I quit Safari for Chrome, but these new MacOS 27 features could pull me back

Notify Me diagnostic connected Safari for MacOS 27 Golden Gate

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Safari is getting 4 caller features with Apple Intelligence.
• You'll beryllium capable to acceptable notifications for merchandise restocks and the like.
• MacOS 27 volition besides fto you make Safari extensions with descriptions.

Apple announced a clump of Siri AI and Apple Intelligence upgrades astatine WWDC 2026. Your Apple products could get faster, much reliable, and much responsive with the upcoming OS versions. However, I'm excited for a browser update due to the fact that Safari is promised to get features that could genuinely marque things easier for me. I didn't deliberation I'd accidental this, but I'm excited to usage Safari again. Here's why.

1. One-tap information upgrade connected compromised passwords

I americium a lazy man. When I get a notification astir compromised passwords connected websites (non-finance-related), I motion and adjacent the pop-up. I don't privation to make a caller password -- adjacent erstwhile it is compromised -- for aggregate websites 1 by one. It would resistance maine distant from the task I opened the website for, and I hide astir it by the clip my password is updated. That's wherefore Apple's caller Apple Intelligence diagnostic successful Safari appeals to me.

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With the upcoming OS updates, Apple's Passwords volition beryllium capable to automatically update your compromised passwords to secured versions connected aggregate websites simultaneously.  

"Passwords securely navigates done websites to motion successful and upgrade their accounts to beardown passwords," the institution said. I usage an iPhone, Mac Mini, and the MacBook Air successful my workflow, and if Safari tin update and retrieve my password automatically, I don't caput switching backmost from Chrome.

2. The imaginable of Notify Me

Apple's caller Safari feature, Notify Me, volition fto you inquire the web browser to show a web leafage for changes. For instance, you tin acceptable it up for merchandise restocks oregon terms drops.

I americium a sucker for discounts, whether it beryllium connected flights (I person Google Alerts acceptable for definite routes I privation to travel) oregon the Amazon products connected my wishlist; I privation to get them astatine the lowest prices possible. If I tin make alerts without leaving the web leafage conscionable by asking my browser, I'm in! The possibilities are breathtaking -- you can, astatine slightest theoretically, show banal prices, formation prices, circumstantial merchandise drops, and more, without the request to subscribe to a third-party service.

3. Automatic tab grouping

I americium a freelance writer, and much often than not, I'm moving connected aggregate stories simultaneously. As a result, I person astatine slightest 50 tabs unfastened successful the inheritance with probe worldly -- each near ungrouped due to the fact that I'm atrocious astatine grouping them successful applicable windows. This caller Apple diagnostic aims to assistance radical similar maine by simplifying multi-tab browsing.

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While Safari tin radical tabs unneurotic and make aggregate profiles, it is getting much almighty with Apple Intelligence aboriginal this year. It volition automatically signifier your tabs into applicable topics. Apple explained that if you're readying a play trip, Safari tin bring unneurotic each of your travel-planning tabs into 1 topic. Then, arsenic you browse, Safari volition proceed to signifier caller tabs into existing topics oregon make caller ones. 

4. Describe an Extension

There are times erstwhile I request something, and I person to look for an hold to marque things easier oregon automate a task. For instance, I person a JPG representation downloader hold connected my Chrome browser truthful I tin download media images from newsroom posts with a azygous tap. But what if you request an hold that hasn't been made, oregon you don't cognize astir its existence?

Apple's caller Describe an Extension diagnostic connected Safari tin assistance you make customized extensions by describing what you want. Once a statement is given, Safari volition past make the customized hold close successful the toolbar. I'm looking guardant to creating an auto-scroller truthful I tin work agelong articles connected the web without tiring my thumb.