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
Change Always Allowed settings in Screen Time on Mac
Use Always Allowed settings in Screen Time to choose what communication is allowed during downtime and which apps can be used during downtime or after an applicable time limit has been reached.
To change these settings on your Mac, choose Apple menu 
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.) Click the Family Member pop-up menu and choose a family member (if you’re a parent/guardian in a Family Sharing group), then click Always Allowed.
If you can’t see Always Allowed, you need to turn on Screen Time for the selected family member.
Open Always Allowed settings for me
Option | Description | ||||||||||
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During Downtime, Allow communication with | Choose who the family member can communicate with during downtime.
Note: The available options vary, depending on the current settings for allowed communication during screen time (this is set in Screen Time Communication Limits settings). See Change Communication Limits settings in Screen Time. | ||||||||||
Contacts | Manage a family member’s iCloud contacts. This option is available if you requested permission to manage your family member’s iCloud contacts in Communication Limits settings in Screen Time and your family member approved the request. See Change Communication Limits settings in Screen Time. | ||||||||||
Allowed Apps | Allow specific apps to be used during downtime or after the time limit has been reached. | ||||||||||
Search | Enter the name of an app to find it in the list. | ||||||||||
Sort | Change the order of the apps in the list. Click
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