{"id":15324,"date":"2011-02-24T18:34:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T17:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=15324"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:04:06","slug":"new-features-in-osx-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/new-features-in-osx-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"New Features in OSX Lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Apple<\/strong> today released the Developer Preview of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/technologies\/mac\/whats-new.html\">Mac OS X Lion<\/a><\/strong>. This gives us a better look at features coming to OS X that were first announced last autumn. Apple are billing Lion as a meeting of the best of OS X with the lessons learned from the <strong>iPad<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15333\" title=\"osxlion24211\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/02\/osxlion24211.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/02\/osxlion24211.png 565w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2011\/02\/osxlion24211-300x192.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/>Obvious imports from the iPad are the <strong>gestures<\/strong>, like pinch zooming and so on, and the introduction of iOS-like app displays. You&#8217;ll be able to browse your installed apps just like you do on the iPhone, and navigate them with gestures via the touchpad.<\/p>\n<p>Document-based applications will now auto-save, which should eliminate one of computing&#8217;s most common gripes &#8211;\u00a0 &#8216;I lost all my work&#8217;! There&#8217;s also a new way of copying files between Macs called <strong>Air Drop<\/strong>, which apparently requires no setup and makes the process much simpler.<\/p>\n<p>There are also some neat visual touches, like overlay scrollbars brought in from iOS. The most interesting change I saw, though, was how apps will be handled&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A new system that manages your applications called <strong>Resume<\/strong> has been introduced. The state of an app will be saved when closed, so you can reopen it just as it was. That&#8217;s interesting enough, but more so is that Resume will automatically close apps you aren&#8217;t using, saving their states and therefore using less system resources. This will reduce energy use without inconveniencing users. For all of you that like to run ten applications at once, you&#8217;ll now be able to do that with a clear conscience (and a cooler computer)!<\/p>\n<p>OS X Lion is due for commercial release this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple today released the Developer Preview of Mac OS X Lion. This gives us a better look at features coming to OS X that were first announced last autumn. Apple are billing Lion as a meeting of the best of OS X with the lessons learned from the iPad. Obvious imports from the iPad are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/new-features-in-osx-lion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Features in OSX Lion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-15324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334415,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15324\/revisions\/334415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15324"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=15324"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=15324"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=15324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}