OS X Yosemite lets you use your iCloud password to log in and unlock your account. This is a nice feature if you don’t want to have two separate passwords.
To change the authentication method to unlock your Mac with your Apple ID password, follow these steps:
Users who have updated to Apple’s newly launched OS X Yosemite Mac operating system won’t be able to use the highly anticipated SMS relay or Instant Hotspot features for a few more days, as support can be found in the forthcoming iOS 8.1 update for iPhone.
Trying to send an SMS (not iMessage) is one of the first things I tried to do this morning after completing the OS X Yosemite installation.
Monday is jut around the corner, so let’s not stress to much about it. We can wait for two more days.
My very short review of OS X Yosemite (you can read a complete one by John Siracusa) can be summarized in finally.
Finally we’ll be able to:
You can find all new features in the .
The Loop today confirmed that tomorrow 24th July, Apple will release the first public beta of OS X Yosemite.
Before you get too excited, please make sure you clearly understand that this is a beta version of the next Apple operating system. Beta software is not ready for prime time, and it should not be installed on your primary Mac.
Beta software is known for crashes, unfinished features (Yosemite Beta 1 for example won’t have iCloud Drive), and most of the applications you currently use have likely not been fully tested with OS X Yosemite.
Don’t be silly, install the beta on the Mac you rely on and then blame Apple if you lose data.
The best way to test it is to install it on an external USB drive. TechRepublic has a step-by-step guide on how to install OS X Yosemite on a pen drive, or external hard-disk.
Among the huge list of Instapaper articles that I have to read, is a hands-on test on OS X Yosemite by Jason Snell, MacWorld editor.
According to Jason, Yosemite is pretty much designed to be used with a Retina display. The choice of fonts, transparency effects and colour palette are fully usable only with the display found in the Retina MacBook Pro:
For a while now, I’ve thought that 2014 would be the year that Retina spreads across the Mac product line. After spending time with Yosemite on both Retina and non-Retina systems, I’m more confident than ever in that guess. Yosemite’s new design feels like it was built for Retina displays: Thin Helvetica Neue replaces the long-serving but chunky Lucida Grande as the system typeface. Transparency is more present than ever before, inside app windows and underneath toolbars and even on the login screen itself.
While I see the reasoning behind Apple’s push to design OS X Yosemite for Retina displays, my doubt comes from the current models. Certainly one day the entire lineup will be Retina but how about now? The current Mac available are:
Of these, two models come without monitor (Mac mini and Mac Pro). That means that two out of six Mac, or 1/3 only, would be ready for Yosemite.
The fact that the new Broadwell Intel chips are not going to be released until 2015 means that the MacBook Air (i.e. the consumer laptop) is going to have a normal screen until next year at least. It could be even worse for the iMac, as it must not be that simple to design a 21.5 Retina screen.
Consider also that Mac users don’t replace their Mac every two years like they do for iPhones and iPads. This means that for the foreseeable future, a huge majority of users could have a sub-optimal experience with their Mac.
Is this a case of software and hardware divisions not talking to each other? Or maybe this is just a fad and people are going to live happily with OS X Yosemite on their non-Retina Mac?
In case you’re wondering, I’m already on the market for a Retina MacBook Pro 15”.
In the same way when was introduced two years ago with OS X Lion, Handoff in Yosemite will be limited to Bluetooth 4.0 LE enabled Macs reports MacIssues:
This is a technical decision rather than some kind of planned obsolescence. Handoff in fact uses low energy Bluetooth to communicate between devices even if not connected to a Wi-Fi network.
In iOS 7, interface deference is a big thing: Just getting out of the way to enable you to get things done with a minimum of muss and fuss. That concept is employed readily across the board in iOS 8 and Yosemite, where the emphasis is on letting users work as seamlessly and easily as possible without getting in their way.
To me this is the most exciting thing about WWDC 2014 announcements. Being able to work in the same way regardless of the device I happen to be with in that moment.