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Explore Other App Improvements

The previous chapter, Discover Other System Improvements, reviewed changes in Sonoma that affected the entire system or multiple apps. In this final chapter, I walk you through some of the most interesting changes to specific apps.

Once again, I cover these in alphabetical order, not in order of importance.

Service-Based App Changes

Many of Apple’s built-in apps retrieve portions of their content in real time over the internet. For example, even if you don’t subscribe to Apple Music for streaming music and instead have all your tracks stored locally, the Music app’s Radio and iTunes Store views show you whatever Apple’s servers decide you should be seeing in those categories at any moment. Similarly, the Books, ...