It is also the first macOS version to support Macs with ARM-based processors. Other changes include a revamp of the Time Machine backup mechanism, the control center from iOS 7, among other things.
It features new blurs to establish a visual hierarchy, along with making icons more square and UI elements more consistent.
The release of Big Sur was the first time the major version number of the operating system had been incremented since the Mac OS X Public Beta in 2000.įor the first time since OS X Yosemite 6 years earlier, macOS Big Sur features a user interface redesign.
īig Sur is the successor to macOS Catalina, and was succeeded by macOS Monterey, which was released on October 25, 2021. It was announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 22, 2020, and was released to the public on November 12, 2020. MacOS Big Sur (version 11) is the seventeenth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s operating system for Macintosh computers.
