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
- Resources for your Mac
- Resources for your Apple devices
- Copyright and trademarks
Store information on CD and DVD discs on Mac
If your Mac has an external writable or rewritable optical drive, you can permanently store or burn files to CDs and DVDs to share files, move files between computers, or create backup files. Discs you burn on your Mac can also be used on Windows and other types of computers. See Find out if your Mac can burn discs on an optical drive.
Insert a blank disc into your optical drive.
If a dialog appears, click the pop-up menu, then choose Open Finder. Select “Make this action the default” if you want to open the Finder every time you insert a blank disc.
The disc appears on your desktop.
Double-click the disc to open its window, then drag the files and folders you want to burn to the window.
Aliases to the files are placed in the disc’s window. The original files are not moved or deleted.
Note: If you want to burn the same files to discs multiple times, use a burn folder.
Arrange and rename the files.
When the disc is burned, the items on the disc have the same names and locations that they have in the disc window. After the disc is burned, you can’t change the items.
Choose File > Burn to Disc, then follow the onscreen instructions.
The files that the aliases point to are burned to the disc. In addition, if the folders you add to the disc contain aliases, the files those aliases point to are also burned to the disc.
Note: If you eject the disc without burning it, a burn folder with the items you copied to the disc is created and placed on your desktop. To complete the burn process later, click the Burn icon
next to the folder in the Finder sidebar, or press and hold the Control key as you click any disc, then choose Burn Disc from the shortcut menu.
To burn a disk image (.dmg file) to a disc, Control-click the disk image file, choose Burn to Disc from the shortcut menu, then follow the instructions.
Tip: To erase the contents of a rewritable disc, Control-click the optical drive in the Finder sidebar, then choose Erase Rewriteable Disc from the shortcut menu.