Apple Introduces macOS Big Sur With A New Design, Safari Updates, And More

Apple today unveiled macOS Big Sur, introducing a redesign, new Safari features, including a customizable start page, elegantly designed and more powerful tabs, quick and easy translation, and a new Privacy Report, and much more.


macOS Big Sur delivers a spacious new design that makes navigation easier. Everything from the curvature of window corners to the palette of colors and materials has been refined, icons in the Dock have been thoughtfully designed to be more consistent with icons across the Apple ecosystem. Buttons and controls appear when needed, and recede when they’re not.

The company also brought the Control Center from iOS to macOS Big Sur, delivering quick access to controls from the desktop. An updated Notification Center includes more interactive notifications and redesigned widgets that come in different sizes, providing users with more relevant information at a glance. And a new design for core apps brings more organization to multiple open windows and makes interacting with apps even easier.

Notably, Safari got a screw of new features, including a fast JavaScript engine helps it outperform other browsers on Mac and PC (up to 50% faster when loading frequently visited sites), the ability to customize the new start page with a background image and sections like their Reading List and iCloud Tabs, built-in translation, more tabs can now be showed onscreen, improved support for extensions, and a new Privacy Report delivers added visibility into how Safari protects browsing activity across the web.

Inside macOS Big Sur's Messages app, users can now pin their favorite conversations to the top of their messages list for fast access, and search has been entirely redesigned — organizing results into links, photos, and matching terms — to help users quickly find what they are looking for. Users can also send Message effects and create and customize their Memoji. There is also new group messaging features that include Inline replies and @mention.

Completely redesigned for macOS Big Sur, Maps now lets you discover places to visit and things to do with Guides from trusted resources, or create custom guides of favorite restaurants, parks, and vacation spots that can be shared with friends and family. Cycling and electric vehicle trips can now be routed on a Mac and sent directly to the iPhone to have when on the go.

The developer beta of macOS Big Sur is available at developer.apple.com starting today, and a public beta will be available to Mac users next month at beta.apple.com.

Here is the list of devices that will support macOS Big Sur:
  • MacBook 2015 and later
  • MacBook Air 2013 and later
  • MacBook Pro 2013 and later
  • Mac mini 2014 and later
  • iMac 2014 and later
  • iMac Pro 2017 and later
  • Mac Pro 2013 and later

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