Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 3 Beyond the Book 4 Where to Go from Here 4 Book 1: Getting Started with Your Mac 5 Chapter 1: Starting to Use Your Mac 7 Examining Different Mac Models 7 The Mac mini and Mac Pro 9 The iMac 9 The MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 10 Starting Your Mac 11 Turning Off Your Mac 13 Putting your Mac to sleep 13 Shutting down your Mac 16 Restarting your Mac 18 Understanding Mac Processors 19 Exploring Your Mac''s Inner Workings 20 Chapter 2: Getting Acquainted with the Mac User Interface 23 Looking at Menus, Dialogs, and Windows 24 Exploring the menu bar 25 Understanding menu commands 26 Working with dialogs 26 Managing windows 27 Mastering the Mouse, Trackpad, and Keyboard 32 Using the mouse 33 Operating the trackpad 34 Examining the parts of the keyboard 36 Getting to Know the Parts of the Desktop 43 The Dock 44 The Finder 46 Getting to Know Siri 48 Exploring a basic Siri interaction 49 Using complex Siri commands 51 Configuring Siri 53 Empowering Siri 53 Getting Help 54 Chapter 3: Making Your First Connections 57 Setting Up an Internet Connection 58 Ethernet connection 58 Wireless (Wi-Fi) access 59 Establishing Your Apple Identity 63 Creating an Apple ID during Mac setup 64 Using two-factor authentication 65 Creating an Apple ID in iCloud 66 Keeping Your Data in iCloud 71 Configuring iCloud preferences 72 Syncing with your other devices 74 Using the iCloud website 75 Setting Up Email and Social Network Accounts 77 Adding accounts 77 Gathering your account information 78 Configuring your account 79 Chapter 4: Working with Files and Folders 83 Getting to Know the Finder 84 Handling devices 85 Understanding folders 86 Setting Finder preferences 88 Navigating the Finder 90 Opening a folder 90 Working with tabs 90 Jumping to a specific folder 91 Jumping back and forth 92 Moving to a higher folder 92 Following the folder path 93 Organizing and Viewing Folders 93 Selecting items in the Finder 94 Using Icon view 94 Using List view 96 Using Column view 97 Using Gallery view 98 Changing your view options 99 Using Quick Look to view file contents 100 Creating Folders 102 Creating a folder from the Finder menu 102 Creating a folder from Save or Save As 102 Playing Tag: Classify Files and Folders for Quick Access 105 Setting tag preferences 105 Tagging existing files and folders 105 Tagging new files 107 Finding your tagged files 107 Manipulating Files and Folders 107 Renaming files and folders 108 Copying a file or folder 110 Moving a file or folder 111 Grouping files 112 Archiving Files and Folders 112 Creating a Zip file 113 Creating a DMG file 114 Deleting files and folders 116 Searching Files 117 Using Spotlight 118 Spotlight Preferences 120 Using Smart Folders 121 Creating a Smart Folder with Spotlight 122 Deleting a File or Folder 123 Retrieving a file or folder from the Trash 124 Emptying the Trash 124 Chapter 5: Managing Apps on the Dock, Launchpad, and Desktop 127 Launching an App 128 From the Dock 129 From Launchpad 131 From the Apple menu''s Recent Items 132 From the Finder 133 With Spotlight 134 Opening documents 134 Switching among Applications 137 Quitting Apps 139 Closing a document 139 Shutting down an app 139 Force-quitting an app 140 Creating Alias Icons 142 Working with Dock Aliases 143 Adding file and folder aliases to the Dock 144 Rearranging icons on the Dock 146 Removing icons from the Dock 147 Organizing Multiple Desktops with Spaces 148 Creating Desktops 148 Switching Desktops 150 Moving app windows to different Desktops 150 Setting Mission Control preferences 151 Acquiring New Apps 152 Shopping in the App Store 153 Downloading apps from the App Store 156 Installing Applications 158 Updating Applications and System Software 158 Uninstalling Applications 160 Uninstalling an app 160 Removing app alias icons from the Dock and Desktop 162 Removing user setting files 162 Paying Attention to App Security 163 Chapter 6: Changing How Your Mac Looks, Sounds, and Feels 165 Changing the Desktop and Screen Saver 166 Choosing a Desktop image 166 Customizing the screen saver 168 Changing the Display and Appearance 171 Changing the screen resolution 171 Using Night Shift 172 Changing the colors of the user interface 173 Changing the Date and Time 175 Adjusting Sounds 178 Noticing Notifications 181 Working in Split-View Mode 186 Using Your Mac''s Accessibility Features 187 Mitigating vision limitations 188 Compensating for hearing limitations 191 Interacting with ease 192 Enabling Switch Control 198 Speaking with Your Mac 199 Setting up the microphone 200 Setting up Speakable Items 201 Book 2: Using the Internet 205 Chapter 1: Browsing the Web with Safari 207 Browsing Websites 208 Going on Safari 208 Visiting websites 209 Reading in Reader 217 Using tabbed browsing 218 Setting your Safari home page 222 Searching within a web page 223 Organizing Your Website Experience 223 Using bookmarks 224 Creating a Reading List 230 Displaying favorites in Top Sites 232 Storing Personal Info and Keeping It Private 234 Using AutoFill to track passwords and more 234 Protecting your web-browsing privacy 236 Saving and Sharing Web Pages 238 Saving a web page as a file 239 Saving a photo from the web 240 Sharing a web page 241 Printing a web page 242 Viewing and Playing Multimedia Files 243 Listening to streaming audio 243 Viewing PDF files 243 Downloading Files 244 Using Extensions 246 Chapter 2: Corresponding with Mail 249 Adding an Email Account to Mail 250 Looking at the Mail Window 254 Writing Emails 257 Creating a new email 257 Replying to or forwarding a message 259 Customizing your messages 261 Sending a file or photo attachment 266 Spelling and grammar checking 270 Receiving and Reading Email 271 Retrieving email 271 Reading email 273 Viewing and saving file attachments 274 Adding an email address to Contacts 275 Adding an email contact to your VIPs list 276 Organizing Email 276 Searching through email 277 Organizing email with mailbox folders 278 Deleting a mailbox folder 280 Automatically organizing email with smart mailboxes 280 Automatically organizing email with rules 282 Flagging your messages 283 Dealing with Junk Email 284 Filtering junk email 285 Using advanced filter rules 287 Using blocked sender rules 289 Deleting and Archiving Messages 290 Deleting messages 290 Retrieving messages from the Trash folder 291 Emptying the Trash folder 292 Archiving messages 292 Chapter 3: Chatting with Messages and FaceTime 293 Getting Started in Messages 294 Setting up a Messages account 294 Keeping up appearances 294 Chatting with Others 296 Initiating a text chat 297 Initiating an audio or a video chat 299 Sharing files and photos 301 Saving or deleting your conversations 301 Making Calls with FaceTime 302 Signing in to FaceTime 303 Making a call with FaceTime 303 Receiving a FaceTime call 305 Chapter 4: Using Apple Pay and Apple Card 307 Paying for Purchases with Apple Pay 308 Using Apple Card 309 Chapter 5: Moving Around with Maps 311 Wherever You Go, There You Are 312 Finding your location 312 Navigating the Maps interface 314 Asking for Directions 315 Finding what you seek 315 Sharing what you find 318 Dropping a pin 320 Getting directions 320 Book 3: Beyond the Basics 323 Chapter 1: Backing Up and Restoring Your Data 325 Using iCloud for Your Data 326 Understanding Different Backup Options 328 Backing up with external hard drives 329 Storing backups on USB flash drives 330 Storing backups off-site 331 Blasting into the Past with Time Machine 332 Setting up Time Machine 332 Skipping files you don''t want to back up 336 Retrieving files and folders 337 Understanding Versions 342 Restoring your entire backup 342 Moving Your Backup from an Old Mac to a New Mac 344 Working with Data-Recovery Programs 345 Getting Rid of What You No Longer Need 348 Chapter 2: Protecting Your Mac against Local and Remote Threats 349 Locking Down Your Mac 350 Using Passwords 350 Changing your password 351 Appl.