13 Big Changes We Want in MacOS 14

pcmag.com:

Apple will almost certainly announce the next version of macOS at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 5, but what new features will the company unveil? The rumor mill is mostly focused on Apple’s forthcoming AR/VR (augmented reality/virtual reality) headset and has little to say about macOS 14, but even if we can’t tell you what to expect, we can tell you some things that we want from it. Let's cross our fingers that at least some of these improvements will make their way to Apple's latest desktop operating system.

At WWDC, Apple usually announces the next release of macOS, iOS, and iPadOS, and sometimes watchOS and tvOS. Maybe we'll even see an xrOS, for an extended reality operating system. The company typically releases a public beta of a new macOS version in July and a release version in September or October. You can expect roughly the same schedule this year.

The current version, the one that’s probably on your Mac right now, is macOS 13 Ventura. We don’t know which California place name macOS 14 will get. In recent years, some of Apple’s annual macOS upgrades have been drastic overhauls that made major changes in the interface and added a long list of new features. In others, the new releases have been essentially tune-ups that added a few new features (like Ventura’s Stage Manager) without major changes elsewhere. Ventura was mostly a tune-up release, which could mean that we’ll get a major overhaul this year.

Here’s my wish list of new features. I was careful to prepare my list before looking at wish lists posted on other sites. A few of the more obvious items on my list, like desktop widgets and a dynamic island, are also on the other lists I’ve seen subsequently, but I haven’t seen anyone