List of built-in macOS apps
[1] Similarly, Xcode is offered for free on the Mac App Store and receives updates independently of the operating system despite being tightly integrated.
The icon features a robot holding a pipe, a reference to pipelines, a computer science term for connected data workflows.
Users can also make standard phone calls through the FaceTime app if a connected iPhone under the same Apple ID is nearby.
[15] With the release of MacOS Monterey, Apple introduced a feature called SharePlay, which allows users to simultaneously watch videos, listen to music together, or share their display.
[16] Find My is an app and service that enables users to track the locations of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, AirPods and AirTags via iCloud.
Missing devices can be made to play a sound at maximum volume, flagged as lost and locked with a passcode, or remotely erased.
Users are also able to share their GPS locations with friends and family who own Apple devices of their own and can set notifications for when a person arrives or leaves a destination.
[19] It allows users to create canvases called "boards", which can display a range of inputs including text notes, photos, documents, and web links.
Home is a smart-home management app released with macOS 10.14 Mojave, that serves as the front-end for Apple's HomeKit software framework.
Image Capture is an application that enables users to upload pictures from digital cameras or scanners which are either connected directly to their computer or network.
On March 25, 2019, Apple News+ was made available within the News app, which is a subscription service allowing access to content from a number magazines and newspapers.
Safari is a graphical web browser based on the WebKit engine, included with macOS since version 10.3 "Panther", where it replaces Internet Explorer for Mac OS X.
[36] Furthermore, macOS Monterey introduces Focus modes, which expand on Apple's previous Do Not Disturb feature to filter notifications during scenarios such as sleeping or working.
TextEdit has support for formatted text, justification, and even the inclusion of graphics and other multimedia elements, as well as the ability to read and write to different character encodings, including Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16).
[46][47] In OS X 10.9, Activity Monitor was significantly revamped and gained a fifth tab for "energy" (in addition to CPU, memory, disk, and network).
[79] Mission Control is a window management system and application introduced with the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, combining the features of the previous Dashboard, Exposé, and Spaces programs.
Siri is a digital assistant introduced in macOS Sierra that allows the user to interact with it to ask questions, make recommendations, and perform actions either on the device or by delegating requests to a set of Internet services.
It uses a Mac OS 9 System Folder, and a New World ROM file to bridge the differences between the older PowerPC Macintosh platforms and the XNU kernel environment.
Early releases of Mac OS X would often fail to draw window frames of Classic applications correctly, and after the Classic Environment's windowing was made double buffered in Mac OS X Panther, some older applications and games sometimes failed to update the screen properly, such as the original Macintosh port of Doom.
Some application functions are actually faster in the Classic Environment than under Mac OS 9 on equivalent hardware, due to performance improvements in the newer operating system's device drivers.
Dashboard applications supplied with macOS included a stock ticker, weather report, calculator and notepad; users can create or download their own.
New widgets could be opened via an icon bar on the bottom layer, loading a list of available apps similar to the iOS homescreen or the macOS Launchpad.
However, as of Mac OS X 10.5, Internet Connect's functions have been incorporated into the Network pane of System Settings, and the application is no longer included.
iSync was a tool made to sync iCal and Address Book data to a SyncML-enabled mobile phone, via Bluetooth or by using a USB connection.
Before the release of Mac OS X 10.4, iSync also synchronized a user's Safari bookmarks with the then usable .Mac subscription service provided by Apple.
It is used to purchase, play, download, and organize digital multimedia, on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating systems.
In Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the Printer Setup Utility was removed and its features placed in the Print & Fax System Preferences pane.
A client MacBook Air (lacking an optical drive) could then wirelessly connect to the other Mac or PC to perform system software installs.
It could automatically inform users of new updates (with new features and bug and security fixes) to the operating system, applications, device drivers, and firmware.
Starting with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, updates that required a reboot logged out the user prior to installation and automatically restarted the computer when complete.
