Mac User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in macOS Sequoia
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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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- Control what you share
- Set up your Mac to be secure
- Allow apps to see the location of your Mac
- Use Private Browsing
- Keep your data safe
- Understand passwords
- Change weak or compromised passwords
- Keep your Apple Account secure
- Use Mail Privacy Protection
- Use Sign in with Apple for apps and websites
- Find a missing device
- Resources for your Mac
- Resources for your Apple devices
- Copyright
Share your Mac resources when it’s in sleep
If you’re sharing your computer’s resources, such as a shared printer or Music playlist, you can set your computer to wake from sleep when other users access those resources.
To use this feature, you need an Apple wireless device that supports 802.11n and that has the latest firmware installed. See the Apple Support article Update the firmware on your AirPort base station.
Share resources for a Mac laptop
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)Click Options, click the pop-up menu next to “Wake for network access”, then choose an option.
Click Done.
Share resources for a Mac desktop computer
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)Turn on “Wake for network access”.
When Wake for network access is enabled, your Mac wakes at the following times:
When a user at another computer accesses your computer’s shared resources.
At regular intervals so that your Mac can notify other computers on the network that its resources are available.