Convergence of interfaces, graphics, user modes and applications. Ever since the first iPhone, the one between iOS – Apple’s mobile operating system – and OS X , the version of the Mac operating system with its more or updates less annual runs of the Apple computer now since 2001, has been a history approaching. Even at the cost of programs and solutions that have made history. Apple has recently abandoned its historical application iPhoto for Mac, as well as Aperture , photo software with professional target, and replacing them with the more agile Photos , identical in name to the iPhone and iPad, which is in effect a desktop version. With Photos , your computers and mobile devices are in continuous mutual synchronization: photo you take on your phone “land” in a matter of seconds on your Mac, where you can edit. The edited picture changes in real time, even on the iPhone that started. It is one of the many consequences of the revolution iCloud . Apple’s cloud makes the devices talk to each other, maintaining the continuity of your work – or fun – when you switch from one device. With the latest update, not only you have available all the power of your Mac , and of course the larger screen, but you can also use extensions, or the third-party editing programs, directly to ‘internal application – clicking on the Edit and opening the menu with all the tools, native and not (for example, Tonality , which make terrific black and white ).
But there are at least 5 other “tricks” to know if you are using a Mac with an iPhone or an iPad.
1. Handoff
You can start a document on your phone, for example while you’re on the train or plane, and complete it on your Mac . Just activate iCloud on the devices you wish to use. You’ll see an icon appear in your computer’s dock, or in the screen of iPhone Lock and iPad . Among the native application is compatible with Posts , Mail , Safari – allowing navigation seamlessly between your Mac and your mobile device – and Map .
2. iCloud Drive
With the portable devices of Apple we got used to save documents within individual applications. For example, text files gestivi them “inside” Pages . You opened the app on Mac or on ‘ iPad , and from there you could access a synchronized list of your documents. It was convenient if you used one application for each type of file, but if for example alternavi Pages and Word, the headache of copiaincolla and unsynchronized versions was assured. Now OS X and iOS also have a shared file system: iCloud Drive , which works a bit ‘like Dropbox or Google Drive , but designed specifically for Apple users. You can find it either iOS (such as apps), both on Mac (in the Finder). A real system of folders and documents, which allows you to store files and transfer them from one device, or share them with others, whether it be text, video or otherwise. With an advantage: it is fully integrated with the app. We then find all your text documents in the folder Pages , for example. More comfortable than this, an Apple user, you can not.
3. Maps
Do you plan a route directly from the Mac and then send it iPhone – or the Watch – with button Share . But not only. This afternoon you have to meet with a friend around the center and has a iPhone ? Ask him to share you its location (just a click from the Messaging app, click on “details” of the conversation).
- 4. Calls and SMS
can call (or receive calls) directly from your Mac . Even if the other phone is no Apple . To enable this option, the Mac and your iPhone must be under the same network Access and updated (iOS 8+ for mobile, Yosemite or El Captain for your computer). A useful function if you want to forget the phone in the bag, but expect an important call, or more simply if the phone is charging. There is only one limitation: the Mac You can not “mute” calls as you do with the on / off button of the iPhone. You can turn off the option by eliminating incoming calls directly from the Facetime on your Mac . You can also send and receive direct to your Mac text messages, in addition to the iMessage you trade with other users Apple .
5. Notes
With recent updates of mobile and Mac operating systems, the application that first allowed you to write simple text notes has evolved radically. Now you can insert images, links, pdf, location, or write and draw directly on the screen, very good option if you have a iPad Pro and Pen . Another new and very useful option is to make lists directly and then you can check on your iPhone. Someone said shopping list? Of course, the notes can be shared and synchronized via iCloud.
and one more thing … Airdrop!
You just made a photo of your girlfriend and you want to send it to him? A design that you want to share on the fly as you travel together? To exchange files between iPhone and iPhone , or iPad , or Mac in the vicinity, the fastest system this. It works on devices with iOS 7 or above, with Bluetooth and Access on. To control who can send you file, just open the Control Center (with the swipe from the bottom).
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