

We watch a lot of video on our Macs, and High Sierra is making the experience even better. Here’s a look at the always-on Reader mode. Safari 11 also has the option to let you view sites in Reader mode all the time. That means you won’t get hit up with three dozen vacuum ads the next time you buy one on Amazon. A new system of intelligent tracking will use machine learning to identify prying advertising trackers that track your online behavior and remove the cross-site tracking data they leave behind. APFS does not work with Fusion Drives and hard drives, so those storage devices will continue to use HFS+.Īlong with our ears, the new Safari will also protect our privacy. APFS also brings some heavy-duty security, including built‑in encryption, crash‑safe protections, and simplified data backup on the go.ĪPFS works with SSDs, and when you upgrade to High Sierra, the SSD will automatically be converted from HFS+ to APFS. Apple VP Craig Federighi quickly demoed how fast files are copied, and it should save quite a bit of time, even on older Macs. One of the main tenets of High Sierra, APFS will be new the new default file system, bringing an advanced 64-bit architecture and a responsive design to cut down on the time it takes to do common tasks. But where the changes to iOS are largely behind the scenes, you’ll really get it see it in action in the new macOS. It made it into iOS with the iOS 10.3 update, and with High Sierra it’s also coming to the Mac.

Ever since System 8, the Mac has used the HFS+ file system to keep our documents and directories running smoothly, but at last year’s WWDC, a new Apple File System (APFS) was announced.
