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
If you sign out of your Apple Account settings on Mac
Before you sell or give away your Mac, make sure you sign out of your Apple Account in System Settings on that Mac. See Sign in to or out of your Apple Account.
What happens to your iCloud data when you sign out?
When you sign out, you’re asked whether you want to keep copies on your Mac of documents stored in iCloud Drive and data stored in iCloud by Contacts, Calendar, Reminders and Messages. If you keep copies, iCloud no longer keeps them up to date with changes on your other devices. If you choose not to keep copies, your documents and data stored in iCloud are removed from your Mac.
You’re also asked whether you want to finish downloading photos and videos that aren’t fully downloaded from iCloud Photos to your Mac or remove the items that have been downloaded. After you select an image, you can adjust the way it looks.
Your bookmarks and Reading List remain in Safari, but the iCloud Tabs list of web pages open on your other devices is no longer available.
After signing out of your Apple Account on your Mac, you can still access your iCloud documents, data, photos and videos on other devices where you’re signed in to your Apple Account, and on iCloud.com.
Copy iCloud documents and data before signing out
Before signing out of your Apple Account, you can selectively copy or archive iCloud documents and data to your Mac.
iCloud Drive: For instructions on copying documents to your Mac, see Store files in iCloud Drive.
Mail: For instructions, see Import or export mailboxes in Mail.
Contacts: For instructions, see Export or archive contacts in Contacts.
Calendar: For instructions, see Import or export calendars.
If you sign in to your Apple Account again on your Mac, your iCloud documents and data reappear on your Mac. Photos and videos you haven’t yet downloaded from iCloud Photos also appear on your Mac.