![]() ![]() iTunes was becoming very bloated, it was just doing too much. But don’t fear, all your music will just be moved into the Music app where it will enjoy a less cluttered existence. That’s correct: in Catalina iTunes is no more. Those three apps replace a somewhat ageing stalwart of macOS: iTunes. We say ‘new’ but they will be familiar from iOS: Music, TV and Podcasts. Thanks to Catalyst in Catalina Apple has bought three ‘new’ entertainment apps to the Mac. Apple used it in order to port some of its iOS apps to the Mac, so we saw News, Stocks, Home and some other iOS apps arrive on the Mac in 2018. Project Catalyst actually had a sort of practice run in Mojave, although back then it was known as Marzipan. But the new OS is paving the way for even more Mac apps, which is a good thing. If you were expecting an influx of third party apps arriving on the Mac you’ll be disappointed though as there haven’t been many. With the arrival of Catalina Apple introduced a simple way for developers to port their apps over to the Mac. Some developers (such as Twitter) originally made two separate apps and then ditched the Mac app because of the work involved. Prior to Catalyst the amount of time and money involved in creating two different apps, one for iOS and one for Mac, meant that developers focused on the more profitable and popular iOS. Project Catalyst is Apple’s strategy for getting iOS developers to start porting their apps to the Mac. However, there are other changes that will hopefully mean more of your favourite iOS apps will be making their way to the Mac and we’ll talk about that next. While Sidecar means you can essentially run macOS on your iPad, as long as you are within 10 meters of your iPad at least, it doesn’t mean that you can run iOS on your Mac – it doesn’t work in the other direction. The same applies to Images, PDFs, and other types of file you might just have been dumping on your Desktop. ![]() If you want to find the screenshot you just took, click on the Screenshots Stack. ![]() As a result, rather than have 100 screenshots saved on your Desktop, all your screenshots would be shuffled into a Stack (a sort of folder). There are also some interesting features relating to accessibility in Catalina: with Catalina installed it is possible to choose from new colour filter options that could make the screen easier to read.Īnother big change that arrived in Mojave was Desktop Stacks, which helped everyone clear up their cluttered Desktops. In Catalina you will be able to set Dark Mode to come on automatically later in the day. If you prefer to use Light Mode during the day, and Dark Mode at night you will need to toggle between the two. In Mojave all you can do is choose between Dark Mode and Light Mode. In Catalina there is one major enhancement coming to Dark Mode. It was a popular feature with those who work in darker environments and designers who want to the menus to fade into the background while they work on images. It is the third day it has been doing that now.Mojave’s Dark Mode turned the colour down on every element of the interface systemwide. And the same black screen with the Apple logo and "Estimating time remaining" show up again but the progress indicator stayed at approximately the same place. After that the normal-looking login window showed up again and I then input my username and password to log in. There were also a few times when the machine shut down itself and when I found out about it I pressed the power button to start it manually. But the progress indicator kept at approximately the same location which is about 1/6 of the entire length. It is stuck at a black screen with the Apple logo and "Estimating time remaining" for several days now.ĭuring that time, I hard rebooted several times out of frustration after hours of waiting, each time I got a normal-looking login window and I then input my username and password and got logged in, after which it resumed to the same black screen with the Apple logo and "Estimating time remaining". I was upgrading my 2015 Macbook Pro running Mojave to Catalina.
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