Hey friends - Andrew here, hope you're well! Today I've come up with a list of 14 settings you want
to immediately change once you upgrade your Mac to the new Mac OS Sonoma here I've been testing
Sonoma on my M2 air for weeks now and although it's not the biggest update there is a host of
great features and setting changes that you want to check out so let's get right into it the very
first Mac OS Noma changed is docked web apps just like this one here so we can now finally
create apps that launch specific web pages from our dock like this here and to do this is pretty
simple so all you need to do is head over to Safari and then head over to the website that
you want to create an app for and then once it's loaded you'll go into file here and then click
add to Doc and this is where we can change the app icon and also the name so let's just change
it to something simple so you can see the app here now and then once you click it instead of
just launching Safari and the web page it actually launches an app version of the web page and it's
actually independent from Safari itself and you can use this app specifically in mission control
and Stage manager just like any other app and it looks quite beautiful it's quite reactive
it's fast and responsive I think it's worth taking some time adding your favorite web pages to your
doc for easy access like this the next thing that you want to set up or actually turn off is inline
predictive text so for example if I bring up the notes here and I type in you know thank you very
much ill immediately I didn't even type that out it immediately completed that sentence for
me so to change that setting go into system settings and then go scroll down to keyboard
and then from keyboard scroll down to text input and then click edit
and then from here you can see that there is a shout in line predictive text you can turn
this off or on so some people love it and other people don't and in my opinion if you're a fast
typer you'll probably find this more annoying than helpful but if you're a slower typer on
the keyboard you might find it helpful another keyboard related setting you want to change is
the keyboard dictation feature which has been significantly improved in Sonoma so it's worth
giving a go so back in the keyboard settings going back in system settings scrolling down
to keyboard from here there is this new dictation area right down here that allows you to use your
voice to type for you together with your keyboard so this is improved from the previous OS so here's
an example of using it so click edit in the toolbar and then scroll down to start dictation
an easier way to do this is just press F5 and then I'm going to say write me a sentence [Music]
so it's actually pretty fast as you can see and it literally is a Nifty way to journal and get
your thoughts out Safari has also received a big upgrade in Sonoma and we can now create different
profile settings for Safari which is an easy productivity hack so to set this up go into Safari
again and then click Safari and click settings then from here at the top click profiles click
new profile and my recommendation is to create one for work play and also anything else that
you might want to research so for example uh let's just set up one for work and click the symbol that
you want to represent it the color and then from here you can create new bookmark folders or use
existing folders so I'll just go ahead and click create profile so you can now see the profile
you're in on the top left hand corner and you can launch new profile windows by right-clicking
Safari on the dock here so where did Safari go click here and you can launch new work windows or
new personal Windows another great Safari feature on sonobo is locking private tabs so say if you're
browsing some super Saucy stuff whatever it is I'm not judging you can lock those tabs so no one
gets access to them so to do this go into Safari again and then click settings and then go into
privacy here and you'll see a new line here and it says private browsing require Touch ID to view
locked tabs and so depending on the Mac you have you'll either see touch ID to unlock or password
to unlock it's a great option to have that added layer of extra security when you're browsing so
now when I open up a new tab in private in Incognito if I were to open and close this
laptop again it would require Touch ID to open up that page again another really important security
setting to set up is the security response files feature which was first introduced in Ventura as
the rapid security feature so to do this go into system settings and then go into software updates
and then from software updates you can see here at automatic updates click the info icon
and with install security responses and system files just make sure this is checked on a heads
up on this feature this doesn't actually replace full software updates but instead it allows Apple
to quickly install small updates across all your Mac devices in the event that they find bugs or a
security breach and talking of security breaches while you're getting set up on the new Mac OS if
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you upgrade your Mac OS so moving on now if you have access to an iCloud subscription it's worth
turning on the hide my email setting which allows you to send out and receive emails without using
your real email address so go into iCloud here and once you click iCloud scroll all the way down
to hide my email so here in hide my email you can then create your spoof email and if you don't like
the email address that's automatically generated for you you can press refresh here and it will
give you a different iCloud spoof email then you can just label it and then make a note and
and then set that up itself so once you've done that future emails can then be ported through this
email for privacy back to your real email address it's actually quite handy going back out to the
iCloud settings go scroll down to the Advanced Data protection part here and this setting is
worth turning on if you're big on security it activates end-to-end encryption which basically
means that you can only access your iCloud files on trusted devices so even if there's like a data
breach on Apple servers your content will be safe and secure so go ahead and click turn on
and then it will guide you through how to set it up including account recovery so the next one is
a must do to get organized and it's smart folders they're folders but smart because they're able to
automatically find and organize your files on your Mac and I'll show you how it works so go
ahead and bring up finder and under the toolbar click file and click new smart folder so from
here all you need to do is click the plus icon and then you can create all sorts of parameters
and folders as you wish so for example if I want to find a Sony photos or photos specifically taken
on a Sony camera or even an iPhone what you do here is Click device make matches and let's just
type in Sony and then immediately I get all the photos that I want to match this file type and
then on the desktop right here you can see the new smart folder with the gear icon click Sony
photos and you can see immediately that I've got all the photos that I've taken on the Sony it's
that easy and it just makes it just makes life so much easier when it comes to getting organized so
I've always appreciated the beautiful Apple TV screensavers and they're finally available on
Mac OS Sonoma so to set this up go into system settings and scroll down to screen saver and
from here you can see finally we have a whole bunch of different screensavers is that we can
now download and pull from Apple's servers and then if you want your screen saver to be
matched up with your wallpaper you can click this here and what I love about this is if I go ahead
and lock the screen you can see that it matches perfectly with the new Sonoma lock screen with
the time here similar to the iPhone lock screen it's really beautiful and I absolutely love this
new interface one of the biggest visual changes in Sonoma is interactive widgets as you can see
here they don't live hidden off screen anymore you can literally set them right on the desktop
so all you need to do to bring this up is actually just right click the desktop and then click edit
widgets here once you've set the first widget in you can stick it wherever you want but after that
you need to stick within this region so let's pull in another one let's just pull in the world time
clock as you can see it literally gets you to snap it in certain areas because you know Apple wants
your desktop to be very clean clear buoy but one of the cool things is that they're interactive so
you can actually play around with them on the desktop so let's add the reminders app on here
so let's pull this in here and just to give you a quick example you can go ahead and tick off
something and it will literally it's interactive so you can go ahead and tick it off right from the
desktop right then and there a fun new feature to check out as well is the new presenter overlay and
video effects during video calls so you can now use these video effects both in Zoom or
FaceTime calls or whatever video app that you're using so as you can see here I'm talking directly
through Zoom right now and this is green button here go ahead and click it and you can see that
I'm in Zoom right now there's a whole bunch of different things that you can use so portrait you
can turn on this like sort of like depth of field blurry background effect Studio lighting and then
reaction so this is great fun so you can turn this on and off I'm going to turn it on and you can see
here that you can use different effects now so to show you what it looks like if I click the
balloon button you can see that has this sort of 3d effect so it's back back in the background and
also in the foreground which is pretty impressive and apparently this is quite intensive on the Mac
and it only works on M2 Max unfortunately but it is a pretty cool effect if you can actually use
it and it's just a fun one to use if you made it to the very end of this video Drop the codeword
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iPhone and as always thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next video [Music]
thank you