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Make your Mac, iPhone, and iPad work better together with these features
CONTINUITY IS A group of six features that are available in the latest versions of iOS and macOS, and which provide extra convenience in certain scenarios. Two of these features - Auto Unlock and Universal Clipboard - are new. With the former switched on, when you wake your Mac it checks for your Apple Watch nearby, and that the Watch is unlocked; if so, your Mac assumes it was you who woke it and skips its usual request for your password, taking you straight to your desktop. Universal Clipboard recognizes that you may in fact be using more than one of your devices at the same time, and so its purpose is to enable you to copy and paste text, images, or video from one device to another just by copying to the clipboard as you normally would.
The remaining four Handoff features were added to Apple's operating systems some time ago. However, if you've been using a Mac that predates 2012, you...