Is The Mac Os Sierra Safe For My Computer

Help keep your children safe online with macOS Sierra’s Parental Controls Internet safety is a huge concern for many parents, so it’s no surprise that Apple include a wide range of parental controls in each release of macOS. Try to start Your Mac using Safe Mode. To do this, turn on your Mac when you hear the startup sound (if applicable), press and hold the Shift key until you see the Apple logo. If your Mac can start up, the problem may be that your computer does not have enough space.

MacOS Sierra is available as a free upgrade right now, but many people got early access to it by taking advantage of a public beta Apple made available a few months ago. (Registered developers and PCMag had access to a very early beta version before that, and we've been testing it ever since.) If you want early access to the next version of macOS (or the iPhone's iOS) you should sign up at. Of course, you use a beta OS at your own risk. While Apple's betas tend to be reasonably solid by the time they are widely released, we still don't recommend installing them on mission-critical systems. MacOS Sierra is a free upgrade and works on any Mac dating back to 2010, and on MacBooks and iMacs from 2009. Older hardware will still work with OS X 10.11 El Capitan, which you're probably using now.

Some new features may not work on older Macs that can run the OS, however. Siri finally comes to the Mac. Just as Microsoft built its speech-driven assistant Cortana into Windows 10, so Apple built iOS's Siri into macOS. Sierra's Siri won't respond to 'Hey, Siri' because your Mac doesn't listen to you all the time, but she pops up with a keystroke (the default is Fn-space) or a mouse click and finds local restaurants or pictures you took last week, or tells you weather, sports scores, and much more.

You can drag Siri's answers from a pop-up window to the notification pane or drag images into documents. A new preference pane lets you decide whether Siri will talk back to you or simply type out her answers on screen. You can also choose her gender and nationality.

Sierra, in combination with, introduces a universal clipboard that lets you save text on a Mac and paste it into your iPad or iPhone, or the reverse. Other ways the Apple ecosystem gets more tightly integrated include automatic unlocking of a Mac when an unlocked is close by (and on your wrist).

Picture in Picture comes to the Mac, too. As on the iPad, you can extract a video from a Web page and have it play on your macOS desktop without the surrounding Web page. The video stays playing, in the same position, even when you switch among multiple desktops. The Finder gets some welcome additions—an option that automatically empties items from the trash after 30 days, and an option to put folders first when the Finder lists files and folders by name. Export contacts outlook for mac.