Master macOS Sequoia - The Complete up-to-date Course

Learn how macOS Sequoia introduces window tiling, how to drag, resize, and snap windows to left, right, or corners with one click, and use arrange tools to manage multiple windows.

Keep files downloaded on iCloud drive for offline access by right-clicking and selecting keep download. Apply this to folders, and use the icons to confirm downloaded status across your devices.

Explore FaceTime backgrounds and green color options in video conferencing, using menu bar controls to adjust video, choose Apple presets, solid colors, or personal images for any webcam app.

Discover macOS's built-in password manager now as a standalone app, accessible from launchpad or applications, that stores codes, passkeys, Wi‑Fi passwords, and login passwords and offers one-click sign-in on websites.

Explore new messages app features across macOS and iPhone, including tapback quick replies, emojis, and stickers, plus delivery options like send later to time messages precisely.

Explore the universal macOS Sequoia calculator across devices with basic, scientific, and programmer modes, live formula typing, and parentheses. Use conversions for Celsius-Fahrenheit, distance, and currencies with real-time rates.

Switch to math nodes in calculator modes to use the notes app for calculations, define variables, build formulas, and see live results persist after pressing enter.

Discover how to mirror your iPhone on a Mac using the iPhone mirroring app, unlock, control apps, and drag photos to your Mac, while enabling iPhone notifications on macOS.

Discover notes app features like voice recording with transcription and the ability to copy and paste text. Collapse sections with headings and highlight key text in colors for easy navigation.

Explore how reminders and calendar apps sync automatically, allowing bidirectional creation and editing of events and reminders, with seamless cross-app updates and potential future merge.

Discover Safari’s new features, including an address bar button for reader mode, video viewer, and page zoom, plus website settings to autoplay course videos and hide distractions.

Discover enhanced maps in macOS Sequoia, view elevation and topographic lines for Sequoia National Park, explore popular trails, and save custom routes for iPhone GPS navigation.

Turn complex pictures into a zoomed presentation using freeform scenes. Create, reorder, and switch between scenes via the scenes menu and the shortcut shift-command-s, then export frames as a pdf.

Explore the macOS Sequoia wallpapers and screensavers, including square illustration, Sequoia forest morning and night variants, and a Macintosh simulation; toggle and preview to blend them into a moving wallpaper.

Explore hidden macOS Sequoia features like window tiling and fill on double-click, privacy options like rotating WiFi address, and password management via the menu bar.

Learn the macOS desktop elements, including the menu bar, Apple menu, and dock, and discover how Finder works, opening apps, and using secondary click or control click for navigation.

Learn to use and customize the macOS dock with app shortcuts, folders, and the bin; drag files to open with chosen apps and manage sections via settings.

Customize the macOS dock by adjusting folder icons, content views (grid, list, fan), sort order, dock size, position, auto-hide, app indicators, and recently opened apps staying in the dock.

Explore how the macOS menu bar adapts to each app, from the Apple menu to file and edit options, and learn to use shortcuts.

Explore the Apple menu to access system information, system settings, App Store, and manage recent items; use option or command keys for quick actions.

Explore macOS menu bar icons and their various functions, from Bluetooth to Control Center. Learn to rearrange with command-drag, remove icons, view battery percentage, and reveal hidden options via option-click.

Explore how the macOS control center gives quick access to wireless, accessibility, battery settings, brightness, and focus mode, with icon customization and menu bar integration.

Explore the macOS notifications and widgets panel, reveal it from the top-right corner or a two-finger swipe, and customize widgets for desktop use and app deep links.

Explore launching and organizing apps with launchpad on macOS, using trackpad gestures, search, and drag-and-drop folders, including uninstalling Mac App Store apps and exiting launchpad quickly.

Learn to perform the macOS secondary click across trackpad and magic mouse, using two-finger tap, bottom-right or bottom-left corner, or Ctrl-click, and understand the resulting context menus.

Compare natural and reverse scrolling on macOS. Show how to switch the scroll direction in system settings under trackpad, with the default natural setting and its relation to touch screens.

Explore mac trackpad gestures and settings to boost workflow. Learn two- and three-finger gestures for navigation, Mission Control, App Exposé, show desktop, Launchpad, and more.

Explore how the red, yellow, and green macOS window buttons close, minimize, and enter full screen, with shortcuts and tiling options for efficient window management.

Discover how macOS treats the red close button as closing the window, not quitting the app, and learn to quit or hide apps via menu, command-Q, dock, or command-H.

Learn to install macOS apps via the App Store or third-party disk images (DMG) using drag-and-drop into the applications folder, with downloads, decompressing, and cleanup tips.

learn to uninstall Mac App Store apps via Launchpad or drag to bin for other apps, and use App Cleaner to remove traces.

Learn three ways to force quit not responding apps on macOS: from the dock, the Apple menu, or Activity Monitor, and the command-option-escape shortcut; save regularly with problematic apps.

Master spotlight search to find apps and files fast, open with command-space or the magnifier, and perform tasks from weather to calendar, messages, scores, and calculator calculations.

Open the Finder window to navigate with the toolbar and sidebar. Learn to switch views, group and sort files, and share via messaging, AirDrop, or email.

Learn to set the default finder window size and location in macOS, and customize where new finder windows open—Macintosh level or your documents folder.

Explore the four finder views in macOS Sequoia, switch between icon, list, column, and gallery views, enable calculate all sizes, sort by date or size, and customize view options.

Activate status, tab, and path bars in Finder to reveal file counts, storage info, quick tabbed navigation, and move files along the path, copy as pathname, and access terminal.

Customize the finder sidebar by selecting the sidebar tab, choosing folders to show, and dragging items for quick access; organize documents and desktop and set default finder window.

Explore how to customize the macOS Finder toolbar, add shortcuts like new folder and get info, and drag apps or folders with the command key for quick access.

Master background window control in macOS Sequoia by using the command key to manage and interact with off-front finder and browser windows, drag assets, and stay productive across apps.

Learn five practical methods to create folders on macOS, including right-click, shift-command-N shortcut, finder menu, toolbar customization, and creating folders from selected files.

Learn how to always keep folders on top in Finder by enabling keep folders on top when sorting by name, and explore grouping by kind.

Learn to customize folder icons on macOS Sequoia by replacing the blue icon with a PNG, using copy and paste in the folder info panel, and removing it later.

Discover that the recents folder is a live search of your recently opened files, across local storage and iCloud, not a real folder.

Master macOS file renaming with quick in-place edits in Finder, press return to rename, and use keyboard shortcuts like command-A for selecting all and batch rename options.

learn how to select multiple files in Finder across icon, list, and column views using command and shift keys, dragging, and selecting all or deselecting as needed.

Learn five ways to move files on macOS without copying: drag and drop, spring loading, spacebar jumps into folders, and using the path bar, favorites, or dock.

Master macOS file handling by copying and pasting with command-C and command-V, duplicating with drag-and-drop and the option key, and moving with option-command-V, plus undo with command-Z.

Learn how to delete files on macOS using the bin, recover or permanently remove items, and enable automatic emptying after 30 days.

Discover quick look previews in macOS, toggle with the spacebar, view thumbnails for PDFs, use markup tools and signatures, and navigate files with arrow keys.

Compress and decompress files on macOS with Finder and archive utility, creating zip archives and unzipping with a double click, while adjusting options for extracted and original files.

Learn to locate recently opened documents with the app’s file menu, the Apple menu, Finder, and Spotlight, and preview with Quick Look.

Learn macOS text workflows by copying, cutting, and pasting across apps, using shortcuts to preserve or match document style, and copy formatting across sources.

Open and edit Microsoft Word documents on the Mac using Microsoft Word for Mac, Pages, or Quick Look, and export back to Word for Windows compatibility.

Discover how the macOS clipboard stores copied text or files, shown in the Finder Show Clipboard window, and how the one-item limit allows cutting with Ctrl K.

Discover how to use the form filling toolbar in Preview to automatically highlight form fields, fill checkboxes, and sign documents, enabling fast, paperless completion.

Discover how to make macOS text easier to read using display size, per-application text sizing in accessibility settings, and hover text across apps.

Reveal the desktop on macOS Sequoia with spread and pinch gestures or hot corners. Enable the option 'click wallpaper to reveal the desktop' only in stage manager to avoid triggers.

Learn to customize macOS wallpaper and screensaver in Sonoma using system settings, dynamic desktops, and personal photos, with options to synchronize and preview changes.

Link the desktop wallpaper to the screensaver and see it change during preview. Create multiple desktops with different wallpapers on each, and rely on purgeable storage to manage space.

Learn to organize macOS desktop using show view options: sort by name, date, or kind; apply snap to grid; adjust icon and text sizes; and use cleanup to tidy folders.

Use stacks to organize desktop files by kind, sortable by date or name, and easily access individual items while using aliases and adjustable icon settings.

Explore desktop widgets introduced last year, appearing via a three-finger gesture and mirroring iPhone widgets through Apple ID, with options to edit, resize, and add weather, calendar, reminders, and shortcuts.

Explore how productivity on a Mac and macOS can differ by user experience, based on ten years of hands-on use and the newest techniques.

Customize and streamline the Finder sidebar to boost macOS productivity, using show/hide shortcuts, removing unused items, adding folders, documents, and apps, and leveraging tags and smart folders.

Create smart folders, aka saved searches, in Finder by saving a search with criteria such as name contains test and last modified date, then add to sidebar; results update automatically.

Learn to create and manage custom keyboard shortcuts on macOS, assign them to menu items in Finder and across apps, and replace or edit existing shortcuts for faster workflow.

Learn to use lookup and visual lookup in macOS to view word definitions, spellings, and website previews without leaving your document, and identify objects in photos with Inspector.

Upgrade your macOS Sequoia menu bar with Folder Peak and Menu Bar X to launch folders and apps, add Shazam, and tidy space with Hidden Bar.

Configure hot corners on macOS Sequoia to trigger useful actions with mouse or trackpad, and optimize access to desktop, mission control, notification center, and screensaver lock.

Set default apps for opening different file types on macOS using open with, Get Info, and Change All to always use your chosen app.

Manage login items in settings under general to stop apps from launching at startup and speed boot time. Enable apps to launch at login, and disable reopen windows after restart.

Block autoplay for all websites in Safari to stop background videos and speed up your browsing, with a quick speed-test shortcut available in resources.

Enable picture-in-picture to multitask on macOS Sequoia, watching YouTube videos in Safari while you work; resize, move with the command key, and keep playback across desktops.

Master macOS Sequoia focus features: customize multiple focus modes, automate them by time, location, or apps, and sync across devices to silence distractions.

Customize the macOS cursor for better visibility by adjusting pointer outline and fill colors in accessibility display settings, and use shake to locate and a size slider to enlarge.

Learn how to capture screenshots and screen recordings on a Mac using shift-command-3 and shift-command-5, edit with the markup tool, and share or save via the thumbnail.

Explore how Siri works on macOS, including one-word activation via Apple intelligence, setting do not disturb, and customizing shortcuts, while noting availability and accent limitations.

Learn how to unlock your Mac with Apple Watch by enabling a simple system setting, so waking the Mac authenticates via Apple Watch instead of typing.