“It’s been a week since macOS Sierra was announced by Apple, and I’ve gotten a chance to spend a few days using it,” Jason Snell writes for Macworld. “If you’ve only seen the highlights from Apple’s keynote, though, you may have missed a bunch of cool features that have flown beneath the radar.”
“There’s an entire new Storage Management window, located in the System Information app, that provides a suite of tools to help you free up disk space,” Snell writes. “There’s also a feature called Reduce Clutter that’s reminiscent of a third-party spring-cleaning utility… Then there are some tweaks Apple is making behind the scenes to save space. If you use Safari to download a file you’ve already downloaded before, Safari downloads the new version and removes the older versions of the same file, so you don’t end up with five different copies of the same software installer in your Downloads folder.”
“On stage, Federighi said that Apple Pay works with either an Apple Watch or an iPhone to let you buy stuff on the Web from right within Safari,” Snell writes. “What he didn’t mention is that since your Mac is aware if there’s an Apple Pay-eligible device within range, Safari can actually be instructed by web pages to show or hide Apple Pay buttons based on a device’s proximity to the Mac.”
More hidden features of macOS Sierra more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Being able to place Picture in Picture anywhere – not just limited to screen corners – is very useful! And, as maintainers of Macs for friends and family members, having the Mac purge itself of old downloads is huge. Thanks, Apple!
You know, iOS has had this on iPads (I think just Air 2 and Pro though) for things like video… But for some dumb reason (probably to intentionally degrade usability on Apple devices because that’s Google’s strategy) the YouTube app doesn’t allow access to that, and since their website being visited in Safari doesn’t even allow for fullscreen video playback at all, it’s impossible to use it with YouTube. THAT DRIVES ME ABSOLUTELY INSANE! I hope this same problem doesn’t happen on the Mac’s feature, and hopefully Google will quit being the lamest company on Earth and favor usability over greed.