It’s not quite enough to get me off Adobe Lightroom (Photo’s crop settings still aren’t persistent), but it’s an improvement.
It offers nicer-looking overviews of your months and years, plus a photo editing interface I like more than the last version. It’s not anything like Steam, but it is a nice bonus if you’re already subscribed for your other devices.įinally, Apple updated Photos on Catalina to be more in line with the new versions on iOS 13 and iPadOS. I paired up my DualShock 4 controller with my Mac and played a few Arcade games. It gives Mac users a small library of games but, oddly, not everything that’s available on iOS or the iPad (at least to start). The other big new media-centric feature in Catalina is Apple Arcade. I am mostly a Spotify user, but if I want to make a special playlist like a mixtape, Apple Music is much better.
I’m old enough that sometimes I just want to organize my music in something like a spreadsheet view, and the Songs view does that well. Still, I appreciate that Music does a better job of recognizing and respecting my music library. There’s a nice new sidebar that can display lyrics or history, but the list of recently played songs in History only updates when it feels like it and sometimes just seems to forget that I’ve played something. The iOS version of Apple Music is much more mature and easy to figure out. It kept popping up the Find Friends settings on me, which was ironic because I’ll be damned if I have any idea where those social features actually are inside the app. Music is similarly odd in places, especially when it comes to the Apple Music subscription service. It seems to only be aware of content from the iTunes online store and my Apple library, whereas on iOS or my TV, it’s able to send me off to Hulu or HBO apps for shows inside those services. Podcasts is slow to connect to Apple’s servers, for example, but I was most disappointed in the Apple TV app. You can tell these are brand-new apps, though. With Macs, it makes more sense to wait, and with Catalina, that advice applies doubly so since most of the major updates on day one are about nicer media experiences. Starting a review with concerns about bugs and compatibility instead of new features probably strikes you as a bad sign, but don’t take it that way. In that case, I’d say go ahead and update, as I haven’t had major issues yet.) (The one exception is if you are having problems with iCloud reminders. My answer to that question is easy, then: wait - not because there are any show-stopping bugs, but because, on balance, the new features you get aren’t so compelling (yet) that you should rush to install it. It’s more likely that a critical app you care about won’t work on the latest version of macOS, and you’re likely dependent on your Mac for real work, so there are higher stakes for bugs. My general rule with Mac updates is to wait longer than I do for iOS updates, simply because the matrix of app and utility compatibility is much more complicated. Now, macOS 10.15 Catalina is out, and the number one question to answer is: should you update or wait to see how things settle down?
iOS and iPadOS have already been updated multiple times to address bugs, and they still have issues as of early October. It’s been a messy fall for Apple software releases.
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