macOS Sonoma 14
macOS Ventura 13
macOS Monterey 12
macOS Big Sur 11.0
macOS Catalina 10.15
macOS Mojave 10.14
macOS High Sierra
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Table of Contents
macOS User Guide
- Welcome
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- What’s in the menu bar?
- Work on the desktop
- Search with Spotlight
- Quickly change settings
- Use Siri
- Get notifications
- Open apps from the Dock
- Organize your files in the Finder
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- Connect to the internet
- Browse the web
- Preview a file
- Take a screenshot
- Change your display’s brightness
- Adjust the volume
- Use trackpad and mouse gestures
- Use Touch ID
- Print documents
- Keyboard shortcuts
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- Apps on your Mac
- Open apps
- Work with app windows
- Use apps in full screen
- Use apps in Split View
- Use Stage Manager
- Get apps from the App Store
- Install and reinstall apps from the App Store
- Install and uninstall other apps
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- Create and work with documents
- Open documents
- Mark up files
- Combine files into a PDF
- Organize files on your desktop
- Organize files with folders
- Tag files and folders
- Back up files
- Restore files
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- Change System Settings
- Choose your desktop wallpaper
- Add and customize widgets
- Use a screen saver
- Add a user or group
- Add your email and other accounts
- Automate tasks with Shortcuts
- Create Memoji
- Change your login picture
- Change the system language
- Make text and other items on the screen bigger
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- Set up a Focus to stay on task
- Set up Screen Time for yourself
- Use Dictation
- Send emails
- Send text messages
- Make a FaceTime video call
- Edit photos and videos
- Use Live Text to interact with text in a photo
- Start a Quick Note
- Get directions
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- Work across devices using Continuity
- Use iPhone as a webcam
- Use iPhone with Desk View
- Stream audio and video with AirPlay
- Use one keyboard and mouse to control Mac and iPad
- Hand off between devices
- Unlock your Mac with Apple Watch
- Make and receive phone calls on your Mac
- Sync music, books, and more between devices
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- Manage Apple ID settings
- Set your Apple ID picture
- What is iCloud?
- What is iCloud+?
- Store files in iCloud Drive
- Share and collaborate on files and folders
- Manage iCloud storage
- Use iCloud Photos
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- What is Family Sharing?
- Set up Family Sharing
- Set up Screen Time for a child
- Share purchases with your family
- Watch and listen together with SharePlay
- Share a Photo Library
- Collaborate on projects
- Find content shared with you
- Find your family and friends
- Play games with your friends
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- Play music
- Listen to podcasts
- Watch TV shows and movies
- Read and listen to books
- Read the news
- Track stocks and the market
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- Apple Music
- Apple TV+
- Apple Arcade
- Apple News+
- Podcast shows and channels
- Manage subscriptions in the App Store
- View Apple family subscriptions
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- Guard your privacy
- Use Mail Privacy Protection
- Control access to your camera
- Use Sign in with Apple for apps and websites
- Set up your Mac to be secure
- Keep your data safe
- Create a passkey
- Understand passwords
- Keep your Apple ID secure
- Find a missing device
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- Get started with accessibility features
- Vision
- Hearing
- Mobility
- Speech
- General
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- Connect an external display
- Use the built-in camera
- Connect a Bluetooth device
- Use AirPods with your Mac
- Optimize your Mac battery life
- Optimize storage space
- Burn CDs and DVDs
- Control accessories in your home
- Use Windows on your Mac
- Resources for your Mac
- Resources for your Apple devices
- Copyright
You can set sleep and wake settings for your Mac. For example, you can set your Mac to go to sleep after a specified duration of inactivity, or set it to wake for network access.
Note: Some of the options may not be available, depending on your Mac.
Set your Mac to go to sleep after inactivity
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)Do any of the following:
Click the pop-up menu next to “Turn display off on battery when inactive” on the right, then choose an option.
Click the pop-up menu next to “Turn display off on power adapter when inactive” on the right, then choose an option.
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)Specify sleep and wake settings for a Mac laptop
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
Click Options on the right, then do any of the following:
Stop automatic sleeping when the display is off: Turn on “Prevent automatic sleeping on power adapter when the display is off.”
Put hard disks to sleep: Turn on “Put hard disks to sleep when possible.”
Update your system while it’s asleep: Click the pop-up menu next to Enable Power Nap, then choose an option.
See What is Power Nap?
Allow your Mac to wake briefly so users can access shared services (if applicable): Click the pop-up menu next to “Wake for network access,” then choose an option.
See Share your Mac resources when it’s in sleep.
Specify sleep and wake settings for a Mac desktop computer
On your Mac, choose Apple menu
Do any of the following:
Stop automatic sleeping when the display is off: Turn on “Prevent automatic sleeping when the display is off.”
Put hard disks to sleep: Turn on “Put hard disks to sleep when possible” on the right.
Update your system while it’s asleep: Turn on Enable Power Nap on the right.
See What is Power Nap?
Allow your Mac to wake briefly so users can access shared services (if applicable): Turn on “Wake for network access” on the right.
See Share your Mac resources when it’s in sleep.
in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.)See alsoPut your Mac to sleep or wake itSave energy on your MacChange Energy Saver settings on a Mac desktop computer
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