The next macOS is coming this fall

Apple officially announced macOS 15 Sequoia at WWDC 2024 on Monday, with Apple Intelligence, iPhone mirroring, Continuity updates, automatic window tiling — finally — and a cross-platform Passwords app. The developer beta is available today, with public betas in July. The full version releases in fall 2024.

Most significantly, macOS Sequoia will include Apple Intelligence, a suite of AI features that work across iPhone, iPad, and iOS. Among the features mentioned at WWDC: Writing Tools, a systemwide feature that can summarize text in emails and other apps and automatically draft replies to emails. Siri will now be able to act for you in apps and pull contextual information based on your personal information — all with voice commands, though you’ll also be able to type commands to Siri. Apple Intelligence will be available “this summer” with the Sequoia beta and requires an M1 or later processor.

The Mac is also getting iPhone mirroring, which lets you access and control your iPhone from your Mac — including audio. You’ll be able to see and respond to phone notifications on the Mac and drag and drop text and images between the two devices. Finally, a non-touchscreen interface for your phone! When using mirroring, your iPhone stays locked and even in StandBy mode.

Apple also updated Safari with a bunch of new features, including Highlights, which uses machine learning to detect and summarize interesting information on the page, and additions to Reader mode, including summaries and tables of contents. It also has Viewer mode for on-page video content, with full playback control and support for Picture in Picture.

The Keychain is getting a major update with a new Passwords app that can store many new types of account credentials, including Wi-Fi passwords, passkeys, verification codes, and shared passwords. It’ll be available on iOS, iPad, Mac, and visionOS and syncs to Windows using iCloud for Windows.

Apple is finally bringing automatic window tiling to MacOS, potentially sherlocking a bunch of utilities we never should have needed in the first place.

Gaming isn’t off Apple’s radar, either. In addition to bringing the beloved Resident Evil series, including Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil: Biohazard, Control, and the next World of Warcraft expansion, The War Within, to macOS Sequoia, the company is releasing the second version of its Game Porting Toolkit. Apple says it’s added some highly requested features from game developers that will make it easier for them to port games to macOS, iPhone, and iPad.

macOS Sequoia is compatible with all Macs running Apple Silicon, as well as some Intel-based ones. The list includes the 2017 iMac Pro, 2018 Mac Mini and MacBook Pro, and the 2019 Mac Pro and iMac, which coincides with the list of Intel-based Macs with the T2 security chip. Apple Silicon or the T2 chip are required for iPhone mirroring.