With macOS Sierra, you can now use Apple Pay on the web. However, the one place we haven't been able to use it is on the Mac, until now. Apple PayĪpple Pay is brilliant and I use it everyday with my Watch and on the iPhone in-app. Of course, you'll need to have enough iCloud storage to use this feature, but if you regular run out of disk space, this feature could be life saver. In the demo, Apple showed how on a Mac with a 250GB hard disk, it went from 20GB of free space to 150GB of space. It uses iCloud to automatically backup files you haven't used in a long time to the cloud, saving physical disk space for new files. Now, this sounds like a really cool feature. With the Universal clipboard, you can now share what's in your clipboard across all devices: so, copy on your Mac and you can paste on your iPhone. Thanks to Continuity, introduced with iOS 8, you can share applications between devices, say starting a task on your phone and continuing on your Mac. I can't wait to give it a go and find out how reliable it is. It's about time for this feature, as it's much easier to log into your phone that your computer. According to the press conference, the system uses Time of Flight networking to ensure that it's really you say in front of your computer, so it's really secure.
Rather than having to open your Mac up and type in a password to access it, Auto Unlock will automatically unlock your computer from your Apple Watch.
Due to launch in Autumn, here's everything that you can look forward to with macOS Sierra. The new version will take the Sierra moniker. So, it's clearly time for a change, and the next version of the desktop operating system will be called, as expected, macOS. OS X, although it has gone through multiple iterations, has been around for 15 years, and doesn't really match the naming conventions of Apple's other operating systems: iOS, watchOS, tvOS.