We’re swimming upstream in a raging torrent of alerts and notifications. Rather than clicking through everything, macOS should lead by example and do what we did with traffic signs.
human interface
Stage Manager manages windows, and the Dock manages apps. This explains how to keep an app window in a group, and all about popbacks.
If you leave some apps without an open window, macOS appears to quit them, but instead puts them into App Nap, only to quit them when it wants to. They’re undead.
Setting up a standard cast, how to deal with windows that open in the wrong app group, and building a group for a special workflow.
Getting started with Stage Manager, without confusion or tears. How to disable its motion effects, and how to build app and window groups for your workflows.
Why Stage Manager can’t be ‘intuitive’, but needs to tackle forests of windows and excessive distractions in novel ways.
The most controversial of all changes in Ventura is the move to System Settings. Although this does achieve important objective, there’s still a long and painful journey to get it right.
Stage Manager on its own is sufficient reason to want to upgrade to Ventura. Here’s why you need to try it out.
Is your Dock busy? How well are you able to distinguish Apple’s new app icons cast rigorously into rounded rectangles? I’m still failing, and open FaceTime when I want Messages.
When I went to change the settings of the menu bar clock, they had vanished. Finding them revealed significant changes coming in macOS 11.
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