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If you just bought a Mac, congratulations
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After you get settled in, these are the five settings you'll wanna change
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Number one is a feature called True Tone. Like the iPhone and iPad
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MacBooks and Apple's own desktop displays will automatically adjust the temperature of the display
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how orange or blue the hue is, based on the ambient lighting of the room to match
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Personally, I don't really like it. I would rather have the colors be as accurate
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to their originals as possible. But you can easily turn this off in System Settings
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You go to the Display panel in the sidebar, and then you just click here to turn off True Tone
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It's that easy. Number two, there are a lot of ways you can customize the trackpad
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By default, Apple trackpads have you physically click your finger down on the trackpad
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to register a click. Now, Apple trackpads do go a level above
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a lot of PC laptop trackpads, wherein the entire trackpad is a button
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You don't have to, like, click in the bottom left corner. However, if you're used to how it works on PCs
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you can enable a simple tap-to-click instead. In System Settings, scroll all the way down
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click on Trackpad, and then enable tap-to-click. Here, it'll teach you what all the other gestures are
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like the four-finger swipe to switch between full-screen spaces or show Mission Control
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And you can edit these to your liking as well. Next is Control Center. Your Mac has Control Center, just like your iPhone and iPad
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and it also lives in the upper right corner of the screen, in the menu bar
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In System Settings, in the Control Center panel, you can add more features to it for easier access
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And you can also get rid of the other stuff that you never use if it's cluttering it up
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You can even break out some of the Control Center features into the menu bar itself
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Hold down the Command key, then click and drag. You can reorder the items
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and you can get rid of the ones you don't want. If you use this computer for your work
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then you might want to add a Focus Mode toggle up there. If you share this computer with multiple people
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you might want to add a Fast User Switching menu bar item
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And if it's MacBook, you'll definitely want to add the battery percentage. Next, let's talk about AirDrop
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This is a massively underrated feature that lets you instantly beam files from your Mac
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to your iPhone, to your iPad, to another Mac, even to a Vision Pro
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From the Finder, which is the Mac's file browser, you can add a shortcut to make it easier to AirDrop files
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In the menu bar, you'll click View, Customize Toolbar. You can click and drag the AirDrop button
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onto the toolbar, and click Done. Now you can just select a file
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and you have easy access to AirDrop it to another device. Finally, let's talk about the Dock
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The Dock is one of the most core user interface elements of the Mac, and in System Settings, Desktop, and Dock
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you'll find loads of ways you can customize it to your heart's content
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To start, you can change the size, whether you want the icons to be much smaller
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but you can still turn on magnification so you can see the icons when you mouse over them
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You can change the position on the screen. Personally, I like it on the bottom, but there's a very vocal group of people
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who like keeping it on the left or the right side. If you're on a MacBook with a small screen
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you might want to turn on Automatically Hide and Show the Dock. This gives you back a little bit of screen space
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but you can still find the Dock when you mouse over to the side of the screen that it's on
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I also highly recommend you edit which apps are shown in the Dock
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To remove them, you just drag them up and let go. That way, you don't have to see the Apple TV icon
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or the FaceTime icon on your screen all the time. To be clear, you're not deleting it
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You can still get to it at any time using a four-finger pinch gesture to open Launchpad
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or using Spotlight by hitting Command Space and typing in the name
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If you want to add an app to the Dock, you can just click and drag it down
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into the position you want. I like to keep my Dock a little more minimal. The only app icons I keep in there
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are the ones that are running pretty much 24-7 because I know that I can instantly hit Command Space
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and type in a name or access it through Launchpad. So those are some of the basic settings
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you might want to check out when you first set up your Mac. Linked in the video description
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I have a bunch of how-tos, a bunch of pro tips to get you more familiar with your computer
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Remember to like and subscribe for more. I'm Dekerfin Jones with Cult of Mac
