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
- Summarise 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
- Resources for your Mac
- Resources for your Apple devices
- Copyright and trademarks
Back up and share text replacements on Mac
You can create text replacements to automatically replace certain text with other text or symbols. For example, you can replace (c) with ©. You can export your text replacements as a file to back them up or share them with other Mac users.
Note: You can use iCloud to keep your text replacements up to date on all your Apple devices. Just set up iCloud Drive on your Mac, iPhone and iPad, and sign in to the same Apple Account on each device. When you add a text replacement on your Mac, it automatically works on your other devices (and vice versa).
Export text replacements
Go to the System Settings app
on your Mac.Click Keyboard
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)If you’re working in an app, you can also choose Edit > Substitutions > Show Substitutions, then click Text Settings.
Click Text Replacements.
Select the replacements you want to export. To select them all, choose Edit > Select All.
Drag the selected replacements from the Text Replacements window to the desktop. This creates a backup file named property list.plist.
Note: You can edit this file using TextEdit.
To back up this file, copy it to an external drive or another location. You can also send it to another person to share it with them.
Import text replacements
Go to the System Settings app
on the Mac where you want to import the text replacements.Click Keyboard
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)If you’re working in an app, you can also choose Edit > Substitutions > Show Substitutions, then click Text Settings.
Click Text Replacements.
Drag the property list.plist file from its location to the Text Replacements window, then click Done.