New on-device machine learning-activated keyboard dictation using Siri, and also now for almost unlimited duration.

Live Text, which allows a user to copy, paste, translate and lookup text from images displayed by Photos, Screenshot, Quick Look, and Safari.

A yellow privacy indicator on the menu bar for indicating if the Mac's microphone or camera is active.

Have a Live Memoji and Animoji right on the lock screen.

New Toolbar Features/Designs for Finder and the Preview app.

Portrait Mode and Noise Cancellation features for FaceTime and some apps (in Control Center).

Support for the Apple Music Voice Plan Subscription.

It works on these iPads: iPad Pro, iPad Air (3rd generation and later), iPad (6th generation and later), and iPad Mini (5th generation and later). It works on Macs with Apple silicon and some with an Intel processor, including MacBook Pro (2016 and later), MacBook (2016 and later), MacBook Air (2018 and later), iMac (2017 and later), iMac (5K Retina, 27-inch, Late 2015), iMac Pro, Mac Mini (2018 and later), and Mac Pro (2019).

Provisions to allow the planned introduction of Universal Control, which allows a single keyboard and mouse to control multiple Macs and iPads.

Monterey introduced several new features and changes, including the following: The operating system is named after Monterey Bay, continuing the trend of releases named after California locations since 2013's 10.9 Mavericks. macOS Monterey was succeeded by macOS Ventura, which was released on October 24, 2022. The successor to macOS Big Sur, it was announced at WWDC 2021 on June 7, 2021, and released on October 25, 2021. MacOS Monterey (version 12) is the eighteenth major release of macOS, Apple's desktop operating system for Macintosh computers.

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