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Take Control of Big Sur
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Take Control of Big Sur

by Joe Kissell
November 2020
Intermediate to advanced
141 pages
3h 7m
English
Take Control Books
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Discover All the Little Things

In addition to the bigger features that each deserved their own chapter, Big Sur includes dozens of small (but sometimes quite significant) changes. In this chapter, I offer a quick overview of what else is new. Although I don’t catalog every tiny change, I attempt to hit the most important highlights.

The survey begins with what I’m calling “Other System Improvements,” which is to say things that affect your Mac as a whole or involve technologies that are available across apps. Then, in Other App Improvements, I discuss noteworthy changes in various apps that Apple bundles with Big Sur.

Other System Improvements

The following changes in Big Sur apply to multiple apps or to the system as a whole.

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ISBN: 9781947282629