
This is useful if you’re planning a holiday, event or researching another interest. It is a handy feature that allows you to collect particular tabs together by a category of your choosing, so you don’t have to search for them among your other open tabs. With macOS Monterey, Apple introduced Tab Groups, a feature that gained even more capabilities in Ventura. There’s also now the Quick Note feature which, as the name suggests, allows you to instantly grab text or images from a webpage and have them appear (complete with links) in the Notes app. The reading mode is still one of Safari’s hidden gems, as it turns any webpage into a clean, clear article devoid of ads, links, and other distractions. As you’d expect, it boasts the standard features found on most modern browsers, including bookmarks, tabbed browsing, a password manager, private browsing options, a dark mode, read later list, plus a Shared with You section on the Home page that lists links you’ve been sent in Messages. It was worth the few extra minutes of system maintenance for such an improved user experience.Apple’s Safari browser has been around for a long time, and over the years it’s been improved to the point where it’s now a very solid choice for most people.

When I updated those Intel-based applications that were annoying me (particularly Chrome), I went from ugh to wow. But you might want to poke around whatever site you're looking at for your distribution to be sure that you're either getting a Universal or Apple Silicon-based binary.Īnd that's it. Most often, if you download now, you'll directly get an M1 native application. Pay particular attention to backing up settings and managing licenses, then uninstall the Intel application. I had to uninstall it, then install a fresh binary to get the speed increase. I tried updating it, but it stayed as an Intel binary. I found that while some applications switch to Universal when updated, many don't.Ĭhrome, for example, was disturbingly slow after I migrated to my M1 MacBook Air. If the application you're finding sluggish shows as Intel, then that's your problem.

Apple's Mac lineup can be confusing as the company transitions from Intel processors to its own Apple Silicon processors.
