Handoff blurs the line between Mac and iOS device, making it possible for you to use both devices together in elegant, intuitive ways that you can't do alone. One feature stands out above the rest, though, and that's Handoff. Bottom lineĪpple's taken a mostly iterative approach to Messages in Yosemite, making key improvements to help reduce user discomfort with features like improved group messaging and soundbites. And that's also where you can mute notifications if you don't want to be bothered for a bit. You can review images and files that have been transfered in chat. Participants can share their screens with one another. The Details control panel also gives you other handy tools - like using Find My iPhone, if it's turned on, so you can see the location of the people you're chatting with. You can add new participants as you go along, and what's more, you can even remove yourself from the chat entirely, if you're done. What's more, you can mute notifications for the chat, so if you're carrying on a group conversation but don't want to be distracted temporarily (say you're in a meeting or on a call), you can silence the chat and pick up later when you're ready.
Now it's possible to give your chat a title, helping to (hopefully) direct participants to stay somewhat on topic, so chats don't veer off wildly into unexpected territory. Group messaging gets some big improvements in Yosemite - it's now much easier to manage them, thanks to the inclusion of a new "Details" button in the upper right hand corner of the chat window. But once they are, new messages you get on your phone will now show up on your Mac as well, even if the person isn't an iMessage user. With Yosemite on the Mac and iOS 8.1 installed on your iPhone, you can see SMS and MMS messages you're getting from non-iPhone using colleagues, and what's more, you can send them too.īoth the Mac and the iPhone need to be on the same Wi-Fi network, and both must be signed in using the same Apple ID. That changes with Yosemite thanks to Apple's Handoff technology, which blurs the line between the Mac and iOS devices. Since that messaging is managed through the wireless carrier, Messages on OS X hasn't been useful to stay in touch with the people Craig Federighi cheekily called "our green bubble friends" at WWDC 2014. Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (MMS) reign supreme on those devices. Where Messages on OS X has failed, however, is to keep us in touch with the many people who rely on their non-iOS mobile devices as an instant messaging tool. OS X's Messages apps is a handy tool if you're trying to communicate with other iMessage users on Macs and OS X, or if your messaging takes place on one of the other services that the Messages app supports (like Google Talk, Jabber, Yahoo or AOL Instant Message). Soundbites simplifies the process down to a couple of clicks, making it infinitely easier for everyone to use. You've long been able to include audio files on your iMessages, but it's relied on having an external app to record the audio, which you then have to save as a separate file and then click and drag into the iMessage to send. Adaptive Multi Rate is an audio compression format optimized for speech recording it's not high fidelity, but it gets the job done and it's compact.
The soundbites themselves are sent encoded as. No need (and no way to) customize the audio the Mac takes care of all that for you, and sends it to the recipient. You can either keep the message (by clicking on a "Keep" button) or let it expire after a couple of minutes, so your chat log doesn't fill up with audio files. Soundbites are trivial to use: Just click the microphone button, record your message and it will be sent.
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