While testing this summer, there appeared to be fewer incidents of the infamous “Working…” alert.īoth the Single Activity and the Weekly Timesheets have been overhauled. The end result should be quicker and more stable files. While this is largely invisible to the end-user, this required the team to rewrite portions of the code for every window, form and button – a massive undertaking. The 2016 version of QuickBooks for Mac was completely overhauled to take advantage of Apple’s run-time memory model called ARC, or Automatic Reference Counting. Although this took up the bulk of this year’s development cycle, the QuickBooks for Mac team also found time to add a few new features. A change in the way QuickBooks accesses the Mac’s memory, which previously required extensive modification of the entire code base, should make the application faster and more reliable.
The biggest change in QuickBooks ® for Mac 2016 is hidden under the hood.
