You can now show Spaces on the Touch Bar and switch between them using the buttons.

System Preferences.app Touch BarĪdditional functionality has been added to the Touch Bar. Once the animation is complete, the rows snap into their correct position by sort order. This makes the connection between these tabs easier to visualise, however the animation is less useful when sorting is performed on a column which does not exist on one of the tabs, such as sorting by CPU descending on the CPU tab and sorting by memory descending on the memory tab. This includes process name, PID, user, threads and memory. This is something I used to resort to Terminal to do, with something like pkill, but no longer! Column transition between tabsįor the CPU and Memory tabs, where many of the columns exist in the table shown on both tabs, there is a new column animation for the reordering of the columns between tabs. Selecting Quit will quit all processes in the list. Now with Catalina’s Activity Monitor, the button remains active and clicking it displays a sheet with a list of all the processes that are intended to be quit. When more than one process is selected in the list, it was previously the case that the quit button was disabled. My favourite new feature of Activity Monitor is the ability to quit multiple processes, including force quit. Activity Monitor.app Quit multiple processes An option to disable this for a specific service or app-service combination might be beneficial for commonly run services it does not seem immediately apparent what makes a service ‘restricted’ to qualify for this increased scrutiny. It can be frustrating to have to confirm you want to run a service. This occurs on every use, even if you have allowed the app to use this service in the past. When an app wants to use a restricted, you are prompted to allow the service to be used by the app. Various services in use across macOS are now marked restricted. You can disable Finder syncing with iPhone using Terminal. It used to be that the iTunes app was not able to be quit when synchronisation was happening with iOS. This means that when Finder is busy with an iOS device, you can’t quit Finder. Now that Finder is responsible for the synchronisation of iOS devices since iTunes split, Finder is now responsible for ‘iTunes operations’. (I’ve raised FB7062982.) Finder.app No iTunes in macOS Catalina This absence makes it impossible to access Photo Stream images without disabling iCloud Photos temporarily - a completely unreasonable workaround for a seemingly reasonable workflow (accessing images on Photo Stream) which was functional prior to macOS Catalina. When iCloud Photos is enabled for the system photo library, the option for enabling Photo Stream is absent and My Photo Stream no longer appears in the sidebar. Photo Stream unavailable with iCloud Photos With Photos 5 in Catalina, a hidden feature appears when media is unable to upload: a category is shown automatically in the sidebar with all the media having difficulty uploading, making it easier to take action on such. A workaround was to create a smart album with a criteria of displaying media ‘unable to upload’. This would previously be displayed as an issue at the bottom of the All Photos view but without immediately presenting which media was causing the issue. When using iCloud Photos, it’s possible the Photos.app has difficulty in uploading certain media. New tab position Photos.app ‘Unable to Upload’ category for iCloud Photos

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