macOS Mojave: A visual tour of Dark Mode and other major features

Enlarge / The dynamic Mojave wallpaper in transition. (credit: Samuel Axon)

Today, Apple released the public beta for macOS Mojave. It adds dark mode, makes significant user experience overhauls to Finder and Quick Look, adds a bunch of apps you might be familiar with from iOS, provides new ways to organize your desktop icons, and more.

Installing a beta this early is not advisable for most users-though if you want to brave it, knock yourself out-so we've spent the past week exploring this new build in order to give you a sense of its major features without the risk (and illustrated with a plethora of screenshots to boot).

Generally, Mojave's changes paint a picture of a Mac platform that continues to seek a tighter relationship with iOS. There's a new way to bring iOS apps to the Mac. Continuity features have been expanded for more use cases. An overhauled Mac App Store takes cues from the iOS 11 App Store, and system updates have even been relocated to the OS's settings panel.

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