{"id":95117,"date":"2016-06-13T21:45:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T19:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=95117"},"modified":"2016-06-13T21:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T19:48:00","slug":"os-x-is-dead-long-live-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/95117-os-x-is-dead-long-live-macos","title":{"rendered":"OS X is dead. Long live macOS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has confirmed at its 2016\u00a0Developer Conference that it will rename OS X to macOS.<\/p>\n<p>The new version of the operating system will be called macOS Sierra.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to a name change, Apple\u2019s Craig Federighi announced a number of new features for the operating system.<\/p>\n<p>These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Auto Unlock<\/strong>: if you are wearing an Apple Watch, you do not have to enter your password.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Universal Clipboard<\/strong>: the next Continuity update \u2013 copy and paste will work across all Apple devices.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apple Pay:<\/strong>\u00a0when you shop online, you\u2019ll see a Pay With Apple Pay button, and you can authenticate your purchase with TouchID or Apple Watch via Continuity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tabs:<\/strong>\u00a0all multi-window apps will automatically receive support for tabs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Picture-in-picture:<\/strong>\u00a0videos may be placed in a resizable box which sits on top of all other windows, including those in fullscreen mode.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Federighi also announced improvements to iCloud. Documents placed in iCloud Drive are made available to both iOS and macOS devices.<\/p>\n<p>You will also be able to upload old mail attachments, photos, and other files to iCloud to save disk space. These files will be available on demand, said Federighi.<\/p>\n<p>Apple will launch a public beta of Sierra in July, the final version will roll out to users \u201cthis fall\u201d (22 September \u2013 21 December).<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/168367-os-x-is-now-macos.html\" target=\"_blank\">on MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong> and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Apple<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/95119-everything-you-need-to-know-about-ios-10.html\"><strong>Everything you need to know about iOS 10<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/94113-behind-the-biggest-secret-battle-in-tech-right-now.html\"><strong>Behind the biggest secret battle in tech right now<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/93833-new-iphone-might-ditch-headphone-jack.html\"><strong>New iPhone might ditch headphone jack<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has confirmed that OS X will be renamed to macOS, and announced the name of the new release of the operating system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":95123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,959,19471,19473,10501],"class_list":["post-95117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-macos","tag-macos-sierra","tag-os-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}