even before.

 

[blaichch]

There's a nice review of Photos: https://sixcolors.com/post/2017/06/hands-on-with-photos-for-macos-high-sierra/

 

[fisherking]

It was already resizable in Sierra, or even before.

ha! never thought to try that. anyway, lol, still works in 10.13...

 

[ZornGottes]

ha! never thought to try that. anyway, lol, still works in 10.13...

I'm sorry, I wasn't specific enough: yes, spotlight is resizeable vertically, but how about horizontally?

 

[fisherking]

I'm sorry, I wasn't specific enough: yes, spotlight is resizeable vertically, but how about horizontally?

and that would be a 'no'...

 

[nchamow]

New sharing options for content caching under the sharing preference pane. Screenshots attached

 

[redheeler]

Preference panes can now have individual notification badges (shown here on iCloud).

 

[jgelin]

Preference panes can now have individual notification badges (shown here on iCloud).
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This is a tad confusing as the 'notifications' icon here now looks like it should have a number, but doesn't. Needs a UI fix.

 

[Feenician]

This is a tad confusing as the 'notifications' icon here now looks like it should have a number, but doesn't. Needs a UI fix.

That icon caused me to do a micro-pause for a while (poorly applied skeuomorphs are bad) until I mentally filtered it out. Now that actual badges are going to be displayed in there it has to be changed.

 

[thingstoponder]

New sharing options for content caching under the sharing preference pane. Screenshots attached

Can someone explain what this means? For instance how is "caching" your Photos library any different than the current way of downloading photos locally?

 

[chucker23n1]

Can someone explain what this means? For instance how is "caching" your Photos library any different than the current way of downloading photos locally?

It turns your Mac into a cache that other devices in your home network can access. That way, they waste less Internet traffic and can also (possibly) access some of the data while offline.

 

[Aquamite]

System Settings
- Show All button is wider

Spotlight search:

- Spotlight suggestions and web resources are available in Portugal locale (same behaviour in Safari search bar)

Maps:
- New letter font
- Weather conditions (there is no 3D touchable expanded view like iOS though)


As for MacBook Pro 2016 non-touch bar
Animations are smother on:
- Mission control
- Zooming windows (although I still get stutters in some apps such as FontBook)
- Opening preferences panes in System Preferences

Animations are jerky in:
- iTunes album view

Mail:
If you are using an application in fullscreen mode and receive a mail notification, clicking that notification opens the mail in split view mode next to the app you are using. Previously that would open the mail in normal window which would force a switch to a desktop away from the app you are using.

• There's now an option if Reading List articles should be saved automatically. They also removed some Bonjour stuff.

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• Website preferences toolbar button.

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• Wider System Settings button.

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• Calendar Groups.

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• Copy File Pathname in Finder.

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• RSS in Safari has been removed.

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• Some of the changes in the Photos editing section. There's also a map view.

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• Opening options in Preview have been removed.

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• Maps has redesigned info cards. It also shows the weather for the location.

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• Disk Utility got some new APFS toolbar buttons

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New sharing options for content caching under the sharing preference pane. Screenshots attached

Preference panes can now have individual notification badges (shown here on iCloud).
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Are all these new features from beta 2 or are they present on beta 1 already?

 

[DanielDD]

Are all these new features from beta 2 or are they present on beta 1 already?

I'm not a developer, so I cannot answer that. They are present on the public beta, at the very least

 

[jeanlain]

• Copy File Pathname in Finder.

It's already possible in Sierra.

 

[redheeler]

This is new. Shown after logging in with beta 3.

New Markup icon in Preview. (Old one looks like a toolbox.)

 

[HatMine]

This may have been said already, but the spacing for items in the menubar has increased. At least for the volume and WiFi items.

 

[alexclst]

This is new. Shown after logging in with beta 3.

This seems like a bit of a contradiction with what is in the release notes regarding APFS which state that encryption may use the wrong block offset and hence need to be re-encrypted when this is fixed in a later beta.

It just seems as if Apple shouldn't be pushing this in this beta if the encryption itself is not being done correctly. Overall I'm all for a stronger push for FileVault under macOS 10.13/APFS, and have basically already decided to go that route on all my Macs once they're using APFS. I just think that adding this right now is a bit contradictory.

 

[nekton1]

It would be nice if Apple released a 10.13 beta with gfx drivers with support for GPUs like the HD6870, HD5870, etc., that were supported by Sierra in older the MacPro models plus later for upgrades like the RX460 that had OOTB Metal support as well.

WindowServer, the software which displays the Graphical User Interface (GUI) uses now Metal 2. AFAIK, Metal 2 is a software improvement 100 times faster than "comparable" OpenGL APIs. Metal version 1 was already 10 times faster than OpenGL, now Metal 2 is again 10 times faster than Metal version 1. Because Metal 2 is a software improvement, Metal 2 should run on all machines which support Metal version 1 (the Mac mini 2012 for example).

Safari can now block autoplay videos (ads) and macOS High Sierra has system wide H.265 support (hardware acceleration requires at least a Skylake processor).

 

[nelly22]

Does 10.13 QuickTime Player have ability to play 360 videos? Now it just shows distorted video.

 

[ArmCortexA8]

Love the Manage option in About this Mac / Storage / Manage... which lets you individually see what applications take up space and lets you clean it up as well - very handy tool.