macOS Ventura (version 13) is the nineteenth and current major release of

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's desktop

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for Mac computers. The successor to

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, it was announced at

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on June 6, 2022, and launched on October 24, 2022. It is named for the city of Ventura and is the tenth macOS release to bear a name from the company's home state of

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. The macOS 13 Ventura logo and default wallpaper resemble an abstract

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. The first developer version was released on June 6, 2022, while the first public beta was released on July 11, 2022.

History

Release history

The first developer beta of macOS 13 Ventura was released on June 6, 2022.

New features and changes

macOS Ventura includes changes, many related to productivity, and adds two apps ported from iOS and iPadOS:

New apps

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for the Mac. ** Because of this, the Weather Widget no longer redirects to

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's website. *

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for the Mac: displays world time and manages alarms, stopwatches, and timers. ** Because of this, the Clock Widget no longer redirects to the Date & Time section of System Settings. * Stage Manager, a tool for organizing windows on the desktop. * Freeform, a whiteboard app for real-time collaboration.

Changes

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adds "send later" and "undo send" and improvements to search, email organization, and formatting. * Spotlight produces richer search results. *

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adds Shared Tab Groups and Passkeys, uses

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for password-less account management, and gets a redesigned sidebar. * Messages now allows the user to edit and unsend recent

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s. * FaceTime gets Handoff, the ability to transfer a call between multiple Apple devices. * Video conferencing gets the ability to wirelessly use an iPhone as a

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. * System Preferences is renamed

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and gets a new user interface and re-organized categories based on the iOS/iPadOS Settings app. The word "preferences" has been replaced by "settings" throughout the operating system. * iCloud Shared Photo Library allows multiple members of iCloud Family Sharing to add, edit, and delete photos in the same photo library. * Game Center dashboard is redesigned. *

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gets a new visual design. * Maps adds support for routes with multiple stops. * Siri gets redesigned to match its current design in iOS and iPadOS. *

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adds the ability to 'favorite' artists, listen to favorite artists in Listen Now, and receive new music notifications from artists you favorite. *

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support. * Login Items settings section now includes background applications. * Optionally automatically install security updates. * The Network Locations feature was removed from the graphical user interface. It can still be accessed from the command line. * The Preview app on Mac no longer supports

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(.ps) and Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) files; such files can be printed by dragging them to a Printer Queue. * Ability to play ambient background sounds as an accessibility feature in System Settings. * New backgrounds and screensavers. * A bug in Disk Utility concerning verification of Time Machine backup volumes has been fixed. * Time Machine has been changed in various unspecified ways. * Support for physical security keys * Advanced data protection via end-to-end encryption for select iCloud data

Supported hardware

macOS Ventura supports Macs with Apple silicon and Intel's 7th-generation Kaby Lake chips or later, and drops support for various models released from 2013 to 2017. Ventura supports the following Mac models: * iMac (2017 or later) *

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(2017) * MacBook (2017) *

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(2018 or later) * MacBook Pro (2017 or later) *

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(2018 or later) *

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(2019) * Mac Studio (2022) By using patch tools, macOS Ventura can be unofficially installed on earlier computers that are officially unsupported, such as a 2017 MacBook Air and a 2016 MacBook Pro. Using these methods, it is possible to install macOS Ventura on models as early as a 2012 MacBook Pro or a 2012 iMac.

Timeline of Macintosh operating systems

References

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