Mac & i Heft 4/2021 now in newsagents

Mac & i challenge 4/2021 is now accessible in well-stocked newsagents. However you too can do it in Heise store order – both on paper (free transport till August 12th) or as a PDF. The matters:

What you’ll be able to stay up for

At WWDC 2021 Apple once more offered new working methods with quite a few enhancements, extra exactly macOS Monterey, iOS / iPadOS 15, watchOS eight and tvOS 15, which you’ll be able to improve to within the fall. This time there are not any main renovations, however numerous element care, for instance when a number of Apple gadgets work together, multitasking and FaceTime, in addition to knowledge safety and safety. Mac & i presents all of the highlights, aside from those talked about, it’s about Common Management, Reside Textual content, Translation, Visible Lookup, the brand new shortcut app, Messages and Focus, Safari, Siri, iCloud +, Messages and “Shared with you” in macOS, SharePlay, Maps, Images, Notes with Fast Notes, Reminders, The place is ?, Pockets, Well being, HomeKit, Apple ID and extra.

We have now additionally highlighted an important highlights that may even have an effect on future apps intimately. In his background article, Markus Stöbe explains the technical background and likewise what adjustments for builders in every case.

Apple TV erupted

There hasn’t been a {hardware} replace for the Apple TV for nearly 4 years. Now the producer has added or improved some capabilities with out rising the worth. However do the improvements make the change from the 2017 to the 2021 {hardware} crucial? For picture-in-picture, white steadiness and convention room mode – a number of the enhancements within the new Apple TV 4K – you don’t even want to purchase a brand new gadget, you simply set up the most recent tvOS in your Apple TV from HD. The set-top field has acquired many attention-grabbing improvements lately. Mac & i has compiled 31 sensible suggestions for all youthful Apple TV generations, together with calibration, utilizing a number of headphones on the identical time (e.g. for Dolby Atmos in movies), simplifying textual content enter, apps and music, HomeKit and the Save electrical energy.

Finder for connoisseurs

Each youngster can grasp customary duties within the Finder for opening or renaming paperwork and folders. With just a few sensible tips and terminal tips, you may get much more out of the macOS file heart. Mac & i has compiled a complete of 14 suggestions and tips for the Finder that hardly anybody is aware of, for instance for the sidebar, the recycle bin, home windows, the library folder or hidden information. Mac & i additionally exhibits how you should use the outdated show of the title bar once more, present extra just lately used folders in dialogs, modify the icon dimension of the sidebar, checklist just lately visited folders or eject volumes with out affirmation.

Sensible suggestions for Mac and iOS

Even when the corona pandemic in Germany offers us a breather, the variety of video conferences will stay excessive. With our suggestions we give solutions on tips on how to use a digital digital camera and particular packages for a extra spectacular look. For instance, you’ll be able to change your face with an avatar, use inexperienced display screen results to show different backgrounds, let the digital camera comply with your head actions, use a stomach band for textual content overlay or share an iOS display screen in conferences.

Apple’s system software Shortcuts for iPhone and iPad (and shortly additionally macOS) not solely permits automation: Shortcuts can change whole iOS apps. There are a whole lot of ready-made shortcuts to obtain on the web, however lots of them are slightly small, not fairly completed or not convincing in each respect. The 26 sensible shortcuts we chosen for iOS and iPadOS edit photos, present extra climate data, obtain movies for offline classes and extra. With a bit crafting intuition, you’ll be able to adapt them to your style.

A giant benefit of the brand new M1 Macs is that they will run iPhone and iPad apps. Even when not all of them have been accepted by their builders and never each cellular app is appropriate for desktop computer systems, the vary is big. Mac & i has put collectively really helpful packages that it is best to check out and provides just a few tips about tips on how to use them.

If Cmd + F shouldn’t be sufficient: Looking is prone to be probably the most frequent actions you perform in your pc. Nonetheless, if you wish to discover particular patterns comparable to dates or repetitions of phrases, the standard search and change capabilities often must work. Not so in functions that use common expressions. Mac & i helps you get began.

This time the Developer’s Nook brings half 2 of the article on debugging in Xcode. Find out how you should use the LLDB surroundings to interrupt your program at particular factors, study it and analyze this system construction.

Thorough {hardware} and software program exams

Health watches wish to accompany us throughout coaching with music, to encourage us to train extra in on a regular basis life and to warn us if we overdo it and the heart beat skyrockets. The Apple Watch is the primary precedence for a lot of, however it’s price making a comparability. Mac & i made it and in contrast seven smartwatches from 130 euros to one another and the Apple Watch, specifically Fitbit Cost 4, Fitbit Sense, Garmin Venu 2s, Huawei Watch Match, Huawei Watch three Professional, Polar Vantage M2 and Polar Vantage V2. What additionally shocked us: There are numerous issues that others do higher.

The M1 processor has already confirmed its energy within the MacBook Professional, MacBook Air, Mac mini and, most just lately, within the iMac. Now Apple has constructed the identical chip, together with Thunderbolt, into its quickest iPads – and has improved much more. Mac & i took an in depth have a look at the brand new Professional fashions.

If you wish to use the iPad Professional in as many areas as doable, equipment assist to increase and shield it functionally. With our number of docks, hubs, keyboards, instances, foils, automobile chargers and stands, there’s something for everybody.

Video games from the cloud: Sport streaming providers like Stadia or GeForce Now wish to develop into the Netflix for gaming. Over the Web, they make it doable to play even fashionable 3D video games for Home windows on a dusty Mac or iOS gadget. That’s technically spectacular, however can it change a console or gaming PC? Mac & i checked out what to think about cloud gaming on Apple gadgets.

Thrilling studies

For a while now there have been an increasing number of provides to subscribe, lease or hire the most recent Macs, iPhones and iPads. As well as, there may be short-term hire for occasions, coaching programs or commerce gala’s. When is what higher than shopping for and what are the benefits of subscribing to or renting Macs and iOS gadgets?

For a small month-to-month price, the Setapp service provides a flat charge with entry to a variety of functions for macOS and iOS. Mac & i has researched which technique the supplier is pursuing, how the service works for builders and when it pays off to take out a software program subscription.

Darkish clouds over Apple: To this point, Cupertino has been capable of fend off complaints from cartel guards everywhere in the world with ease. A brand new political alliance within the USA is now critical about efforts to additionally put the iPhone firm as an alternative. Apple’s app retailer monopoly truly seems to be falling. For customers and builders, this implies extra freedom, but additionally a better danger.

As all the time, the brand new version additionally incorporates numerous suggestions and tips, exams of apps, equipment and video games. Mac & i Heft 4/2021 will also be learn within the browser as PDF or ready for studying iPhone and iPad, Android gadgets and Kindle Fireplace within the Mac & i apps. Subscribers already maintain it in your palms, Plus subscribers even have the paper and digital version, which is enriched with bonus materials, interactive studying mode and search operate, amongst different issues.

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