With macOS Sonoma, work and play on your Mac are even more powerful. Here’s a look at a few of the standout features, along with apps and games to get the most out of them – hand-picked by our editors.
Widgets on the desktop
By letting you see key info from your favourite apps at a glance, widgets make checking the weather, upcoming appointments, urgent tasks and more incredibly quick. And in macOS Sonoma, widgets are even more powerful.
You can now put widgets right on your Mac desktop, and they can be interactive. Mark a task as complete, play a song, turn on a light – all directly from a widget. No need to open an app!
And with Continuity, you can use widgets for your favourite iPhone apps on your Mac.
Try these Mac apps that offer outstanding widgets:
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Things 3
Organize your life
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Fantastical - Calendar
Reminders & Todo List
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WaterMinder - Water Tracker
Daily Hydration Drink Reminder
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Mercury Weather
Local Forecasts & Live Widgets
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Lockera Widgets
Essential Desktop widgets
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LookUp Dictionary: Learn Daily
Learn with word of the day
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Dice by PCalc
The Best Random Numbers
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Agenda - Notes meets Calendar
Organise your days
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TickTick:To-Do List, Calendar
Planner, Reminders & Habit
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OmniFocus 4
Accomplish More Every Day
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Structured - Daily Planner
Visual Calendar & To-Do List
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Streaks
The habit-forming to-do list
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Kahoot! Play & Create Quizzes
Learn at school, home or work
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Cardhop - Contacts
The contacts app you'll love
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Tyme 3 - Time Tracking
Worked Hours & Timesheet
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Kanban Board, To Do - Doneit
Daily planner, task tracker
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CardPointers for Credit Cards
Earn more points & cashback
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GoodTask
To Do List, Tasks & Reminders
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Awesome Habits: Habit Tracker
Simple habit & goal tracker
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lire
Full-text RSS Reader
Game Mode
There’s never been a better time to game on Mac – and not just because of the incredible power of Apple silicon. With Game Mode in macOS Sonoma, playing the latest titles is a richer, more immersive experience.
On Mac with Apple silicon, Game Mode provides smoother gameplay and more consistent frame rates by ensuring games get the highest CPU and GPU priority, while lowering usage for background tasks. Game Mode also gives game controllers and AirPods better responsiveness by dramatically reducing latency.
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Try it out with these incredible Mac games, and follow new releases and updates in “The Latest Must-Play Mac Games” on the Discover tab of the Mac App Store:
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Lies of P
Deception Shatters Innocence
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Resident Evil Village for Mac
Action
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Return to Monkey Island™
Ahoy! Adventure Awaits!
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ELEX II
Role-Playing
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Fort Solis
Intense Narrative Thriller
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Dragonheir: Silent Gods
High-Fantasy Strategy RPG
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Myst
Adventure
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The Medium
Action
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Layers of Fear 2023
HORROR REIMAGINED
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Psychonauts 2
Get Psyched!
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DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT
Action
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Firmament
The Answers Lie Inside
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Inscryption
Card
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Asphalt Legends: Unite
Car Simulator: Drive & Drift
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Metro Exodus
Action
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Civilization® VI
Build. Conquer. Inspire.
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Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
A groundbreaking detective RPG
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider
The end of the beginning
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GRIS
Adventure
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Divinity: Original Sin 2
Definitive Edition
Safari Profiles
The Profiles feature in Safari makes it easy to separate your browsing activity – including bookmarks, history, Tab Groups, website data and which extensions are active – for personal, work and school use. After you set up a profile, it syncs across all your devices, and it can turn on automatically when you switch to a specific Focus.
The latest Safari also gets a more secure Private Browsing feature and lets you create a web app from any website and add it to the Dock.
Try out Profiles with some of our favourite Safari extensions:
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PayPal Honey for Safari
Your Smart Shopping Assistant
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Grammarly: AI Writing Support
All-in-one AI writing support
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1Blocker - Ad Blocker
Block ads, browse better
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AdBlock Pro-Browser Ad Blocker
Privacy Extension for Safari
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Noir – Dark Mode for Safari
Browse better at night
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Vinegar - Tube Cleaner
Better video player
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Translator by Mate
Translate in Browser, Apps
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Tab Space
Tab Saver & Bookmark manager
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Rakuten Cash Back
Cash Back + Coupons
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Ochi: Block Websites & Apps
Limit Screen Time Control
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Hush Nag Blocker
Block Cookie and Tracking Nags
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StopTheMadness
Take back your web browser
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OverPicture for Safari
Utilities
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Tabs to Links
Make lists of browser tabs
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Kuar - QR code generator
Utilities
And much more...
Don’t miss these other features and improvements that make macOS Sonoma an amazing update.
Video conferencing
Make presentations more engaging by putting your camera video over whatever content you’re sharing. Reactions let you respond with balloons, hearts and other effects – and trigger those effects with a hand gesture. A new screen-sharing picker, a dedicated Video menu and new ways to choose which window to share make it easier than ever to share content.
It’s simpler to screen-share with a new screen-sharing picker, a dedicated Video menu bar item and new ways to select which window to share.
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Screen savers
Fill your login screen and Lock Screen with slow-motion videos filmed in Yosemite National Park, Monument Valley and other gorgeous locations.
Screen Sharing
When you have a fast connection, the Screen Sharing app’s new high-performance mode improves frame rates and audio latency, making even remote editing in Final Cut Pro possible.
Accessibility
Made for iPhone hearing devices can now be paired directly to newer Mac computers, and the Personal Voice feature lets people at risk of speech loss create a synthesised voice that sounds like them for use with Live Speech.
Messages
Swipe right on any text bubble to reply inline. Find a specific message using multiple search filters. And use the new sticker drawer to access in one place all your stickers (including Live Stickers you created on iPhone and iPad), emoji and Memoji.
Passwords
Now when you share passwords and passkeys with friends and family, changes sync seamlessly to everyone’s devices.
Privacy and security
Communication Safety, a tool that warns children if they receive or attempt to send photos that may contain nudity, now works with videos and photos in Messages, the systemwide photo picker and third-party apps; and it can blur sensitive videos and photos before children view them. And Lockdown Mode, which protects against highly sophisticated cyberattacks, is even more secure in Sonoma.
Notes
Store and browse multiple PDFs right in a note, link related notes from within other notes and easily convert a note into a Pages document.
Autocorrect
Autocorrect is now more accurate – and a new design makes correcting mistakes easier than ever. The new predictive-text feature can help you quickly finish sentences, while Dictation is more accurate and is more convenient to use with your keyboard.
PDF support
The enhanced AutoFill feature can quickly fill PDF forms using saved contact info.
Music
Collaborative playlists let friends add, reorder and remove songs. And you can now use emoji to react to others’ tracks on the Now Playing screen.