Regarding the previously reported problem with retaining Startup Disk preferences settings, Kate Derie replies: After some experimentation, I find that the Startup Disk Preferences reverts to OS 9.1 ...

Are you forever opening up your Mac’s System Preferences app and searching for the section you need? If so, it’s because by default, all those Preference Panes are ordered by category, which — to me ...

Apple Discussions poser Kristian Attfield: "When I try to enable the guest account, System preferences crashes, so in order to do anything I have to force quit system prefs. After force quitting ...

How to navigate the new System Settings tool in macOS Ventura Your email has been sent Past versions of macOS offered the System Preferences tool to give you access ...

Apple likes to monkey with System Preferences in macOS. Every few releases, they move things around, rename items, and change how it works. But you might have overlooked a long-running option to take ...

OS X has a number of options for handling disk images—settings for such things as automatically opening them, moving Internet-enabled images to the trash after opening, verifying checksums, and more.

Make the navigation of your macOS System Preferences easier, by hiding icons for elements that you never access. Most users are familiar with System Preferences on their Mac. If there's a setting ...

It’s the future, already, right? While we may not have flying cars or jetpacks, we do have computers ad mobile devices that we can speak to and that can speak to us. Here are a few ways to make your ...

macOS has gone through a handful of visual changes over the last several years, but one thing that has stayed largely the same is System Preferences. A new concept imagines how Apple could revamp the ...

macOS Monterey makes several improvements to password management, positioning iCloud Keychain as an ideal password service to replace third-party services like Lastpass and 1Password. In System ...

The app that is: strange behaviour: everything works fine until I go to the 'Accounts' panel: there speed is sluggish (at most), all accounts which aren't mine take ages to show up and when I push the ...