![]() ![]() The rigidity and clear lack of thoughtfulness makes it feel like a dialog box from some other operating system, like an old version of Windows. Macs have displays ranging from large to giant, but these release notes are displayed in a fixed-size pane that shows less text than an iPhone SE. But everything about the presentation of release notes in this sheet is obviously bad. System software updates aren’t from the App Store, and System Prefs is - duh - the correct place to manage the system. ![]() It was a good idea to move system software updates out of the App Store app and (back 1) into a System Prefs panel. ![]() Can’t copy them, can’t click them - the only way to actually open these URLs is to retype them manually. They even have URLs at the bottom of the note, pointing to support pages on which contain even more details about the update - but the URLs aren’t clickable. Worse, the text can’t be selected, so you can’t even copy and paste it into TextEdit or some other app to read it comfortably. You see about 9 lines of text at a time, and there’s nothing you can do about it. But the sheet containing the release notes can’t be resized. That’s good - there’s a lot new in this update and the release notes should mention everything new or different. The release notes for the 10.14.4 update are quite long, as you can see from the relative size of the scroll. It’s such bad design it’s obvious to anyone trying to read the release notes of a MacOS Mojave 10.14 update: I’m far from the first person to notice this. I'd like it if you chose to follow me on Twitter so I can let you know about new articles I publish and reports I find.Bad UI: MacOS 10.14’s Software Update Release Notes Wednesday, 3 April 2019 Got a story? Please drop me a line via Twitter and let me know. Google+? If you use social media and happen to be a Google+ user, why not join AppleHolic's Kool Aid Corner community and get involved with the conversation as we pursue the spirit of the New Model Apple? You can also use the Share pane to share the image with other apps and people. These include editing, object placing and selection, text entry, signature, annotation, editing, and cropping tools. In the subsequent view, you can access all the Markup tools you usually find in Apple’s Preview app. What you can do with MarkupĬlick the small preview window, and it will expand. Alternatively, you can tap the image to open it in a preview mode. You can automatically save an image by swiping the preview to the right, or select the preview and drag & drop it into a document. If you ignore the image, it will be automatically saved to the most recent place you saved a screenshot to, which means you can easily gather images to that location. The new behavior will be familiar to anyone who uses an iPad or iPhone, as when you take an image a small preview of that snap will appear in a small window at the lower right of the desktop. Screengrabs act a little differently when you capture them. Now tap one of the image capture options – do you want to capture the whole screen, a window, a video or a selected portion of the screen?įinally, you can edit the image preview ( see below).Press Options to choose where to save the image, set a time, or control cursor visibility.The most typical workflow when using these new tools follows: You can also choose to show or not show the mouse cursor in the image you capture. Select this to decide where you want to save your new image to (Desktop Documents, Clipboard, Mail, Messages, Preview) or to set a timer (None, 5- or 10-seconds). You’ll probably see me using this in tips. ![]()
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