Today at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote, Mac OS X has been renamed to macOS and Apple previewed macOS Sierra, a major update to the desktop operating system that adds Siri support and more. Siri is now on the Mac with brand new capabilities to help with the things users do every day on their desktop. Users can look up information, find documents, pin or drag and drop search results, and even adjust system preferences. Integration with iCloud makes everything from your Desktop and Documents folder available on your iPhone and iPad so you always have access to the files you need. The new Universal Clipboard feature allows you to copy content, including text, images, photos and video from one Apple device and paste it in another. Apple Pay comes to the Mac in Sierra so it’s even easier to shop securely and privately online.Siri on the Mac will be one click away with macOS Sierra. The familiar features of the personal digital assistant are finally coming to the Mac with capabilities specifically designed for the desktop. Accessible from the Dock, menu bar or keyboard, Siri lets you use your voice to search for information, find files and send messages. 
With macOS Sierra you can automatically have all the files on your Desktop and in your Documents folder on any Mac and iOS device. You simply save your files on your Desktop or within your Documents folder as you usually do and you will have them everywhere you need them. You can access your files on your iPhone and iPad in the iCloud Drive app and on iCloud.com or the iCloud for Windows app. And when you log into a second Mac, your files are automatically on the Desktop and in the Documents folder, exactly where you had them. macOS Sierra also adds the picture-in-picture feature introduced with iOS 9. It lets you have a video from Safari or iTunes in a window over your desktop as you work, and even resize, drag and pin video to any corner of your screen. The video stays put when you switch spaces. macOS Sierra also adds Apple Pay on the web, which is designed to make it easy to make secure and private purchases when shopping on participating websites. You no longer need to share credit or debit card numbers with an online merchant and actual card numbers aren’t stored on your device, nor on Apple servers. Just look for the Apple Pay button at checkout on many of your favorite shopping sites and complete your purchase with Touch ID on your iPhone or by using your Apple Watch. Strong encryption protects all communication between your devices and Apple Pay servers, and Apple Pay doesn’t track your purchases. Also, Auto Unlock lets you simply walk up to your Mac while wearing your authenticated Apple Watch and be automatically logged into your desktop. Optimized Storage frees up space when your Mac starts getting full by storing infrequently used items in iCloud and reminding you to delete used app installers, and even clearing out duplicate downloads, caches, logs and more. Messages now allows you to preview web links and watch video clips within the app, post reactions like a heart, thumbs up and more directly onto a message bubble with Tapback, and use bigger emoji for more message impact. Apple Music in iTunes makes it even easier to discover new music and browse exclusives and new releases. iMessage and FaceTime use end-to-end encryption to protect your data by making it unreadable by Apple and others, says Federighi. Services like Siri and Maps send data to Apple’s servers, but this data is not used to build user profiles, and Photos uses on-device intelligence to organize your images using facial, object and scene recognition. The developer preview of macOS Sierra is available to Apple Developer Program members at developer.apple.com starting today. Mac users can sign up for the macOS Sierra Beta Program today and download the software starting in July at beta.apple.com. The final version will be available for free from the Mac App Store this fall. For more information, visit apple.com/macos/sierra-preview.
UPDATE 9/7/16 - macOS Sierra will be available to download on September 20th.
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