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Version 81 of the Mac app is out now! With this update, we’ve introduced Foresight, to help you preview the outcome of alignment and resizing actions on the Canvas. Now, you’ll see an outline on the Canvas showing your shapes’ future position and dimensions. So you can quickly understand how your designs will look before you make a decision.

Elsewhere, we’ve made improvements to Prototyping — including better management of start points in your documents. We’ve also made it easier to share a prototype from local documents. Now, when you share your prototype, you’ll be prompted to save it to your Workspace so you can easily share it with everyone you need to via a link.

Also, you can now upload a local Sketch document to your Workspace from the Recent Documents tab in the Workspace window by dragging it into a Project.

Finally, we have also removed the checkbox about sharing usage analytics in Sketch because we stopped collecting this information altogether.

macOS Monterey is out now. And if you’re itching to update, you don’t need to worry — the latest Sketch release is fully compatible with Apple’s new operating system. And of course, when Universal Control lands in a future macOS Monterey update, it’ll work perfectly with Sketch.

Plus, if you’ve recently upgraded to a brand new MacBook Pro, Sketch already supports the new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips. So you can work faster than ever with all the power of your new machine.

Sketch 78.1 is a free update for anyone with a subscription or valid legacy license. Grab it now — and enjoy the update!

Sketch 78 is here! With this release, we’ve got some neat UX improvements to make your life easier. We‘ve fine-tuned the Documents window — now called Workspace window — to include a new List view and an improved Recents view to help you find the documents you need faster. Plus, with sharing badges, you can see extra information about your documents, and stay on top of what your team is working on.

Elsewhere, we’ve made it easier to navigate layers and work with deep group hierarchies. For example, you can now use the Enter and Tab keys to move through the layer hierarchy across multiple selected groups. You can also navigate layers with Tab and ⇧Tab, even if you have nothing selected.

And, as always, we’ve squashed some pesky bugs and improved performance based on your feedback.

Version 77 of the Mac app is out now. With this update, we’ve made it faster to drill down into groups in your documents. Now, after you’ve double-clicked the first group on the Canvas, quickly following up with single clicks will dive down deeper.

Elsewhere, you’ll find new Apple device presets in the Artboard selector. And did you know you can use math in most of Sketch’s text fields? Well, we’ve now added support for exponents (aka powers) with the ^ sign.

We also heard you loud and clear when it came to the export bar that appears at the bottom of the Canvas when you export a file. Now, the bar will automatically disappear after 10 seconds, and we’ll never show more than one at a time — so you can focus on the work on your Canvas.

And, as always, we’ve squashed some pesky bugs and improved performance based on your feedback. We hope you enjoy the update!

Version 75 of the Mac app is out now. With this update, we’ve added a new Workspace switcher to the Documents window. Now you can use a drop-down menu to switch to any other Workspace you’re a member or Guest of, and you’ll only see that Workspace’s documents and Projects.

The latest release also makes it easier to share prototypes from the Mac app for any document that lives in your Workspace. It’s as simple as clicking the Share button in the toolbar while you’re testing a prototype from the Mac app.

Elsewhere, there’s a new shortcut to quickly access all your Document Settings in one place — just hit ⌘⇧, — as well as an option to lock or unlock the ratio of Slice layers from the Inspector, and some other small improvements. And, as always, we’ve squashed some pesky bugs and improved performance based on your feedback.

Version 73 of the Mac app is out now. With this update, we’ve focused on bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements to make the whole Sketch experience even better. You’ll notice a few of these in the Documents window in particular, where you can now drag document thumbnails to and from Projects within your Workspace.

Last month, we introduced My Drafts — a place to store private documents in your Workspace. Now, you can share individual documents in My Drafts with specific people using that document’s share settings.

Sharing documents in My Drafts is a great way to give your work a smaller audience without needing to share it with everyone in your Workspace. It’s perfect for those new ideas, side projects, and secret plans to take over the world.

With version 72 of the Mac app, we’re including a whole host of rendering and performance improvements. Many of them are subtle, but they all add up to a better experience — you should notice that things feel more responsive when moving Symbols and Nested Symbols around the Canvas, during exports, and when saving documents to your Workspace.

Elsewhere, we’ve added a new option to choose whether Data you insert into your designs is random or sequential. Plus, we’ve added support for nested data within Linked Data (JSON) sources — which will appear in a group when you add it to your Canvas.

You’ll also find some nifty new shortcuts for aligning layers. ⌃⌘←→↑↓ now align layers left, right, top or bottom. ⌃⌘V or ⌃⌘H align layers vertically or horizontally. Add the ⌥ modifier to any of those shortcuts to align layers within an Artboard.

Finally, after quietly launching real-time collaboration a few weeks ago for customers with a Teams subscription, it’s now available for everyone who wants it. Now you can invite others into Sketch documents and edit alongside them in real-time. Find out more in our Getting Started Guide.