As expected, Apple has just deployed a second important update for Monterey, its new system for Mac.Without big news, MacOS 15.2 mainly corrects a dozen security problems.

[Updated on January 28] One month after version 12.1, MacOS 12 has just benefited from a second update since its release.An important update, but without great functional novelty.Because for MacOS 12.2, Apple mainly focused on safety, correcting no less than a dozen bugs.Starting with the famous mid-January discovery flaw with Fingerprintjs safety researchers in Safari, the web browser installed by default on Mac.If you use MacOS Monterey, then update without waiting, as the apple firm recommends.

What are the new features of MacOS 12.2?

Let's say it clearly, MacOS 12.2 is chick in new features.We can just point out the passage of the music application in "native" version, which makes it more reactive, and the compatibility of safari with the 120 Hz display on the new MacBook Pro (2021), which makes navigation onThe more comfortable web.But the new version of the system does not integrate the Universal Control, this long -awaited function which allows in particular to control a Mac and an iPad with the same keyboard and the same mouse, but also to pass an element from an an on screen to'other.

In fact, MacOS 12.2 mainly includes a compilation of safety fixes (see the full list on the Special Apple page). The most important concerns the safari flaw. A flaw due to poor implantation of a widely used database (indexeddb) which opened a security flaw allowing the websites consulted to recover the Google identifier and access the user's browsing history. Information largely sufficient to identify it and track it online, which goes against confidentiality advocated by the apple brand. But it is not the only correction of MacOS 12.2. And, if Apple remains as always very discreet about its security problems - "for the concern of protecting its customers" -, there are a dozen patches concerning both Bien core macOS and Colorsync, iCloud or even an Intel pilot. Suffice to say that this update, available since January 26, must be installed without delay on the Mac concerned.

What are the main novelties of MacOS Monterey?

Apple published MacOS 12 Monterey on Monday October 25, 2021, after having presented its new MacBook Pro to Puce M1 Pro and M1 Max (see our article).This new major development of the system is obviously installed by default on all Macs marketed since that date, but it is also available for a very large number of old models (see list below).Obviously, this version brought its share of new products and improvements, even if some, however planned, were still Basentes.

If you already use MacOS 11 Big on, you will easily find yourself in Monterey which takes up the graphical interface almost without change.We find, for example, the semi-transparency effects of drop-down menus and certain window zones and the overall colored appearance and rounded corners for example.As for the new functions, you surely already know some of them if you have detailed those that appeared in iOS 15 and iPados 15: it is now a habit at Apple to try to bring the mac clos of the brand's tactile devices forPropose an ever more coherent set.We will report it every time.

Groups of tabs in Safari

Have you abandoned safari in favor of another Internet browser for your daily web use?This new function may well make you come back in the fold of Apple browser, especially if you are used to opening many web pages at the same time.The principle is simple: rather than opening all pages in tabs next to each other at the risk of no longer being able to distinguish them, you can for example create theme collections within groups of tabs that you createAnd change as you see fit.Note that this function is not unique in Monterey but linked to version 15 of Safari which is also available for Big on (Maos 11) and Catalina (MacOS 10.15).

A password manager finally complete

It has been years since you can store your online service passwords in the mac access trousseau which, in addition, synchronize with its iPhone or iPad.But with Monterey and also iOS 15, Apple goes up a gear by integrating a real independent password manager.And which also allows you to manage the random validation random codes, which are also called two factors.This essential method to improve the safety of access to our online accounts was sorely missing at the Trousseau.

As before, you can also take advantage of the automatic filling of your passwords in a connection web page, as soon as you click in an area to be informed.Provided you use Safari of course.

Select text in an image

The live text function had made so much impression during the demonstrations of iOS 15 that we would almost forget that it is also part of the panoply of Monterey's new tools. Its principle is both simple, practical and stunning: it allows you to select any type of text inside any image. Until now, if you have taken for example the storefront of a store or the flank of a van to remember the name or number of a craftsman, you must then copy it "by hand" in your book D 'Addresses or retype the numbers to call it. With live text, fly over the area of ​​a photo containing text and you will see that the mouse arrow automatically turns into a text selection cursor. Switch off by keeping the button, and you select the text as if you were in a word processor. And it works not only in the photo application but also in all Apple applications as safari or notes. In other words, the Mac, like the iPhone, constantly analyzes the images on the screen to detect portions of text which could be useful to you. And if he recognizes the address of a website, he will suggest that you connect to a click. And it even works with cursive writing. Amazing right?

Concentration: a mode does not disturb more complete and synchronized

As on iOS 15, Monterey now has concentration mode, a new name of mode do not disturb.The new appellation is fully justified because it is not a "all or nothing" mode allowing you to no longer be interrupted for a given time, but a real customizable filtering menu allowing to create different modesDepending on his needs.In addition, if you activate it on your Mac, all your other Apple devices connected to the same iCloud account will be put in the same mode.

Choose preferences of the concentration mode to modify one of these modes or create a new one.You can for example choose the people who can always join you in this mode and also the applications to be activated automatically for each of the modes.For example to launch music applications and your word processor when you are going to start writing.

Better privacy protection

We know that protection against harvest by advertisers and other spies of our online personal data has been one of Apple's battle horses for several years.Unsurprisingly, MacOS 12 therefore benefits from the same protection functions as ios and iPados 15. Safari integrates by default online tracker filter tools, the efficiency of which can be controlled by clicking on the shield on the left of the baraddresses.

But if you are more subscribed to one of the paying services of iCloud, you then automatically benefit from the functions of iCloud+ baptized private relay and hide my email address.If you activate the first, the Mac will do its best to prevent the websites be able to detect who and where you are geographically.As for the second function, it allows you to create a fictitious address for each of the online services for which you register for example.Provided, of course, to use the Apple " @iCloud.com" email service.

What are the improvements made by MacOS 12.1?

Published on December 15, 2021, version 12.1 of MacOS narrowly followed the update of iOS in version 15.2 intervened Monday December 13 for iPhone and iPad.On the program, the addition of some functions promised during the WWDC developer conference held last June as well as the correction of annoying bugs.Many users had indeed pointed out the mismanagement of external screens connected to MacBook Pro and MacBook Air with a USB-C or Thunderbolt cable.A problem set with MacOS 12.1 like that of "touch to click" which worked intermittently on the brand's magic trackpad.In addition to the correction of bugs, MacOS 12.1 has brought some welcome new - and expected new features - which affect both the system and certain applications.

For all those whose Mac runs with MacOS Monterey, this update thus brings some useful functions.The universal command is still missing, a new function announced during WWDC and which will allow you to take control of one or more iPad from a Mac.It should see the light of day in the spring of 2022.

If your Mac is compatible and you have not yet updated to MacOS 12, it is always possible to do it through the App Store.You will benefit from the latest version by avoiding some the bugs of the first version mentioned below.

What are the Bugs by MacOS Monterey?

Las, upon his arrival, MacOS Monterey was criticized due to bugs encountered by several users who manifest themselves on Twitter.Some thus indicate an important memory leak, especially with the control center which occupies a huge and unusual amount of RAM - 26 GB in the case of Gregory McFadden!It is not the only application that consumes much more RAM than necessary, because other users speak for example of Firefox.

More serious, in some cases, the Mac is completely blocking after the Averse MacOS Monterey update, simply refusing to start.This disturbing problem seems above all to touch IMACs, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro from old generations, recent models based on M1 chip appearing spared.Needless to say, the victims of this blocking bug look forward to an Apple solution ...

It must be said that the development of the system has not been without difficulty. Throughout the summer and until the last days before the official release, Monterey's pre -assessments have followed one another to make changes and also withdraw functions which had however been announced at the Conference of Apple developers, the famous WWDC, in June. The Safari browser, for example, has undergone many transformations to finally return to a more classic design. As for the Shareplay function, which allows for example to look to many, each at home, but perfectly synchronized the same episode of a TV series via a Call Facetime, it was postponed later. Perhaps for version 12.1 of MacOS, since Shareplay arrived with version 15.1 of iOS (see our article). This does not mean that Monterey does not bring any novelty on the contrary. Let us quote pell-mell the groups of tabs in Safari, the new privacy protection functions, the concentration mode synchronized between all your devices, the incredible live text allowing to copy/paste text from any image , Calls Facetime even with correspondents who do not have Apple products (Read FaceTime iOS 15: Call Android or Windows users), its space, etc. We detail them a little further.

As with any new major version of a system, prudence is therefore in order. Better not to rush to update your main machine, for example. Give the most adventurous time to discover the bugs and other problems that could if not paralyze your work, at least annoy you. Some professionals even describe the driving to be held as follows, with a smirk naturally: in the event of a major update, wait for the first correction update, then wait for the following update which corrects the problems created by the first update. And there you can go there normally without too much concern. It must be said that the very first version of iOS 15 had arrived with its share of small irritating problems, even ineffective functions (read our article). With version 15.0.2, everything is back to normal. Here, it reminds us of the saying mentioned above, right? In other words, unless one of the new functions that we have mentioned above is perfectly essential to you, therefore wait a few days or weeks, while the last problems are discovered and corrected. Your tranquility of mind is well worth a little patience.

What are the Mac compatible with MacOS Monterey?

With the new MacBook Pro with Puce M1 Pro and M1 Max, Apple has taken an additional step in the transition of all its machines to "homemade" processors.We also note that unlike the Mac Mini, there is no longer any Intel processor device in Apple's range of laptops.But that does not mean that MacOS 12 Monterey is only reserved for M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max.True to its longevity approach, Apple has planned to maintain the intel compatibility of its successive macOS versions for several years.This explains why the list of Mac compatible with Monterey is still very long, as we can see below.We note all the same that the MacBook Air of 2013 and the iMacs of 2014 were still compatible with MacOS 11 Big Sur, while Monterey does not accept any iMac or MacBook Air before 2015. Here is the list of models compatible with MacOSMonterey.

How to install MacOS Monterey?

Monterey, MacOS 12, has been available since October 25, 2021. As for an iPhone or iPad, the update is free and very simple to install.So much even that your Mac will notify you of the availability of the update if it is compatible.He will do so in particular by displaying a red pastille with a small 1 in the center above the icon of system preferences in the dock, as for all updates.

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