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UPDATE October 24, 2022

Spotlight Brings Improved Productivity

Spotlight comes with new features and an updated design that provides a more consistent experience across Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Users can now use Spotlight to find images in their photo library, on the web, and across the system in apps like Messages and Notes. They can even search for their photos by location, people, scenes, or objects, and Live Text lets them search by text inside images. Spotlight also includes rich results for categories for artists, movies, actors, TV shows, businesses, and sports. To take their productivity even further, users can take actions from Spotlight to do things like start a timer or create a new document. And with support for Quick Look in Spotlight, users can quickly see a full-size preview of nearly any kind of file without having to open it.

Additional Features

  • Live Text can recognize text in paused video frames, as well as Japanese and Korean text. Users can also lift the subject away from an image and drop it into another app like Messages. Visual Look Up can now recognize animals, birds, insects, statues, and even more landmarks.
  • macOS Ventura brings new accessibility tools like Live Captions for all audio content,6 Type to Speak on calls, Text Checker to support proofreading for VoiceOver users, and more.
  • The Weather and Clock apps come to Mac with all of the features users know and love from iPhone, and do things like check local forecasts, create alarms, set timers, and more.
  • System Preferences becomes System Settings and features a new design that’s optimized for efficient navigation on Mac, and delivers a more consistent experience across iPhone and iPad. 
  • macOS security is even stronger and makes the Mac more resistant to attack with new tools like Rapid Security Response, which works between normal updates to easily keep security up to date.

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  1. For macOS Ventura compatibility, visit apple.com/macos/ventura. Some features may not be available in all regions, languages, or on all Mac models.
  2. Continuity Camera is available on iPhone XR or later running iOS 16.
  3. Continuity Camera with Center Stage and Desk View is available on iPhone 11 or later running iOS 16. Studio Light is available on iPhone 12 or later running iOS 16.
  4. Users can cancel delivery of a message within 30 seconds of hitting send, or they have the option to change the duration that the message is in the outbox. In addition, Undo Send can be turned off.
  5. Users can edit a message for up to 15 minutes after sending it and can unsend a message for up to 2 minutes after sending it. Users can make up to five edits to a given message, and recipients will be able to see a record of edits made to the message.
  6. Live Captions will be available in beta in English in the US and Canada on iPhone 11 and later, iPad models with A12 Bionic and later, and Mac computers with Apple silicon. Accuracy of Live Captions may vary and should not be relied upon in high-risk situations.