Apple Releases macOS Monterey 12.3 With Universal Control, Spatial Audio Dynamic Head Tracking on M1 Macs and More

The third major update to the operating system that was launched in October was released by Apple today.

The update can be downloaded on all eligible Macs. Users who have not yet upgraded to macOS Monterey can get the new version of the software.

Universal Control is one of the new features inmacOS Monterey. Universal Control works on the iPad and Mac after you update your devices to macOS 12.3 and iPadOS 15.4.

The update adds new characters that include melting face, biting lip, heart hands, bubbles, beans, face with diagonal mouth, palm up hand, eggs, troll, low battery, coral, lotus, and more.

maOS Monterey 12.3 adds support for updating the AirPods firmware when the earbuds are connected to a Mac, deprecates kernel extensions used by Dropbox and Microsoft, and it eliminates Python 2, with Apple instructing developers to use an alternative script language like Python 3 going forward.