What's new in macOS 15.2? Here are Apple's full release notes

The next major update for Mac is coming soon. macOS Sequoia 15.2 expected come next week , and Apple has published the full release notes for what's new. Here's everything coming soon to your Mac.

macOS Sequoia 15.2: Full Releases

Apple Intelligence (Mac with Apple silicon)

• Picture Playground
  • A new app that lets you use concepts, descriptions, and people from your photo library to create fun, playful images in multiple styles
  • Swipe through previews and choose from when adding concepts to your playground
  • Choose from animation and illustration styles when creating your image
  • Create images in Messages and Freeform, as well as third-party apps
  • Images sync to your Image Playground library across all your devices with iCloud
• ChatGPT support
  • ChatGPT from OpenAI can be accessed directly from Siri or typing tools
  • With Compose in Writing Tools, you can create something from scratch with ChatGPT
  • Siri can use ChatGPT when relevant to give you an answer
  • A ChatGPT account is not required and your requests will be anonymous and will not be used to train OpenAI's models.
  • Log in with ChatGPT to access your account benefits, so requests will be covered of OpenAI's data policy
• Further Apple Intelligence-functions
  • Describe your change in Writing Tools lets you suggest how you want something to be rewritten, for example as a poem

Photos

• The Favorites album appears in the Utilities collection in addition to pinned collections
• The album history recently viewed and recently shared can be cleared

Safari

• New wallpapers to customize your Safari home page
• HTTPS upgrade attempts to use secure HTTPS on all websites
• Simplified import and export for history, bookmarks, and passwords

This update also includes the following improvements and bug fixes:

• Share item locations in Find My helps you find and recover misplaced items by easily and securely sharing the location of an AirTag or Find My network accessory with trusted third parties, like airlines
• Natural language search in Apple Music and the Apple TV app let you describe what you're looking for using any combination of categories like genres, moods, actors, decades, and more
• Favorite categories in podcasts allow you to choose your favorite categories and get relevant show recommendations that you can easily access in your library
• The Personal Search page in Podcasts highlights the most relevant categories and editorially curated collections tailored to you
• Sudoku for News+ Puzzles are provided in three difficulty levels and available to News+ subscribers
• Presenter Preview lets you choose what you want to share – an app or your entire screen – before sharing it when connecting to an external display or using AirPlay
• Pre-market stock quotes let you track NASDAQ and NYSE tickers before the market opens
• Weather in the Menu Bar lets you get current weather conditions from the menu bar on your Mac and click through to quickly access detailed forecasts

What's not included yet?

There are two key features that will be part of iOS 18.2 , but which is not yet ready for Mac:

1. Gene Emoji
2. Redesign of the Mail app

Genmoji is a particularly unfortunate omission, as they're available on both iPhone and iPad with iOS and iPadOS 18.2. Meanwhile, the Mail app redesign is currently exclusive to iPhone, so it's missing from both Mac and iPad in these upcoming software updates.

Hopefully macOS 15.3 brings these two additions in early 2025, but until then, just a PSA that two of the biggest new iPhone features in iOS 18.2 aren't coming to the Mac yet.