{"id":11124,"date":"2017-05-05T15:50:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T10:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/?p=11124"},"modified":"2017-05-05T15:50:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T10:20:27","slug":"5-cool-new-macos-sierra-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/5-cool-new-macos-sierra-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Cool New macOS Sierra Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 id=\"\"><\/h1>\n<p>By macOS Sierra\u2019s last dispatch practically around the corner, there have been various betas, both developer and public, launched by Apple. These betas offer us a knowledge into what we ought to anticipate from the last form of the tremendously anticipated cycle to OS X: macOS Sierra. While the name is certainly one major change in the most recent OS, making the naming tradition predictable over all Apple gadgets, there are a great deal of new elements and changes tagging along in the new refresh.<\/p>\n[ad type=\u201dbanner\u201d]\n<h4 id=\"1-use-safaris-picture-in-picture-mode-with-youtube-videos\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>1.Use Safari\u2019s Picture in Picture Mode with YouTube Videos<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>The feature that has been highly celebrated, all over the internet, is Safari\u00a0<em>finally\u00a0<\/em>getting the <strong>picture in picture<\/strong> capabilities, that users earlier had to use a third-party app for. The problem with this feature\u00a0was that it was not accessible to be used with YouTube videos. However, there is a <strong>hidden method<\/strong> that can allow you to watch YouTube videos on Safari using the Picture in Picture mode. To use Picture in Picture mode with YouTube videos, simply follow the steps below:<\/p>\n<p><strong><label class=\"label label-success\">STEP 1:<\/label><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Launch Safari <\/strong>and go to <strong>YouTube,<\/strong> and <strong>play a YouTube video<\/strong> of your choice.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11171\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1-17.png\" alt=\"5 Cool New macOS Sierra Tricks\" width=\"855\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1-17.png 855w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1-17-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1-17-768x449.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 855px) 100vw, 855px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><label class=\"label label-success\">STEP 2:<\/label><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perform a <strong>right click<\/strong> (two finger tap) on the video, which\u00a0will open up a menu on the video.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2-13.png\" alt=\"5 Cool New macOS Sierra Tricks\" width=\"890\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2-13.png 890w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2-13-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2-13-768x420.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 890px) 100vw, 890px\" \/><\/p>\n[ad type=\u201dbanner\u201d]\n<p><strong><label class=\"label label-success\">STEP 3:<\/label><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Perform <strong>another right click<\/strong> on the video. You will now see another menu with the option to <strong>enable Picture in Picture<\/strong> mode for the YouTube video.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/3-13.png\" alt=\"5 Cool New macOS Sierra Tricks\" width=\"832\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/3-13.png 832w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/3-13-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/3-13-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 832px) 100vw, 832px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><label class=\"label label-success\">STEP 4:<\/label><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Simply click on it, and the YouTube video will play in <strong>Picture in Picture mode<\/strong> on your Mac. You can position this window to\u00a0any corner of your screen and it automatically snaps in place. Cool, right?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/4-11.png\" alt=\"5 Cool New macOS Sierra Tricks\" width=\"767\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/4-11.png 767w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/4-11-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/p>\n[ad type=\u201dbanner\u201d]\n<h4 id=\"2-place-the-picture-in-picture-window-anywhere-on-the-screen\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>2. Place the Picture in Picture Window Anywhere on the Screen<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>While it makes sense for the Picture in Picture video to be located on the corner of the screen, sometimes you might want it somewhere else. Unfortunately, dragging the window around on the screen will not allow you to do that. Drag the Picture in Picture window anywhere on the screen, and when you let go of the mouse, the window will automatically snap to the nearest corner.<\/p>\n<p><strong><label class=\"label label-success\">STEP 1:<\/label><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Play any video in Picture in Picture<\/strong> mode. Then,\u00a0press <strong>Command and drag<\/strong> the Picture in Picture window to the desired location, and the window will stay there.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11176\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/5-9.png\" alt=\"5 Cool New macOS Sierra Tricks\" width=\"766\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/5-9.png 766w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/5-9-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"3-siri-on-mac\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>3. Siri on Mac<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>We put Siri through a lot of tests and different scenarios where someone might want to use Siri to help them out, and we have finally come up with the following Siri features that will make your life easier on the Mac.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Siri can help you find files and folders on your Mac<\/strong>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can simply ask Siri to find files and folders on your Mac, offered you know what they are called. Users can also ask Siri to find documents based on a time frame. So, one might ask Siri something like \u201c<strong>Find my files<\/strong>\u201c, and Siri will gratify.\u00a0Even better, Siri can answer context based cross queries. So, you can make another query saying \u201c<strong>Just the ones created last week\u201d<\/strong>, and you will be presented with the files that were created in the last week.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11177 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/6-9.png\" alt=\"5 Cool New macOS Sierra Tricks\" width=\"693\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/6-9.png 693w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/6-9-300x248.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Siri can find images off your Photos library:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can request Siri to find photos from your Photos library, and Siri will launch photos with the results displayed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11178 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/7-7.png\" alt=\"5 Cool New macOS Sierra Tricks\" width=\"602\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/7-7.png 602w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/7-7-300x278.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/p>\n[ad type=\u201dbanner\u201d]\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Siri can also find images off the web:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can use Siri to find images from the web, and the results are displayed neatly. Even better, you can simply <strong>drag and drop images from the search<\/strong> results directly into an app like Notes, Pages, Mail, etc.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11179 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/8-4.png\" alt=\"5 Cool New macOS Sierra Tricks\" width=\"376\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/8-4.png 376w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/8-4-176x300.png 176w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Siri can fetch sports results too:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Siri can also give results for major sports teams, in major contests. For example, you can request Siri when Manchester United played their last game, and it will quickly give me the result. The best part is that we can add this result to your notification center as a widget, and get informed of any changes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11180 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/9-3.png\" alt=\"5 Cool New macOS Sierra Tricks\" width=\"396\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/9-3.png 396w, https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/9-3-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 id=\"4-universal-clipboard\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>4. Universal Clipboard<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>By macOS Sierra, Apple has also added another great new feature \u2013 Universal Clipboard. What this does, is that it <strong>allows the users to copy text, images, etc on one Apple device<\/strong>, and the copied data can be <strong>pasted on every other Apple device<\/strong> that is signed in with the same iCloud ID. The feature uses\u00a0iCloud to synchronization clipboard data between devices, so there is a possibility of lag.<\/p>\n<p>The thing about a feature such as this, is that users probably don\u2019t know they need it, until they use it. Sure, a lot of people already wanted such a feature to be implemented natively in the ecosystem, but most didn\u2019t realize the need (or the usefulness) of such a feature until they experienced it. Universal clipboard opens up new options in the way you use your Apple devices. It allows easy sharing of text, links, etc. You can simply copy a link on your laptop, and paste it into your iPhone (and vice-versa), making sharing URLs easier. Noticeably, this applies to standard text, images and videos as well. Anything that you can copy and paste on one Apple device, can be pasted on another Apple device as well.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"5-store-desktop-and-documents-folders-in-icloud\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\"><strong>5. Store Desktop and Documents Folders in iCloud<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Apple communicated widely about <strong>storage optimisation<\/strong> features coming to the Mac, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/beebom.com\/wwdc-2016-round-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WWDC 2016<\/a>. One of the storage optimisation features obtainable in macOS Sierra, is the ability for users to <strong>store their Desktop and Documents folders on the cloud<\/strong>. For starters, this means that your Desktop and Documents are available on every device you have connected to iCloud. You don\u2019t want to email it to yourself, or carry it on an external storage device. It simply will be available on your Mac, iPhone and iPad, all by itself.<\/p>\n<p>Another great thing about the way Apple has implemented this feature, is that if the storage space on your device runs low, your Mac will <strong>automatically remove the local copies<\/strong> of larger, less frequently used files from your system, and keep them stored only in iCloud. In my opinion, this is great. Not everyone does regular housekeeping on their Desktop, let alone the Documents folder and this feature will greatly help towards optimizing storage on your devices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:\u00a0<\/strong>If you delete a file or folder from iCloud synchronized folders, they are removed from all of your devices. So ensure you always backup important data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NiD9j4sR2Qk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Copy video URL:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Cool New macOS Sierra Tricks &#8211; PC &#8211; macOS Sierra&#8217;s last dispatch practically for various betas, both developer and public, launched by Apple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5739],"tags":[34255,34258,34257,34252,34254,34256,34253,34251],"class_list":["post-11124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coding","category-pc","tag-apple-sierra-tutorial","tag-how-to-use-mac-os-sierra-picture-in-picture","tag-mac-os-sierra-hidden-features","tag-mac-os-sierra-tips-and-tricks","tag-macos-sierra-secrets","tag-macos-sierra-tips","tag-macos-sierra-tweaks","tag-sierra-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wikitechy.com\/technology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}