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
Set sleep and wake settings for your Mac
You can set sleep and wake settings for your Mac. For example, you can set your Mac to go to sleep after a specified duration of inactivity or set it to wake for network access. Keep in mind that delaying, preventing or allowing disruption of sleep may increase power consumption.
Note: Some of the options may not be available, depending on your Mac.
Set your Mac to go to sleep after inactivity
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)Do any of the following:
Click the pop-up menu next to “Turn display off on battery when inactive”, then choose an option.
Click the pop-up menu next to “Turn display off on power adapter when inactive”, then choose an option.
Specify sleep and wake settings for a Mac laptop
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
Click Options, then do any of the following:
Stop automatic sleeping when the display is off: Turn on “Prevent automatic sleeping on power adapter when the display is off”.
Put hard disks to sleep: Turn on Put hard disks to sleep when possible.
Update your system while it’s asleep: Click the pop-up menu next to Enable Power Nap, then choose an option.
Allow your Mac to wake briefly so users can access shared services (if applicable): Click the pop-up menu next to Wake for network access, then choose an option.
Specify sleep and wake settings for a Mac desktop computer
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)Do any of the following:
Stop automatic sleeping when the display is off: Turn on “Prevent automatic sleeping when the display is off”.
Put hard disks to sleep: Turn on Put hard disks to sleep when possible.
Update your system while it’s asleep: Turn on Enable Power Nap.
Allow your Mac to wake briefly so users can access shared services (if applicable): Turn on “Wake for network access”.