Hey friends, Andrew here - hope you're well ! You guys seem to quite enjoy the previous
iOS 16 settings video, so today I've come up with a list of 14 settings you want to change
right away once you upgrade your Mac operating system to Ventura. I've been testing ventura
on the new M2 Air here over the last couple weeks and ventura is probably the biggest os
transformation in a long time yet so the very first mac os ventura setting to change is an
important one and it's making sure that the new rapid security response feature is switched
on to do this go into system preferences which by the way is apple has renamed to system settings
and looks a lot more like ios settings to apparently make things more uniform
across their devices so once you're in settings click general and then go into software update
and then you can see this info icon here click that and once it pops up you're going to scroll
all the way down and you'll see this new feature called install security responses and system
files this one is something you definitely make want to make sure is enabled because once you've
turned it on you'll get automatic security updates on the go in the background without even requiring
a system restart so while we're managing our security one of the awesome benefits of ventura
is they've improved the hidemy email feature to now include third-party apps and not just apple
apps but that is if they include it in the final version of ventura apparently it may not even make
it but i'm hoping it does and if it does go into system settings again and then click onto your
apple id and then go into icloud and then from icloud scroll down and click hide my email and
click options so once it loads follow the prompts and then you'll land on this page here and what
it does is well it hides your email you'll still receive the emails but through a dummy account to
protect your identity and privacy because they'll be forwarded by apple to your actual email address
it's absolutely a feature you want especially if both apple and third-party apps are supported the
next thing you want to set up is spotlight because in ventura it now features quick look and quick
action functions much like on an iphone so to give you an idea bring up spotlight with command
spacebar if i type in clock now we're able to set timers directly from spotlight so i want to show
you another example too if i type in dogs you're going to get images directly from your albums and
also from google and search engines right directly from spotlight i find this extremely useful
because i use spotlight all the time but there are spotlight settings i like to change immediately
though and that's customizing what it searches for so it performs much faster and so to do this
go into system settings and then scroll down to siri and spotlight a few things have changed here
in this new settings panel just fyi and then go down and here in spotlight you can remove
or enable certain areas where you want spotlight to search for or not search for so i recommend
going through these and seeing what's relevant to you and turning off things that aren't relevant
just so it's able to search through your mac much faster you can also go down to spotlight privacy
and then switch on and off certain folders or areas where you don't want it to pop up
in spotlight at all the next new venture setting to change is the new ambient sounds feature i love
having white noise play in the background while i work and you know wind down so there's now finally
an option to get access to a bunch of nice ambient sounds direct from the mac os i'll show you how to
access them and then how to set them up in your control center so you can quickly turn them on so
to set them up in the first place open the system settings in your mac again and then in the sidebar
go down to accessibility and then into audio and then from here you can see that you can choose uh
different background sounds so you can see here there's ocean dark noise bright noise stream
so if we just stick with rain so you can probably hear that that's probably a bit loud for my liking
so i'm going to turn it down and so it's just nice background noise to have on if you choose if
you're doing you know work or you're just trying to unwind and so here's how you can add them into
control center for quick access open the system settings in your mac and then in the sidebar
click control center right here and then go all the way down to i believe it was hearing
so click hit under hearing click show in control center and then now once you click your console
control center you can see down here that you have this ear icon click it and then
you got background sounds turn it on and you immediately have access to all these different
sounds the next setting you want to change in mac os material when you first upgrade is turning on
the featured content in the photos app memories is the feature that i personally really enjoy
in ios photos where you know it will collate different photos into these memories so we
can cherish our you know memories apple really has the naming conventions really tight here
so we now get this feature on the mac but we need to turn it on and reset it first so to do this go
into the photos album the photos app i should say so once you're in the photo app click the top menu
bar photos and then click settings and then in settings you can see that you can now toggle on
memory notifications featured content and holiday events i'm going to turn them all on and then it's
really important that you reset suggested memories just to clean it all up so you can
start to get those suggested memories up on your photo app and this one's a really welcome feature
especially for those who appreciate photography like me next up the appearance of mac's font book
has now been transformed so if i bring it up type in fontbook you can see that it's now completely
transformed it looks so much better and not only does it look a whole heap better you can now see
lots of different fonts at a glance and you want to make sure that you can download the free
custom fonts available in fontbook so to bring up fontbook the easiest way was just to search for
it in spotlight then inside fontbook you can now download additional official fonts for your mac
from apple for free all the fonts available for download are grayed out and you can simply click
the download icon next to the fonts that you want and then it will download it automatically so i
highly recommend just scrolling through these and seeing if you like any of these fonts clicking
that download icon and it'll immediately start to download and then once it's downloaded you have
it available now to use totally worth spending a few minutes here and adding more fonts from apple
next one is a new ventura feature which i think you either like or you dislike and it is stage
manager but i think it's worth testing out at the very least so by default for me this was turned
off and to turn this on go into system settings and then go into i believe it was desktop and dock
and go scroll down into stage manager so right here if i turn this on okay you're going to now
get if i uh minimize this you're going to get all your apps open on the side here again i
think this is worth if i just put this down here as well you can see that it sort of like switches
around and it will hide things you'll come back in i think this function is pretty nice if you
want to easily switch between apps and windows in this new visual design i'm not sure if i like it
just yet it is a bit obtrusive but i definitely got more used to it over the last few weeks
i don't know let me know if you guys are a fan of this new feature the next setting is great
for those who really enjoy captions like myself i really enjoy having captions on on netflix and
live captions are now available on mac os ventura this feature basically generates captions almost
anywhere on screen and it's pretty accurate for my tests as long as there's no major background
noise it even works for live facetime calls from friends and family but for whatever reason this
disappeared in my latest beta update but it should be here in the final release on ventura i believe
so to turn this on go into system settings then go down to accessibility again
and then under live captions it should be here under hearing um as live captions for whatever
reason this is changed to captions from me and i don't have the live captions option to
toggle on now but it should be here and you can also change the look of the background
and you can adjust it to your liking and so now when you're on facetime calls
it will appear as captions live from the other caller which is pretty damn awesome it's also
worth turning on the new weather notification in the updated weather app to do this go into the new
weather app so i'm just going to search for it and then from here you can basically go into weather
and click settings and then you can turn on severe weather and next hour precipitation notifications
and what this does is send you notifications on where there's severe weather events when it's
snowing raining and that sort of stuff not just one location but multiple locations of your choice
you can completely customize which notifications are sent to you for which location as you can
see here but yeah this is a great one to have on moving on to settings that help you organize your
life and that's smart folders this isn't unique to ventura but i think they're so underrated and not
enough people use them so i wanted to show you how to set up smart photos if you haven't yet
already so to do this all you have to do is bring up a finder window then click file then clicks new
smart folder so under new smart folder click this plus icon here and then you're going to add the
parameters you want so for example if i want to set up all the jpeg photos with a certain name to
go into this smart folder i can do this by click kind is basically image then it's going to be jpeg
so it'll filter all of that out and then you're going to click plus again so we're going to click
name is or matches and then you're going to insert your name here of the specific photos you want to
go into that specific smart folder highly highly recommend setting up these and uh it will change
your life and save you loads of time when they're set up right on the same topic of folders if you
have space in your icloud i think it's totally worth syncing up your important folders to icloud
this is really easy to do so go into system settings and then go into your apple id then click
icloud then scroll down to icloud drive and click options and then from here choose desktop and
document folders and then it's going to start syncing that's it similar to ios 16 apple has
introduced the new duplicates photo folder on your mac it automatically finds duplicate photos in
your library and gives you the choice to delete them or merge them by saving a higher quality
photo and disregarding the other for some reason upgrading to the venturia beta 3 the duplicates
folder isn't here for me but to get to the folder on your own mac go into the photos app and then
it should be underneath photos as a option on the side panel and then what will happen is you'll see
all your duplicate photos and you can go through them manually and merge them or delete them this
is pretty useful to save some space right off the bat now the next setting i personally change and
this might be a controversial one i feel like i needed to add this one here because seriously
i debate this setting with my partner all the time and that's turning off natural trackpad
movement so go into settings and then go into trackpad and then as you can see it looks a little
different in ventura but essentially it's still the same thing so if you click scroll and zoom
natural scrolling i like to turn this off for me personally because if i want to move something
to go down i'll scroll you know down not up and natural scrolling just drives me crazy so i always
make sure that this is turned off i don't know guys what do you think are you team natural scroll
or team unnatural scroll let me know down in the comments because this one drives me crazy the next
feature is absolutely awesome for my fellow gamers out there and it's similar to the new
ios 16 update again we can now pair our nintendo controllers to our macs and i think that's so cool
so i'll show you right here i've got my nintendo pro controller right here and this should work
with uh the standard nintendo joy con controllers too so to go go into your bluetooth settings
so click system settings and go into bluetooth so from here what i'm going to do is flip this around
wait not flip this around i was thinking about the standard controller go on if you have the pro
controller at the top you hit the button and hold it down until the light flashes then immediately
you can now see that the needed nearby devices will recognize the pro controller you couldn't do
this in previous mac os systems so click connect and then once it's connected bam right there we've
got it connected and this is gonna be awesome for uh games out there i was just testing it out on
asphalt 9 uh just before this video so if i bring it up right here so as you can see here it works
perfectly with a nintendo pro controller it should be the exact same with your uh standard joycon
controllers but yeah it's pretty awesome i was just testing asphalt 9 as you can see here before
this video but yeah it's pretty awesome turning your laptop into a portable casual gaming machine
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also if you like the custom wallpaper that you see here i'll leave a direct link to it
down below in the description box it's been crazy seeing how many people are enjoying it and seeing
other people's setups and i also share a video on screen here where i share the must have mac
apps that i use on the daily as always thank you for watching and i'll see you in the next video