macOS Sonoma 14
macOS Ventura 13
macOS Monterey 12
macOS Big Sur 11.0
macOS Catalina 10.15
macOS Mojave 10.14
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Table of Contents
macOS User Guide
- Welcome
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- What’s in the menu bar?
- Work on the desktop
- Search with Spotlight
- Quickly change settings
- Use Siri
- Get notifications
- Open apps from the Dock
- Organize your files in the Finder
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- Connect to the internet
- Browse the web
- Preview a file
- Take a screenshot
- Change your display’s brightness
- Adjust the volume
- Use trackpad and mouse gestures
- Use Touch ID
- Print documents
- Keyboard shortcuts
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- Apps on your Mac
- Open apps
- Work with app windows
- Use apps in full screen
- Use apps in Split View
- Use Stage Manager
- Get apps from the App Store
- Install and reinstall apps from the App Store
- Install and uninstall other apps
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- Create and work with documents
- Open documents
- Mark up files
- Combine files into a PDF
- Organize files on your desktop
- Organize files with folders
- Tag files and folders
- Back up files
- Restore files
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- Change System Settings
- Choose your desktop wallpaper
- Add and customize widgets
- Use a screen saver
- Add a user or group
- Add your email and other accounts
- Automate tasks with Shortcuts
- Create Memoji
- Change your login picture
- Change the system language
- Make text and other items on the screen bigger
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- Set up a Focus to stay on task
- Set up Screen Time for yourself
- Use Dictation
- Send emails
- Send text messages
- Make a FaceTime video call
- Edit photos and videos
- Use Live Text to interact with text in a photo
- Start a Quick Note
- Get directions
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- Work across devices using Continuity
- Use iPhone as a webcam
- Use iPhone with Desk View
- Stream audio and video with AirPlay
- Use one keyboard and mouse to control Mac and iPad
- Hand off between devices
- Unlock your Mac with Apple Watch
- Make and receive phone calls on your Mac
- Sync music, books, and more between devices
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- Manage Apple ID settings
- Set your Apple ID picture
- What is iCloud?
- What is iCloud+?
- Store files in iCloud Drive
- Share and collaborate on files and folders
- Manage iCloud storage
- Use iCloud Photos
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- Play music
- Listen to podcasts
- Watch TV shows and movies
- Read and listen to books
- Read the news
- Track stocks and the market
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- Apple Music
- Apple TV+
- Apple Arcade
- Apple News+
- Podcast shows and channels
- Manage subscriptions in the App Store
- View Apple family subscriptions
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- Guard your privacy
- Use Mail Privacy Protection
- Control access to your camera
- Use Sign in with Apple for apps and websites
- Set up your Mac to be secure
- Keep your data safe
- Create a passkey
- Understand passwords
- Keep your Apple ID secure
- Find a missing device
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- Get started with accessibility features
- Vision
- Hearing
- Mobility
- Speech
- General
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- Connect an external display
- Use the built-in camera
- Connect a Bluetooth device
- Use AirPods with your Mac
- Optimize your Mac battery life
- Optimize storage space
- Burn CDs and DVDs
- Control accessories in your home
- Use Windows on your Mac
- Resources for your Mac
- Resources for your Apple devices
- Copyright
You can change the picture that’s displayed on your desktop. Choose from a variety of pictures or colors provided by Apple, or use your own images.
Tip: You can drag an image from your desktop or a folder onto the thumbnail of the current wallpaper to use the image as your wallpaper.
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)Open Wallpaper settings for me
Select a wallpaper from one of the available categories:
Add Photo/Add Folder or Album: Controls to choose your own images.
Dynamic Wallpapers: These images brighten and darken, based on the time of day for your current location.
Landscape, Cityscape, Underwater, and Earth aerials: These still images show dramatic views.
Shuffle Aerials: These still images change at an interval you set.
Pictures: These still images show creative pictures.
Colors: These swatches apply a solid-color background for your desktop.
Set options for your wallpaper.
Options vary based on the wallpaper you choose. For example, you can:
Turn on a slow-motion aerial as a screen saver, using the still aerial of your wallpaper.
Choose how often to shuffle through aerials.
Choose light or dark still versions of Dynamic Wallpaper.
Add your own color.
Tip: You can drag an image from your desktop or a folder onto the thumbnail at the top of Wallpaper settings to use the image as your wallpaper.
To quickly use a photo you have in the Photos app, open Photos, select the photo, click the Share button 
in the Photos toolbar, then choose Set Wallpaper.
You can also use a picture you find on the web as your wallpaper. Control-click the image in the browser window, then select Use Image as Desktop Picture.
See alsoWallpaper settings on MacGet to know the Mac desktopUse a screen saver on your MacUse the Dock on MacChange your login picture on Mac
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