#Monterey quick note update

Shortcuts for MacĪs much as I’m eager to try Universal Control, though, I’m most excited about Shortcuts for Mac.

A Mac can also extend the display of an iPhone or iPad (instead of just mirroring it) for apps that support the feature, like Keynote and Photos. The feature will allow music, photos and video, presentations, and even gameplay to be played on a Mac’s hardware from an iOS or iPadOS device both wirelessly and over a wire. During the keynote, Federighi dragged a graphic from an iPad Pro to an iMac, for instance.Īnother Continuity feature being added this year that I’ve wanted for a long time is AirPlay for Mac.

As demonstrated during the keynote, content can be dragged from one device to another. There’s more to Universal Control than just the convenience of needing only one set of input devices, though. If it works flawlessly in practice, Universal Control could become a feature you don’t have to think about to use because, unlike Sidecar, for instance, it has hardly any UI. In the final portion of the demo, Federighi used a MacBook Pro’s trackpad to move among three devices, which is the feature’s limit. You can move from Mac to iPad and back, or even from Mac to Mac.

#Monterey quick note update

With this fall’s update to macOS, Apple promises to take Continuity a step further, making moving between devices seamless with a feature called Universal Control.ĭemoed by Craig Federighi during the keynote, Universal Control allows users to take advantage of a single mouse, trackpad, or keyboard across multiple Macs and iPads. It’s been buggy at times, and it remains to be seen if Monterey addresses those issues, but its features are indispensable to me as someone who works across a Mac and iPad every day.

I’m a heavy user of Continuity features on the Mac.