Apple has just released macOS Sequoia 15.3, its latest software update for Mac users. The new release brings Genmoji support to the Mac, AI notification summary changes, and more. Here’s everything new.
Genmoji arrive on the Mac
Generally seen as one of the best Apple Intelligence additions, Genmoji launched in December as part of iOS and iPadOS 18.2—but on the Mac, the feature was missing.
Now, full Genmoji support has been added to macOS with today’s 15.3 update.
From inside the Messages app and anywhere else with the emoji keyboard, you can create your own custom emoji to share with others. Simply type a description of what you’re imagining, and AI will create several new emoji options for you to choose from.
Genmoji also benefit from a recent enhancement that allows you to use any emoji as a tapback reactions in Apple’s Messages app.
Notification summary revisions
For the most part, Apple’s rollout of AI features has been relatively controversy-free. The one exception is notification summaries.
While these summaries are one of my favorite AI additions, they also can be error-prone. Sometimes in comical ways, but also in very serious and problematic ones.
Like the rest of Apple Intelligence, notification summaries are still classified as ‘beta.’ As of macOS 15.3, Apple makes that more clear during setup, and in System Settings, there’s a warning that these summaries “may contain errors.”
To make more clear when a user is looking at an AI summary, Apple has made notification summaries now use italicized text. Standard notifications will not.
Finally, you can also more easily disable summaries for a given app via the notification itself, which has a “Turn Off Summaries” option.
One disabled Apple Intelligence feature
It’s unusual for a new software update to remove features, but that’s what macOS 15.3 does—at least temporarily.
Since the primary issues with AI notification summaries have involved news apps, Apple has disabled summaries altogether for both news and entertainment apps.
You cannot manually re-enable the feature, as Apple has removed it entirely until a later date after its AI models have been adequately updated.
Calculator app fix
Finally, macOS 15.3 includes a fix for a Calculator app bug that was first introduced last fall.
When Apple originally launched macOS Sequoia, it came with several upgrades to Calculator. However, one unintended regression meant you could no longer hit the equals sign repeatedly to repeat operations.
Now, that’s been fixed. Enter 2 x 2, for example, then hit equals to get 4, and hit equals again to get 8, then 16, and so on.
macOS 15.3 wrap-up
Today’s macOS update continues a trend of adding Apple Intelligence enhancements to the Mac. While the number of features and changes comes up short of what recent updates have brought, that’s not unusual for Apple’s winter software updates. Now with 15.3 shipped, we should start seeing beta releases soon for what’s expected to be a more significant update: macOS 15.4.
Which macOS 15.3 features are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments.
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