Your Mac has a "Safe Mode" designed to help when you run into trouble with your computer. It's a diagnostic mode of macOS that boots up your desktop or laptop without any other apps running. Here's how it works.
macOS Recovery is part of the built-in recovery system of your Mac. It can help you restore data from Time Machine, reinstall the operating system, get online help online, repair or erase a hard disk, and much more. You can start up from macOS Recovery and use its utilities to recover from many types of software issues or take other actions on your Mac such as...
Apple’s Reminders app for the Mac has been completely revamped for macOS Catalina with a new user interface and several new features. One of my favorite features is the new Messages integration. You can tag someone in a reminder, so that the next time you’re chatting with the person in Messages, you’ll be reminded that, for instance, now might be a good time to talk.
With macOS Catalina, music, videos, podcasts, and audiobooks are organized into their own dedicated apps — named, appropriately enough, Music, TV, and Podcasts, and Apple Books. You can also access your iTunes Store purchases in the appropriate apps. However, when you open Apple Music, you won’t see a link to the iTunes Store. Why? Perhaps Apple prefers you to subscribe to Apple Music instead of buying songs and albums. Who knows how the tech giant thinks? However, you can make the iTunes Store icon magically reappear. Here’s how:
With macOS Catalina, Apple broke up the iTunes app into three separate apps: Apple Music, Apple TV, and Podcasts. Previously, you could connect iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches to your Mac and their icons would appear in iTunes. No longer. Now that — as well as syncing — is handled entirely in the Finder. To manage your iOS or iPad device in macOS Catalina, here's what you do...
Sometimes when I'm viewing an article (usually involving patent images) in Safari, it's hard to view an entire image. However, you can increase or decrease the zoom level of images (and text) when viewing web pages in the macOS web browser.
