Solid Edge Bluetooth Is Enabled

All the Handoff features, by the way, work only with Macs from 2012 or later (late 2013 for the MacBook Pro).

It also boasts the most efficient use of screen real estate of any desktop operating system, along with deep social media and Apple ecosystem integration.

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Yosemite remains the most technically spectacular manifestation of Apples desktop OS ever, and now its better than ever.

Its a free update for anyone using a Mac made in 2008 or later (and some 2007 models), but (of course) it works best with recent hardware.

New features like annotations and markup in Mail and Preview are slotted smoothly into familiar apps.

Terrific Continuity features let you use your iPhone or iPad (running iOS 8.1.1 ) as an extension of your Mac.

That means you can answer a phone call on your iPhone and continue the conversation using the mic and speakers on your Mac.

Or you can start a mail message in OS X, then rush out the door with your iPad or iPhone and finish and send the same message from your iOS device.

The visual design is, overall, a triumph of elegant efficiencyand the new look is spectacular on a Retina displaythough I have mixed feelings about some aspects of the redesign and some minor doubts about a few new features.

But theres no question that with Yosemite, OS X has again widened its lead over the competition as the worlds best desktop operating system, and it remains our Editors Choice.

If your iPhone and Mac are connected to the same Wi-Fi network, and both are logged into the same iCloud account, you can answer the phone on your Mac.

The phone and the Mac both ring (with the same ring tone), and a notification appears at the upper right of the OS X desktop.

Click Accept to take the call, using the Macs speakers and microphone.

You can also click on a phone number in OS X (for example, in the Contacts app or on a webpage) and call it, using the Mac or your iPhone to talk and listen.

A related feature lets you use your Mac to send and receive SMS text messagesthe ones that appear in green on your phone because theyre not part of the iCloud ecosystem.

When you start writing an email message on your iPhone or iPad and its on the same Wi-Fi network with your Mac, a Handoff icon will appear next to the OS X dock.

Click on the icon, and finish the message on the Macits been handed off from one device to the other.

Start writing in OS X and a Handoff icon appears on your iOS lock screen.

If you swipe the icon upward, you can continue writing the message on your iOS device.

It took me a while to discover that I had to swipe the lock-screen icon upwards to make this work, but once you figure that out, you wont forget it.

Handoff also works in every other OS X app where youd expect it, including Safari (which opens to the same page you were using in other device), Contacts, Reminders, Maps, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and more.

Solid Edge Bluetooth Is Enabled

It shows up in Yosemites list of available wireless networks like any other networkalthough youll need to make sure that Bluetooth is enabled on your phone and Mac.

I tested this on an iPhone with iOS 8.1 installed, and it took a couple of tries for the phone and MacBook to pair with other, but then it worked perfectly and surprisingly quickly.

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