With macOS Sonoma, Apple is continuing to build in screen sharing to a point where it's easy to use for newcomers — and a little disappointing for everyone else. Here's how to use it.It's not as if it's hard to fathom, but the way Apple describes screen sharing, it is sometimes tricky to be sure which part of it the company means. There's screen sharing over Messages, for instance, and Apple has now introduced a screen sharing feature for video conferencing calls.But it also has a separate, standalone app called Screen Sharing, and this is the one Apple means when it says the feature has been improved for macOS Sonoma. Read more...

Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge If you’ve got an active Google account — or especially if you’ve got one you haven’t used in a while — you’ve probably got more apps and services hooked up to your account than you realize. There are all those places where you’ve “signed in with Google,” all those browser extensions you’ve given permissions to, all those add-ons that you’ve installed on top of Gmail and Google Drive, and so on. While it’s always a good idea to be selective and cautious in choosing which apps and sites get these privileges, there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with using your Google account instead of an email address and password combination or in giving another app…

Macworld “Passkey” is the name for a simplified login process to websites that arrived in its full glory later this year with macOS 13 Ventura, iOS 16, and iPadOS 16. A passkey relies on broadly supported industry standards to let you carry out an encrypted login with almost no effort on your part after the initial setup. You can try a passkey without installing the public betas of these upcoming operating systems, as Apple built passkey support in a preview form into Safari across all its operating systems in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and Safari 15 with macOS 12 Monterey. With the full release of passkeys in a few weeks or months, and Google and Microsoft’s announced support for compatible technology, you’re…

From recognizing that you've raised your hand to speak, to for some reason showing you being rained on, macOS Sonoma is transforming the familiar video call. Here's how to use it.Familiar fireworks, balloons and more from iOS are now available within video calls on macOS SonomaApple calls this feature "Reactions," and it provides two separate ways to add specific graphical reactions to your video calls. One way is have your Mac recognize and interpret your physical reactions, such as holding up a thumb to vote on something. Read more...

From recognizing that you've raised your hand to speak, to for some reason showing you being rained on, macOS Sonoma is transforming the familiar video call. Here's how to use it.Familiar fireworks, balloons and more from iOS are now available within video calls on macOS SonomaApple calls this feature "Reactions," and it provides two separate ways to add specific graphical reactions to your video calls. One way is have your Mac recognize and interpret your physical reactions, such as holding up a thumb to vote on something. Read more...

Apple today seeded the second beta of the recently announced macOS 14 Sonoma update to developers for testing purposes. The beta comes two weeks after the launch of the first beta that came out following the June 5 WWDC keynote event. While the beta is limited to developers at this time, Apple plans to provide a public beta later this summer. Registered developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer Center and after the appropriate profile is installed, with the betas available through the Software Update mechanism in System Settings. macOS Sonoma introduces new Apple TV-like screen savers that also serve as wallpapers after you log in, plus it moves widgets to the desktop. You can use the new…