The final version of macOS 13.3 is now available. This update introduces a few new features and fixes several lingering bugs.
Like on iOS 16.4 coming at the same time, 21 additional emojis appear. There’s a shaking man’s head, a donkey, a goose, a wing, a jellyfish, a hyacinth, a flute, maracas, high five hands, hearts in new colors …
iCloud Shared Photo Library users now have a Duplicates album where duplicate photos and videos are listed. Convenient for quick sorting. A new accessibility option, “Dim Flashes,” dims heavily flashing videos so they don’t bother people who are sensitive to strobe effects.
The rest of the changes are mainly made up of adaptations for regional languages and bug fixes. Among the problems corrected, there is that of the gestures of the trackpad which were no longer recognized suddenly – this had even pushed a developer to create a small parade while waiting for a proper solution.
A problem that prevented VoiceOver from working after using the Finder is ancient history. Also, Apple doesn’t mention it in the release notes, but file sharing via SMB protocol works fine again.
Also, Apple is providing Studio Display firmware version 16.4 (but no release notes, so we don’t yet know what’s behind this update).
macOS 13.3 release notes
This update includes new emojis, improvements, bug fixes, and security updates for your Mac.
- 21 new emojis including animals, hand gestures and objects are now available in emoji keyboard.
- Freeform’s “Remove Background” option automatically isolates the subject of your image.
- The Duplicate Photos album can now detect duplicate photos and videos in iCloud shared photo libraries.
- The “Visual Search” feature is now available in Canada.
- Transliteration is supported for the following language keyboards: Gujarati, Punjabi, and Urdu.
- New keyboard types are available for the following languages: Chacta, Chicacha, Akan, Hausa, and Yoruba.
- An accessibility setting automatically reduces the brightness when flashing lights or strobe effects are detected in a video.
- VoiceOver supports maps from the Weather app.
- This release fixes an issue that sometimes prevents trackpad gestures from being reflected.
- It fixes an issue that could prevent children’s purchase authorization requests from appearing on their parent’s device.
- It fixes an issue that could cause VoiceOver to become unresponsive after using the Finder.