system introduction
Hei Guo Wei Shu reported on June 6 that Apple today pushed the macOS 14 developer preview beta update (build number: 23A5257q) to Mac computer users.
widget kit
Widgets become more powerful in more places. Now you can use WidgetKit to build support for interactivity and animated transitions, so people can take action directly in your widget. Users can now place your widgets directly on the desktop, interact with them with a single click, and, through the magic of Continuity, access the extensive ecosystem of iPhone widgets directly on the Mac. Widgets are intelligently colored based on the color behind them to keep the desktop readable and help people stay focused while working.
Metal
Metal powers hardware-accelerated graphics on Apple platforms by providing low-overhead APIs, a rich shading language, tight integration between graphics and compute, and an unrivaled suite of GPU profiling and debugging tools. Bringing games to Mac is now even easier with the new Game Porting Kit and Metal Shader Converter.
machine learning
Core ML brings new optimization tools for compression, faster loading, and more, so applications can deliver a more powerful and efficient machine learning experience. With the addition of multi-label classification, interactive model evaluation, and a new API for custom training data augmentation, use Create ML to easily build models to understand the content of images. The Vision framework introduces more powerful image segmentation and 3D depth information for human poses, while VisionKit makes it easy to integrate visual finding and subject boosting experiences into your applications. The Natural Language Framework enhances understanding of multilingual text with new Transformer-based embedding models, and the Speech Framework allows custom vocabulary in speech recognition, so you can personalize the user experience.
web application
Now people can add your site to their Dock on Mac. Any website added to the Dock becomes a web application, with an app-like look and system integration like other apps. Create a web app manifest that communicates your site's expected behavior for web app-related features in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.
video conference
People can more easily start screen sharing in a more private and secure way using the new ScreenCaptureKit Picker. Pickers also make it easy for your app to capture multiple windows or even multiple apps at once, and users can start sharing right from the app they're in. They'll appreciate getting a preview of shared content in the new video effects menu and being able to enable new video effects like presenter overlays and reactions.
password
Based on the industry standard for account authentication, Password replaces passwords with encryption key pairs, making them easier to use and more secure. Give people a simple, secure way to log in to your apps and websites across platforms—no passwords required—with passwords. People can now share passwords and passcodes in iCloud Keychain with trusted contacts. Password manager apps can save and make passwords available on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Businesses can leverage passwords thanks to iCloud Keychain’s Managed Apple ID support. Administrators can use access management controls in Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager to manage which device passwords are synced.
TipKit
Use TipKit to intelligently educate your users on the right features at the right time. This new framework includes templates that match what people are used to seeing in system apps and is easy to customize to match the look and feel of the app. Add goals to educate users about features relevant to the current context, and manage overall frequency to avoid showing the same prompt again, even if the prompt appears on another device.