macOS Catalina: SafariĪpple says that the update to Safari in Big Sur is the biggest ever. Symbols for things like Share or Undo are now more consistent, all taken from one library of symbols. Sheets, the alerts that dropdown from the top of windows to request you take action, now scale to the center of the window, are accompanied by the rest of the screen dimming, but also are less obtrusive than previously. Some notifications are interactive, so, for example, you can play a podcast episode directly from Notification Center. The Notification Center in Big Sur now puts notifications and widgets in a single view and it groups notifications by app. You can drag your favorite items to the menu bar. Like on iOS, it allows you to control things like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and AirDrop and volume and display brightness. Icons also have enhanced shading and shadows that make them appear less flat than in Catalina.Ĭontrol Center appears on the Mac for the first time in Big Sur, accessible from a menu bar item. The corners of the Dock are more rounded, and app icons are all the same shape, giving it a tidier look. All of the company’s first-party apps are getting a redesign, as is the menu bar, which features a more iOS-like translucent design.Finder windows now have more curved corners and plain white (or dark) backgrounds on title bars and toolbars. There are more colors throughout, to distinguish each of the company’s proprietary offerings through new key colors.
All of the app’s corners have been rounded and the tool bar has been improved. The company is doing some refining of all sorts of aesthetics here, including newly designed icons and sounds along with much-improved animations. And if you care about version numbers, Big Sur is macOS 11.0 according to the “About this Mac” menu that we saw in a live demo. This time it’s the central coast’s Big Sur. The next version of the operating system maintains the recent trend of borrowing its name from some of California’s most beautiful spots. Last year’s move to Catalina brought some key changes to the mix, including Sidecar, but many recent updates have centered around making the operating system more iOS-like. For some time now, macOS has been an also-ran, as Apple has shifted a majority of its focus to its mobile operating systems.
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