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Synced playback: Pause, rewind, fast-forward, or jump to a different scene while in perfect sync with everyone else.Share your screen: Bring web pages, app, and more into your conversation.Shared music queue: When listening together, anyone in the call can add songs to the shared queue.Listen together: Share music with friends.
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Watch together: Bring TV shows and movies to your FaceTime call.With SharePlay, here’s everything you can do:
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With Voice Isolation mode it isolates your voice from all the other noises and with Wide Spectrum mode, you can hear anything that’s happening in your friend’s surroundings.įaceTime is also receiving the Grid view feature and with a FaceTime link, you can invite friends into a FaceTime call with a web link on Windows and Android devices. It works exactly as it does on the iPhone camera. With this on, you can blur your background and put the focus on yourself. With this function, Apple says it creates a “sound field that helps conversations flow as easily as they do face to face.”Īnother function available is Portrait mode in calls. The video call app will feature, for example, Spatial Audio. FaceTime and SharePlayįaceTime is receiving a lot of love from Apple with macOS 12 Monterey. The Shortcuts app on the Mac also integrates with Spotlight, appears in Finder, supports multitasking, and increases with the Menu bar.
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You can build new shortcuts, access existing shortcuts, and more. The app on the Mac looks similar to Shortcuts on the iPad. Automator will continue to be supported in this release and Automator workflows can be imported into Shortcuts. Universal Control was worth the wait – here’s how it’s changing the way I workĪpple called Shortcuts the future of automation on Mac, and the first steps in Monterey are part of a multi-year transition.
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It uses Bluetooth beaconing, peer-to-peer Wi-Fi, and the iPad’s touchpad support to allow the devices to know they’re closer to one another. It’s possible, for example, to drag a Procreate logo on the iPad to a Final Cut project on the Mac. MacOS 12 Monterey brings Universal Control, which allows the user to easily use an iPad with a Mac, as the keyboard and mouse seamlessly move over to each device. You can now use AirPlay on a Mac, and use your Mac or MacBook as a speaker or video output.Now, with macOS 12 Monterey, Apple is refining the Big Sur experience with a redesigned Safari, Universal Control feature, AirPlay to Mac, and much more. More useful is the ability invite anyone to connect to a FaceTime call, even people using Windows and Android devices, and they are will still benefit from the end-to-end encryption.
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MacBooks and Macs using Apple's M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max chip will also be able to blur user backgrounds thanks to the Neural Engine, though this is something that has been part of other video calling applications for a while now, and doesn't require specialist hardware. There's also Wide Spectrum, which does the opposite, and means all ambient sounds (as well as voices) are boosted, which can be useful in some circumstances where you need to hear the environmental sounds where people are. There's also Voice Isolation, which uses machine learning to eliminate background noise and make voices clearer and easier to understand. This includes spatial audio support (a big theme of Apple's WWDC 2021 keynote), so depending on where the person is sitting, their audio should feel like it's coming from their position. So, it's good to see Apple bringing new features to FaceTime calling in macOS 12 Monterey. This past year has made the way we work and communicate change in drastic ways, and video calls are now more important than ever. But if you have an iOS device, you can use SharePlay now, which has returned in the release of iOS 15.1.
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This could prove to be one of the most useful new features in macOS 12 Monterey.Īpple has confirmed that the feature, and SharePlay will be coming in a future update to Monterey. There's no setup required, you'll be able to just put your devices next to each other, and move your cursor between them. You can also drag and drop files between iPads, MacBooks, iMacs and more. Use a trackpad on your MacBook and slide over seamlessly to your iPad. This handy feature means you can use a single mouse and keyboard and switch between Mac and iPad.
