Mac User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in macOS 27
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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
- Copyright and trademarks
- Resources for your Apple devices
Use Apple Intelligence to express yourself creatively on Mac
With Apple Intelligence, you can use intelligent photo editing tools, create original images and Genmoji, create custom memory movies with a description, and more to power your creativity.
Note: Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 is not available in all languages or regions. Usage limits may apply.*
Make your photos frame-worthy
You can remove distracting objects, extend a photo beyond its original frame, and adjust its perspective. With Clean Up, Extend, and Reframe, a photo doesn’t have to be finished once you take it. Open a photo in the Photos app, click Edit, then click Tools to get started.
Make your own emoji with Genmoji
You can also make custom emoji from simple text descriptions with Genmoji. To get started, press Fn/-E on your keyboard, then click
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Create one-of-a-kind images with Image Playground
Produce fun, original images in moments with Image Playground. Open the Playground app, click , then describe an image. Or choose a photo and apply an image style, like Animation or Sketch.
Even more creativity features
Create memory movies You can create a custom memory movie of a story you want to see with a description. | Create backgrounds with Image Playground Use Image Playground to create one-of-a-kind images for the backgrounds of your conversations. |
Create original images in Messages You can create images with Image Playground directly in the Messages app. | Create original images in Freeform Use Image Playground to create one-of-a-kind images directly in the Freeform app. |