macOS, which OS X has been called since 2016, is a mature operating system, so more often than not its annual updates are incremental affairs that don’t turn many heads. Big Sur is different. It’s an ...

The latest version of macOS is called macOS Sequoia after Sequoia National Park located in California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range ... support for macOS Big Sur, which arrived in 2020).

The orderly uniformity of the new icons provides an immediate hint about the origins of Big Sur’s design inspiration. The other striking feature of the desktop is the aggressive translucency of the ...