Innehållsförteckning för November 2019 från Macworld UK

From the desert to the coast: macOS Mojave has given way to the next major version of the Mac operating system, called Catalina. Revealed during Apple’s 2019 WWDC keynote in June, Catalina features some major new features that continues to move macOS forward. Here we look at when it will be released, which Macs are compatible, and much more. When will Catalina be released? This is an easy one. It’s out now. How can I get it? Apple’s latest OS available is through the Mac App Store. The download is several gigabytes in size, and installation will take several minutes, so use a reliable Internet connection and be aware that you won’t be able to use you Mac for anything else during the installation. If you are a DJ, you…

MacOS 10.14 Mojave, the version of the Mac operating system before Catalina, is the last one to support 32-bit software. With Catalina, only 64-bit software will be supported. Now that it’s here, you need to do a bit more than usual to prepare your Mac. You need to make sure your apps are 64-bit versions. If a program is a 32-bit version, it will not work. Apple actually started to warn people about the change with macOS 10.13 High Sierra. If you launch a 32-bit app in this OS, an alert pops up to tell you that it needs to be updated. The alert appears only once in High Sierra and in Mojave, and it appears every 30 days. If you can’t recall whether an app needs to be upgraded…

RATING: Price: £1,049 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2MuoRKO If you were to ask people what they want in a new smartphone, they would probably say they want it to be fast, have a long-lasting battery, be nice and durable, and have a really awesome camera. It just so happens that’s what you get with the iPhone 11 Pro. It’s also what you get with the iPhone 11, which costs £300 to £400 less than the Pro. The Pro is certainly an upgrade, but it doesn’t do a lot to justify its ‘Pro’ moniker or very ‘Pro’ price. Still, the iPhone 11 Pro is a tremendous iPhone, with some noticeable (and not-so-noticeable) improvements over last year’s XS. As good as it is at what it does, it’s hard not to think Apple…

Of all of Apple’s platforms, tvOS seems to have gotten the least attention in this year’s annual round of updates. When you think about it, that’s a little surprising. After all, Apple is on the verge of launching a major new video streaming service, and the Apple TV hardware device is sure to be a part of that. Where’s the love? But look a little closer and the big picture starts to come into focus. Even with the imminent launch of Apple TV+, the Apple TV set-top box, once Apple’s beachhead in the living room, is simply not nearly as critical to the company’s mission as it used to be. The future of TV is app Apple’s TV platform has long been a third-class citizen in the company’s ecosystem, after…

With the release of the latest version of macOS, Apple introduces a slew of new features. You should (and will) try them all, of course, but where should you start? Well, we’ve been using the Catalina betas, so we have ideas on which new features you should try first. These are the major new features that you’ll want to start with in the macOS update. 1. Music, Podcast, and TV apps The iTunes app is no more in Catalina – it was an app that had too much going on, and Apple has wisely broken it up into Music, Podcasts, and TV. You now manage the respective media in each app, and if you connect your iOS device to your Mac, you use these apps to coordinate your syncs.…

Safari is probably the most frequently used app in macOS. Fortunately, with the upgrade to Catalina, Safari gets a few helpful new features. Here’s a look. Start page The start page has a new way to help you get to the websites you want to visit. It still shows Favourites and Frequently Visited websites as in previous versions, but now there’s a Siri Suggestions section that lists recently-visited sites, Reading List links, iCloud Tabs, links sent to you via Messages, and more. Tab switching When you type in a URL, if that website is already open in another tab, Safari will display the option to switch to that particular tab. Not only should this help cut down on the number of open tabs that you have, it can also help…

RATING: Price: £349 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2IyrTMW When I first saw the new 7th-generation iPad, I wondered why Apple even bothered to release an updated model this year. Sure, the 10.2in display reveals a slight boost in size over last year’s 9.7in iPad, and the latest model finally has a Smart Connector, but for all that, this iPad has the same cameras and A10 processor as last year’s model, the form factor hasn’t changed significantly, and it’s even ever-so-slightly heavier. Both models still only come in 32- and 128GB configurations, and both deliver around 10 hours of battery life. Let’s get this out of the way now: if you have last year’s 9.7in iPad, I see no reason to ‘upgrade’ to this one. But after a few days with the…

RATING: Price: £729 (inc VAT) from fave.co/35jOdmT Last year, Apple introduced the iPhone XR (£629 from fave.co/30T3RSV) as the ‘affordable’ offering in its new iPhone line-up. We liked the XR a lot, and we even said that it might be the best iPhone Apple has ever made. The follow-up to the XR is the new iPhone 11, and the fact that Apple decided to bless this model with the ‘iPhone 11’ title – and not call it something like the iPhone 11R – says a lot about where the company positions the phone. But can this phone carry the burden of being known as the iPhone 11? As a matter of fact, it can. The satisfying speed boost, dual camera setup, and long battery life combine to make the iPhone…

RATING: Price: £399 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2p2PkqI The Apple Watch Series 5 is so far ahead of anything that professes to be a peer, there’s only one reason not to buy one: You want multi-day battery life. Otherwise, you’re not going to find a smartwatch with a better screen, more advanced sensors, nicer design, or stronger app support. I’ve tested smartwatches from just about every manufacturer – Samsung, Fitbit, Fossil, LG, Huawei, Mobvoi, Withings, and so on – and nothing really comes close to the polish and performance Apple has delivered. Apple haters will scoff at that notion, but the truth of the matter is, if Apple offered an iPhone-free version of the Series 5 watch, it would instantly become the best selling Android wearable. Nothing under the Wear OS…

Since the very first Apple-designed smartphone chip (the A4 back in 2010), the company has been a force to be reckoned with in mobile silicon design. It was with the A6 a couple years later, when Apple used its own CPU design instead of a licensed architecture, that its performance leadership really started to kick into high gear. For the past few years, Apple’s CPU has really been untouchable. The A11 Bionic featured not only a custom Apple-designed CPU, but finally ditched the PowerVR-based graphics processor for its own custom GPU. In addition, it introduced the Neural Engine, a custom block of silicon separate from the CPU and GPU, focused on accelerating Machine Learning computations. Since that time, Apple’s mobile silicon has held court over the smartphone chip world. Maybe…