Overall, macOS 11 Big Sur manages to blend the visual design of the iPhone and iPad with the functionality of the Mac very well, which makes an excellent starting point for both the new Apple Silicon-based Macs and older Intel Macs alike. You can also choose when an extension can run, whether it’s all the time or just on particular sites, for greater privacy protection.įinally, Apple’s new translation service is part of Safari, which supports seven languages and operates similarly to Google’s translate features in Chrome. The report is certainly illuminating and another tool in the privacy armoury.Įxtensions are few and far between, as they have been put into the Mac App Store, but for those who have clung onto Chrome because of a particular extension there might be less of a reason to use it now. There are plenty of new options to customise the start page, too, with features such as bookmarks, the reading list, Siri suggestions, iCloud tabs which sync tabs between devices and the new privacy report.īut the two biggest changes are the addition of Chrome-style extensions and the aforementioned privacy report, which shows all the trackers on any given website and how many are monitoring your movements around the web over the last 30 days. It looks a little different here and there, with favicon symbols now visible on tabs by default, making it easier to see which site is open, and new pop-up previews appear when you hover your pointer over a tab. Safari has also been given a fairly large overhaul. Safari gains favicons on tabs by default and pops up a small preview of the site when you hover over a tab with your pointer.
This isn’t a radical change ready for the iPad to just take over the Mac. But most of Big Sur works the same as previous versions, with the same features in the same places as they were before, maintaining a familiar feel for anyone who has used macOS before. It is fresh and more colourful compared to previous versions of macOS, and leaves the door open for iOS apps to run alongside Mac apps on the new Apple Silicon Macs and to look like part of the system rather than just random add-ons.
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Apps also look cleaner with more icon-heavy toolbars and full height side bars, which look like those on iPadOS 14. The Mac also inherits the on/off toggle switches straight from an iPhone, which work exactly the same, while the default colour scheme for the interface is now colourful, whether in light or dark mode. Some will hate the new icons, but I think most people will be used to them from the iPhone. Even the program icons, which are now squircles (half square, half circle), look like those on an iPhone but with slightly more depth and detail in their designs. The translucent menu bar, dock and interface all mimic that found on iPadOS. Photograph: Appleīig Sur is more like an iPad than ever before. The new squircle icons sit on the new flat, translucent dock, which now matches the one in iPadOS 14.
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