Mac User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in macOS Tahoe
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- Intro to Apple Intelligence
- Translate messages and calls
- Create original images with Image Playground
- Create your own emoji with Genmoji
- Use Apple Intelligence with Siri
- Find the right words with Writing Tools
- Summarize notifications and reduce interruptions
- Use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence
- Apple Intelligence and privacy
- Block access to Apple Intelligence features
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- Intro to Continuity
- Use AirDrop to send items to nearby devices
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Control your iPhone from your Mac
- Copy and paste between devices
- Stream video and audio with AirPlay
- Make and receive calls and text messages on your Mac
- Use your iPhone internet connection with your Mac
- Share your Wi-Fi password with another device
- Use iPhone as a webcam
- Insert sketches, photos, and scans from iPhone or iPad
- Unlock your Mac with Apple Watch
- Use your iPad as a second display
- Use one keyboard and mouse to control Mac and iPad
- Sync music, books, and more between devices
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- Get started
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- Accessibility features for vision
- Get started with VoiceOver
- Zoom in on what’s around you
- Zoom in on your Mac screen
- Increase font size and icons
- Adjust the display colors
- Hover to zoom in on text and colors
- Listen to or change how text appears in apps
- Customize onscreen motion
- Increase the size of what’s on your screen
- Make the pointer easier to see
- Have your Mac speak text that’s on the screen
- Resources for your Mac
- Resources for your Apple devices
- Copyright and trademarks
Use subtitles and closed captions on Mac
You can customize the look of subtitles and closed captions, and choose to automatically show subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH) or closed captions whenever they’re available.
Tip: If your Mac supports it, you can turn on live captioning so you can more easily follow spoken audio from your computer and from conversations around you. See Get Live Captions of spoken audio.
Automatically show closed captions and SDH when available
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)Go to Hearing, then click Captions.
Do any of the following:
Always show closed captions and SDH when available: Turn on “Prefer closed captions and SDH.”
Stop showing closed captions and SDH: Turn off “Prefer closed captions and SDH.”
Tip: You can automatically see subtitles when the language of a video doesn’t match your preferred system language—turn on “Show automatically when languages do not match.”
Customize the appearance of subtitles and captions
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
Go to Hearing, then click Captions.
Do any of the following:
Create a style: Click
, enter a name for the style, then change settings for the background and text. If you like many of the settings of an existing style, select it before you click , then change just the settings you don’t like.To have your style used instead of the default style of the video you’re viewing, deselect the “Allow video to override” checkbox.
In the bottom section, you can also set a font to use to override another font every time it’s used in subtitles. For example, you might set a font to use instead of Cursive in subtitles.
Edit a style you created: Select the style in the list, then click Edit.
Delete a style you created: Select the style in the list, then click
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