Top 5 macOS Big Sur

 Hi everyone,

Mac OS Big Sur is the next big release for Mac OS bringing us to Mac OS 11 but I wanted to share with you the top 5 best features or at least that I’ve seen so far and so the first thing is extremely simple and if you miss that startup sound from Mac you can bring it back in previous versions but Apple eliminated it some time ago so if you want to hear this sound Apple has enabled this within your system preferences by going to sound and then play sound on startup you can of course turn this off or turn it back on if it’s already turned off but now. 

They’ve given us this option and I think this is something that’s very nice that many of us really missed and is nostalgic and of course if it’s annoying turn it off but I think it’s a great feature that people overlooked in this particular update and so I wanted to point that out now the next thing is Safari now I know a lot of people prefer Chrome or Firefox or maybe another browser as well maybe even Microsoft’s a new edge browser but Safari with Mac OS Big Sur is a major update that has a lot to offer it should be 50% faster than other competitors.

According to Apple and it has a lot of features you can see I have a desktop background here we can change it with these buttons on the Left well just switch between different pictures we can select whatever wed like and so you can switch to maybe we want to switch to the Catalina shoreline now we’ve got that you could switch it to your family or whatever you’d like it gives us a privacy report on all the different trackers. 

That we’ve been prevented from being tracked by from different websites and so I’ve checked out my own website here where I just use Google Analytics to see who’s visiting but many sites have a lot of different trackers and so you have websites that are tracking and then also here the trackers specifically so you’ll see 66% that contacted trackers which is pretty high and not surprising these days and you have other things as well such as your reading list or other things from handoff from different Macs or different devices so its super nice.

And really fast but it has a couple extra features built in that I really like one of them is trans so if we go to pooja FR in France I can’t read this personally because I don’t speak French so let’s translate it to English so I can see what’s going on here so it says offers at the moment enjoy our offers of the moment go further in your project so we can view any website that might be in a different language Apple will translate it on the fly on the device so you can read it or you can change it to a different language if you prefer something else any supported language should work so it has all of that built in along with all this privacy and you’ll see it just blocked 41 trackers so that’s super convenient to have that built in and of course it has extensions now too that are super secure so you’ll have extensions that pop up in the app store and will be available to Mac OS Big Sur so you can have all sorts of different extensions.

So this will be really nice once it’s out for everyone to use or it might be out by the time you’re watching this but if you want this kind of privacy throughout your Mac not just with your web browser that’s where todays sponsor comes in Antigua software where they have virus barrier in their suite of programs called x9 and so as you can see here it says your Mac is not safe turn on real-time scanning so you can adjust your settings for that keep it on place files in quarantine attempt to repair them and it’s a simple way to keep everything safe not only your browsing within Safari or Chrome or whatever you’re using but you can schedule scans as well and so if you want to scan your Mac you can do that if you have an iPhone plugged in. 

You can scan that and then once you find something you can quarantine it delete it and enable that real-time scanner if you want to use it and it keeps up to date regularly so you can see the last definition update was a couple days ago so we should be good to go now if you’re looking for a good virus program I would recommend the virus barrier or at least trying their free trial and if it’s something you like and it works for you along with all of their other software a personal backup washing machine that barrier and content barrier be sure to try those out with their free trial and be sure to click the link in the description below for 50% off now the third great feature with Mac OS Big Sur is control center we’ve had this on iPads and iPhones for quite some time we can control everything from the keyboard brightness if you’re on a MacBook to sound and everything else.

If you want to create a shortcut you can just drag it up here to the top and now you also have a way to turn dark mode on or off you can switch it on the fly or change it back if you don’t want it so takes a little bit here there’s a little bit of a delay but you’ll see it switches and were good to go we have a quick way to access all of our settings and I think it’s a really nice way to access everything it’s kind of long overdue and I’m glad they added it now another huge feature that’s been updated using all new code is messages now messages has been completely rewritten not only with new emoji but also the effects we expect on our iPhone such as message effects or memo G stickers so if you click on memo G stickers it takes a moment and then we have our stickers so.

We can select whatever we want we want this one and then we could send it and say look at this and then we can also include a message effect and so we want balloons or whatever wed like we can send it and then well have balloons with our new emoji sticker so or me emoji stickers depending on what you’re using so we have all of the different things we’d like included but we can also pin conversations there’s group enhancements and everything else. 

So if you want to pin something or a conversation pin it and it will always appear above this line if I want to pin this one from my brother Zach I can just pin it and now it’s above this line always ready for me to use and so we’ve got all of the same things we expect from iOS and iPad OS on Mac OS and then finally one of the major changes with Mac OS Big Sur is of course it is Mac OS 11 as you can see here and this is currently a beta version but you get the idea. 

That this is Mac OS 11 it’s a complete overhaul of the OS to make it ready for the new ARM based or apple silicon based Macs and you can see all of the icons are different and this is one of the most striking things to a lot of people some people love it some people don’t all of these icons may not be finalized at this point but one that particularly stands out is the battery icon hopefully they change this in the future. 

But you’ll see everything’s been rewritten from the ground up it should be faster hopefully a lot more stable than what we had before and we should be pretty good with this version as far as speed and everything else so there are a lot of other changes such as updates to passwords and things so if you’re using keychain for example keychain will now let you know when you have a password.

That’s been compromised so that’s a new feature built in which i think is super helpful and all about security Mac OS Big Sur is all about security it will keep you safe and in addition to Safari and Mac OS keeping you safe be sure to check out virus barrier in the description below let me know what your favorite app or changes with Mac OS Big Sur.