15 Obscure System Preferences You Should Know About

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[@LucasWxyz]

The one that I always do as soon as I get a new Mac, reinstall OS or even on my friend's Mac: Accessibility -> Pointer -> Trackpad Preferences -> Drag with three fingers Thanks for the video! got a a couple of new tricks!

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I changed my Night Shift settings to be on pretty much 24 hours a day. Did the same for my iPad and my iPhone. The warmer tone is just easy on my eyes no matter what screen I’m looking at.

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Cool! my 13" MacBook Pro is running Mojave (can't upgrade to Big Sur) so the options look a bit different for me, but I haven't looked into these for several years now, though some of them I've never considered to be "obscure." Thanks for the quick tour. It's fun to see what has changed over the years.

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[@bwillie1793]

Another tip for the Settings window: use its Search field to quickly locate settings options related to a keyword you enter rather than digging through individual settings categories trying to find what you need.

[@mehmd1913]

I’d love it if you could do an in-depth of the features and functionality of the sharing preferences, and network preferences. It would be helpful.

[@ollie54able]

Every video that I have watched I have learned something new. Thank you. I have a question re my dock & that is when I turned it on today 3 of my images were a large question mark (Pages, Numbers & Keynote).But I have a separate Numbers icon. Suggestions on how to restore the icons. I am using OS X El Capitan. Thanks for any suggestions.

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[@samadhanptl84]

It has been a while when i got my first MacBook. Now i am learning how to use it with most features.

[@ebutuoy6701]

That setting of left / right commands for shortcuts is 🤯. Thank you!!

[@nunocorreia5570]

Thanks for sharing such great tips

[@Richard.Cabeza]

Click on the ? in the lower right corner of almost every item in System Preferences. Lots of helpful info there as to what each item does. Take an hour (or two) and go through each item to see what it does and how it might be changed to fit your needs.

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[@briantdaniel9280]

Awesome!! FN key for emoji keyboard! I have been doing CONTROL + COMMAND + SPACEBAR for sooo long. Thank you Gary for this great tip! 👍😀

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Another very informative video. Thank you very much, Gary! ❤️👍🏻

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Thanks Gary, I so look forward to your daily videos, and viewing previously published ones as well. They have been invaluable to me as a new MAC user.

[@luis.antunes.imobiliario]

Very good video! Thank you!

[@disklamer]

Great tips. I really enjoy the calm focus on practical topics, your style reminds me of the vibe of the old Macintosh user communities. I love how Apple went back to the general design of the original Macintosh Control Panel.

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[@marca3259]

Thank you Gary. Mk

[@JoeSiegler]

3:54 - You should do an entire video on what's in accessibility. :)

[@justinodelvalle6142]

This video allowed me to check and correct some of my settings. 🏆

[@kevint7851]

👌👌👌👍...Learning something new every day

[@mynomadtravellife]

Fantastic as a new Mac user I needed that display setting of moving the little bar to the other screen as it was the wrong way and I could not see how to change that.. Thanks

[@markharris4659]

Brilliant info thank you. I was attempting to follow along and it was a touch too fast. Nit picking...i could always pause...aagain great info thank you

[@birdjacobs]

Thank you Gary, this is extremely helpful!

[@AlgisKemezys]

Nice ideas.TY

[@misterhoeflak]

Great tips!

[@Firebrand55]

Very good Gary....so good I've decided to put another £1 towards the Rosenzweig Presidential Election Fund!

[@thevacdude]

I was wondering how you, or if you could change to 800x600 resolution on a newer Mac. I used to do it in high school, however, we were on 17 inch iMac's back then. Thanks for the video, Gary.

[@ernestgalvan9037]

“Computer Name” under ‘sharing’ tab is also the name that is shown in the ‘Find My’ app…

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Brilliant as always. Things I didn’t know about I can try tomorrow.

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what I love most about MacMost videos is that I literally always learn something new. Does anyone know if there's a setting of the language one for ipad apps?

[@macmost]

I don't see a way to set it on a per-app basis, but you can certainly add multiple languages in Settings, General, Language & Region.

[@akbc3247]

@@macmost thanks so much!

[@JoeSiegler]

6:15 - It would be cool I think if you could set individual apps to act differently. Say you have a specific app (like DOSBox for example) as the active app, the F keys would act like normal F keys but otherwise respect the general system setting you have when that app is not active.

[@MariaFerreira-vx4yu]

Hi. Can you please explain why I have an iMac without the padlock in system preferences in “network” and also “share”? The padlock is not visible, it’s not locked or opened, it’s not there… It’s an new iMac i buyed from Apple, i received it yesterday, I never connected the iMac to the internet, I’m the only user and administrator. Thank you all, and, specially Gary!

[@Penrhos1]

My left Command key just shows open app's. The right one allows copy/paste etc, but not the left one?

[@pressrepeat2000]

Love his channel so much. So useful.

[@kwameasimah]

Great video

[@chumarirunning5370]

I like that lock screen message, makes sense incase you lose your laptop

[@checkwhatsleft4565]

I can't turn the startup sound off on my M1 Mac mini, uncheck the checkbox of the startup sound and it goes right back in.

[@robmlisanti]

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[@IzzyMariel]

fn key to show emojis is brilliant. TY!

[@billgz7841]

I learned a lot on this video. Thanks!

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Excellent presentation

[@getstew]

Good work. Really helpful!

[@supermati]

Yes! exactly what I wanted

[@Billy123bobzzz]

Useful and well done, keep up the good work!

[@artysanmobile]

I’ve always thought Apple should have a “what’s new” command for System Preferences that hilites or shows only the new items in each category. I spend a lot of time searching for prefs that I’ve seen elsewhere or just wanted for awhile. “What’s new…” would be a great tool for those of us expecting or hoping for improvements in Sys Prefs. Searching in Prefs is a really bad idea, just massively wasted time, imo.

[@GianfrancoSeminario]

How did you change the orientation of your screens in display?

[@macmost]

Click Display Settings, then look for Rotation.

[@kimdhmanbang]

Awesome. Thank you

[@alextirrellRI]

Option click on Scaled didn't work for me. Not sure why? I'm on the Beta of 11.4 though.

[@macmost]

Probably the model you have. Works with external monitors and some iMacs, but not most MacBook screens.

[@Greg-fg1rd]

Love these!

[@Argonautlighting41]

Thanks 🙏

[@dhudong9946]

Option + Click on Scaled isn’t working for me.

[@aolsanjaysir]

Please make a video on google meet to share screen video with audio in safari .

[@roholdt]

😀 good

[@carywilson6435]

Is there perhaps a setting to turn off the auto bootup on opening the screen on a MacBook Pro 16 (I know there's a workaround using Terminal but that doesn't seem to work as well under Mac OS 11). Thanks!

[@macmost]

Not sure what you mean. Do you actually shut down your MacBook? (Don't shut it down kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKTVhaN7qr14qsU ). But if you do shut it down, why would you open it up and not want it to start up?

[@carywilson6435]

@@macmost I do shut down my MacBookPro 2 or 3 times a day. But having just watched your suggested video, I think I'll change my routine going forward. Tx! (Btw I don't seem to have a "Power Saver" icon in my Mac OS 11.2.3 System preferences?)

[@macmost]

@@carywilson6435 They've changed the name of the System Preference for power a few times over the years.

[@marco-lk3hj]

Is there an easy way to play music from my Mac to my Apple TV without having to have my television screen on ?

[@MyDogSteppedOnaBeee]

Thank you excellent video! How do you get rid of the software update notification that sounds like a text message from the app store? I can not seem to find where to turn it off. I don't care for it in my notifications on the right side of the screen. It pops up randomly to make software updates and makes a very loud noise.

[@macmost]

Not sure what you mean. Are these notifications for app updates, or system updates? If for apps, is it for any app, or just one in particular? I've never noticed any loud sound for updates like that.

[@MyDogSteppedOnaBeee]

@@macmost if there is anyway to take a picture or video I can send to you? they are software updates from the app store reminding me to update them. A notification pops up and you can X it out, but I can not seem to find a way to disable it the notification.

[@macmost]

@@MyDogSteppedOnaBeee What are your settings in System Preferences, Software Update? Click Advanced. Is everything checked?

[@MyDogSteppedOnaBeee]

@@macmost no only the first 2 are checked and the last one on the very bottom checked

[@macmost]

@@MyDogSteppedOnaBeee Why not have them all checked? That may fix it, possibly.

[@Greg-fg1rd]

option-click- "scale" on my MBP 16" gives me refresh rates; not the drop down you showed?

[@macmost]

It won't work with some (all?) built-in screens. It is meant for external screens that have more options.

[@Greg-fg1rd]

@@macmost ahhhh. Thanks. Didn't understand that.

[@handiman5]

@@Greg-fg1rd Thanks for the question...I too had the same problem.

[@cfschulz]

Is it possible to export my preferences e.g for a another mac or to recover my preferences after a clean install of an OS?

[@macmost]

If you use Migration Assistant then everything from your user account will be copied to your new Mac, including preferences.

[@cfschulz]

@@macmost I don't use the assistant

[@macmost]

@@cfschulz Well if you want your preferences to come across, that's what you need to use. support.apple.com/en-us/HT204350

[@Bestenouf]

Please why is closing and minimising Windows slow? Thanks

[@macmost]

Slow in what way? Describe it.

[@hamidazzouzi8778]

On my mac remove malicious chrome & reinstall Safari.

[@sbeckas]

MacOS Pro 13:" Big Sur (Built in Retina) "Display" only has 3 tabs and Option Scale does nothing? time stamp 6:53

[@macmost]

I think that is all you get with a built-in display. Not sure about iMacs though.

[@sbeckas]

@@macmost Thanks-it all boils down to which model one has too.

[@mojoblues66]

@@macmost my 5k retina iMac behaves exactly as your Mac Pro in the video, including the option-click.

[@macmost]

@@mojoblues66 Ah, good to know. Thanks!

[@r.r819]

I don’t get how emails from Apple is an obscure system preference.

[@phdcar]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@DrJohnPollard]

This FN key idea is not in the new system.

[@mrkattm]

Option click? I think you mean right click.

[@macmost]

Where? Do you mean in the part about Displays. No, it is Option Click.

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

Your sound is good but not perfect: you still have a slight echo, I suspect from a surface you are facing, i.e. "behind the listener, us" rather than the usual behind the speaker, you.

[@georgecostanza3465]

Another “how to” that doesn’t specify WHICH macOS it applies to. Many of the settings in the first few minutes are not as described-on my Mac. Just saying. Not everyone is using the same OS.

[@macmost]

I am always using the latest version of macOS. This is from April, 2021, when the current macOS was Big Sur.

[@dees9502]

Life is short, this stuff is meaningless

[@JaimeHuffman]

Awesome. Thank you