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MacOS 10.12 Sierra review

21 September 2025

Universal Clipboard allows users to copy content from an app on one Apple device and paste it into another app on a different Apple device.

It's not easy, but it can be done, providing you have a Time Machine back-up from El Capitan before you upgraded to Sierra. To visit each, open a Finder window then tap Shift+Cmd+G, and paste in one of the paths. It seems more like a feature that adds a completeness to MacOS/iOS integration but is not something that most people will be using on a day-to-day basis. You can also share your entire desktop with other devices.

"macOS Sierra is a major update that makes your Mac smarter and more helpful than ever with improvements to the apps you know and love and great new features throughout", said Craig Federighi, Apple's Senior Vice President of Software Engineering. Tabs even works with third-party apps. Apple Pay saves you the trouble of re-entering credit card and shipping information. However, Apple consumers can be pretty persuasive due to their large numbers, so who knows?

While some are organized and store all their files in carefully organized folders, many just have everything dumped on the desktop and locked on a single machine. iCloud Drive desktop can now sync files and folders on the desktop between machines and to iPhones or iPads, so everything not organized is accessible from multiple machines. However, one of the biggest complaints associated with it was the fact that it wasn't available on the macOS platform. Then the message is clear: you're not getting the full experience.

If you have a lot of duplicated stuff on your system - especially audio and video files - then a tool such as Gemini 2 should help free up some storage space. There are also storage optimization options. First, go through and make that room you need, and delete anything else that you don't really need or use. You confirm the transaction in a way similar to what you'd do in a physical store - by pressing on a button on Apple Watch or by putting your thumb on the fingerprint sensor on your iPhone.

Best of all, it's a free upgrade, and you can get it right now. The trash bin can also now be set to empty the trash bin after 30 days. Though files also exist in iOS, they are controlled by and sequestered within iOS apps.

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A completely revamped iTunes that is easier to use and more functional.

Picture in Picture floats video from Safari or iTunes in a window over the desktop.

Since the last couple of OS X versions did not bring too many remarkable features to the table, many Mac users are ready for something new.

Yes. With both Microsoft and Google deploying voice-controlled artificial intelligence on their own desktop operating systems, Apple was actually falling behind.

The macOS 10.12 Sierra installer from the Mac App Store in your Applications folder. Early reports are that the download is extremely slow.