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 Some developers (such as Twitter) originally made two separate apps and then ditched the Mac app because of the work involved.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. Mojave’s Dark Mode turned the colour down on every element of the interface systemwide.

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