How To Set Up a New MacBook (2026 Step-By-Step Guide) — Transcript

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1. 0:00if you've just bought on your MacBook
2. 0:01you're probably watching this video
3. 0:02because you want to make sure how to set
4. 0:04it up correctly and look you are in the
5. 0:06right place I've been setting up
6. 0:08probably hundreds of MacBooks over the
7. 0:10last 10 years on this channel and both
8. 0:12at my job and uh in today's video we're
9. 0:15going to show you exactly how to do it
10. 0:17as long as some tips and tricks and
11. 0:19essential things you need to know along
12. 0:21the way well when I say we I mean me
13. 0:23because she doesn't actually have any
14. 0:24thumbs okay so for the purposes of this
15. 0:27video this is the brand new Mac that I'm
16. 0:29going to be setting up now this
17. 0:31particular model is a 14-in M3 Pro
18. 0:34MacBook Pro but it doesn't really matter
19. 0:36what MacBook you have as long as it's an
20. 0:38apple silicon Mac uh all of this guide
21. 0:41is going to be relevant to you so first
22. 0:43things first we just flip it over we're
23. 0:45going to undo this tab on the back to
24. 0:48gain access to the mac and we'll take
25. 0:50off the top box okay now the first thing
26. 0:53you need to do is obviously just take
27. 0:54everything out and just make sure that
28. 0:56everything's actually in the box so
29. 0:58generally the way that MacBooks come
30. 0:59pack packag is you'll have the MacBook
31. 1:01in a protective sleeve up the top so
32. 1:03we'll just put that to the side for now
33. 1:05uh we're also going to have the charger
34. 1:08cable which is going to be the next
35. 1:09thing you see this one is a black color
36. 1:12obviously because I have the space black
37. 1:14color your particular color might differ
38. 1:16depending on the Mac you've selected
39. 1:18next up we have the documentation now
40. 1:20there's not really anything too
41. 1:22interesting in here uh you'll get a
42. 1:24quick guide uh you'll also get an Apple
43. 1:26sticker which is pretty useless unless
44. 1:28you have an annoying that you want to
45. 1:31stick this on their forehead um but
46. 1:33generally you don't really need to worry
47. 1:35about this for warranty purposes just
48. 1:36keep your invoice um whether it was an
49. 1:39online or a physical purchase just keep
50. 1:41a copy of that um and the rest of this
51. 1:43stuff you just don't really need it so
52. 1:46next up we have the charger now you can
53. 1:49see here that obviously I'm located in
54. 1:50Australia so I'm going to have the
55. 1:52Australian adapter um but the way this
56. 1:54works is quite simple you have a little
57. 1:56USB port right there uh you'll have a
58. 1:59another us USB port here if I undo that
59. 2:03and take off the packaging you'll see
60. 2:05that it just sticks right in there and
61. 2:07then you can use that to plug into your
62. 2:09MacBook the other end of course the mag
63. 2:11safe adapter and you're good to go for
64. 2:12charging now one thing you may not know
65. 2:15about these charges is the head is
66. 2:17actually removable and interchangeable
67. 2:19so all you need to do is obviously it
68. 2:22helps if you disconnect the cable first
69. 2:24uh you just pull it from here and sort
70. 2:25of pull it away from the body and you
71. 2:28can see now we have two separate pieces
72. 2:31there and what you can do now is if this
73. 2:33thing gets damaged you can replace that
74. 2:35throw it out by a new one or
75. 2:36alternatively if you go traveling you
76. 2:39can actually bring this with you and you
77. 2:41can buy an international travel adapter
78. 2:43head kit and you can then use those to
79. 2:46swap in and out depending on whichever
80. 2:48country you're traveling to so this is a
81. 2:50really easy way to not only charge your
82. 2:53MacBook internationally when you travel
83. 2:55but as I mentioned before this is a USBC
84. 2:57Port so you can plug any USBC cable in
85. 3:00here and charge cameras phones uh
86. 3:03portable battery packs you name it I
87. 3:05will put a link to those international
88. 3:07travel adapters down in the description
89. 3:09as well as a video that I made going
90. 3:10over my favorite MacBook accessories if
91. 3:13you want to check that out okay so let's
92. 3:15get the box and the packaging out of the
93. 3:17way and we're going to focus on the PD
94. 3:19resistance which is the MacBook now you
95. 3:22might think I'm a weirdo for doing this
96. 3:23but I always smell my new Apple products
97. 3:26they just they have this really specific
98. 3:29smell about I don't know if it's the
99. 3:30smell of regret of emptying out my bank
100. 3:33account or apple put something in the
101. 3:34packaging but they just smell so good
102. 3:36and I thought I was a weirdo until I
103. 3:38made a video where I sniffed a Macbook
104. 3:41and uh a lot of you guys commented and
105. 3:43say you do the exact same thing so if
106. 3:44that's something you're into give it a
107. 3:46sniff I don't know maybe it's just me
108. 3:48but apart from that what we're going to
109. 3:49do now is we're going to take the
110. 3:51MacBook out of the packaging now
111. 3:53generally I like to open it up by just
112. 3:56peeling this back so you can see the
113. 3:57back chassis and one thing you really
114. 3:59want to concentrate on here is just
115. 4:01checking that there's no damage or
116. 4:04fingerprints or smears or marks or
117. 4:06anything like that on the actual chassis
118. 4:09of the MacBook now there's a 99.9%
119. 4:11chance that this is a brand new Macbook
120. 4:14and no one's ever touched it before but
121. 4:16you know sometimes stuff happens you
122. 4:18know refurbished stock or used stock
123. 4:20gets mixed around so just make sure that
124. 4:23you do have a brand new model now some
125. 4:25easy ways of telling that is obviously
126. 4:26look for scratches or dust or anything
127. 4:28like that uh check these feet here make
128. 4:31sure there's no scratches or marks check
129. 4:33the chassis that looks nice and clean no
130. 4:35fingerprints and then you can flip it
131. 4:37over look at the Apple logo as well it's
132. 4:39nice and shiny and clean so this one
133. 4:41looks good so for example if you have
134. 4:44pulled it out and the Apple logo is kind
135. 4:47of greasy or marked up like that that's
136. 4:49a pretty good indication that this is
137. 4:51not a brand new product and if that's
138. 4:53the case just take it straight back to
139. 4:55where you purchase it from and just get
140. 4:57a replacement okay now that the fun part
141. 4:59is out of the way let's put this down on
142. 5:01a table open the lid and start setting
143. 5:04it up now typically with these modern
144. 5:06MacBooks as soon as you open the lid uh
145. 5:08it's actually going to turn itself on
146. 5:10you can see there you can see the Apple
147. 5:11logo you can hear the startup chime uh
148. 5:13we're just going to very gently peel
149. 5:16this paper covering you can just kind of
150. 5:18use your fingers to just sort of pinch
151. 5:19it here and just pull it off like that
152. 5:21and generally I will just keep this in
153. 5:23the packaging um in case I go to sell it
154. 5:26or send it back to the manufacturer or
155. 5:27whatever in the future and as you can
156. 5:29see now we are at the setup screen now
157. 5:32just before we get into the setup
158. 5:34process you've probably bought your new
159. 5:36computer to do things on right and some
160. 5:38of those things may be creative in
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195. 6:51set this MacBook up from brand new now
196. 6:53again if you've already done this or you
197. 6:55already know how to do this you can just
198. 6:57use the timestamps down below to skip uh
199. 7:00but if you want to just follow along
200. 7:01with me I'm going to walk you through
201. 7:03each step what it means and what you
202. 7:05should select so first of all this is
203. 7:07pretty explanatory it's going to ask you
204. 7:09what language you want to do the setup
205. 7:11in so I'm just going to choose English
206. 7:13and then it's going to ask you what
207. 7:14country or region you are located in so
208. 7:16again just try to set this to your
209. 7:19country or region because it's going to
210. 7:21cause issues later on if you don't uh
211. 7:23such as different keyboard layouts and
212. 7:25settings options and things like that
213. 7:27I'm located in Australia so I'm going to
214. 7:28click austalia and then click continue
215. 7:30the next screen is going to show you
216. 7:32what written and spoken languages you
217. 7:34want on the device so for my region
218. 7:36Australia the default options for
219. 7:38preferred languages is English us uh US
220. 7:41keyboard and also English United States
221. 7:44dictation now if you want you can jump
222. 7:46down here and click customize settings
223. 7:48so if you do live in a specific region
224. 7:51such as the United States but you speak
225. 7:53another language primarily such as you
226. 7:55know German or Russian or whatever uh
227. 7:57you can come in here and add that if you
228. 7:59so wish so you can see if I click the
229. 8:01plus icon uh you can you know choose
230. 8:04basically whatever language you want to
231. 8:06use so I'm happy with us English I'm
232. 8:08going to click continue I'm also happy
233. 8:10with the US keyboard and I'm also happy
234. 8:12with English United States dictation
235. 8:14again you can customize all of this here
236. 8:17or you can do it later on in the
237. 8:18settings if you wish Now accessibility
238. 8:20is pretty straightforward if you are
239. 8:22Vision motor hearing or cognitive
240. 8:24impaired in any way you have a couple of
241. 8:27options here that's going to make using
242. 8:28this MacBook a little bit easier so if
243. 8:30you're not sure what the MacBook offers
244. 8:32you can actually click on each of these
245. 8:34things and it's going to give you a
246. 8:36little synopsis of what exactly that
247. 8:38feature provides so for example hearing
248. 8:40uh you can get closed captions on the
249. 8:42screen uh for cognitive you can change
250. 8:44the appearance and everything like that
251. 8:46um I don't personally use any of these
252. 8:49so I'm just going to click continue now
253. 8:51the next thing we need to do is
254. 8:52connecting this MacBook to your internet
255. 8:55whether that's a wired ethernet
256. 8:56connection or a Wi-Fi network now if you
257. 8:59already know the Wi-Fi password you can
258. 9:01just click on your network and then
259. 9:03enter in the password there if you don't
260. 9:05know it generally it's on the back of
261. 9:07your router uh sometimes isps will
262. 9:09actually send you a little card with
263. 9:11your SSID or your network your Wi-Fi
264. 9:14network name and also the password
265. 9:16listed on there so go and grab that now
266. 9:19uh if you don't have a wireless
267. 9:21connection or if you want the fastest
268. 9:22speeds possible I do actually recommend
269. 9:25buying a cheap ethernet to USBC adapter
270. 9:28and that's going to let you attach your
271. 9:30MacBook directly to your router to get
272. 9:32the fastest possible speeds so for me my
273. 9:35wi-fi is plenty fast so I'm going to
274. 9:37click it here and I'm going to type in
275. 9:39my password okay so the next option once
276. 9:42we are connected to our internet is data
277. 9:45and privacy so if you want to you can
278. 9:47click learn more uh to Read All About It
279. 9:50um if you have a spare 2 or 3 days to
280. 9:53read through all of it uh typically
281. 9:55you're probably just going to be like me
282. 9:57and click continue and just trust that
283. 9:59that there's nothing super important in
284. 10:00there now migration assistant is a very
285. 10:03very helpful tool specifically if you're
286. 10:05coming from a previous computer and you
287. 10:07want to migrate your apps your files or
288. 10:10your settings for example onto this new
289. 10:13Macbook now this obviously works best if
290. 10:15you're coming from a previous Mac for
291. 10:17example an older MacBook and this is the
292. 10:19replacement but you can also do it from
293. 10:21a Windows PC or a time machine backup
294. 10:25and this is super super simple the only
295. 10:27thing you need is both devices need to
296. 10:29be connected to the same network so your
297. 10:31home network and it's going to do
298. 10:33everything over the network and it might
299. 10:35take a few hours depending on how much
300. 10:36data you have but it's a very simple
301. 10:38process I will link an Apple support
302. 10:40article down in the description of this
303. 10:42video with more information on this now
304. 10:44for the purpose of this video I'm going
305. 10:45to click not now in the bottom leftand
306. 10:48corner because I don't really want to
307. 10:49wait 2 or 3 hours for migration
308. 10:51assistant to do its thing um but also
309. 10:54consider you know if you're only
310. 10:55upgrading your laptops every 5 years or
311. 10:58so uh consider not using migration
312. 11:01assistant and just starting from Fresh
313. 11:03So at that point you can set everything
314. 11:05up again from fresh uh if you had any
315. 11:08issues with your previous Mac so it was
316. 11:10slowing down or there was bugs or
317. 11:12glitches or anything like that sometimes
318. 11:14it's good to just start fresh every
319. 11:16couple of years so that's what I
320. 11:17personally do when I upgrade my MacBooks
321. 11:20after 3 to 5 years uh and if you want to
322. 11:22do that again you just click not now so
323. 11:25the next step is signing in with your
324. 11:26Apple ID now you probably already have
325. 11:29an Apple ID and if that's the case you
326. 11:31can pop it in here if you don't uh you
327. 11:33can create a new Apple ID here or if
328. 11:35you've forgotten the password uh it'll
329. 11:37have all the links to do that process
330. 11:39here now if you're having any issues
331. 11:41signing in uh you totally don't need to
332. 11:43do this at this stage you can still set
333. 11:45the laptop up and do that at a later
334. 11:48stage so that's what I'm going to do now
335. 11:50by clicking set up later down in the
336. 11:52bottom leftand corner then we have the
337. 11:54terms and conditions again you probably
338. 11:56don't want to read that and this is
339. 11:57where you can create your your user
340. 11:59account so uh full name you can just put
341. 12:02in your first name if you want so I'm
342. 12:03just going to put this as Liam you don't
343. 12:05need the last name account name uh
344. 12:07generally I'm just going to put Liam as
345. 12:09well this is just going to be the name
346. 12:11of the actual folder where all of your
347. 12:12user documents are stored on Mac OS so
348. 12:15I'm just going to put Liam password I'm
349. 12:17just going to put my usual password that
350. 12:19I put in and hint totally up to you I've
351. 12:23been using the same user password for a
352. 12:24few years uh I don't really need a hint
353. 12:27but again up to you don't forget to also
354. 12:29edit your little profile picture up here
355. 12:31so you can click edit and then you have
356. 12:33a couple of different options here so
357. 12:35you can set a Emoji uh or an emoji and
358. 12:38you can take a photo of yourself if you
359. 12:40want or you can select a previous photo
360. 12:43if you have a nicer picture of yourself
361. 12:45you can use that here as well personally
362. 12:47I just like to use the memojis I'll set
363. 12:49myself as a Little Koala because I'm
364. 12:51Australian and I'm just going to click
365. 12:52save there again you can edit all of
366. 12:54this at a later stage except the account
367. 12:57name that is something you cannot edit
368. 12:59so make sure you get that right during
369. 13:01this setup process okay at that stage we
370. 13:03are going to click continue so next we
371. 13:05have location services now this works
372. 13:07pretty much the exact same way as it
373. 13:09does on your iPhone if you have one it
374. 13:11just allows apps and services to use the
375. 13:14current location that your MacBook is
376. 13:16located at now this can be really
377. 13:18helpful especially if you're using Maps
378. 13:19it will just automatically detect your
379. 13:21location and then uh give you the
380. 13:23estimated travel time to where you're
381. 13:24searching for example again you can
382. 13:26totally edit all of this later so for
383. 13:29now I'm just going to enable that and
384. 13:31I'm going to click continue so this next
385. 13:32section is asking your permission to
386. 13:34share Mac analytics with apple or share
387. 13:37crash and usage data with app developers
388. 13:40now all this means is if there's any
389. 13:42issues with your Mac on the operating
390. 13:44system or any of the apps that you're
391. 13:46using so for example if it crashes or
392. 13:49there's just compatibility issues uh
393. 13:51those Anonymous logs are going to be
394. 13:53sent to either apple or the app
395. 13:55developer to help them improve or fix
396. 13:58that particular app or software now it
397. 14:01is completely Anonymous there's no
398. 14:02personal data it doesn't slow it down it
399. 14:04doesn't take up disk space it's really
400. 14:06just up to your personal preference if
401. 14:08you want to help out apple or the app
402. 14:10developers so for me personally I'm just
403. 14:12going to tick both of them because again
404. 14:15there's nothing personal there it has no
405. 14:17impact on me uh and I'm just going to
406. 14:19click continue so you're probably pretty
407. 14:20familiar with screen time already it's
408. 14:22already on your iPhone and all it does
409. 14:25is it just tracks how much time you
410. 14:26spend on your laptop each day and each
411. 14:29week and gives you a detailed breakdown
412. 14:31so you can see exactly where you're
413. 14:33spending your time now generally when I
414. 14:35look at my screen time at the end of the
415. 14:37week uh it is it's nothing good it's
416. 14:39always negative uh because I'm clearly
417. 14:42spending too much time on Reddit or
418. 14:44YouTube but uh you know it is quite
419. 14:46effective as you've probably already
420. 14:47seen on the iPhone you can set it up
421. 14:49later but generally I like to leave it
422. 14:51on because it will send you a message
423. 14:53once a week um just giving you a rough
424. 14:55idea of how much time you're spending in
425. 14:57certain things so I'm going to to click
426. 14:59continue here so moving on to series
427. 15:01setup you will notice a common theme
428. 15:03here that is that pretty much everything
429. 15:05you have on iOS on your iPhone is also
430. 15:08now on Mac OS so this works the exact
431. 15:11same way as your iPhone uh if you want
432. 15:13to enable ask Siri you can uh and I'm
433. 15:16just going to do that because I like to
434. 15:17use Siri on my Mac so I'm just going to
435. 15:20click continue you have a couple of
436. 15:21options here I recommend just giving a
437. 15:23quick listen to all of them you can
438. 15:25change this later in the settings if you
439. 15:27want I'm just going to select voice one
440. 15:29and click continue and I'm going to hit
441. 15:31continue again and all you need to do
442. 15:33here is just speak at a normal volume
443. 15:35read the sentences on the screen so that
444. 15:37Siri can acclimate to your specific
445. 15:39voice okay now Siri is ready let's go
446. 15:42continue now this section is very
447. 15:43similar to the analytics section apple
448. 15:45is asking you if you give Apple your
449. 15:48permission to share voice recordings
450. 15:50that you make to Siri uh and share them
451. 15:53with Apple so that Apple can improve the
452. 15:55Siri product now again this is
453. 15:57relatively an Anonymous but at the end
454. 16:00of the day it is your voice and certain
455. 16:02Snippets of what you are sharing with
456. 16:04Siri that's being sent to Apple so it's
457. 16:07kind of up to you whether or not you
458. 16:09trust Apple to not abuse those
459. 16:10recordings or to keep it 100% private I
460. 16:13personally haven't seen Apple abuse any
461. 16:15of this but um just for privacy and
462. 16:18peace of mind generally I will just
463. 16:19click not now uh to not share voice
464. 16:22Snippets with apple just to ER on the
465. 16:24side of caution and so we'll click
466. 16:26continue okay now we get to set up Touch
467. 16:28ID now if you've already set up Touch ID
468. 16:30on a previous MacBook it's the exact
469. 16:32same process but if this is your first
470. 16:34time ever using Touch ID congratulations
471. 16:37because it is a lot better than entering
472. 16:39in your password every time so to do
473. 16:41Touch ID we're just going to click
474. 16:43continue and we just going to place
475. 16:45whatever finger you want to use to
476. 16:47unlock the Mac generally it's the finger
477. 16:49on your right hand your index finger
478. 16:50you're just going to place that on top
479. 16:52of the circle and we're going to tap it
480. 16:55multiple times you don't really need to
481. 16:57get the edges just the flat part of your
482. 16:59finger where the main part of your
483. 17:01fingerprint is just press that down
484. 17:03several times now after a few Taps the
485. 17:05message on the screen is going to change
486. 17:07and ask you to do the edges of your
487. 17:09finger so make sure you get the very tip
488. 17:10just under your nail and all around it
489. 17:12because it's just going to improve the
490. 17:14accuracy of touch ID so I'm going to go
491. 17:16to the very tip a few times the very
492. 17:18base around the edges and now you'll see
493. 17:21that touch ID is ready so we're going to
494. 17:23click continue now bear in mind with
495. 17:26Touch ID you can actually add multiple
496. 17:28fingers later on and I will show you how
497. 17:29to do that but for now that is it you
498. 17:31have fully set up your Macbook uh we are
499. 17:34on the desktop and you can now start
500. 17:36using it okay so now I'm going to show
501. 17:38you some tips and tricks and also some
502. 17:39things that I like to tweak and change
503. 17:42on my particular MacBook just to improve
504. 17:45your usability and your experience now
505. 17:48let's start with the desktop now we
506. 17:50obviously have the dock here uh and you
507. 17:52can actually resize this quickly and
508. 17:54easily using this little black line in
509. 17:57the corner if you click and hold on that
510. 17:59and then drag it up or down it's going
511. 18:01to allow you to quickly resize the dock
512. 18:04uh alternatively you can also customize
513. 18:06what app icons you want displayed down
514. 18:09here on the dock so for example if we
515. 18:11don't want the photos app icon we can
516. 18:14click and hold on it that's going to
517. 18:15bring up a menu system and we can come
518. 18:17up here to options and we can hover over
519. 18:20this and go remove from dock
520. 18:22alternatively let's say we don't want
521. 18:24the apps icon there an even quicker way
522. 18:26of removing it from the dock is simply
523. 18:28dragging it off onto the desktop you'll
524. 18:31see it now says remove and we're just
525. 18:32going to release and it's going to
526. 18:35disappear now if we want an apps icon to
527. 18:38appear down here if it's not already
528. 18:40let's say for example we want the photos
529. 18:42app back up there uh open up the
530. 18:44application and then come down here
531. 18:46where it says photos click and hold and
532. 18:49then while continuously holding down I'm
533. 18:52going to come to options and then keep
534. 18:54in Dock and we can also click and hold
535. 18:57and drag this to to reorder it now while
536. 18:59we're on the desktop if you want to
537. 19:01change the desktop wallpaper there are
538. 19:03two ways of doing it so the first
539. 19:05quickest and easiest is by simply right
540. 19:07clicking on the desktop and then
541. 19:09clicking change wallpaper or
542. 19:11alternatively you can also come up here
543. 19:12to the Apple logo system settings and
544. 19:15then you can come down here to wallpaper
545. 19:18now you get a ton of different options
546. 19:19for the wallpaper so obviously you can
547. 19:21just add your own personal photo of your
548. 19:23family or friends or whatever or you
549. 19:25have some built-in options on Mac OS
550. 19:28itself so you have lots of different
551. 19:30Dynamic wallpapers here so these will
552. 19:32actually change colors throughout the
553. 19:33day um or you can come down here and do
554. 19:36some Landscapes or cityscapes so for
555. 19:38example this one here Dubai Skyline it's
556. 19:41actually going to be an animated
557. 19:42wallpaper which looks really really cool
558. 19:45um however you do have to download these
559. 19:47it's a couple of megabytes it doesn't
560. 19:48take too long um but I'm just going to
561. 19:50leave this as the default Sonoma
562. 19:52wallpaper for now now while we are in
563. 19:55the settings here there's a couple of
564. 19:57options that you should probably be
565. 19:58changed so the first one is going to be
566. 20:00in general and then software update so
567. 20:03it's always a good idea to do an update
568. 20:06when you first buy and set up a Mac
569. 20:08because it's probably been sitting in a
570. 20:09warehouse for a couple of months and so
571. 20:11the software is going to be out of date
572. 20:13so you can see here I do have one update
573. 20:15available so I can actually click update
574. 20:17now and that will download and then
575. 20:19install also I recommend to enable
576. 20:22automatic updates so you can see here
577. 20:24there's an option for automatic updates
578. 20:26and if you click this little I icon you
579. 20:28have full control over what you want to
580. 20:30update so I recommend leaving these
581. 20:33options as they are by default so check
582. 20:35for updates turned on download new
583. 20:37updates when available turned on and
584. 20:39also install security responses and
585. 20:41system files uh I generally leave these
586. 20:44two unticked um just because that gives
587. 20:47you the option to actually install them
588. 20:49when you want but in general it is very
589. 20:51important to keep your MacBook as
590. 20:53updated as possible so it's not only
591. 20:55going to ensure the performance is solid
592. 20:57by fixing previous bugs and issues in
593. 21:00Prior versions of the Mac OS software
594. 21:02but it's also good for security so if
595. 21:04there's any new viruses or exploits or
596. 21:06anything out there that people can use
597. 21:08to potentially gain access to your
598. 21:10computer um having those automatic
599. 21:12updates turned on specifically the
600. 21:14security updates is very important to
601. 21:16prevent that from happening now speaking
602. 21:18of security let's also jump into the
603. 21:20security settings of your MacBook
604. 21:21because there's a couple of different
605. 21:22things that I like to do on my MacBook
606. 21:25so if we scroll down here there's going
607. 21:27to be an option for privacy and security
608. 21:29now there's a couple of options here for
609. 21:32privacy uh I'm not going to go into all
610. 21:34of these because there's quite a lot but
611. 21:36generally the way that Mac OS sets it up
612. 21:38on by default is good and you should
613. 21:41just kind of leave it the way it is you
614. 21:42can jump in here and tweak things uh
615. 21:44particularly if there's an app you're
616. 21:46using that you know needs you to change
617. 21:48something here you can come in and
618. 21:50customize this but I like to go right
619. 21:52down the bottom here and come to file
620. 21:55Vault now think of file vault as turn
621. 21:58turning your Mac into kind of like a
622. 21:59safe or a vault that you need a key to
623. 22:02open and this is very very good if
624. 22:04someone steals your Mac or your Mac gets
625. 22:06lost it means it's going to be
626. 22:08impossible for them to access any
627. 22:10private data on the macc's internal SSD
628. 22:13or hard drive so you can see here file
629. 22:15Vault says that it secures the data on
630. 22:17your dis by encrypting its content
631. 22:19automatically and a couple of important
632. 22:21things to note you will need your login
633. 22:23password or a recovery key to access
634. 22:26your data and a recover key is
635. 22:28automatically generated as part of this
636. 22:31setup now if you forget both your
637. 22:33password and recovery key the data will
638. 22:36be lost now this is totally up to you
639. 22:38it's not necessary that you turn this on
640. 22:40it's just really good Peace of Mind
641. 22:43especially if you're outside of your
642. 22:44home a lot and you're at cafes or you're
643. 22:46at school or you're at work if your
644. 22:48MacBook gets lost or stolen uh no one's
645. 22:51going to be able to access it so and I'm
646. 22:53actually going to use my iCloud to
647. 22:56unlock my disc and reset my password if
648. 22:59I forget it the other option is you can
649. 23:00create a recovery key which you can then
650. 23:03like print out and store somewhere uh
651. 23:05but generally iCloud is easier now I'm
652. 23:07not going to run through the rest of
653. 23:08this setup in this video I will leave a
654. 23:11support article on the Apple website
655. 23:13that will have any questions you want
656. 23:14there but it's just something I
657. 23:15recommend doing if you are out and about
658. 23:18with your laptop and you want to really
659. 23:20lock it down in case it gets stolen or
660. 23:22lost okay so while we're still in the
661. 23:23settings another thing I like to do is
662. 23:25customize the trackpad so if we come
663. 23:28right down the bottom here and we click
664. 23:29on trackpad uh one thing I like to turn
665. 23:32on straight away on all of my new
666. 23:34MacBooks is tap to click so if I'm
667. 23:36turning that on it means that you can
668. 23:38simply tap very lightly on the trackpad
669. 23:41to select something rather than having
670. 23:42to press down and put some Force onto it
671. 23:45now you can also come up here and
672. 23:46customize the secondary click now
673. 23:48secondary click is essentially if you
674. 23:51had a physical Mouse and you clicking
675. 23:52the right button uh that's the secondary
676. 23:55click on Mac OS so by default if it is
677. 23:58tap with two fingers which I generally
678. 24:00leave it at and all that is is just
679. 24:01getting two fingers tapping it on the
680. 24:03trackpad and you can see that is a right
681. 24:05click but like I said there's a couple
682. 24:07of options here uh but I decid to leave
683. 24:09it at tap two fingers now the other
684. 24:11thing I like to change here is coming
685. 24:13into scroll and zoom I like to turn
686. 24:16natural scrolling off so by default uh
687. 24:19this is the way you scroll up by pulling
688. 24:23down towards you and if you want to
689. 24:24scroll down you push away from you and
690. 24:27for some people that doesn't really feel
691. 24:29natural like the name suggests so by
692. 24:31switching natural scrolling off uh if we
693. 24:34come back here now if I use my two
694. 24:36fingers to scroll
695. 24:37up and then I can scroll down it just
696. 24:40feels more natural to me but that's
697. 24:42totally up to personal
698. 24:49preference okay so let's say for example
699. 24:51you want to record the screen or take
700. 24:53some screenshots and this is a really
701. 24:55really good feature in Mac OS that I
702. 24:58think is a lot better than Windows if
703. 25:00you've used Windows 11 anytime recently
704. 25:02so to record the screen or take
705. 25:04screenshots there are a couple of
706. 25:06shortcuts you can use on the keyboard so
707. 25:08the quickest and easiest one is to just
708. 25:10take a screenshot of the entire screen
709. 25:12hold down command hold down shift and
710. 25:15then press three and you see that that's
711. 25:17going to now take a screenshot you can
712. 25:19see it down in the bottom there and what
713. 25:21that's going to do is it's just going to
714. 25:22save it directly to your desktop so we
715. 25:24can see it here we can also press the
716. 25:26space bar to do a quick look that's
717. 25:28another keyboard shortcut for you and
718. 25:31you can see we have a screenshot there
719. 25:33um what I'm going to do now is just
720. 25:34delete that I don't need it anymore
721. 25:36there's two ways of doing that you can
722. 25:38just click and drag it and drop it in
723. 25:41the trash can or another keyboard
724. 25:44shortcut hold command and then delete
725. 25:46and that's going to send it to the trash
726. 25:48so that was command shift 3 to take a
727. 25:51screenshot of the entire screen if we
728. 25:53want to take a screenshot of a
729. 25:54particular section like a smaller
730. 25:56section let's say for example we want to
731. 25:58take a screenshot of the Safari icon
732. 26:01down in the corner we're going to go
733. 26:03command shift and then instead of three
734. 26:05we're going to hit four and you can see
735. 26:07now we have this little square pointer
736. 26:10and we can now click and drag over this
737. 26:14area release and that's going to take a
738. 26:16screenshot of that specific area now
739. 26:19alternatively if you want to record the
740. 26:20screen we can go command shift and then
741. 26:23five what that's going to do is it's
742. 26:25actually going to give us a couple of
743. 26:27different op options here so uh we can
744. 26:29capture the entire screen uh we can
745. 26:32capture selected window or we can
746. 26:34capture selected portions and that's
747. 26:36going to be for the screenshots you have
748. 26:37more customization alternatively we can
749. 26:40record the entire screen or we can
750. 26:42record a selected portion and if we
751. 26:45click selected portion we can obviously
752. 26:47drag this so if there's like a certain
753. 26:50section of your screen you want to just
754. 26:51cut out for privacy purposes and record
755. 26:53you can do that um but I generally just
756. 26:56record the whole screen we also have
757. 26:58some options here so we can choose where
758. 26:59the screenshots and Screen recordings
759. 27:01are saved to like I said before default
760. 27:04is desktop or we can go documents mail
761. 27:07messages um or you can click other
762. 27:09location so if I click that we can
763. 27:12actually specify a specific folder for
764. 27:15all new screen recordings and
765. 27:17screenshots to go into so let's say for
766. 27:19example you're a university student and
767. 27:21you're preparing material for a lecture
768. 27:24or you're at work and you want to
769. 27:26prepare things for particular meeting at
770. 27:28work we can come in here to let's say
771. 27:31for example our documents folder create
772. 27:33a new folder and call it meeting or or
773. 27:38lecture number one we'll create that
774. 27:41we'll select it and then we'll click
775. 27:43choose and now if we take a screen
776. 27:46recording or a screenshot uh it's
777. 27:48actually going to save it to that
778. 27:50specific folder so it's really good for
779. 27:51organizing everything um if you have
780. 27:53different things you want to screenshot
781. 27:55and screen record so for example let's
782. 27:57take a screen recording we're just going
783. 27:58to click on the screen uh you can see up
784. 28:01here this is where you can actually stop
785. 28:03the screen recording this little round
786. 28:06uh circle with a square in it so we're
787. 28:08going to click that to stop it you can
788. 28:10see it's now saved and if we now come
789. 28:12back to that location which was in our
790. 28:14documents folder we can see meeting or
791. 28:16lecture one folder and if we go inside
792. 28:19that we now have that specific screen
793. 28:21recording now another really powerful
794. 28:23feature I want to talk about is having
795. 28:24multiple desktops on your Mac now like
796. 28:27the name suggests it just means you can
797. 28:29have multiple screens open at the same
798. 28:31time and very quickly and easily switch
799. 28:33between them it's kind of like having
800. 28:35two different monitors but on the same
801. 28:37screen now to set up multiple desktops
802. 28:40there's two ways we can either press the
803. 28:42F3 key up the top here or we can use the
804. 28:45three finger swipe on the trackpad swipe
805. 28:48up and that will give us the desktop
806. 28:50window so we can come up here and click
807. 28:53the add button over here to add an
808. 28:55additional desktop and we can then and
809. 28:57click on this which is now called
810. 28:58desktop 2 now one thing I like to do on
811. 29:01a secondary or even a third or fourth
812. 29:03desktop is change the wallpaper so that
813. 29:05I know which desktop I'm currently on
814. 29:07just by looking at the wallpaper so to
815. 29:09do that we just right click on the
816. 29:11desktop go to change wallpaper you may
817. 29:13remember this from before and then we
818. 29:16want to uh disable show on all spaces
819. 29:19and then we're going to change the
820. 29:21wallpaper of desktop too so for example
821. 29:23I'm just going to use the same syoma
822. 29:25wallpaper but I'm going to switch it to
823. 29:27the dark mode and now if we use the same
824. 29:30three finger gesture or we press the F3
825. 29:33key uh you can see that my desktops now
826. 29:36have different wallpapers and to switch
827. 29:38between them it's very very easy swipe
828. 29:41up with your three fingers or press F3
829. 29:44and then you can just click on whichever
830. 29:46desktop you want to go to alternatively
831. 29:49you can hold down control and use the
832. 29:51arrow keys to switch between them and
833. 29:54this is very very powerful so let's say
834. 29:55for example I have
835. 29:57um you know google.com open here and I'm
836. 30:02doing some research and then I have some
837. 30:06notes open here so a Word document or an
838. 30:08Excel spreadsheet or whatever uh I can
839. 30:11now very quickly and easily switch
840. 30:14between these two desktops without
841. 30:15having to minimize things or cram
842. 30:17everything into one screen so again
843. 30:19control left or right Keys alternatively
844. 30:23use those handy three fingers and you
845. 30:25can swipe between them like that very
846. 30:27very powerful stuff and again you can
847. 30:29come up here uh and you can add multiple
848. 30:32desktops so you can have you know 2
849. 30:34three four five uh and you can also come
850. 30:36up here see little X you can close
851. 30:38desktops down that you no longer need
852. 30:40now installing apps is very very easy
853. 30:42let's say for example you want to
854. 30:44install Chrome just go to Google on
855. 30:46Safari type in Chrome and you can now
856. 30:49download that it's very simple
857. 30:50alternatively you can go to the App
858. 30:52Store uh you can come down here to the
859. 30:54Launchpad and go app store and you can
860. 30:57search for any applications that you
861. 30:59want to download you do have to be
862. 31:01signed into your Apple ID account to do
863. 31:04that um but there's a pretty good range
864. 31:06of apps that you can download speaking
865. 31:08of applications to download you can get
866. 31:10an app called magnet which is totally
867. 31:11free it's open source doesn't cost you
868. 31:13anything uh that allows you to actually
869. 31:15snap and resize windows on your Mac
870. 31:19desktop so this is something that is a
871. 31:21native feature on a Windows machine like
872. 31:24Windows 11 but it is not on Mac and and
873. 31:27the magnet app is a really really
874. 31:29powerful app uh and if you also want to
875. 31:31try out some different apps I recommend
876. 31:33something called set app now this is not
877. 31:36sponsored uh you know they're not paying
878. 31:38me any money but if you jump onto the
879. 31:40setup website you can get a one week
880. 31:42free trial or possibly more if they have
881. 31:44deals on and that's going to allow you
882. 31:46to try out a bunch of different paid
883. 31:48apps they've got hundreds of apps you
884. 31:50can choose from uh and you can download
885. 31:52them all try them out and then you can
886. 31:54either continue on with the set app
887. 31:56subscription get access to all of these
888. 31:58apps for a monthly fee or you can just
889. 32:01cancel your subscription and go onto
890. 32:03that specific app's website or on the
891. 32:05app store and buy it for a couple of
892. 32:08dollars or however much it is and
893. 32:09continue using it forever now some other
894. 32:11services you can use are obviously
895. 32:13iCloud I do definitely recommend iCloud
896. 32:16uh if you didn't already sign in before
897. 32:17to iCloud you can go Apple logo system
898. 32:20settings then you can come up here and
899. 32:22sign in to your iCloud and add that to
900. 32:24your Mac and that allows you to
901. 32:26instantly access all your your contacts
902. 32:28your calendars your photos your emails
903. 32:30uh and also any files that you may have
904. 32:33stored on iCloud will automatically sync
905. 32:35with your Mac and if you're really
906. 32:36conscious about your internet usage and
907. 32:38staying private or if you travel a lot
908. 32:41you can definitely pick up a VPN as well
909. 32:43again this video is not sponsored uh I
910. 32:46don't make any money from VPN companies
911. 32:48but I'll put three vpns that I'm either
912. 32:50currently using or have used in the past
913. 32:52and can vouch for on the screen now and
914. 32:54I'll put some links down below to them
915. 32:56now one final thing I will show you is
916. 32:58the spotlight now you may already have
917. 33:00used this um there's a couple of ways to
918. 33:02access it you can click the F4 button
919. 33:05here uh there will be by default a
920. 33:07little icon up here that you can click
921. 33:09or a keyboard shortcut is command and
922. 33:11spacebar and this is a very very
923. 33:13powerful Tool uh you can use to search
924. 33:15files so for example my lecture 01 from
925. 33:20University or whatever or
926. 33:22meeting _ 04 for work or whatever or
927. 33:25even certain photos so so um if let's
928. 33:28say for example I had a trip to Thailand
929. 33:31I can type in Thailand and it will
930. 33:33actually list all the photos that I took
931. 33:35in that particular location likewise if
932. 33:37you have any photos of your pets or
933. 33:39something on here so cat it will
934. 33:41actually search through all of your
935. 33:42photos and it can also do simple things
936. 33:45like currency conversion or mathematics
937. 33:47so if I do 50 * 50 it's going to give
938. 33:51you that result or alternatively
939. 33:54$100 to Australian it'll do that
940. 33:57conversion right there and there's
941. 33:59obviously a ton more stuff you can learn
942. 34:01about your Mac and your Mac OS but this
943. 34:04video is already getting kind of long I
944. 34:06don't really want to overload you so I
945. 34:08will link some videos down below uh you
946. 34:10know some mac tips and tricks how to
947. 34:12look after your battery how to clean it
948. 34:14privacy and security and also some
949. 34:16additional tips and tricks and some
950. 34:18applications that I recommend so check
951. 34:20all of that out in the video description
952. 34:22but apart from that yeah enjoy your new
953. 34:24Mac it is a great piece of techn
954. 34:26techology I've enjoyed using mine for
955. 34:29the last 10 or 15 years however long
956. 34:31it's been and if you do have any
957. 34:33questions or anything like that let me
958. 34:34know down below but apart from that I'll
959. 34:36catch you in the next
960. 34:39one