Ask on Page and Arc’s own colours

With Settings ▸ Max ▸ Ask on Page on, ⌘F opens Arc Max’s “Find or ask…” card. Typing still finds on the page; Ask, or Return when the text isn’t on the page, asks about the page instead. The answer streams in with quotes you can jump to, and follow-ups keep the conversation. It runs on the Mac’s own Apple Intelligence, so nothing leaves the Mac, and it’s hidden while Apple Intelligence is off.

As in Arc, a theme set to Light or Dark draws the colour you picked as it is: black stays black, navy stays navy, and white stays a light sidebar with dark text. Dark themes lose the purple cast they all had, and Auto still follows macOS.

Rest the pointer on a Linear, Notion, Figma or Confluence favorite or pinned tab, and a card lists the pages you visited there, newest first, with a ＋ for a new one. Pinned tabs get every Previews card now, as favorites do. Outlook Mail, Outlook Calendar and Notion Calendar complete Arc’s Previews sheet, read with the page’s own sign-in.

Settings ▸ Shortcuts lets each shortcut Prefer Cra, Use Both or Prefer Websites, as Arc does. With Use Both the page gets the first press, and when it doesn’t use it Cra asks you to press again.

Each profile in Settings ▸ Profiles picks its New documents app (Google Doc, Notion Page, Word Doc or Confluence Page), and the command bar offers that one’s New… command, as in Arc.

The space icon picker has an Image tab next to Emoji and Icon: choose or drop a PNG or SVG and it becomes the space’s icon, in the dock, the header and everywhere else, and it syncs with the space. Not in Arc.

Settings ▸ Tabs ▸ Hide the toolbar until you need it, also in the toolbar’s right-click menu, gives the page the toolbar’s room: the toolbar floats in over the page when the pointer rests at the top, and goes when it leaves. Off by default, not in Arc.

A favorite’s right-click menu has Arc’s Mute and Unmute, after Rename…, and a muted tab now stays quiet on its next page and after a relaunch.

⌘S and View ▸ Hide Sidebar work while a Peek is open, and the Peek follows the sidebar as it slides.

• Background tabs past the five you used last pause, waking for 5 seconds a minute, unless they play sound, are in a call, may notify you or hold a live connection: background wakeups drop by about a fifth at 20 tabs.
• A chat or mail tab holding a live connection is never paused. Before, Cra’s 30-minute pause cut its connection.
• About 75 MB less graphics memory at 20 tabs: five hidden tabs keep their last frame, not ten. Closed tabs give their memory back sooner.
• From the next update on, the downloaded update warms up before it installs, so its first launch takes about half a second instead of three and a half.