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
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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 colours
- Hover to zoom in on text and colours
- Listen to or change how text appears in apps
- Customise 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
Share Mac files with Windows users
To let users connect to your Mac from a Windows computer, turn on file sharing and enable SMB sharing.
Set up file sharing on the Mac
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
in the sidebar, then click Sharing. (You may need to scroll down.)Click
next to File Sharing.Turn on File Sharing.
Click Options, then turn on “Share files and folders using SMB”.
In the Windows File Sharing list, select the tickbox next to each user account that needs to share files with Windows users and enter the passwords for those users, then click OK.
Click Done, then click Done.
Choose View > Network, click your active connection, then click Details.
Click WINS in the sidebar, then enter the workgroup name used by the Windows computer.
Click OK.
Provide the information Windows users need
To connect to your Mac, Windows users need the network address for your Mac, and a username and password to use to log in to your Mac.
To find your Mac computer’s network address, choose Apple menu
Create an account on your Mac for each Windows user. To create accounts, choose Apple menu
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.) See Add a user or group.Open Users & Groups settings for me
If you want to use an account that existed before you installed the latest version of macOS, you may need to reset the password for the account in Users & Groups settings.
Because the passwords of user accounts used for Windows sharing may be stored in a less secure manner, turn off the account when it’s not being used. Before you turn off Windows sharing, turn off all the accounts you enabled. Otherwise, the passwords are still stored less securely.