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
- Summarize 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 colors
- Hover to zoom in on text and colors
- Listen to or change how text appears in apps
- Customize 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
Hand off tasks between Apple devices
With Handoff, you can start a task on one device and complete it on another. For example, you can start reading a webpage in Safari on your Mac, but then hand it off to your iPhone to finish it on the go.
You can use Handoff with many Apple apps—for example, Safari, Mail, FaceTime, and Maps. Some third-party apps also work with Handoff.
Before you begin
Make sure of the following:
You’re signed in to the same Apple Account on both devices.
Both devices meet minimum system requirements for Handoff.
Turn on Handoff
Turn on Handoff on both your Mac and your other Apple device.
On your Mac: Choose Apple menu
in the sidebar, click AirDrop & Continuity, then turn on “Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices.” (You may need to scroll down.)On your iPhone or iPad: Go to Settings
> General > AirPlay & Continuity, then turn on Handoff.
Hand off a task between your Mac and other devices
When your devices are near each other, an icon appears whenever a task can be handed off. Just click or tap the Handoff icon to continue working on your other device.
The Handoff icon appears in the following locations:
On a Mac: Toward the right end of the Dock, if the Dock is at the bottom of the screen. If you set up the Dock to appear on the left or right side of your screen, the Handoff icon appears at the bottom of the Dock.
You can also press Command-Tab to quickly switch to the app that has the Handoff icon.
On an iPhone: At the bottom of the App Switcher screen.
On an iPad: At the right end of the Dock.
If Handoff isn’t working
Make sure that both devices have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned on, and you’re signed in to the same Apple Account.
Your devices must be within 30 feet (10 meters) of one another.
Check that your app supports Handoff. Calendar, Contacts, FaceTime, Keynote, Mail, Maps, Pages, Numbers, Reminders, and Safari, as well as many third-party apps, allow Handoff.