Innehållsförteckning för November 2018 från Macworld UK

RATING: Free from fave.co/2QY0NkN As we’ve previously reported, Mojave is the latest update to the Mac operating system. At WWDC, Apple highlighted two features that in essence turn down the lights. The first of these – Dark Mode – has been designed to mute the interface to better suit working at night, or conditions where a user might want to focus solely on an application rather than the menus and toolbars. The second feature is the Dynamic Desktop, which will cause your Desktop image to change to match the time of day. Over the following pages, we will also look at its tidier Desktop, the addition of Markup tools in Quick Look, a new Gallery View in the Finder and the redesigned Mac App Store. Dark Mode When Mojave arrived,…

Beware installing macOS Mojave. Apple appears to have completely removed the ability to download the installers of older versions of macOS and Mac OS X from the new version of the Mac operating system. Previously users could go to the Mac App Store, click on the Purchased tab and see a list of all the apps they had ever downloaded. This was particularly useful if a Mac user wanted to revert to an older version of the OS, or run more than one version of the operating system (perhaps for testing, or because they were running old software). It was previously possible to locate an older version of Mac OS X in the Purchased tab, re-download its installer, and then follow various steps to create a bootable installer on an…

MacOS Mojave is here, and with it, Apple is now officially shipping four Mac apps that were written for iOS and run using a translation system that Apple’s planning on rolling out to app developers next year. But while it’s fun to consider what apps from the iOS App Store might come to the Mac App Store in 2019, it’s also worth asking what else Apple might bring to macOS next year – and whether it might have some unexpected benefits for iPad users in the process. This system needs to improve Let’s start with the obvious: This entire project of bringing iOS apps to the Mac is a work in progress. As Apple said on stage at WWDC in June, perhaps the best way for Apple to understand the…

RATING: £999 from fave.co/2zMwHKC This is a ‘tock’ year for the iPhone (or, in Apple lingo, an ‘S’ update) and many of us expected a relatively quiet and minor refresh for 2018 after the fireworks of 2017’s iPhone X. Of course, Apple doesn’t really do quiet phone launches, and two of its late-2018 newbies are fascinating: if nothing else the XS Max (read our review on page 38) and XR have enormous screens (the biggest and second-biggest Apple’s ever offered) and the latter’s price tag offers a comparatively affordable entry point to the new generation of all-screen iPhones. But where does that leave the third new handset, the iPhone XS? Rather outshone. Physically, it’s the same design as the iPhone X, and the 5.8in edge-to-edge screen that looked so fancy…

Another month, another impressive stack of new games to play on your Mac. Fantasy role-player Pathfinder: Kingmaker and episodic narrative adventure Life is Strange: Before the Storm are this month’s biggest releases, but they’re just the start of this fine collection. Read on to learn more about those games and others, including coding-based puzzler 7 Billion Humans, Lego-esque vehicle-builder TerraTech, and even a Mac version of Alto’s Adventure. 1. Pathfinder: Kingmaker Price: £34.99 from Steam (fave.co/2IB0B74) It’s been some time since the heyday of isometric role-playing quests such as Baldur’s Gate and the original Fallout games, but lately we’ve seen a renaissance of that style led by Pillars of Eternity. Owlcat Games’ Pathfinder: Kingmaker is the latest such release, catapulted to life by a $900,000+ Kickstarter campaign and the popularity…

WHAT’S THAT WEIRD APP FOLDER DOING IN YOUR ICLOUD STORAGE? There’s nothing more disturbing than finding files on your hardware that come from an app you are sure you never installed. Macworld reader Kevin wrote in asking about a video-management app. It’s an app he is positive he never installed on his iOS device, and he was shocked to find a folder in the iCloud Storage view in iOS (Settings > account name > iCloud > Manage Storage). He noted that the information seemed quite personal, as it had images that seemed to represent all his network devices. I suggested this might be something related to an app he purchased and forgot, but the explanation Kevin uncovered is only slightly related. After examining other apps he purchased, he discovered that…

RATING: £1,099 from fave.co/2zNSP7m The introduction of the iPhone X last year meant you could have an entirely new iPhone in your hands with innovative new features such as Face ID and a big screen in a compact body. Now Apple has iterated that design to create the XS, but aside from the gold finish, there isn’t really anything new to see on the outside. What is new though, is the XS Max, a larger option that gives us the biggest screen yet in an iPhone at a whopping 6.5in. The design is the same, but importantly the fact that there’s feature parity across both models mean you no longer have to compromise if you want the smaller phone as you did when you chose the iPhone 8, say, over…

MacOS Mojave is finally here. As we saw in our review on page 4, it’s not a major revamp, but it does add new features that can help you be more productive with your Mac. That being said, you may be hesitant to upgrade. After all, what you’re using now works fine, and why risk the potential for problems? We hear you, and if you don’t want to upgrade right away, you’ll be fine. But in case you’re on the fence, here are a few reasons why you should upgrade to Mojave now. 1. Dark Mode is easier on the eyes The first new feature Apple discussed at the 2018 WWDC unveiling of Mojave, the first feature that the Mojave website highlights, and the first feature I’m covering here is…

If after reading our review on page 4 you want to upgrade your operating system to Mojave, here’s what to do. First though, you should back up your Mac’s data. Once that’s done, you need to connect to a reliable (and preferably reasonably fast) Internet connection to download the software. The installation takes several minutes to download and install, so prepare accordingly. 1. Here is the link to the macOS Mojave Apple Store web page: fave.co/2QY0NkN. Click on it, and the page will open in your browser. 2. Click on the View in the Mac App Store button. This will open Mojave in the App Store. 3. Click on the Download button. 4. Once the installation starts, you can let it run unattended, but check in every few minutes to…