THE TOP 5 MACOS 13 VENTURA FEATURES COMING TO YOUR MAC

THE NEXT MAC OPERATING SYSTEM IS MACOS VENTURA.

- ROMAN LOYOLA

Apple during its WWDC keynote took the wraps off macOS 13 Ventura, the next major version of the Mac operating system. A beta test version of Ventura is available to developers now, with a public beta coming in the next few weeks. The official release to the general public will happen this fall.

Ventura has a ton of new stuff, but we're highlighting the top features here.

1. STAGE MANAGER

Mac users tend to work in multiple apps and files at once, which leads to dozens of open windows. You can use Mission Control to sort your windows, but it's still overwhelming to find the one you need.

The new Stage Manager helps you get control of those windows.

Stage Manager can be activated in Control Center, and it places your active window in the center of the display, with thumbnails of your other windows placed in a vertical row off to the side.

When you click on a thumbnail, the open window transitions to the thumbnail row, and the clicked window takes center stage. If an app has multiple windows open, you can cycle through them in the thumbnail row.

If you have a group of windows that go together for a task you're working on-for example, a Safari windows for a store, Notes with a shipping list, and Maps to get directions to the store-you drag thumbnails to the center of the screen and create a grouping. You can also drag files from the Desktop onto an app thumbnail to open those files in that app.

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