Some photo-specific controls like redeye filters and the retouch tool are grayed out, but you can adjust exposure, color, white balance, contrast, and other settings just like you can with photos.
The most significant addition is probably a range of actual color adjustments available when editing videos. Apple says that the retouch tool has been improved using “machine learning,” which I always find vague and unsatisfying as an explanation for why something works better than it did before, but using it to touch up areas of photos did generally give me better results than editing the same photos in the same way in Catalina, with less visible blurring and fewer noticeable image artifacts (see a not particularly realistic but nevertheless illustrative example above). The Photos app gets mostly minor upgrades in Big Sur, including a “vibrance” slider in the color options that can boost warm tones in photos without altering other colors, more music for Memories slideshows, and an option to adjust the intensity of photo filters. Recent photos, links, locations, and documents will all show up in the left-hand sidebar before you even type anything in, alongside a thumbnail for whichever person or group sent them. Pinned contacts and conversations will preview the last-received message before you click on it.įinally, the Search field becomes more powerful and tries to be useful before you even type anything in. Group threads can have their own image added, either a picture from your Photos library or an emoji or Memoji with a colored background you choose. Within group messages, you can now thread replies to individual messages and tag specific people if you want to get their attention. Individual contacts and group messages can be pinned to the top of the app. But even without anything from third parties, the added functionality is long overdue in macOS.Īs in iOS, the other main additions to the Messages app in macOS are things that other group chat apps like Slack and Discord have been doing for a while. The App Store icon implies that other apps will be able to extend the capabilities of the Messages app just as they can in iOS and iPadOS, and it’s possible that on Apple Silicon Macs, installing iOS apps with Messages Extensions included will make them show up alongside the built-in options automatically. Built-in integration with your Photos library, access to Memoji Stickers, and the quick GIF search features from iOS and iPadOS are all accessible when you click the App Store icon next to the text entry field. You can send iMessage effects from your Mac now, too. This helps to rectify longstanding disparities between the two versions of the app-you’ll actually see balloons when someone sends them, instead of seeing “(sent with Balloons)” and using your imagination. It’s now a Catalyst app, which means that instead of merely aping the look of the iPad Messages app, it essentially is a windowed version of the iPad Messages app, give or take a handful of Mac-specific tweaks and multi-window support. The old Messages app had removed any third-party messaging functions it once had, but it was still fundamentally the same app it had been since Apple overhauled and replaced iChat back in Mountain Lion.
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