macOS Tahoe introduced multiple productivity and continuity features. But after two months, only a few have actually stuck in my workflow.
I’ll admit, the premise of this story is a bit misleading, as I’ve been using macOS Tahoe since the second developer beta came out in late June.
But in a sense, it reinforces the fact that while macOS Tahoe brings multiple great features, not all of them are going to click for everyone. And that is perfectly ok.
Here are the new features I actually adopted in my workflow.
Live Activities mirroring
I feel like I rediscover this feature every single time I order some food, and it is always delightful. While I never had iPhone Live Activity mirroring on my wishlist, this has become my most frequent reminder that Apple actually updated macOS this year.
As someone who uses Bartender to hide absolutely every single menu bar icon, except for the date, time, and the excellent Timery counter, it would have been very easy for me to reflexively deactivate this feature, or hide it under the new ellipses button on Bartender 6.
But I’m glad I didn’t. The feature shows up when it has to, it reliably disappears on cue, and the fact that you can click on it to jump right inside the app through iPhone Mirroring is just Apple at its best.
Desktop widgets
As someone who lives in Brazil, works with embargoes and deadlines mostly in Pacific Time, coordinates with 9to5Mac’s internal schedule mostly in Eastern Time, has a brother who lives in Mexico City, and collaborates daily on a couple of projects with someone from Barcelona, the World Clock desktop widget has become one of my most faithful allies.
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