Some of macOS Monterey’s finest options aren’t coming to Intel Macs

Apple’s subsequent large macOS replace, macOS Monterey, provides a bunch of handsome new options, however a few of the extra fascinating ones gained’t be coming to Intel-based Macs, in line with the wonderful print on Apple’s macOS Monterey website (via MacRumors).

If you don’t have an M1-based Mac — and many individuals most likely don’t, on condition that the primary Macs with M1 chips had been simply launched in November — listed below are the brand new options that you simply gained’t have the ability to use in macOS Monterey:

• FaceTime’s Portrait mode, which blurs the background behind you whilst you’re on a video name
• Live Text, which helps you to work together with textual content in photographs and pictures (resembling having the ability to copy and paste an deal with on an indication)
• Apple Maps’ new globe view
• Apple Maps’ extra detailed maps in cities together with San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and London
• Neural text-to-speech voices in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Finnish
• Offline, on-device dictation
• On-device dictation with no time restrict (beforehand, dictation was restricted to 60 seconds)

If you’re nonetheless utilizing an Intel-based Mac that you simply’re pleased with and aren’t planning to improve anytime quickly, it may be disappointing to listen to that you simply gained’t have the ability to use a few of the new options in macOS Monterey. These M1-exclusive updates in Monterey additionally counsel that Apple might make options on future macOS releases solely work on computer systems with its personal chips.

Last June, when Apple first introduced the transition to its custom-designed processors, the company did promise that it could “continue to support and release new versions of macOS for Intel-based Macs for years to come.” But apparently, that assist additionally implies that some new options gained’t be coming to Intel-based Macs.