OS X 10.10

Apple officially unveiled the new OS X 10.10, known as Yosemite at the 25th annual Worldwide Developers Conference on 2 June 2014.

It is the upcoming eleventh major release of the Apple's operating system after Mavericks.



Redesigned UI

OS X Yosemite features new and revamped user interface, inspired by iOS 7.

Of course, it still has the generic and familiar look of the previous OS X, such as the iconic dock and the menu bar, but with much flatter and modern visual appearance.

Other major visual changes in OS X Yosemite are the 2D dock, translucency, new icons, Dark Mode and Helvetica Neue as the new default system font.







Other visual changes :

Safari - Safari 8 features a new UI.

Boot Screen - New iOS-inspired Boot Screen.

Login Screen - New login screen background.

Launchpad - Revamped Launchpad UI.

Game Center - iOS 7-like Game Center UI.

QuickTime - Flatter QuickTime UI.

Time Machine - New Time Machine UI.

New Features

Yosemite has a bunch of new features and many of them focus on the theme of Continuity.

Continuity is a set of new features that allows iPhone, iPad, and Mac to remain true to their form-factors while still working seamlessly together.

With Continuity, users now have better and seamless integration between their Mac and iOS 8 Devices.

Moving on, here is a list of some of the notable new/improved features that are included in OS X Yosemite.

1) AirDrop: AirDrop now works between iOS and OS X.



2) Handoff: Handoff lets your devices communicate with each other to help you work on the same project across multiple Apple devices.



3) Improved Spotlight: Spotlight now appears in center of screen. You can type in a few characters to find news, Wikipedia info, maps, docs, movie times nearby, or see media you can buy from Apple that’s related to that topic.



4) iCloud Drive: iCloud Drive lets you access docs in the cloud, and they can be synced across all your Mac products.



5) Phone Integration: Your Mac now acts as a caller ID when you get a call on your iPhone. You can also use your Mac as a speaker phone, or call a number you see on webpage. Not only that, you will be able to send and receive SMS/MMS right on your Mac as well.



6) Instant Hotspot: With OS X Yosemite, your Mac can automatically use the personal hotspot on your iDevice when they are within the range of each other. Your Mac even displays the signal strength and battery life of your iDevice.







Other features/changes:

Safari - OS X Yosemite includes the new and more energy efficient Safari 8 along with an improved Nitro JavaScript engine, making it faster than ever. The new Safari also features new tabbed browsing.

iCloud everywhere - Yosemite now lets users log into their Mac using their iCloud password instead of user account password.

Currency conversion - Currency conversion in Spotlight.

Spotlight search - Bing now replaces Google as Spotlight search engine.

Batch rename - Yosemite's Finder brings you the ability to rename multiple selected items using right-click.

Near networking - Apple's move to open Multipeer Connectivity means Macs and iOS devices will be far easier to network together over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.

Cloud control - Yosemite allows you to remotely close pages that you have open on all your devices using iCloud Tabs.

New sounds - Apple has added new alert tones to Messages.

File location - Click on a file and hold the command key and you'll still see where that file is located at the bottom of the window.

Launchpad - Extra row and add pages in Launchpad Folders.

Dictation - OS X Yosemite includes 24 new dictation languages.

Record - You can plug in an iOS 8 device and record audio and video in QuickTime.

Video encoding - You can encode video files by right-clicking on the video file and selecting the encode file option.

Mission Control - Improved Mission Control.

Mail - Updated Mail App with Markup feature.

Release date

OS X Yosemite was released on 16 October 2014 right after the Apple October event. Like the previous OS X Mavericks, OS X Yosemite is available as a free upgrade and it can be downloaded through the Mac App Store.

This post has been edited by Townshend: Aug 15 2015, 10:45 AM

Before installing OS X Yosemite

Before you install OS X Yosemite, I strongly recommend you to:

1) Backup using Time Machine.

In case something goes wrong or if you are not happy with the new OS, you can revert to the previous OS easily and still have all your data.

2) Make a Mavericks bootable drive.

Download the Mavericks installer from Mac App Store and make a bootable drive. Once you installed Yosemite (on your main partition), you will not be able to download Mavericks anymore. So, it is a good idea to download the installer so you can reinstall Mavericks anytime.

How to make a Mavericks bootable drive:



3) Upgrade, clean install or install on a separate partition

Basically, you have the option to either upgrade or perform a clean install. If you have no problem with your previous OS, you can just save your time and proceed with the upgrade method. Upgrading is the easiest and fastest way to install the new OS on your machine.

How to upgrade:



However, if you have problems with current OS, or want to make sure that your Mac get the best performance, I recommend you to do a clean install instead. A clean install is able to eliminate the bugs and errors on a previously installed OS that may still present if you choose the upgrade option.

How to do clean install:



If you would like to keep your previous OS on your machine due to some reasons, you can install OS X Yosemite on a separate partition of your drive. You can do that by following the guide below.

How to create a partition:



How to install OS X Yosemite on different partition

1) Download OS X Yosemite via the Mac App Store.

2) After Yosemite has finished downloading, quit when it prompts you to install because you may want to copy the installer somewhere else in case you need it again (trust me, you do not want to waste your time to download it again). The installer is located in the Application folder.

3) To install the OS on different partition, just open the installer, and when it asks for install location, click on Show All Disks and choose a partition that you created earlier (you can skip this step if you want to upgrade your current OS).

4) After the installation, you can press and hold Option during startup to choose between your previous OS or OS X Yosemite. To select Startup Disk, go to System Preferences > Startup Disk > Choose what OS you want to use during startup.

Help, my Mac is slow after Yosemite update

Your Mac might be slow because of Spotlight indexing. But if it is still slow after a few hours or days, try the following

1) If FileVault is enabled, try disabling it and see if it fixes the issue.

2) Reduce the Transparency and disable Dashboard in System Preferences. This seems to solve the issue for some people.

3) Use Disk Utility to repair your disk. To do so, go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. Then choose Yosemite partition and click Verify Disk Permissions, then Repair Disk Permissions. Next, click Verify Disk and then Repair Disk.

4) Reset the SMC and PRAM.

5) Do a clean install if you did an upgrade.

How to revert to previous OS after you have installed Yosemite

1) Via Time Machine (recommended).

-Make sure Time Machine drive is connected.
-During startup, press and hold Command-R (works for OS X Lion and later).
-Choose Restore From Time Machine Backup and follow the instructions.

*You will still have all your data and settings and your Mac will be in the same state as it was on the date of the backup.

2) Via bootable installer (clean install).

-Make sure the bootable installer is connected, then press option during startup.
-In OS X Utilities screen, choose Disk Utility and erase your main hard drive.
-After it is done, go back to OS X Utilities screen and choose Install OS X and then follow the instructions.

*You will lose all your data, but you will have the option to restore files from Time Machine after the process (provided that you have Time Machine backup).

This post has been edited by Townshend: Mar 3 2015, 07:32 PM

Gooding maa

i personally dont like how the mock up design looks like.. luckily it's not the real thing but what people think it will look like. (i hope the real thing don't look like that )

yuck,ugly

it sux..

Hope they can put more translucency to the UI!
I don't want flatter designs, rather old designs with less reflection and shadow.

The new Finder UI is nice!!

But the Dock is ugly... prefer the old one thou...

ahhh craps.

btw Apple really did this ? facepalm.

-Finder UI nice thou... but for other mmg.. [woii APA BENDO niii ]

SYRAH?


islamic inspire?

Those are just mockups based on rumours. The new OS is said to have a flat and minimalistic look.

No, Syrah is a wine grape.

The Keynote is 3 days right??

Do u know which day they will talk about OSX? thinking to watch live stream about OSX...

Damn. Hope that that flat design is not happening.

The keynote is on 2 June, so everything they want us to know will be announced on that day.

https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/schedule/events/

The rest (3/4/5/6 June events) are just for developers.

BTW, the two hours live stream starts at 1.00 AM, 3 June - Malaysia time

https://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2014/

Fortunately, I'm still on holiday, so I can watch that live stream lol.

Okay! Thanks alot for your info bro!

Lucky u! I still have to work tomorrow.. now thinking whether want to watch tonight anot.. after watch tomorrow fishing during work ady..

Dont know still can watch replay tomorrow morning ady...

This post has been edited by kopiPeng: Jun 2 2014, 04:19 PM

The 24 March leaked OS X 10.10 photos doesn't seem to show much redesign though.







http://www.iphonehacks.com/2014/06/leaked-...creenshots.html

This post has been edited by Townshend: Jun 2 2014, 04:31 PM

uh.

i dunno how i feel about this. some of it do look nice, i just dont like the new dock look. the 3d plate is gone

Quite awesome this new OS! I like that we can make and accept calls using Mac now.

Is it free?

Yeah it is free.

I am happy we get another free update.

interesting features.......crappy UI a bit too bright/white (hopefully the dark theme which they didn't show would make things better)

also..the old trash can looks so nice on retina... why change it XD

Call and sms notification ability to make and take call from any platform is amazing.

Continuity will make more people to stick to apple ecosystem.

https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/

JOIN THIS BROS!



This post has been edited by Anonymous34: Jun 3 2014, 08:50 AM

Yea, I just joined.

Luckily it is still open.

It's open until 1 mil users have signed up.
I think most didn't sign up because they didn't bother because it's a beta or those who already has a developer account.
Hopefully we can get it in 1 week!

I just sign up also with my Apple ID.

Anyway here is the link - https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram

the flat design sux

Yes, it is free just like the previous OS X Mavericks.

just signup for the public beta. hopefully the answer call from any platform works for me to try it out

I want to try the Handoff feature.

That feature looks awesome.

Its called continuity isn't it?

I think you gonna need ios8 to try most hand off and continuity stuff.

Did u guys installed OSX 10.10 in your daily use mac? I'm afraid there are many bugs and crashes.

Nope. Not yet so far. Most are waiting for public beta to release and install. Expect some bugs as its a beta OS.

Are there any differences between mavericks and Yosemite?instead of UI changes.

Of course there are such as Continuity/Handoff, phone integration, AirDrop with iOS, iCloud Drive, improved Spotlight and Safari.

So most of the features are usable if for IOS 8? xD

if got*

Ewww. I prefer the old dock.

The 'translucency' dock looks like windows 7. 😞

This is revolution. Don't insult Mac OS X.

Best if used with iOS 8.

It resembles nothing, but imho it is hideous.

if they made the dock 3d like tmavericks, but translucent it'll look better imo.

3D but flatter, not flat to the extent of being 2D

How big is the whole system after installation?

Going to be smaller than Maverick is a great thing to hear. Since their graphics is so simplicity and neat... Might save up some space..haha

X 10.10 torrent is available already
but too many tried and reinstalled their maverick
lag issue...battery drains very quickly....

And 1 more thing... the new spotlight on desktop is a joke...

Even now on Maverick I can easily press (cmd + space bar) and directly type what i wanna search there.. and *poof*

result is there.. not even 1.5 second...

I guess I wont rush to upgrade Yosemite until a more stable version released...

Well, it's Beta. Just wait for the official release.

The most important feature for me, AirDrop. Oh yeah!

I dont now why but I kinda like the dock. Personal preference. The current dock is fine, but kinda bored with it and I welcome a change.

Yea, some people hate it, but I like the new dock design.

...so lets reintroduce OSX cheetah's dock ...

...
so outdated punya...

Its the dock from older OSes with new icon. Lel

Looks slightly different.

I still like the dock on OS X Yosemite though.

hope yosemite solve adobe Ai and PPro issue.

With some slight visual change, but I'm fine with it

^thanks for sharing neat new features ... but.... makes me not like the UI even more :| .. the folder so bright blue ><

hopefully the dark theme would be diff *fingers crossed*

Still, there is no review of that Dark Mode yet because I read that it is not currently build in Beta 1. Really wish to see it though.

hate the new dock

i LOVE to MAC, but seriously, the look of the new OSs'/IOSs', are beginning to suck ! The IOS 7..the look ..not great. Now Yosemite, damn i hate the look of the dock, it's as if its goin primitive again.
COME ON APPLE, give us a better design !

LOL somehow I like the dock.. As all the time prefer 2D dock instead.
However, hope that it's able to change the dock background to be transparent, then it would look even better~

and be frank, the dark mode, hope it implemented well, as i can get rid of obsidian menu bar alrd~ XD

Apple share Official Yosemite video

I just upgraded to 10.10 Yosemite on Monday, its Developer Beta.

Working fine but my email client "Foxmail" is not compatible.

What is the exact date the 10.10 will come out ?? 😊

They only mentioned this fall. No exact date at the moment afaik. Probably will be released around the same time we got Maverick last year.

Oh, that means it's will probably come out this October ? 😱

The release should be on September or October.

Sign up for the public Beta if you want early access.

Is it safe to get public beta ? since i have 1 mac only, hehe 😭

Can't really say, therefore it is recommended to backup your Mac first.

Anyway, expect bugs and issues since it is Beta.

This post has been edited by Townshend: Jun 11 2014, 10:00 AM

Seem I will just wait this september/october hehe..Afraid if face with all those bug and issues 😭

Well you can do dual boot if you want to try.

http://osxdaily.com/2014/06/05/install-os-...rate-partition/ <------ Disclaimer: I never tried.

Im afraid my macbook will laggy if duel boot to do that hehehe..i will just wait for this september/oct 😊

I am doing dual boot on my MBA2013. So far no problem at all and free to switch from one to another. File sharing across both OS is working flawlessly too.

I am running Yosemite on my MBA 11 with 4GB RAM. Working fine

Using Snow Leopard :3 now. just wondering is it better to upgrade to Mavericks and wait for stable update of Yosemite.

Or wait for my email for public beta and straightaway install yosemite.

Will it effect my macbook performance wise? Can i downgrade my os?

I don't think you should install Yosemite (Public Beta) as your main OS. There are bugs and issues as the OS is not yet stable.

Anyway, as long as you backup your Mac using Time Machine, you can easily revert back to previous OS if you are not happy with the new one.

Townshend, how long you think to upgrade from Mavericks into Yosemite ? my internet speed is 1mbps

I don't know the exact size of OS X Yosemite but IINM, the developer preview is around 5GB+.

So that's about 11 hours if you have a constant 1 Mbps connection.

omg, 5GB size which means i need to wait almost 1 day hehehe

Clone ur drive dude...n them dare it. My colleague has installed Yosemite, n he is tempting me..... The real thing would be September ....
The Foch however seems to be a come of panther or jaguar ...I m not sure which. But it is a come back alright !

Careful whn u install.... If u dnt follow procedures, u may end up with a fresh install... which means, evrythg u had in mavericks would be gone...

any of u guys installed the beta 2 yet? notice any difference?

just installed DP2 yesterday...everything words pretty smooth ,and some buggy on the Facebook website during chatting.and the final cut pro not working via short cut,with some trick then its works fine.

does it work with BetterTouchTools software ?

Im not use that software,so im not sure..

oh okie dokie, thank you btw sir

U r most welcome bro..

shoot. I'm late.
Just sent a request to apple for the beta copy
Dunno whether the allocated 1mil beta already finish or not

personally.. quite liking the look of it.

Yea, you are probably too late for the public beta. It's been like four weeks.

But, even those who signed up early still haven't received the beta. Probably will receive it in July or August.

Bros... If I get a used older mbp or MBA models...do I have to pay for Yosemite ?