macOS 10.15 Catalina available for download: permanently deleted iTunes

The main novelty of macOS 10.15 is the deafening absence of iTunes, the multimedia platform with which Apple users listened to music, watched movies and did a thousand other things, including running their own iDevices.

Catalina wipes out Apple’s historic software in favor of three separate applications: Music, Podcasts and TV. The functionalities of these three are similar to those of iTunes, but divided in a clear manner in terms of category.

macOS 10.15 Catalina is the latest update of the Apple operating system for the Mac family computers, and comes several months after the announcement, the start of the beta test and the implementation of numerous finishing touches. It can be downloaded and installed on your system, if compatible, through the Mac App Store under the updates section. But now that iTunes is gone, how are Apple devices handled on Mac?

macOS 10.15 Catalina available: Here are the news

The management of the iPhone and iPad remains native in the operating system, of course, and instead of being on iTunes it has been integrated into the Finder. Furthermore, access to your Apple ID can be made in the profile settings in the System Preferences.

The three apps allow you to manage multimedia content: Musica offers access to Apple Music and the iTunes library, TV offers access to TV series and movies with 4K HDR and Dolby Atmos support, Podcasts offer access to downloaded poddcasts and various features related.

Sidecar, on the other hand, is the new Catalina function that allows the iPad to be used as a secondary display for the Mac. There are several apps that perform this function, but the one integrated on macOS is certainly more intuitive and simple to activate.

Through the Apple Pencil, the user can transform the iPad into a graphics tablet compatible with dedicated drawing and photo-editing apps, such as Photoshop and Illustrator to name two.

With Catalina macOS you can use Apple Watch to approve security requests on your desktop system or notebook, while Macs with T2 chips now support Activation Lock, which makes them more secure.

Find My is also integrated on the Mac, for the first time, and allows you to monitor all devices connected to the account, even if they are offline. As on iPhone and iPad, Macs gain Screen Time mode, with which you can monitor the use of all connected devices.

With macOS Catalina also gives the go-ahead to Project Catalyst, a new initiative from Apple that aims to allow developers to port iPad apps even on Mac, in an obviously simplified manner.

Photo earns a new interface with the best photos organized by day, month or year, while on Safari, there is a new start page and on Mail, there are new tools to silence conversations, block some contacts, while the Promemoria app, It has been revolutionized to better support the new features of iOS 13.

The update introduces new security features, with Gatekeeper checking all installed apps looking for security problems, while Apple Arcade is also introduced, the new subscription-based gaming service also presented on iOS and Apple TV.

It should be emphasized that with Catalina, 32-bit apps will cease to function, just as other old apps may no longer work properly after updating.

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