MacOS Ventura

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macOS Ventura

Version of the macOS operating system
Screenshot of macOS Ventura
Developer	Apple
OS family	Mac Unix, based on Darwin (BSD)
Source model	Closed, with open source components
General availability	October 24, 2022;18 months ago (2022-10-24) [1]
Latest release	13.6.6 [2] (March 25, 2024;47 days ago (2024-03-25)) [±]
Update method	Software Update
Platforms	x86-64, ARM64
Kernel type	Hybrid (XNU)
License	Proprietary software with open-source components and content licensed with APSL
Preceded by	macOS Monterey
Succeeded by	macOS Sonoma
Official website	apple.com/macos/ventura at the Wayback Machine (archived 2023-09-25)
Tagline	Works smarter. Plays harder. Goes further. [3]
Support status
Receiving security updates. Drops support for Macs released from 2015 to 2016.

macOS Ventura (version 13) is the nineteenth major release of macOS, Apple's operating system for Macintosh computers. The successor to macOS Monterey, it was announced at WWDC 2022 on June 6, 2022, and launched on October 24, 2022. ^[4] macOS Ventura was succeeded by macOS Sonoma, which was released on September 26, 2023.

It is named after Ventura County and is the tenth macOS release to bear a name from the company's home state of California. The macOS 13 Ventura logo, official graphics and default wallpaper resemble an abstract California poppy. ^[5]

macOS Ventura is the last version of macOS supporting several Macs, including the 21.5-inch 2017 iMac and the 12-inch MacBook.

History

Further information: macOS version history

New features

macOS Ventura includes changes, many related to productivity, and adds two apps from iOS and iPadOS: Weather and Clock. ^[5] Freeform was added in an update to all three operating systems. ^[6]

New system features

• Stage Manager, which provides an alternative interface for multitasking, in addition to the previous Mission Control. ^[5]

New apps

• Weather: shows detailed weather forecasts. ^[5] Clicking on the Weather widget now opens this app, not The Weather Channel's website.
• Clock: displays world time and manages alarms, stopwatches, and timers. ^[5] Clicking on the Clock widget now opens this app, not the Date & Time section of System Preferences.
• Freeform, a whiteboard app that supports real-time collaboration (added in version 13.1). ^[6]

Changes

• Mail adds "send later" and "undo send" options and includes improvements to search, email organization, and formatting. ^[5]
• Spotlight produces richer search results; with Live Text, it can return pictures that contain the queried text. ^[5]
• Safari adds Shared Tab Groups and Passkeys, uses WebAuthn for password-less account management, gets a redesigned sidebar, and gains AVIF support. ^[5]
• Messages now allows the user to edit and unsend recent iMessages, similar to iOS and iPadOS 16. ^[5]
• FaceTime gets Handoff, the ability to transfer a call between multiple Apple devices. ^[5]
• Continuity Camera, a feature that allows a user's iPhone to wirelessly serve as a front-facing camera, with support for Desk View on some iPhones. ^[5]
• System Preferences is renamed to System Settings and gets a brand new tabbed interface and re-organized panes based on the iOS/iPadOS Settings app. ^[5]
  • Because of this, the app-specific "Preferences..." menu bar item has been renamed "Settings..." for all apps. ^[5]
• Photos app: iCloud Shared Photo Library allows multiple members of iCloud Family Sharing to add, edit, and delete photos in the same photo library. ^[5]
• The Game Center dashboard is redesigned.
• Font Book gets a new visual design. ^[5]
• Maps adds support for routes with multiple stops.
• Siri gets redesigned to match its appearance since iOS 14 and iPadOS 14. ^[5]
• Apple Music adds the ability for the user to mark artists as "favorites" and receive new music notifications from those artists.
• Print dialogs have been redesigned. ^[5] Many users^{[ who? ]} report that Print Presets no longer save all essential printer features (paper type, duplexing, color mode, print quality, etc.) requiring settings to be manually selected with every print job.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Ability to play ambient background sounds as an accessibility feature in System Settings.
• New backgrounds and screensavers.
• A bug was fixed in Disk Utility concerning the verification of Time Machine backup volumes. ^[7]
• Improved game controller support. ^[5]
• Apple's Virtualization framework: better support for multitouch gestures in macOS Ventura VMs, support for graphics acceleration, folder sharing, and Rosetta 2 in Linux VMs. ^[5]
• Metal 3, with support for spatial and temporal image upscaling. ^[5]
• Live Text now works in videos. ^[5]
• iCloud
  • Advanced Data Protection: optional end-to-end encryption for all iCloud data except emails, calendars and contacts.
  • Support for physical security keys
• Security
  • Rapid Security Response, a new update mechanism to rapidly patch security vulnerabilities without having to install a full system update; according to Apple, these patches will not require a reboot. ^{[5] [8]}
  • New Login Items section in System Settings (in the General pane), which shows all programs that start on boot (including all LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons for both the user and the system). In previous versions of macOS, the Login Items list in the "Users & Groups" pane only showed programs that registered themselves to be displayed, and most malware would not have been listed.
  • Confirmation before allowing data connections with USB-C accessories, to prevent malicious USB-C chargers from installing malware. ^{[9] [5]}
  • Gatekeeper now checks the notarization of third-party apps every time they are launched. ^[5]
  • Lockdown Mode, which prevents USB devices from connecting when the Mac is asleep, blocks the installation of MDM profiles, limits the risk of malicious attachments in the Messages app, ^[5] and removes just-in-time compilation for JavaScript in Safari.
  • Built-in apps cannot be moved from the cryptographically verified Signed System Volume to another location where they could be tampered with. ^[5]

Removed features

• The Preview app on Mac no longer supports PostScript (.ps) and Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) files. Printing of such files, to a printer natively supporting PostScript, remains possible by accessing the Printer Queue from System Settings and dragging the file into the queue window. ^{[10] [11] [12]}
• Network Utility has been removed.
• The Network Locations feature was removed from the graphical user interface. It can still be accessed from the command line. ^[5]
• Help files related to dial-up modems have been removed.
• Schedule Shutdown, Restart and Boot have been removed.

Known problems

• Unicode Hex Input does not work if the code point four‑digit number is 0xx0 (first and last digits in the number are zero). ^[13] This issue was resolved in Ventura 13.3.

• Ventura 13.5 introduced a bug in which user-installed apps are not appearing under the 'Location Services' section in the 'Privacy and Security' settings. Due to this, users are unable to modify location permissions or view the list of applications installed by them that have access to their location information. ^[14] This issue was resolved in Ventura 13.5.1.

Supported hardware

macOS Ventura supports Macs with Apple silicon and Intel's Xeon-W and 7th-generation Kaby Lake chips or later, and drops support for Macs released from 2015 to 2016, officially marking the end of support for the Retina MacBook Pro, 2015-2017 MacBook Air, 2014 Mac Mini, 2015 iMac and cylindrical Mac Pro. The 21.5 inch 2017 iMac is the only supported standard configuration model to have no retina display.

Macs that support macOS Ventura are as follows. ^{[5] [15] [16]}

• iMac (2017 or later)
• iMac Pro (2017)
• MacBook (2017)
• MacBook Air (2018 or later)
• MacBook Pro (2017 or later)
• Mac Mini (2018 or later)
• Mac Pro (2019 or later)
• Mac Studio (all models)

AirPlay to Mac, always-on "Hey Siri", 4K HDR streaming, and Spatial Audio are not supported on all models. Offline dictation, Live Captions, Portrait Mode in FaceTime, and "Reference mode" (which allows users to use an iPad as a secondary reference monitor) only work on Apple silicon Macs. ^[5]

Unofficial support on older models (discontinued hardware)

By using patch tools, macOS Ventura can be unofficially installed on earlier models that are officially unsupported, such as a 2017 MacBook Air and a 2015 MacBook Pro. Using these methods, it is possible to install macOS Ventura on models as early as a 2008 MacBook Pro or a 2007 iMac (after a Penryn CPU upgrade). ^{[17] [5]}

Release history

The first developer beta of macOS 13 Ventura was released on June 6, 2022. ^[18] Apple maintains Ventura release notes: for consumers, for enterprise, for developers, as well as a security update page.

Previous release

Current release

Security response

Version	Build	Release date	Darwin version
13.0	22A380	October 24, 2022	22.1.0 xnu-8792.41.9~2 Sun Oct 9 20:15:52 PDT 2022
	22A8380
13.0.1	22A400	November 9, 2022
13.1	22C65	December 13, 2022	22.2.0 xnu-8792.61.2~4 Fri Nov 11 02:06:26 PST 2022
13.2	22D49	January 23, 2023	22.3.0 xnu-8792.81.2~2 Thu Jan 5 20:53:49 PST 2023
13.2.1	22D68	February 13, 2023	22.3.0 xnu-8792.81.3~2 Mon Jan 30 20:38:43 PST 2023
13.3	22E252	March 27, 2023	22.4.0 xnu-8796.101.5~3 Mon Mar 6 20:59:28 PST 2023
13.3.1	22E261	April 7, 2023
13.3.1 (a)	22E772610a	May 1, 2023
13.4	22F66	May 18, 2023	22.5.0 xnu-8796.121.2~5 Mon Apr 24 20:52:43 PDT 2023
13.4.1	22F82	June 21, 2023	22.5.0 xnu-8796.121.3~7 Thu Jun 8 22:22:22 PDT 2023
13.4.1 (a)	22F770820b	July 10, 2023
13.4.1 (c)	22F770820d	July 12, 2023 [19]
13.5	22G74	July 24, 2023	22.6.0 xnu-8796.141.3~6 Wed Jul 5 22:21:56 PDT 2023
13.5.1	22G90	August 17, 2023
13.5.2	22G91	September 7, 2023
13.6	22G120 [20]	September 21, 2023	22.6.0 xnu-8796.141.3.700.8~1 Fri Sep 15 13:39:52 PDT 2023
13.6.1	22G313	October 25, 2023 [21]	22.6.0 xnu-8796.141.3.701.17~4 Wed Oct 4 21:25:26 PDT 2023
13.6.2	22G320	November 7, 2023	22.6.0 xnu-8796.141.3.701.17~6 Thu Nov 2 07:43:57 PDT 2023
13.6.3	22G436	December 11, 2023 [22]	22.6.0 xnu-8796.141.3.702.9~2 Tue Nov 7 21:48:06 PST 2023
13.6.4	22G513	January 22, 2024	22.6.0 xnu-8796.141.3.703.2~2 Sun Dec 17 22:18:09 PST 2023
13.6.5	22G621	March 7, 2024	22.6.0 xnu-8796.141.3.704.6~1 Mon Feb 19 19:48:53 PST 2024
13.6.6	22G630	March 25, 2024

Timeline of Mac operating systems

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References

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External links

• macOS Ventura at the Wayback Machine (archived September 26, 2023) – official site

Preceded by macOS 12 (Monterey)

macOS 13 (Ventura) 2022

Succeeded by macOS 14 (Sonoma)