![]() ![]() The security updates and patches that combat vulnerabilities – like a recent backdoor in Apple’s vaunted Gatekeeper system that allowed hackers to swap out trusted apps with malware – tend to be delivered in updates to the operating system. Not quite 10/10, given some of the US-centric issues, but pretty darn close.Īnd it should be said, aside from all of these shiny new features, it’s always worth downloading OS updates. The increased performance would, by itself, have been enough to sway me, but the small additions that make it easier to streamline your life – Notes updates, pinned tabs, etc – as well as the split-screen pushed it over the edge for me. So, has Apple done enough to make El Capitan worth the download time? Mail and Messages also mimic iOS, with a new feature allowing the user to swipe right to mark a message as unread (Mail only) and swipe left to delete. Now, I can pin them to the tab bar, making them far more compact and making the rest of my (far too many) tabs look much less cluttered.Īn updated Notes app allows users to insert links, documents and photos I, for instance, always have Gmail, Facebook and TweetDeck open at any given time. This is a great way to free up space and remove some of the clutter. The other Safari update allows users to pin frequently-used tabs to the left of the tab bar. The new feature gives you the option of muting all tabs or just specific ones, meaning you can keep listening to what’s playing on YouTube or Facebook without having to listen to an ad for something you don’t care about that’s playing somewhere else. The more welcome of these allows users to silence those annoying autoplays on web pages without having to find the tab the sound is coming from. Safari has two notable new features, both of which I’m sure will prove useful. No doubt Apple is still tinkering with this, though, and I’m inclined to be patient – but perhaps that’s just because I don’t see myself switching from Google Maps anytime soon. A quick test to see how well it would do getting me from Edinburgh to London seems to only include buses, despite the fact that there’s a (much quicker) train route between the two cities.Įl Capitan’s transit feature in Maps – for buses only? Like the early days on Google Maps, transit is not available for all cities or countries and, of course, isn’t available in Ireland just yet. Updates to Maps were also rolled out, introducing transit routes and – more importantly – transit directions.Īs with much of Apple’s software, however, this isn’t a full rollout across the board. That’s the program with which I would have most call to use the feature. ![]() The feature, unfortunately, does not extend to Microsoft’s Office suite – or not Office 2011, at least – which is a bit of a disappointment. ![]() It wasn’t clear in the lead up to yesterday’s release whether non-native apps would be eligible for the split-screen treatment, but I tried it with a host of apps, from Apple’s own apps to third-party ones like Slack and Google Chrome, and it worked seamlessly. El Capitan’s Split Screen feature, showing new Notes app and Safari, side by side ![]()
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