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
If your Mac desktop looks different
If your desktop looks different from the last time you used your Mac, and the Mac has multiple users, another user may be currently logged in, and you may be using that person’s account.
Do any of the following:
Look in the menu bar in the upper-right corner of the screen. If fast user switching is turned on, the name of the current user or a generic icon appears. You can turn on fast user switching in Menu Bar settings.
Click the fast user switching menu. The current user is identified by a checkmark in the menu. If you’re not the current user, you can use the fast user switching menu to log in. Choose your name, then log in.
In the Finder
, choose Go > Home to go to the home folder.If the home folder isn’t yours, choose Apple menu
If you’re logged in as the correct user but the desktop looks different and other users have access to your Mac, it’s possible that another user changed your settings. To protect your Mac from being modified by others, see Set up your Mac to be secure.
It’s also possible that an administrator may be controlling how the desktop, windows, or Dock look and behave. If you have more questions, talk to the person who administers the Mac you’re using.
Your desktop may also look different if you turned on iCloud Desktop and Documents on this Mac, and then changed the desktop items on iCloud.com or another Mac, or on an iPhone or iPad where iCloud Drive is turned on. See Store files in iCloud Drive.