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I'm hoping it improves in the coming weeks. The rare issues that I've had with Sidecar freezing, though, can be traced to wireless connections. My favorite part of Sidecar is that the connection can be made wirelessly. This makes sense, though, as macOS is designed to be interacted with a cursor, not a fingertip. Turns out, though, you'll need the Apple Pencil to interact with the macOS interface on the iPad.

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Sidecar, the biggest new feature for Mac owners who also own iPads, isn't what I first hoped. When watching it in action during a WWDC presentation, I thought the feature meant all of macOS would be tap-friendly when you mirror it onto an iPad. MacOS Catalina Sidecar: Not what we wanted, still useful

I had a little time to try out Apple Arcade on macOS, and can report that Sayonara Wild Hearts ran quite smoothly and that PS4 controller support works well. For those unfamiliar, Apple's $4.99 per month games subscription service that works across iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs and - yes - MacBooks too. Gaming on the Mac has a semi-tragic history, and that might be changing, as the App Store brings Apple Arcade to macOS. They've been aware, and they should be on this. The ones you need to earn your paycheck or to express yourself creatively. And contact the developers of your most critical apps. So, look up the 32-bit apps on your system. OpenVPN currently has a beta version that is 64-bit, something I had to contact the company directly to find out.

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You might not know what a 32-bit app is (modern macOS apps are written in the 64-bit format) but you might be relying on one right now. macOS Catalina does not support 32-bit apps, and during its installation, it warns you of which apps on your system it will break because they're not 64-bit apps.įor me, that meant that OpenVPN - which is essential for our work here at Laptop Mag - hit the chopping block, and I couldn't keep using my test MacBook Pro for my work. MacOS Catalina incompatibilities: 32-bit apps are dead It makes sense, as that's where you go to manage connected external drives.

Oh, and one more tidbit to know: macOS Finder is now the destination for all iDevice management on the Mac.

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However, I don't know how many people will easily understand that Movies are found in the TV app - which has all the same sections as that app, including Watch Now, Up Next and Kids. You've got the Coming Soon and Up Next sections, and there's even a Kids tab for parents looking for appropriate content (Apple's got a team editorially curating this section).

The TV app mirrors a lot of what I like about its tvOS version. I tested it out and found excellent results, with Podcasts finding the moments in The Polygon Show where co-host Simone de Rochefort mentioned that time her and I met at Barcade. It's based on Siri, which is even more surprising. Apple now allows you to search the audio. No, I don't mean searching description text. Podcasts sports a pretty cool use of Apple's machine learning tech: the ability to search within episodes. This will likely be helpful for those who didn't realize that iTunes did more than music, freeing content arguably buried deep in that age-old app. The Podcasts and TV apps do just what you'd expect, delivering apps you're familiar with from iOS and tvOS to the Mac. MacOS Catalina Podcasts & TV: Welcome additions As I hoped and wished, all of iTunes' power-user features are intact, including iCloud Music Library and support for local MP3s. The best news out of all of this - aside from macOS matching iOS and tvOS for its media apps - is that Music doesn't drop any of iTunes' best features. Each resembles iTunes, with a navigation menu on the left, controls at the top, and the content in list/icon form in the rest of the screen. Except that its content lives on in the trio of apps dubbed Music, Podcasts and TV. Yes, the rumors of iTunes' demise are true. ITunes is dead, Music is a good replacement

Performance was solid during that time, but I would hope that it would be, as that machine runs on an 8-core 9th Gen Intel Core i9 CPU with 32GB of RAM. I tested macOS Catalina on a tricked-out 15-inch 2019 MacBook Pro.

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You can download macOS Catalina now, for free. It's supported (according to Apple) by: