60 Mac / macOS Getting Started Tips! (2024 edition) Do you know them all?

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13>07 Trhuth is I don't like minimizing and then maximizing things. I opted for the virtual desktop option. Never had to minimize anything again.

Best video for new Mac mini users, thanks, buddy.❤️

Thank you so much. Setting up a new mac mini m4, and this helped a whole lot

Amazing job 👏 so in depth and produced brilliantly!

This is an awsome guide to how to get the best of my mac investment. You cover a multitude of incredible hacks most of which I had no idea existed. Thank You. What is desperately needed is a cheat sheet of all the commands that as a user I can refer to as a reminder. Could you please compile such a cheat sheet ? Save me hunting through the video for that one item I need to remind myself of.

Great suggestions , thank you for suggesting these

Amazing video and pacing, thanks!

Thanks a lot for the "hot corner" tip! Setting the window overview for a corner prevents me from always needing ctrl and arrow up.

Help! I accidentally turn off the Bluetooth and
1. I use Bluetooth mouse and keyboard
2. I don’t have any other usb mouse or usb keyboard at home.

Anyone can help?

My findings,
I use the switch button to off the Mac and at restart at the log in screen prompting for password, Mac let me key in the password then started logging and loading all apps and settings (including Bluetooth was last turn off), from there I am stuck again with no access to the keyboard & mouse.
I have search and read a lot of info on the net but none was helpful.

New M4 Mac Mini user here, these tips and tricks were really helpful! Thank you!

Good info, but too fast, no room to pause in the fast stream.

Yes, I would definitely like to see a video on TIME MACHINE.

REALLY HELPFUL

Since almost forever, opening a Finder window > Applications, then click & drag an app icon to dock, to create an alias that can be used to open or close app.

I hope you can help me in this issue.
I believe since I did updated my Macbook Pro Intel to Os 15.3beta it can’t no longer screen copy to my tv. My other devices, IPad and IPhone also have beta iOS but still cast to tv with no issue.
Apple agent advised me to wait until official os 15.3 is out.
Do you think about any fix to this problem.
Thanks

I love this video so much.
Saving it for when I get my MacBook Air 15"
Might be far in the future, but idc

As a newbie Mac user found this video priceless with good explanations and demonstration. 
The only request I would make if I could would be to divide the tips into "Basic use" and "Advanced use" plus if possible take more time in the explanations/demonstrations and talk a little slower please as I was changing Mac settings while watching your brilliant video and was constantly rewinding the video.

Holy Hell that was informative! I'm a new Mac User and learned a Ton through that Video. Thank you so much for this!

Thanks a Lot

I just ordered a Macbook Pro M4 Pro a few days ago and can't wait to have it. This will be my first ever Apple laptop. I've been a Windows user for more than 20 years now, and while I love Windows 10 and 11, I wanted my next laptop to be an Apple silicon laptop to see if the hype about the M chips is real, especially for photo and video editing software.

But watching videos like these, it blows my mind how Apple does not provide very simple and intuitive things that Windows have provided since forever. Having a window fill the entire screen has only been implemented in Sequoia! And I still have to double-click on the top bar to have the Window open in full screen? In Windows, you open file explorer and it opens in full screen right away. No need for the extra step. And I have to purchase an app to get previews in the dock. And the X button does not actually close an app but keeps it open in the dock. Pressing Enter/Return on any file does not open it but renames it? Not having a dedicated delete button on the keyboard to delete whatever is on the right side of the cursor .. I'm sure there will be other things that I'll discover and have to adjust to. But these are very simple changes that Apple can copy from Windows to improve the usability of its operating system.

Anyway, thank you for the great video. Some very useful tips in there.

hello when i restart my mac mini m4 a bunch of apps pop up how do i stop that thank you'

This was great, thank you!

OMG this was the most annoying thing. THANKS Jeff!

Can't get the Preview export shortcut to work for whatever reason 😞 It shows up in the menu but won't activate; just gives a little blip sound.

App Store unable to find DockMate :(

Brand new Mac user and just purchased a MacBook Air after years of windows laptops. Found this very informative and realized (again) that I have a lot to learn...

Making the move from Windows to the M4 Mac Mini, and this video is so helpful and well explained. I'm a Web Developer and the productivity tips alone are really useful to know.

I feel like I am graduated in MacOS today 😂 great video

where do we get that phases album????

If you enable file vault protection, you will not be able to recover the password from the computer “root / administrator”. So I wouldn't recommend enabling such protection unless you are Edward Snowden

Super helpful! Thanks Jeff!

Been waiting for someone to make a video like this already 🔥

There were no tips I didn’t know 😅

I would use Safari’s compact view but it’s so badly implemented I just can’t use it

Best way to launch apps or do most things actually is stop using the mouse! Use spot light to search and launch or better yet install Raycast. Raycast is so good it makes a Mac worth using alone. Far superior to Alfred.

I will be buying the Mac Mini M4 Pro this year. I am a first time Mac user (other than iOS and iPadOs). This video will help so much.

Does transferring applications to an external drive impact its performance?

Great tips!!! I've been using Mac for a while but still got a lot out of this. THANKS👍

This video is great. I use an iPad an some of these hacks work great on my iPad. Thanks.

thanks for this detailed explanation. as a new mac user this was very educational

is it possible to change the size of the type to siri box or at least change the place of that permanently.
But again thanks for the really detailed content keep going 😊

If you install applications to an external disk, will this affect performance of the app? I am thinking of DaVinci Resolve in particular, would scrubbing the timeline be slow, or rendering take longer, etc. etc.?

is AirBuddy one time purchase or it's monthly based ?

App keyboard shortcut is super helpful. CleanMyMacX for some reason does not have shortcut for shredder.. Now it has one :D

How to access emoji and symbol bar? Also, is there an alternative for alt +tab? Thank you!

Amazing as always Jeff. One of my favorite one's is to enable calculate all sizes on folders.
Open Finder and go to Downloads, Documents, or another desired location. Press Command + J or click View > Show View Options from the top menu bar. Check the box for "Calculate all sizes", and you will see that folder sizes are now displayed in the Size column.