If you haven’t done so already, it may be a good time to prepare your Mac for OS X El Capitan installation, but at the very least be sure to back up the Mac before installing any system software update.

The OS X El Capitan update should offer particularly worthwhile refinements to Mac users currently running OS X Yosemite.Īny Mac that is capable of running OS X Yosemite or OS X Mavericks is supported and can run OS X El Capitan. This tool is designed to prevent malicious or compromised code from being installed, intentionally or accidentally, in OS X.OS X El Capitan brings performance updates and improvements to the Mac operating system, a including a new system font, split screen view, adjustments to the Mission Control window manager, improvements to Spotlight search, and various enhancements to bundled Mac apps including Mail, Safari, Notes, Maps, Photos, and Safari. New character families have also been introduced for the Chinese and Japanese languages and, for the latter, improvements to the writing method.Īs for development tools, the system extends support for coding applications using the Swift 2.0 language.Īs for security, Apple has activated a new protection function from OS X El Capitan onwards called System Integrity Protection, also called rootless. Other applications such as Notes, Photos and Maps have also been enhanced, with the addition of data relating to public transport networks to the latter. The Safari browser supports a new additional way of managing favorite sites, with the pinning mechanism, the ability to mute the audio at the level of the single viewing tab and an improved interaction with the Apple TV to stream video content directly from the web. As regards the applications supplied with the system, the support of tabs, an improved management of the full screen mode, an enhancement of the automatic text completion system and the support of new gesture commands have been implemented to the Mail mail client. According to Apple, this technology allows for an increase in rendering speed of up to 50% and an increase in efficiency of up to 40%.Īnother new system feature is support for split view mode, which displays two running applications of your choice side by side in full screen, with the ability to return to ordinary desktop viewing mode at any time. One of the major system-wide changes is the introduction of Metal libraries, which allow for improved graphics management by optimizing the interaction between the main CPU and the graphics processor. It was officially presented to the public by Craig Federighi on Jin San Francisco, during the Apple WWDC event. OS X 10.11 'El Capitan' (from the homonymous mountain in Yosemite park) is the twelfth version of the macOS operating system developed by Apple Inc.

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