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What’s new in OS X El Capitan.

OS X El Capitan gives you simpler, smarter ways to do the things you do most with your Mac. Like working in multiple apps at the same time using Split View. Searching for information with an even more helpful Spotlight. Keeping your favorite websites handy with Pinned Sites. Managing your email with full-screen view and swipe gestures. And turning notes into useful checklists. Improvements under the hood make your Mac snappier and more efficient for all kinds of everyday tasks — from opening PDFs to loading your email. And with Metal for Mac, you get faster and more fluid graphics performance in games and high-performance apps.

Split View

Give two apps your undivided attention.

Running lots of apps at the same time is one of the great things about using a Mac. Focusing on just one app in full-screen view is another. With Split View, you get the best of both. It automatically fills your screen with the two apps you choose. So you can make dinner plans with a friend in Messages while finding the restaurant in Maps. Or work on a document in Pages while doing your research in Safari. All without the distraction of your other open apps, and without having to manually resize and drag windows around. And your desktop is always just a swipe away, so it’s easy to get back to everything else you were doing.

Mission Control

You’ve never been so good at space management.

A streamlined Mission Control makes it easier to see and organize everything you have open on your Mac. With a single swipe, all the windows on your desktop arrange themselves in a single layer, with nothing stacked or hidden. Mission Control places your windows in the same relative location, so you can spot the one you’re looking for more quickly. And when you have lots of windows competing for screen space, it’s even easier to make more room for them. Just drag any window to the top of your screen and drop it into a new desktop space. It’s never been this easy to spread out your work.

Call out your cursor.

Lost your cursor on your crowded desktop? Just shake your finger back and forth on the trackpad or give your mouse a shake, and the pointer gets bigger so it’s easy to spot.

Spotlight

Even more versatile. And helpful.

Spotlight gets even smarter in El Capitan, delivering results for weather, sports, stocks, web video, and transit information. And now you can ask Spotlight to find a file using natural language — so when you’re looking for the presentation you created last Friday, just type “presentation I made on Friday.” 1 Spotlight is also more flexible: You can resize its window to see more results and move it anywhere on your desktop.

Search results from more sources.

Spotlight now searches more places to give you more useful results. Check up on the latest stock prices, weather conditions and forecasts for your current location or cities around the world, and sports scores, schedules, standings and stats on your favourite athletes. You can even search for web videos.

Ask in your own words.

Searching for files has never been easier now that Spotlight understands natural language. 1 For example, type “email from Harrison in April” and Spotlight shows you email messages that match. You can also use more complex searches, like “spreadsheet I worked on yesterday that contains budget,” and you’ll get just what you’re looking for. You can search with your own words in Mail and the Finder, too.

Look what just landed in your inbox.

Improved full-screen support and swipe gestures in Mail let you make quick work of your correspondence. OS X also helps you manage your calendar right from your inbox.

Work more easily in full screen.

The enhanced full-screen view in Mail lets you juggle all your email conversations at the same time. The email message you’re composing slides to the bottom of the screen, so you can access your inbox — perfect for copying text or attachments between messages. And if you’re managing multiple email threads, you can switch between them with easy-to-use tabs.

Add suggested events.

When you receive an email containing details for an event like a flight or a dinner reservation, you can add it to Calendar with just a click. 1

Swipe to manage your inbox.

Now you can take care of your email with a swipe, just like on your iOS devices. Need to triage your inbox? Swipe right to mark an email as read or unread, or swipe left to delete. You’ll be focused on what’s important in no time.

Notes

Collect more than just your thoughts.

The powerful new Notes app is more than a great way to jot down a quick thought and keep track of it for later. Now you can turn a list into a checklist in a snap. Or easily add a photo, video, web link or map location to a note. And thanks to iCloud, all your notes and everything in them are kept up to date across all your devices. So you can create a note on your Mac and look at it on your iPhone when you’re out and about.

Add all kinds of content.

Notes easily handles almost any type of file you’d like to include. Save documents, web links, photos, map locations, PDFs, videos and more to a note with a simple drag and drop.

Save content from other apps.

Planning a trip? Save a hotel website to a note right from Safari, or a restaurant address from Maps. You can save content to Notes from many other apps as well. Just click the Share button in an app to save items to existing notes or create new ones.

Create useful checklists with a click.

Now it’s easy to create checklists in Notes. With a single click, you can create an interactive to-do list, grocery list or wish list. Then check off items as you complete them.

Use the Attachments Browser to see everything in one place.

All the attachments you’ve added to your notes are organized in one simple view: the new Attachments Browser. You can sort through photos, videos, map locations and web links without having to remember which note you put them in.

Your notes. On all your devices.

Notes works with iCloud, so your notes are up to date and with you no matter what device you’re using. Make a checklist on your Mac, and you’ll have it on your iPhone when you’re out on the go. Check an item off the list on your iPhone, and it’s checked off on your Mac. Take a picture on your iPhone, add it to a note, and it will be synced to all your devices. Any changes you make to a note on one device instantly appear on your other devices.

Photos

More things to do, places to go and people to see.

Give your photos a more personal touch with third-party editing tools. And with enhanced organization capabilities, support for the new Live Photos format and faster performance, the Photos app gets even better.

New editing extensions let you go further with your photos.

OS X El Capitan supports third-party tools that will be available from the Mac App Store and accessible right in the Photos app. Use multiple editing extensions from your favourite developers on a single photo, or use a mix of extensions and the editing tools built into Photos. From adding subtle filters to professional-quality noise reduction, you can take your photo editing to a whole new level.

Everything in its place.

Photos has been fine-tuned to make it even easier to manage your library. Now you can add a location to a single image or a group of photos. You can batch change photo titles, descriptions and keywords. Naming your favourite people in Faces is faster with a streamlined workflow. You can also sort your albums — and the contents inside them — by date, title and more.

Safari

The smartest way to surf.
With new tools built in.

With OS X El Capitan, the best browser for your Mac brings new tools for better surfing. Now Safari lets you keep favourite websites open and accessible with Pinned Sites. You can quickly mute audio without hunting for the tab it’s coming from. And use AirPlay to stream video from a web page to your HDTV.

Pinned Sites keep your favourite websites handy.

Keep websites you visit often — like your webmail, Facebook page or Twitter feed — open, up to date and easily accessible by pinning them. They’ll stay active in the background, and they’ll stay put on the left side of your tab bar.

Use AirPlay to share web video without sharing your whole screen.

Play video from a web page to your TV with Apple TV — without showing everything else on your desktop. Just click the AirPlay icon that appears on compatible web videos and you can watch your video on the big screen.

Easily tune out a tab.

Want to stop the music without hunting for the tab it’s coming from? Now you can mute it right from the Smart Search field. If you’re listening to audio in one tab and another website starts to play, you can mute the one you don’t want to hear. And if what you really want is silence, you can mute all audio from your browser, too.

Now arriving. Public transit info.

If you get around by train or bus, you can now get around more easily in select cities around the world thanks to Maps. You’ll find everything you need to go from point A to point B, including built-in public transportation maps, directions and schedules.

Mass appeal.

Choose a destination in Transit view and Maps offers you the best routes, with detailed walking, subway, train, bus and ferry directions. See routes for complex trips, such as linking a bus ride to a subway ride via a two-block walk. You can also plan your trip according to when you want to leave or when you need to arrive.

Get directions on your Mac.
Read them on the go.

Plan your route on your Mac, then send it to your iPhone with just a few clicks for stop-by-stop directions when you’re out and about.

Fonts

A distinctly modern take on type.

OS X El Capitan introduces new fonts that look crisp and beautiful on your Mac and in your documents — a modern, space-efficient system font called San Francisco, a new Chinese font called PingFang with thousands of redesigned characters and six new line weights, and four new Japanese fonts that offer even more choices for everything from presentations to email.

San Francisco

Designed from the ground up for use on all Apple devices, San Francisco has been fine-tuned for optimal readability on a Mac, and looks particularly crisp and refined on a Retina display. The new San Francisco system font optimizes legibility with size-specific letter shapes and dynamic character spacing. You’ll feel its subtle effect in the things you do every day.

Distinct characters

Similar characters like a capital I, lowercase L, and the number 1 are now more easily distinguished.

Dynamic spacing

Spacing between letters and words shifts depending on the font size, which helps readability.

PingFang

Enhanced readability.

The new Chinese system font PingFang was designed specifically for digital displays, delivering unmatched legibility in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

More variety.

PingFang is available in six weights from ultralight to semibold. The different weights give you flexibility for headlines, captions and more.

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What’s New in the iOS SDK

Learn about the key technologies and capabilities available in the iOS SDK, the toolkit you use to build apps for iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. For detailed information on API changes in the latest released versions, including each beta release, see the iOS & iPadOS Release Notes.

iOS 15 SDK

With the iOS 15 SDK, you can build apps that create new kinds of shared experiences with SharePlay and the Group Activities API. Swift 5.5 introduces concurrency support, built into the language with async/await and Actors. Focus and notifications help users concentrate on what matters most, and provide new APIs for your app to differentiate which notifications users need to see most. ARKit and RealityKit provide powerful customization capabilities to help your AR experiences look even more convincing. Create ML gets easier and more powerful with Swift and playground integration, as well as on-device training. And web extensions come to Safari on iOS and iPadOS for even more flexible and powerful browsing experiences.

SharePlay and Group Activities

SharePlay offers a new way for people to share your app. Media streaming apps can let users share content through the new Group Activities API with full-fidelity video and all syncing handled by the system. And for shared experiences beyond media streaming, the GroupSessionMessenger API offers a secure data channel that syncs information between multiple instances of your apps across multiple users.

Focus and notifications

With Focus, users can have notifications delivered at times that work best for them, and with the Interruption Levels API, you can provide more nuanced delivery with one of four interruption levels (including new Passive and Time-Sensitive levels). Notifications from communication apps now have a distinctive appearance, and these apps can — with user permission — sync their status to reflect the user’s current system-level Focus status.

SwiftUI

SwiftUI brings new features, such as improved list views, better search experiences, and support for control focus areas. Gain more control over lower-level drawing primitives with the new Canvas API, a modern, GPU-accelerated equivalent of drawRect. And with the new Accessibility Representation API, your custom controls easily inherit full accessibility support from existing standard SwiftUI controls.

UIKit

UIKit introduces sheet presentation controllers, which let you present your view controller as a customizable, resizable sheet. UIKit provides new APIs for configuration buttons, displaying pop-up buttons, a new chromeless bar appearance, image decoding, and creating a thumbnail version of an image. And starting in iOS 15, drag and drop on iPhone is enabled by default.

Keyboard layout guides

New keyboard layout guides give your app an easy way to adapt your app’s layout based on the keyboard’s size and position. Support for the new tracking layout guide in UIKit automatically enables and disables constraints when the keyboard is docked to the bottom of the screen, undocked, or floating over your app, letting you provide a great text input experience.

Core Location UI

CoreLocationUI is a brand-new framework that introduces the location button, which lets people grant your app temporary authorization to access their location at the moment it’s needed. This button interacts securely with Core Location to request authorization to access location data.

Accessibility

The Accessibility framework introduces audio graphs, a new way to represent data in your charts and graphs that allows VoiceOver to construct and play an audible representation of it. This framework also adds an API to query information relevant for MFi hearing devices, such as streaming preferences, streaming capabilities, and paired hearing devices.

Augmented Reality

ARKit 5

ARKit 5 brings Face Tracking support to the Ultra Wide camera in the latest iPad Pro (5th generation), letting it track up to three faces at once using the TrueDepth camera to power front-facing camera experiences like Memoji and Snapchat.

RealityKit 2

Turn photos from your iPhone or iPad into high-quality 3D models that are optimized for AR in minutes using the new Object Capture API on macOS. And brand-new capabilities give you more control over your AR objects and scene with custom render targets and materials, customizable loading for assets, player-controlled characters, and more.

Machine learning

Create ML

Create ML is now available as a Swift framework on iOS and iPadOS, in addition to macOS. You can programmatically experiment and automate model creation in Swift scripts or playgrounds. Build dynamic app features that leverage Create ML APIs to train models directly from user input or behavior on-device, allowing you to provide personalized and adaptive experiences while preserving user privacy.

Create ML adds the Hand Pose and Hand Action classifier tasks to both the Create ML API and the developer tool included with Xcode. These classifiers recognize hand positions in still images and hand movements in videos, respectively.

Core ML

Core ML adds ML Packages , a new, future-looking model format that provides the flexibility to edit metadata and visibility to track changes with source control. Core ML also adds ML Programs, a new model type that compiles more efficiently, decouples a model’s architecture from its weights, and offers more control over the computational precision of its intermediate tensors. The new MLShapedArray API lets you work with multidimensional data using idiomatic Swift that improves the code’s type safety and readability.

Tabular Data. Tabular Data makes it easy to programmatically import information from JSON and CSV files and prepare datasets ready for Core ML , Create ML , or your own custom solution. Use Tabular Data’s central DataFrame API to sort, join, group, split, encode, decode, explode, filter, slice, combine, and transform the rows and columns of your tabular data to meet your needs.

Sound Analysis. Sound Analysis adds a new sound classifier that your apps can use to identify over 300 unique sounds from live audio or an audio file. A new time window duration API gives you tune prediction accuracy versus time precision.

Games

GameKit

GameKit provides new ways to discover and invite players to participate in a game. Players can now invite contacts, message groups, and anyone with a phone number or email address. Players see the status of other players receiving and accepting invitations and, optionally, start with a minimum number of players while waiting for others to join.

Game Controller

The Game Controller framework adds virtual controllers — software emulations of real controllers that users interact with similarly to real controllers. You choose the configuration and the input elements to display specifically for your game.

StoreKit 2

StoreKit’s new In-App Purchase API provides a simple, powerful, and secure way to work with your app’s products and transactions. The new API takes advantage of modern Swift features, such as concurrency, to simplify your in-app purchase workflow. Its cryptographically signed transaction and subscription information uses the JSON Web Signature (JWS) format, which is a secure and simple way to parse on the client. A new entitlements API makes it easy to determine which content and services your app should unlock for users. Use the new StoreKit API throughout the in-app purchase process — from displaying in-app purchases, to managing access to content and providing customer service within your app.

Apple Pay

Give users more options by adding coupons, deferred payments, recurring payments, shipping dates, and read-only pickup addresses to your Apple Pay transactions.

Safari Web Extensions

Safari Web Extensions use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to offer powerful browser customizations and new functionality across the web. With iOS 15, Safari Web Extensions are now available on all Apple devices that support Safari.

Screen Time

Apps with parental controls can support a wider range of tools for parents with the Screen Time API. You can use key features, such as core restrictions and device activity monitoring, in a way that puts privacy first.

ManagedSettings and ManagedSettingsUI. Use ManagedSettings to define usage policies and settings constraints on a parent or guardian’s device and apply them on other devices in the Family Sharing group. ManagedSettingsUI provides an opportunity for you to customize Screen Time API’s shielding views to match your app’s branding and style.

FamilyControls. FamilyControls gives control to parents or guardians in Family Sharing groups by requiring them to authorize parental controls on a device signed into a child’s iCloud account. FamilyControls provides a secure environment where only family members in the Family Sharing group can authorize access. It also provides a secure way to select apps, web domains, and categories that protects the user’s privacy.

DeviceActivity. Device Activity provides a privacy-preserving way for an app to monitor a user’s app and website activity.

ShazamKit

Enrich your app experience with audio recognition. Match music to the millions of songs in Shazam’s vast catalog or make any prerecorded audio recognizable by building your own custom catalog using audio from video, podcasts, and more.

MusicKit

Easily integrate Apple Music into your iOS and iPadOS apps using Swift. The MusicKit framework provides a new model layer for accessing music items in Swift, as well as playback support so you can add music to your app.

Nearby Interaction

Build apps that interact with accessories simply by being in close proximity to an Apple device that includes the U1 chip. Taking advantage of Ultra Wideband technology lets you create more precise, directionally aware app experiences.

HomeKit

HomeKit APIs in iOS 15 SDK automatically work with Matter-enabled accessories. Start testing your smart home apps with Matter, the unifying open-connectivity standard designed to increase the compatibility of smart home accessories, so they work seamlessly with your devices.

HealthKit

HealthKit adds the ability to request one-time access to a verifiable clinical record. These records bundle information about the user’s identity with clinical data, like an immunization record or a lab test result. The organization that produced the data cryptographically signs the bundle, which HealthKit apps can access and verify.

CloudKit

CloudKit builds on top of the new async/await support in Swift 5.5, making the asynchronous API easier to use and more configurable. CloudKit adds Record Zone Sharing, which builds on the existing sharing infrastructure to let users share the entire contents of a record zone with other iCloud users. You can now encrypt a record’s values using new APIs on CKRecord, helping you offer strong privacy guarantees to your users. The new CloudKit Schema Language allows you to retrieve and upload textual representations of your CloudKit schema, which means you can now version it using the same tools as your app’s source code.

CloudKit Console. CloudKit improves your workflows with a brand-new CloudKit Console, an intuitive web-based control panel that you can use throughout the development lifecycle of your app, and cktool command line interface.

Core Data. Core Data provides new APIs that facilitate the sharing of managed objects with other iCloud users, specifically for CloudKit-backed persistent stores. In addition, you can now choose to encrypt an entity’s attributes before they’re saved to iCloud. Spotlight integration has also been enhanced, with additional APIs that allow for fine-grained control over what data is added to the index and when.

Virtual conference extension

Apps that provide virtual conference services can use this new app extension in EventKit to integrate directly into users’ calendar events. You’ll be able to provide custom locations for events, a link that lets people join the conference with a single tap, and additional information, like dial-in details.

iOS 14

With the iOS 14 SDK, users can more easily discover your app’s core functionality through app clips. SwiftUI introduces a new app life cycle and new view layouts. It supports the new WidgetKit framework, which allows your app to display information directly on the iOS Home screen. Machine learning adds style transfers and action classification to the models, and offers a CloudKit-based deployment solution. Vision API additions help your app analyze image and video more thoroughly. ARKit advances promote an even tighter integration with the world around the device, and you can include markups in your emails and websites that help Siri Event Suggestions surface your events.

App Clips

An app clip is a lightweight version of your app that offers users some of its functionality. It’s discoverable at the moment it’s needed, fast, and quick to launch. Users discover and open app clips from a number of places, including Safari, Maps, and Messages, as well as in the real world through QR codes and NFC tags. App clips also provide opportunities for users to download the full app from the App Store. To learn how to create your own app clips, see the app clips documentation.

Widgets

Widgets give users quick access to timely, at-a-glance information from your app right on the iOS Home screen. iOS 14 offers a redesigned widget experience. Your app can present widgets in multiple sizes, allow user customization, include interactive features, and update content at appropriate times. To learn about designing widgets, see the Human Interface Guidelines. To learn how to support widgets in your app, see the WidgetKit framework.

SwiftUI

SwiftUI provides a selection of new built-in views, including a progress indicator and a text editor. It also supports new view layouts, like grids and outlines. Grids and the new lazy version of stacks load items only as needed.

Starting in Xcode 12, you can now use SwiftUI to define the structure and behavior of an entire app. Compose your app from scenes containing the view hierarchies that define an app’s user interface. Add menu commands, handle life-cycle events, invoke system actions, and manage storage across all of your apps. By incorporating WidgetKit into your app, you can also create widgets that provide quick access to important content right on the iOS Home screen or the macOS Notification Center. For more information, see App Structure and Behavior.

ARKit

ARKit adds Location Anchors, which leverages the refine location feature in the new Apple Map to enable rear-camera AR experiences in specific geographic locations. A new Depth API lets you access even more precise distance and depth information captured by the LiDAR Scanner on iPad Pro. To learn more about these features, see the ARKit framework documentation.

Machine Learning

Your machine learning apps gain new functionality, flexibility, and security with the updates in iOS 14. Core ML adds model deployment with a dashboard for hosting and deploying models using CloudKit, so you can easily make updates to your models without updating your app or hosting the models yourself. Core ML model encryption adds another layer of security for your models, handling the encryption process and key management for you. The Core ML converter supports direct conversion of PyTorch models to Core ML.

The Create ML app’s new Style Transfer template stylizes photos and videos in real time, and the new Action Classification template classifies a single person’s actions in a video clip. For more information, see the Core ML and Create ML developer documentation.

Vision

With iOS 14, the Vision framework has added APIs for trajectory detection in video, hand and body pose estimation for images and video, contour detection to trace the edges of objects and features in image and video, and optical flow to define the pattern of motion between consecutive video frames. To learn more about these features, see the Vision framework documentation. In particular, read Building a Feature-Rich App for Sports Analysis to find out how these features come together in a sample app.

Natural Language

The Natural Language framework has new API to provide sentence embedding that creates a vector representation of any string; word tagging to train models that classify natural language, customized for your specific domain; and confidence scores that rank the framework’s predictions. For more information, see the Natural Language framework documentation.

App Store Privacy Information

Privacy is at the core of the entire iOS experience, and new privacy information in the App Store gives users even more transparency and control over their personal information. On iOS 14, apps will be required to ask users for permission to track them across apps and websites owned by other companies. Later this year, the App Store will help users understand apps’ privacy practices, and you’ll need to enter your privacy practice details into App Store Connect for display on your App Store product page.

Siri Event Suggestions Markup

You can use the Siri Event Suggestions Markup to provide event details on a webpage and in email. Siri parses travel arrangements, movies, sporting events, live shows, restaurant reservations, and social events. Once parsed, Siri can suggest driving directions, a ride share to a scheduled event, or activation of Do Not Disturb just before a show starts. To learn how to integrate your own events with Siri, see the Siri Event Suggestions Markup documentation.

PencilKit

PencilKit now enables handwriting recognition inside text fields. Using gestures, users can also select or delete text, and join or break up words. You can add data detection to your app, as well as text and shape recognition and selection. For more information, see the PencilKit framework documentation.

Accessibility

A new Accessibility framework lets your app dynamically deliver a subset of accessible content to a user based on context.

MetricKit

MetricKit adds Diagnostics, a new type of payload that tracks specific app failures, such as crashes or disk-write exceptions. For more information, see the MetricKit framework documentation.

Family Sharing for In-App Purchases

Family Sharing is a simple way for users to share subscriptions, purchases, and more with everyone in their household. And with iOS 14, you can choose to offer Family Sharing for your users’ in-app purchases and subscriptions so their whole family can enjoy the added benefits. See the SKProduct and SKPaymentTransactionObserver for the new APIs.

Screen Time

iOS 14 includes Screen Time APIs for sharing and managing web-usage data and observing changes a parent or guardian makes. For more details, see the Screen Time framework documentation.

Uniform Type Identifiers

Use the new Uniform Type Identifiers framework to describe file formats and in-memory data for transfer, such as the pasteboard; and to identify resources, such as directories, volumes, and packages.

File Compression

Use the new Apple Archive framework to perform fast, multithreaded, lossless compression of directories, files, and data in iOS.

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