Thanx for you good videos - most of the tipps are known, but you present them in a good and understandable way, so it's good to share them with others. The link you shared only gives a 3 month "for free" period, but not the 82% off... Do I have to use a code or somethin to activate the special rate?
Best tip for me was the image conversation right there in Finder. How have I not know it exists? I’ve been using online apps to batch compress images. Thanks for the tips! 👊
Just got the M2 Air a couple days ago, it's my first Mac ever. The detailed brightness and volume control and double tap to drag are the best tips I have gotten from any TH-cam video ever, seriously thank you. The difference between the levels is just way too big imo and double tap to drag is just what I’m used to on Windows, it was VERY hard to live without before stumbling across this video
Ok you mentioned that your ISP can see everything you do online, so you use a VPN. First, all sites now use SSL, which encrypts the traffic between your device and the site you're visiting. Your ISP cannot see your private information. They just know where you're going. A VPN would technically hide the site you're visiting, but then instead of giving the data to your ISP, you're giving it to the VPN provider. Personally I trust iCloud Private Relay way more than I do a VPN provider and I trust my ISP more than a VPN provider as well.
Technically that is true, but is dependant on the VPN provider. I recommend people do their research and consider a reputable provider that has a no-logging policy and are also independently audited.
Accessibility is the Mac’s hidden gem. I park a shortcut to it in my Dock on every Mac I own. The settings there are often less intuitive than the mainstream ones, yet very powerful.
Regarding F3 and cmd+F3: If you’re using a trackpad (say on a MacBook) you can also just swipe up with three fingers to get the window overview. If you do a “pinch-out” (like zooming out) gesture with five fingers you swipe all open windows to the side. No need for button combinations or hot corners
Wow. I’ve been a Mac user for 16 years and I’m a pro…yet, I always seem to learn new tricks from your videos. I had NO IDEA that you could customize your System Preferences, nor did I know “screen sharing” existed! Were these added recently or have they always been there?
With the 3 finger drag option you said in your 1st tip once you have touched the window you want to move with 3 fingers it will carry on moving with 2 until you tap again.
1. A 3 finger swipe up on the track pad will also show all open windows in a desktop. 2. Hot Corners (swiping a mouse into any corner of a screen) can activate a multitude of useful functions I use regularly. 3. You can have MULTIPLE desktops on a mac. That 3 finger up swipe will reveal that feature at the top of the screen where you can add new desktops to reduce clutter. You can assign different desktops to different tasks, etc. If you use more than one monitor, those desktops can divide between the two monitors. A 3 finger swipe to the left or right will shift you into a new desktop. 4. Most people know this but Command + tab will toggle back and forth between the last two programs used. So if you're shuffling between a spreadsheet and a website, it keeps you from hunting or clicking in windows.
This video popped into my feed this morning, and sure enough my wife needed help adding a signature to a document today. And guess what, Remote Connection works!!!!! Thanks so much for this video.
The transition to the advertisement is so smoooothhh!!! I swear I was more likely to watch the add it didn’t feel odd or extra for this video but rather complementary and essential!!
Thank you for all your awesome videos! You have helped me learn so much about my new iPhone and Mac air laptop as these are my first Apple products. Love your content 💜
Just note that if you enable 3-finger drag, it will override your other 3-finger mission control swipe gestures, makes them 4-finger. I’m used to “double tap and drag” and it works well. But 3 finger drag is also really nice
Love your videos mate. Clean, succinct, organised, simple. Been using Apple tech forever and always learning something new from you. Thank you. Nice work💯
That screen sharing option will be super helpful.. my mother in law always has questions for her MacBook air. That's the one tip I never knew existed! Appreciate the info!
Hey man, just wanted to say this is actually helpful, youtube is choke full of tips and tricks videos, but here are some very obscure stuff that I did not know about! truly quality content, cheers!
Use 2 hands for dragging. I put my left index finger on the trackpad and use my right index finger to move it. Super easy and better than 3 finger drag when moving files around from one side of the screen to the other especially when using an external monitor.
For the audio inputs and outputs, Apple doesnt really hide them tho, my mac shows the speaker icon on the menu bar and you can access the audio input/output from there. Way simpler.
6:00 oh dang! I love that one. I was thinking about exactly this after getting my new MacBook Pro 14 2 weeks ago. The screen is just so bright, that the incremental adjustments are significant, and I was wishing they'd added more granularity to it for these machines. Of course you can do it in control center with the slider, but who has time for that :)
This might be your best video of them all. Here I thought I knew a lot about my Mac and your video disproved that immediately. PIP-I have been curious for months why that icon was there and never thought to right click and use the icon properly. Letter accents-Why did I not know this already? 👏🏼 Easily convert images-Thank you so much. What a quick and safer way to get this task done System preferences-Thank you for telling me how to reorganize these. I quickly sorted them alphabetically. 👍🏻 Looking forward to your next Mac tips video-CONGRATS!
OMG! When I upgraded to my new MBA M1 I tried to enable three-finger dragging in trackpad settings (cause it used to be there) but I thought Apple had removed that functionality. Thx for letting us know it still exists. 🙏
You can use a four finger spread gesture instead of CMD f3 and then you can grab and drag files from the desktop. Then CMD tab to get back to your app.
I like the tip about resizing photos with Finder but can you do that with an image in the photo library. I'm new to Mac and it seems that the photo library is in a different format than a regular folder you can open with Finder. That's where it would be helpful to resize, or make a smaller copy to upload to a website...
“You can do anything with a trackpad that you can do with a mouse” So how do you do a middle-click? I can configure this in Windows, but I can’t find this option on Mac
Hi, loving these straightforward, no frills, videos. I looked on your video and desk setup pages but can't see the Logitech webcam mentioned here. Any clues?
Picture in picture: you can also right-click on the video and select picture in picture. If the video hijacks the right-click to show a custom menu (example: TH-cam does this), right-click again to show the system menu. Chrome's and Firefox's PIP can be positioned anywhere, but Safari's PIP sticks to the corner. Hold down command while dragging Safari's PIP to position it anywhere.
what i love about this is that these tricks are so easy to do that anyone can do it. What I don't like is that Apple never mentions these things and touts things that most people don't care about
Absolutely brilliant video very useful… have you tried putting your iPad and Mac together you can then use your iPad as a seconded screen. Control iPad from your Mac key pad ! Thank you.
Good video. I was delighted to learn about being able to change the Audio INPUT using the Sound area on the Control centre, as I change it often, too. Unfortunately it works differently on my M1 MAC mini running Monterey (12.4). You can select “ Sound Preferences” there to go to Sound in System Preferences, however. Cheers, Gary
How about a video for Apple Shortcuts. Have just started using them and they save lots of hassle. When people come to our house and ask for the Wi-Fi password, all I do now is open up a photo with a QR code on it. I ran a shortcut called “Make a QR Code” and then saved it to a new photos album called Wi-Fi code. First friend who came round and wanted it was gobsmacked by it and has now run the Shortcut for his WiFi.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm actually working one at the moment, although I've realised I'm going to need to start with a 'Intro to Shortcuts' video first, which I think I'll need to keep pretty basic, then move on to more advanced stuff in a followup. Shortcuts is a phenomenal, yet mind boggling application once you start to really dig into it.
Been using a Mac for years (decades) and learned a few new tricks today. Would have given you multiple thumbs up if possible. Thank you. My friend Jürgen thanks you as I can now type his name correctly w/o doing a copy/paste on the ü. :D
do I need to use a Mac cleaner for my laptop? if yes does apple have a built in one? or do I have to install an app for it? thanks! your videos are much appreciated
I also use a VPN, still get adds after looking at something. So I think VPN is a waste of money. Same as Norton system that will delete Photos because it thinks they are duplicates when they are not, as well as screwing up other programs.
I’ve been clicking on the track pad and holding and dragging a window at the top for many years. Why is what you’re doing an issue? Just put the Curtis cursor at the top margin, click and hold (all with ONE FINGER) and drag, release to release. Been doing that since 1998 on my first MacBook and it’s the same way now. I don’t see the problem? BTW, I love your accent. You and Alexander Siddig (aka Siddig el Fadil) Dr. Bashir of Deep Space Nine, must be from the same place. So very cool! ASMR to the ears!
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Thanx for you good videos - most of the tipps are known, but you present them in a good and understandable way, so it's good to share them with others.
The link you shared only gives a 3 month "for free" period, but not the 82% off... Do I have to use a code or somethin to activate the special rate?
@@MichaelStelling The 82% is the value off of the retail price for buying two years worth of service.
@@MichaelStelling I kinda thought the same thing at first but if you just click through to the next page, the discount also applies!
That 3 finger drag is pure gold. Thanks man
Best tip for me was the image conversation right there in Finder. How have I not know it exists? I’ve been using online apps to batch compress images. Thanks for the tips! 👊
Right!? It must be somewhat new or something tho because I just went to show my wife on hers & it wasn’t there 😂
Just got the M2 Air a couple days ago, it's my first Mac ever. The detailed brightness and volume control and double tap to drag are the best tips I have gotten from any TH-cam video ever, seriously thank you. The difference between the levels is just way too big imo and double tap to drag is just what I’m used to on Windows, it was VERY hard to live without before stumbling across this video
That's great to hear, glad I could help! Enjoy the new Air, it looks like a fantastic machine!
Ok you mentioned that your ISP can see everything you do online, so you use a VPN. First, all sites now use SSL, which encrypts the traffic between your device and the site you're visiting. Your ISP cannot see your private information. They just know where you're going. A VPN would technically hide the site you're visiting, but then instead of giving the data to your ISP, you're giving it to the VPN provider. Personally I trust iCloud Private Relay way more than I do a VPN provider and I trust my ISP more than a VPN provider as well.
Technically that is true, but is dependant on the VPN provider. I recommend people do their research and consider a reputable provider that has a no-logging policy and are also independently audited.
Accessibility is the Mac’s hidden gem. I park a shortcut to it in my Dock on every Mac I own. The settings there are often less intuitive than the mainstream ones, yet very powerful.
Regarding F3 and cmd+F3:
If you’re using a trackpad (say on a MacBook) you can also just swipe up with three fingers to get the window overview.
If you do a “pinch-out” (like zooming out) gesture with five fingers you swipe all open windows to the side.
No need for button combinations or hot corners
Wow. I’ve been a Mac user for 16 years and I’m a pro…yet, I always seem to learn new tricks from your videos. I had NO IDEA that you could customize your System Preferences, nor did I know “screen sharing” existed! Were these added recently or have they always been there?
Hey man. I really look forward to every video of yours. You’re doing great!
I appreciate that!
Game changing, I particularly love the three finger drag! :)
With the 3 finger drag option you said in your 1st tip once you have touched the window you want to move with 3 fingers it will carry on moving with 2 until you tap again.
thank you for the 3 Finger drag tip. This Tip is very useful.
the System Pref cleanup is great, thank you for this One !
1. A 3 finger swipe up on the track pad will also show all open windows in a desktop.
2. Hot Corners (swiping a mouse into any corner of a screen) can activate a multitude of useful functions I use regularly.
3. You can have MULTIPLE desktops on a mac. That 3 finger up swipe will reveal that feature at the top of the screen where you can add new desktops to reduce clutter. You can assign different desktops to different tasks, etc. If you use more than one monitor, those desktops can divide between the two monitors. A 3 finger swipe to the left or right will shift you into a new desktop.
4. Most people know this but Command + tab will toggle back and forth between the last two programs used. So if you're shuffling between a spreadsheet and a website, it keeps you from hunting or clicking in windows.
This video popped into my feed this morning, and sure enough my wife needed help adding a signature to a document today. And guess what, Remote Connection works!!!!! Thanks so much for this video.
PIP and customizing system preferences were new to me. Thanks!
Came across your channel today. Thank you! I now feel I can use my Mac . You rock.
The file format change is just what i have been looking for
I never knew the letter accent tip. Amazing!
All of these tips are incredibly helpful! Thank you!!
The transition to the advertisement is so smoooothhh!!! I swear I was more likely to watch the add it didn’t feel odd or extra for this video but rather complementary and essential!!
Outstanding! Something for everyone here- from new users looking for faster productivity, or seasoned users looking for enhanced functionality.
Thank you for all your awesome videos! You have helped me learn so much about my new iPhone and Mac air laptop as these are my first Apple products. Love your content 💜
3 Finger Drag tooo good. Thanks mate
Thank you for the image conversion! Will save me a lot of time!
You just solved my issue with using a track pad. great tips, thanks for making this.
Just note that if you enable 3-finger drag, it will override your other 3-finger mission control swipe gestures, makes them 4-finger. I’m used to “double tap and drag” and it works well. But 3 finger drag is also really nice
Love your videos mate. Clean, succinct, organised, simple. Been using Apple tech forever and always learning something new from you. Thank you. Nice work💯
Really helpful tips. Without you I wouldn’t likely have discovered any of these on my own. Thank you.
I never knew about cleaning up System Preferences. I hid several preferences I never use. THANKS!
Seriously good tips even for someone using Macs since 1990.
Man, that audio input tip is such a time saver! Thank you!
Didn‘t know about the Remote connection/screen sharing even after all these years of using mac OS. Thanks for showing, helps a lot
fantastic mate - good work
I just love your videos. Please do a detailed one on “Tips on Track Pads” I learn so much from you and thank you 🙏 Best regards from Canada 🍁
Great video really informative I am looking forward to my new MacBook this fall even more .
Thanks, glad you found it helpful. What kind of Mac are you going for?
Mac Shortcuts is really good. I use it a lot.
Loved it. There were some tips unknown to me. Thankyou!
9:12 another way of doing this is right in the Messages app by clicking on the information icon on the top right of the screen and then click on share
That screen sharing option will be super helpful.. my mother in law always has questions for her MacBook air. That's the one tip I never knew existed! Appreciate the info!
The "Screen Sharing" hint works if you use Alfred rather than Spotlight too, thx.
Amazing 👌 ! I thank u from New caledonia, in the Pacific !
Nice and subtle tips here. I knew some of them but not all. New sub earned.
Moving the window by 3 fingers blow my mind 🤯
Nicely done. Thank you.
i rarely find tips i don't know, but i had no idea ypu could select text from a photo in preview. wow.
love videos like this. Macs have SO many little things that are game changers
Hey man,
just wanted to say this is actually helpful, youtube is choke full of tips and tricks videos, but here are some very obscure stuff that I did not know about! truly quality content, cheers!
Great video! I followed along and made some changes!
These highly useful tips are nifty-neato. 😌
Another great video - I love the way you explain and illustrate things!
Just bought myself a MacBook Air 2020 M1 and found these tips so helpful, especially the 3 finger drag! So much easier. Thank you.
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That first tip used to be default generations of macOS ago. I was so happy they allowed it even tho it was sort of hidden.
So… that was very helpful! Thanks! 👍👍👍
I didnt know the PiP is available on mac! thank you!!
Thanks for the drag tip! I was struggling until now.
All useful but my favorite was: 8:35
[Right click on an image > Quick actions > Convert image to change the type or image]
9:52 I found screensharin also so useful! 😅👏
Use 2 hands for dragging. I put my left index finger on the trackpad and use my right index finger to move it. Super easy and better than 3 finger drag when moving files around from one side of the screen to the other especially when using an external monitor.
For the audio inputs and outputs, Apple doesnt really hide them tho, my mac shows the speaker icon on the menu bar and you can access the audio input/output from there. Way simpler.
You may have to enable the icon in the menu bar settings first. Same with the bluetooth and wifi icons.
6:00 oh dang! I love that one. I was thinking about exactly this after getting my new MacBook Pro 14 2 weeks ago. The screen is just so bright, that the incremental adjustments are significant, and I was wishing they'd added more granularity to it for these machines. Of course you can do it in control center with the slider, but who has time for that :)
same here, the lowest bright adjustment was still to bright and I had no idea how to step in between
This might be your best video of them all. Here I thought I knew a lot about my Mac and your video disproved that immediately.
PIP-I have been curious for months why that icon was there and never thought to right click and use the icon properly.
Letter accents-Why did I not know this already? 👏🏼
Easily convert images-Thank you so much. What a quick and safer way to get this task done
System preferences-Thank you for telling me how to reorganize these. I quickly sorted them alphabetically. 👍🏻
Looking forward to your next Mac tips video-CONGRATS!
OMG! When I upgraded to my new MBA M1 I tried to enable three-finger dragging in trackpad settings (cause it used to be there) but I thought Apple had removed that functionality. Thx for letting us know it still exists. 🙏
@11:15, this was very useful. Thank you.
Neat tips! I like the screen share functionality for the same reason you gave. Subscribed!
You should a Mac tricks video with Ventura.
You can use a four finger spread gesture instead of CMD f3 and then you can grab and drag files from the desktop. Then CMD tab to get back to your app.
Thanks for these tips
Excelent tips!
WOW!
The number of powerful features and capabilities ‘hidden’ in the Mac OS is akin to those in VIM. I am discovering new things all the time.
I like the tip about resizing photos with Finder but can you do that with an image in the photo library. I'm new to Mac and it seems that the photo library is in a different format than a regular folder you can open with Finder. That's where it would be helpful to resize, or make a smaller copy to upload to a website...
SCREEN SHARE! I had no idea and I’ve been an apple user for decades. Thanks!
Great stuff! Cheers
These are really helpful and some of them i saw for the first time. Clearly not known by most people I guess 🙌
Great tips!
“You can do anything with a trackpad that you can do with a mouse” So how do you do a middle-click? I can configure this in Windows, but I can’t find this option on Mac
FTr though, great video man. I'm not even a mac user, and I enjoyed it. CHeers.
Hi, loving these straightforward, no frills, videos. I looked on your video and desk setup pages but can't see the Logitech webcam mentioned here. Any clues?
It's this one here - www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/HMUC2Z/A/logitech-4k-pro-magnetic-webcam-for-pro-display-xdr
@@ProperHonestTech thanks for the quick response. Appreciated 👍
Thank you for sharing about the audio inputs! Did not know abou that
Very useful. My thanks.
Convert function needs to add WebP and ICNS images as well
Can you do the share screen trick between iPhones? My mom frequently calls needing help, and this would make it so much easier to help her.
Вау отличная подача материала, и многие фишки я не знал! 😉 спасибо
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
Excellent video. Nicely done. Learned a bunch 🤛
Thanks. This was great!
Picture in picture: you can also right-click on the video and select picture in picture. If the video hijacks the right-click to show a custom menu (example: TH-cam does this), right-click again to show the system menu. Chrome's and Firefox's PIP can be positioned anywhere, but Safari's PIP sticks to the corner. Hold down command while dragging Safari's PIP to position it anywhere.
what i love about this is that these tricks are so easy to do that anyone can do it. What I don't like is that Apple never mentions these things and touts things that most people don't care about
Absolutely brilliant video very useful… have you tried putting your iPad and Mac together you can then use your iPad as a seconded screen. Control iPad from your Mac key pad ! Thank you.
Good video. I was delighted to learn about being able to change the Audio INPUT using the Sound area on the Control centre, as I change it often, too. Unfortunately it works differently on my M1 MAC mini running Monterey (12.4). You can select “ Sound Preferences” there to go to Sound in System Preferences, however. Cheers, Gary
How about a video for Apple Shortcuts. Have just started using them and they save lots of hassle. When people come to our house and ask for the Wi-Fi password, all I do now is open up a photo with a QR code on it. I ran a shortcut called “Make a QR Code” and then saved it to a new photos album called Wi-Fi code. First friend who came round and wanted it was gobsmacked by it and has now run the Shortcut for his WiFi.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm actually working one at the moment, although I've realised I'm going to need to start with a 'Intro to Shortcuts' video first, which I think I'll need to keep pretty basic, then move on to more advanced stuff in a followup. Shortcuts is a phenomenal, yet mind boggling application once you start to really dig into it.
@@ProperHonestTech whilst you were writing your reply, I just made a Shortcut for shortening URLs and they then appear in your Share Sheet.
Great teaching video 👍🏻😊
Thank you
Been using a Mac for years (decades) and learned a few new tricks today. Would have given you multiple thumbs up if possible. Thank you. My friend Jürgen thanks you as I can now type his name correctly w/o doing a copy/paste on the ü. :D
do I need to use a Mac cleaner for my laptop? if yes does apple have a built in one? or do I have to install an app for it?
thanks! your videos are much appreciated
wow, really great tips, never heard of.
Does the remote connection work on iPad too? For example if I want to help my grandma with her iPd from my mac?
Just wow. Been a Mac user for more than a decade and only knew the Brightness and Volume adjustment thingy 😅😂
I also use a VPN, still get adds after looking at something. So I think VPN is a waste of money. Same as Norton system that will delete Photos because it thinks they are duplicates when they are not, as well as screwing up other programs.
very helpfull ty
I’ve been clicking on the track pad and holding and dragging a window at the top for many years. Why is what you’re doing an issue? Just put the Curtis cursor at the top margin, click and hold (all with ONE FINGER) and drag, release to release. Been doing that since 1998 on my first MacBook and it’s the same way now. I don’t see the problem?
BTW, I love your accent. You and Alexander Siddig (aka Siddig el Fadil) Dr. Bashir of Deep Space Nine, must be from the same place. So very cool! ASMR to the ears!
Brilliant video and good to meet another Pro Display owner here...^^b
Thanks a lot, great video. What if I want remote access on a second Mac I own, located in a different place, but with the same Apple ID (mine)?