 If you are new to the Mac, or maybe you're just setting up a new Mac and you're unsure about all of the different system preferences that you can use to tweak the appearance and operation of your Mac, then stick around because I'm gonna be running through them all in this video. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. And in this video, I'm gonna be running through, actually, not all of the system preferences, but just the ones that I would go through when setting up a new Mac and just sort of basically getting things the way you want them in terms of the dock. There's some simple operations in terms of the way that Windows are handled and things like that. And so that's what I'm gonna be going through in this video. And it's actually, it's taken me a little bit of a while to produce this, considering that I got my new Mac just over a week ago now, and I still haven't actually been and created this content. So I've been a bit busy with work, and so I thought what I'd do is rather than get it all set up, I would just wait until I had the time to make this video to show you the process that I go through so that maybe you don't want it exactly as I've got it, but hopefully by watching the video, you might gain a few little insights and little tricks of things that you can do to help you set up your Mac. So let's get straight on into it, shall we? And I'll share my screen, and I'll tell you where you can find the System Preferences app. So first of all, it is, it looks like this. System Preferences, the little cogwheel, but there's every likelihood that it won't actually be in your dock to start with. So if you look in your applications folder, so open up a Finder window and you've got applications on the left-hand side, usually in a new Mac, it should be just there. And then you can find it in here by scrolling down and there it is, System Preferences. But there is another way you can get to it as well. If you press Command Space, that starts Spotlight on a Mac, and then you can start typing in System Preferences and it will usually just auto populate what the full title is. So if I click Return, System Preferences, and then that's gonna load up the System Preferences app. I'll leave this Finder window here for the moment. And let's have a look at the System Preferences and basically we're gonna be talking about the things that are in this sort of top area here. These are all related to sort of general settings, the desktop and screensaver, dock and menu, mission control and things like that. So I won't go down into all of these other ones because it's literally just the sort of initial setup that I'll be talking about. So let's start with the general settings. Now here, the first one is Appearance. Now when you actually started your new Mac, it would have probably asked you which you preferred, Light or Dark Mode or Automatic. But if not or if you want to change it, this is where you do it. So you can change between Dark, the correct setting or Light Mode, the wrong setting. That is just my opinion, but other opinions are available. So no hard feelings if you like Light Mode. That is Light Mode and it's a bit bright for me. And the reason why I prefer Dark Mode is I find that it allows me to concentrate on the content rather than be distracted by all of the sort of light content that's going on in the, around all the windows and menus and things like that. So that's just my personal choice. You can obviously have it as, I'll say obviously, there is an option to have it as Automatic where it'll switch between Light and Dark depending on the time of day. And some of Apple's built-in screen desktop pictures will actually subtly change from one to another. So it doesn't just suddenly instantly switch over to Dark from Light. So that is quite a nice little feature really if you were, as I say, Light Mode as well as the Dark Mode. But I do always have it on Dark Mode. I will just leave it on Light for a moment as we go through some of these others though, because there's one in particular that may be a little bit relevant to Light Mode. So the next thing is Accent Color. And this is basically all of these little colors that you have in the window. So for example, these little arrows here are blue. Let me zoom in on that a little bit. These little radio buttons they're called are blue as well. And then you've got these little checkboxes which are also blue. Similarly, in the Finder for these little icons down in the sidebar menu, those are all blue as well. So we can change this Accent Color over here. So if I change to Green, for example, then now you'll notice that all of these little accents have changed to Green. And similarly in this window, they've all changed to Green as well. So you can change to any one of these different colors here. The Highlight Color is actually the text highlighting. So if I come to a random website, look at that, what's a great website? That is the Econ Live website. And what you can see is as I highlight text, then it's highlighted in Green which is this Highlight Color here. So that's how you can change that. Next, we've got the Sidebar Icon Size. Now I did actually mention Sidebars. That is, lots of apps have these which is basically this bar that runs down to the side. And that is called the Sidebar. And you can change the size of any icons that are in there. So at the moment it's set to Medium which is the default. But you'll notice if I change over to Small then all of those little, oops, Daisy, all of those little icons will change and it condenses all of the information so you actually get to see a little bit more. So I tend to have all of my stuff small but if you are maybe can't see quite so clearly then you can also make them larger as well. And so they do just pop out a little bit more. But as I say, I'm gonna put mine to Small which is the way that I always have them. Now the next one is Allow Wallpaper Tinting in Windows. And this basically allows the color of the wallpaper behind to sort of bleed through slightly into the actual window itself. So if I click that one on then basically it's a little bit hard to tell really but it just allows some slight tinting to go on of the window itself. And this is more noticeable in light mode than it is in dark mode. But again, personally, you can see the sort of slight color coming through. So I usually have that one off though anyway. And I'm gonna turn it back to dark mode now because this is hurting my eyes. There we go. Now the next one is, now let me just put these back because I've actually just jumped ahead. These ones are for the scroll bars. So this is where you've got a scroll bar like this or if you've got a website for example where you've got a scroll bar at the side. So that's the scroll bar here. Or if you've got a document then you'll obviously have a scroll bar in that. So if I open up a particular document, I'll open up a PDF. So here again, we've got this scroll bar at the side. So it says show scroll bars automatically based on mouse or trackpad. So that's basically depending on the mouse or trackpad settings. The next one is when scrolling. So you can see how when I toggle to that setting the scroll bar has now disappeared from the document. But if I start to scroll, you'll see that the scroll bar does reappear. But then it will just fade out as I stop scrolling. So that is that you can have it when it's scrolling. I actually just have it so that it's always on because I do like to be able to get that sort of visual representation of exactly where in the document we are. If you can see that the scroll bar is tiny and it's up there, then you'll obviously know that you've got quite a way to go before you get to the bottom of the document. So I always find that quite helpful. The next one is click in the scroll bar to and then you've got two options. Either jump to the next page or jump to the spot that's clicked. So this is basically saying that if I click in this scroll bar at the moment it will just basically jump down a page at a time. And no matter where I click in the bar, it will still just jump down to that particular page. Whereas if I click jump to the spot that's clicked and then I come to here, then it will just jump straight down to that particular point in the document. So that is basically what these do. So I'll just close this document. And then the next thing we've got is the default web browser. So you've either got Safari or if you've got Chrome installed or any other browser you can choose which one is the default that things open in. Next is prefer tabs in full screen when opening documents. So that is if you've got documents open and you are in full screen mode, then it will prefer to open those in multiple tabs in the same window. However, you can also change it to never do that so that that means that basically it never prefers tabs. If you open a new document, it'll just open it in a new window regardless. Or you can have it so that it always opens in tabs no matter whether you're in full screen mode or not. Next is ask to keep changes when closing documents. So that might be a safe one to toggle on so that basically you always get asked if you really want to close without saving and make sure that you do save any changes. The next one is close windows when quitting an app. So that is if you've got an app which has multiple windows open, if you have that clicked on, it actually tells you here when selected, open documents and windows will not be reopened when you reopen the app or not be restored. So that's basically saying that if you have that switch off, then when you close down the app and you reopen it again, all of those windows will be maintained. So the next one is the number of recent items. So if you're in any particular app, then let's just come to a particular app. Let's say this one. I should have opened this in advance. So if you have a look at this and then come into file and then recent, you'll see different recent items that have been opened in there. So that is basically just saying what is the default for the number of documents that are open. Next is allow handoff between this Mac and iCloud devices. So that's basically where if you open something like if I was to, for example, just to go into my phone now, for example, and then I go to mail, then you can see how it opens up here that mail from iPhone has opened. And that means that if I'm working on an email in that, then I can have it so that it also copies over into, I can basically continue working on it. That's what a handoff is. So here you can allow it or not on this particular Mac. So there we go. We've done all of the general tab. So let's now have a look at the desktop and screensaver. Right, so with this one, we're gonna start with a desktop. You can see that there's a couple of tabs actually at the top of this particular page. So we're gonna start with the desktop and it's first of all asking for the graphic. And if you remember where I told you it could change between the light and the dark scene. So here it's set to automatic. And that means that basically if we just go back to that other setting for the general, if we'd had this setting to auto, then what that would do is it would change the desktop background from light to dark. However, you can force it to be on one or the other. So we can just force that to be light or we could force it to be on the dark. So I'll put it to the light one. So even though we are in dark mode, we could still have the light colored picture. And that is something that's specific with these Mac desktop pictures that they've got built in. So you can see if it's one of these desktop images where you've got this sort of two-tone thing and this little icon in the middle, it means basically it's gonna change from one color to the next or one tone to the next. So that's how you can identify which ones have got that sort of feature built in. And in fact, it even tells you here, doesn't it? Light and dark desktops. And the same with these dynamic desktops that change through a series of colors over the day. So for example, like this one, depending on the time, it might be this very dark color or it might go all the way through to light at sort of the middle of the day and so on. So these ones all change throughout the day. You could also change it to a flat color. So personally, I'm probably a little bit boring but I tend to have all gray like this. This is my default background, is just a plain gray color. So I might just leave it back as it was just to make it a bit more interesting for you viewers at home for now, but I'll probably change it to gray afterwards. So you have been warned. So that is with the screen saver. Now what you can also do is you can also, opsie daisy, it doesn't mean to press that. There we go, we've got a nice blue color there. Let me come back to this one. You can also, if you've got a folder full of images, you can also, if I come into this one, one of these ones, if you're in these ones, it doesn't work because these change based on the time of the day, but any of these are the desktop pictures. You can also click here and change it to change every hour, every 30 minutes. So if you want these to change randomly throughout the day, then you can have these, these are a collection of Apple's sort of wildlife and geographical locations imagery. So you can have that, but you can also just add a folder of your own. So if you've got a particular folder of desktop images, you can create that. And then you can have it just change through them or have some sort of random order to it. So they just randomly changes from one to another. So those are all options for basically the desktop, but I'm gonna go back to being a little bit boring and after I finish this video, I'm gonna go back to being very boring and have my gray background. So next we've got the screen saver and there are a few different options for screen savers. And if you do leave your computer on for a long time, then it's definitely a good idea to have some sort of thing to work so that you don't burn anything into screens. It's not quite as much of an issue as it used to be, but it still certainly can cause issues with monitors. So you can change the time that your screen saver is gonna come on after. So how long it's gonna be before it comes on. And then you can also choose to use any one of these built-in screensavers and it gives you a little preview of it here. And if you click on the preview, it will go full screen. I'm not gonna actually do that now because I'm not sure how Ecum Live will handle that if I actually do it full screen in the middle of doing this demo. So I'll just leave it like that for now. And then you can also just pick to use a random screen saver. You also have the option to have the clock show on the screen when the screen savers on if you want to have the time of visible on your screen. And then there's another option here which is a little bit hidden away but it's actually got a few more features than you might think. And it's this one called hot corners. So if I click on that, it opens up this other little panel. So it's a bit hard to find sometimes I think that could be perhaps better placed because it isn't just about screensavers. So basically what this is, is if you move your mouse into any particular corner, one of the four corners of the screen, you can have it perform an action. So you could have it so that it basically launches the screensaver when you put your mouse into the corner of the screen, for example, so start screensaver. So now that is enabled. So if I just move my mouse into the corner, I'm not actually gonna do it. But if I just push my mouse up into that corner, it would start the screensaver. I also usually have this set up to be honest to sleep display but not for this top corner because this is where you have what's called the notification panel pops out from the top corner. So I usually change this to nothing but I have this one set to put the display to sleep. So if I just move my mouse down into that bottom corner, it just puts the display to sleep completely. But as you can see, you've got all of these other things. So mission control, mission control is this thing where when you are in any application, oops, Daisy, I pressed the wrong button there. This is this thing. In fact, I don't know if that's gonna show on my screen or not. In fact, I don't think it has, has it? No, it sort of basically shows you all of the different apps that you've got running. So that is mission control. So you can have that one toggled on but you could also have launch pad. So it brings up all your different apps and things like that or just shows you your desktop. So that one just wipes everything off the screen momentarily so that you can see your desktop. I don't think all of these are gonna actually translate on e-cam live. So I'm gonna stop actually pressing them because I don't think you can see what's happening. But this is basically how you can set these up. Just bear in mind, if you do have second monitors to either side, then you perhaps don't want them to necessarily use the hot corners on the side where you might be moving over to those monitors so that you don't accidentally press them. But anyway, that is hot corners and that is where it is a little bit tucked away out of the way there. I'll come back to the main screen now and let's have a look at the dock because I really do need to get my dock sorted out. I don't have massive icons like this at the bottom of my screen and I don't have them persistent on the screen either. So this is dock and menu bar actually. So the first section that we're gonna look at is the dock and you can change the size. So you can see that as I change the size here, it's basically changing the size of my dock icons. And rather than this massive size like this, I tend to have mine pretty small like that. But when you hover over them, if they're too small, you won't be able to see them, but it does have this magnification. So here you can change basically how big they are when you move your mouse over them. So let me just move that down a little bit. It's probably a little bit on the large side, but there it just makes it easier. They pop out as you're scrolling over them for you to click the one that you want. You can also change the position on the screen. I did actually used to for quite some time have my dock over on the right hand side. But when I've started moving around with lots of different monitors and things like that, I've ended up just coming back to the old favorite, having it at the bottom. But if you do want to move the position, that is where you can do it. You can have it on the left, the right or the bottom. The next is minimize windows using genie effect. And this is basically, if you watch when I click this window, it's basically gonna look like it's sucked down into its little position on the menu bar like that. And in fact, if I just bring this one up again, I don't know if this still works, I haven't done this for years, but if I pull down, whoopsie daisy, Doc will know what's happened there. That is me having not deactivated my drawing tool on my ProMouse and so went to press option and it started drawing. So sorry about that. But if I hold down the option key when I press this arrow, it actually should, I think, it doesn't do it in fact. Wait a minute, let me try that again. It always used to just actually close it slowly, but it doesn't do it anymore. Nevermind, you get the impression. I was gonna show you that in slow motion. Seems like that option does not work anymore of option clicking it to do it in slow motion. But anyway, so that is basically what that is. So it is called the genie effect. So you can have it use the genie effect or you can have it use the scale effect, which is basically just the same. It just gets smaller rather than narrows at the bottom first. It's a minor thing really and it doesn't really make any difference to the operation. So if you can be bothered to click on the button to change it, you can, but otherwise it won't really make any difference. Double click a Windows title bar to zoom. So that is basically if I was to click in the, in fact, it won't work in that one. Let me bring up a different window, shall I? I'll bring up preview. If I was to double click in the bar here, then you can see how it maximizes it. And if I double click again, it minimizes it. So that is basically this double click a Windows title bar to zoom and that makes it full screen or you can have it to minimize it, which means it would take it down into the bar. So if I had it like that and double clicked on the bar like that, it would minimize the window. So personal preference there, which one you prefer, I tend to have zoom because it's just an easy way to make something full screen if you want it full screen. The next one is off by default, but I actually like this on. And what this is is if I, let me just come back and actually make my doc bigger, now that I've made it smaller, let me make it bigger so that you can see what's going on here because what I've got is I've got a load of apps at the bottom. And I don't know if you can see these dots, but some of them are open. So Safari's open, Audio Hijack, Ecamm Live and so on. And then we've got Microsoft Excel, is that still open? Let me close that. Don't need that open. And then we've got preview as well. But over on this side, we've got all of these different things that I've got open. So for example, that preview document, that PDF that I had open is now minimized down to here. So if I click on it, it will open it again. And when I shut it down or minimize it, you can see how it goes back into the doc, into that space there. Well, this one here will basically minimize windows into the application instead. So if I open up this document like this and I toggle this one on, then basically when I minimize it, instead of going back down into that particular position there, it's just simply gone into the preview app itself. And so the way you can access that, again, if you've got multiple documents open, I find that this can get a bit cluttered. So instead, you can just right click on here and you can see all of the different documents. And if it's open, you'll see that it's open just there like that. So that is basically how I have that set up. You can also say animate opening applications. So that is basically when you open an application and it bounces in the doc and you see it animated as it opens. Again, personal preference, you can have that on or off. Automatically hide and show the doc. Now this is one that I do have on because I don't particularly like the doc to be there all the time when I'm working because I don't actually use it a huge amount. I'm often just launching things with keyboard shortcuts and things like that. So if you click automatically hide and show the doc, then it will disappear until you just move your mouse down to the bottom and then it will pop up again. So it just keeps it nicely out of the way when you don't need to see it, which is probably most of the time actually. Show indicators for open applications. Well, if I just unhide the doc, that is that thing that I was talking about. These little dots that you get underneath an application where you can see that it's, whether it's open or not. So this is where you can actually turn that on or off. I think that's quite useful to have on just so that you can see if you've got anything open. And also show recent applications in the doc. So basically in the doc, you've got all of these ones over here, which you may have added in that are permanently in the doc. But then you have this little separator bar and then you have these ones here, which are basically the recent applications. So it's not permanently in the doc. It's just was recently used. So I was recently using Zoom. It's not in the doc and permanently. And so that's why that's appeared here. But at any time, you can actually just click one of these. So if you thought maybe you do want Zoom to be in your doc permanently, then you can just click it from here and you can drag it out to any position that you want it to be in the rest of your doc. So that is the show recent applications. Then you've also got in the same way that we had automatically hide and show the doc. If I just come to here, we can also have automatically hide and show the menu bar and the menu bar obviously, is this little bar up at the top where all your menus are. So you can have that one hidden. Now I'd never actually used that. I always have it so that it's permanently shown. And there's a couple of reasons for that. Personally, I do want to be able to see all of these menus at the top. And it also do have menus like little applications like iStat menus running. So I want to be able to see the little stats and things like that in the top menu bar. So, but if you want that hidden as well to have a completely minimalist approach, then you can certainly do that there. The next settings we've got down here. In fact, while we're still on the doc, let me just come back to this for a moment and I'll make it larger. And I will unhide it. So I'll stop hiding it. There's another couple of setup things that I do with the doc, which is you'll notice here that you've got your downloads. These ones still haven't been minimized into their thing yet, but they will do next time I open and close them. I open up Safari and then minimize. It will now disappear into its app. Audio hijack will now disappear into its app. So that's already looking a lot clearer. And then this finder window will also disappear into its app. So the couple of things that are left here is the bin or the trash. And then we've also got downloads. And downloads by default, you can see that it's basically looks like just a pile of different icons on top of each other. Don't know if you can make that out. But when we click on it, it's basically going to sort of fan out all of those different things that are in the downloads folder. So as you, if you right click on it, you can change either from a fan view to a grid view. So that's now in a grid view or you can change this into a list view and that one comes up with a list. I tend to prefer a list because it makes it much easier to see the full name of the files. Whereas when you're in grid view, sometimes they're truncated a little bit. Also when you're in fan view is the same thing. And it's just, although it does show you the full name, when you start having lots of files, then it just becomes a little bit ridiculous to manage. So the list view just seems to me to be a lot simpler. You can also change the way that it's viewed. So what this is called is a stack because it looks like just a stack of icons or documents or whatever it is in there. But you can also just change that to a folder. So personally, I think that looks a little easier to see exactly what it is. And if you do have other applications minimizing, so if you're not using this minimize into application, so you do end up with lots of other things here, having it set as a folder for me personally just means it pops out as exactly what it is. It is the downloads folder and there's no question about what that is. So that is just one other thing to have for the organization in the doc is to decide whether you want to use stacks or a folder and how you want them to be displayed. You can also change the sorting as well. So sorting by date added, date modified, date creative, created or the kind. So I always have date added so that basically if I click in here, I always know that the one that is the top is the most recent addition to the downloads folder. So that was a slight diversion there into the doc. But now let's come back to this preferences window and have a look down here. So we've got the control center and that is basically, let me come up to the top corner and that is, where is it here? This little icon here, so control center and this is where you can change your wifi, Bluetooth, things like that. And so these are just some settings that you've got here. You can decide whether you want these things to be shown in that little control center. So again, like I say, you can see that this sort of panel layout that we've got in the top here, this is directly related to what they're showing you in here. So you can either have the wifi showing or not and you can just sort of move things around in here and decide exactly where you want them. So Bluetooth, do you want to show it in, in fact, let me just come back to this one moment. So this is actually for, do you want to show it in the menu bar itself? So you can have it showing in the menu bar as well as in the control center. So you can toggle that on and off here. But then you may not want the Bluetooth showing, for example, or airdrop, things like that. But again, you can toggle them all on there if you want. Do not disturb as well. And so show in menu bar, so that can be either when it's active. So if you've got do not disturb active, it will show it in the menu bar, otherwise it won't be there or you can have it just so it shows always. Again, screen mirroring options. So the setups for these sort of things are elsewhere in the system preferences, but this is just basically showing you how they will appear and whether to show them in the menu or not. So the next section we come down to is the, we've done, these are all the same sorts of things. So for sounds, now playing, accessibility shortcuts. I'm going to have to do a whole thing on that because personally, it's not something that I use a huge amount, but it is something that warrants an entire video in its own right. We'll come to accessibility shortcuts separately. Fast user switching. So that is if you've got multiple users using the same Mac, then you may want to have that on and shown in control center so that basically you can just switch between users easily on a Mac. But since I'm the only one that uses this Mac, I don't bother with that one. And it's not on by default, by the way. So if you wanted to switch it on, that is where it would be. Next is the menu bar clock. So we've got the clock here. You can change between either digital or analog. The default is analog. Sorry, the default is digital. And you can choose whether you want to show the day of the week. It's previewing what it's going to show you here. It can also show the time. And then you can also choose between a 24 hour clock or not, or show AM or PM, those sorts of things, whether you want the little flashing separators between the minutes and hours. And whether you want it to display with seconds or not like that. So there you can see we've got little flashing separators there. And you can have it announce the time if you want. So if you wanted to actually tell you the time every hour or every half hour or every quarter hour, I can't think of anything more annoying personally. But if you did want it to do that, you could turn that on. So obviously that is an accessibility feature for somebody who just maybe can't see it or wants to be notified of the time. I actually have mine as analog and the reason being because as this is a desktop computer, I do actually have a clock in the room. So I've just changed it to analog so that it doesn't take up any space on my menu bar. Doesn't take up too much space rather. Next is spotlight. So do you want that to actually show up in the menu bar? And spotlight is the thing that I mentioned earlier. So pressing command space will bring up the spotlight menu. But you can also have it show up in the menu bar. Now mine's actually hidden away using my bartender at the moment. So it's in there. But that would basically mean you can just activate it by clicking on that as well. So because it's command space and it's so easy, I don't really ever go up to the top corner to where it is in the menu bar. So it might be something that you just want to take out to save you a little bit of menu bar space. Again, with Siri. So there is a shortcut for Siri so I don't necessarily need it in the menu bar for me to be able to go and click it in the menu bar itself. If I was going to activate it, I would just use the shortcut. I'm not currently using Time Machine. I have done in the past. But if you were using Time Machine, which is Apple's built-in backup solution, then you can have that show in the menu bar as well. So now we've covered the Dock menu bar. So the next one is mission controls. Well, I just had to snip out a little bit from this video because I realized I haven't got something quite set up the way it needs to be to do my screen sharing. But basically, so we're in mission control and there are a few different settings in here to look at. So mission control is this thing that basically when you activate it, it is going to show you all of the things that are on your screen. So if I do like that, you can see how it's sort of spacing out. In fact, you probably can't see many things open. Let me open a few more things on my screen and you'll perhaps be able to get a bit of a better idea. So I'll open these things. So now you can see my screen is a bit of a mess, isn't it? So if I just activate expose a mission control rather, it will show me all of the different things on my screen. So if I come back into this one, you can then just go and choose the particular app that you want to select. I don't know why I'm showing you this one. You can't see that this is my e-cam live window, but it's hidden from your view. So here I can just select which one I want to go to and that will bring it to the forefront. So it's just a way for you to basically get to different layers of apps that may be hidden away. So here you can say automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent news. Well, spaces is another feature altogether, which is basically up at the top here, you can see I've got desktop one and desktop two. So you can actually add multiple desktops so that you could have them as different sort of working spaces. You might want email on one, some Excel on another or something like that, who knows. And if you've got multiple different monitors, then you can have different spaces on different monitors as well. And this allows you to just sort of flick between those. So what this app here is in mission control is automatically rearrange spaces based on the most recent use. So that would basically, as it's saying, rearrange these different spaces, these different desktops based on most recent use. And personally, I don't like that because I like to just know exactly, you know, screen one is for X, screen two is for Y and so on and so forth. So, but that is personal preference. Next is when switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application. So if, for example, you had all of your Excel windows open in one particular space, then having this toggled on would mean that when you click on Excel, it would just go straight over to that particular space. Or if you opened a new Excel file, for example, it would open it in that space to keep them all sort of grouped together. Group windows by application. So that is as well when you're opening spaces like this, sorry, mission control like that, it would group all of the different application windows together. Displays have separate spaces. So that basically means that you could maybe have, if you've got two displays, you could maybe have one that's got two spaces on and another one that's got three or whatever you wanted. And so they are all separate. So I definitely have that on. And it also means that when you switch between spaces in one monitor, it doesn't change what's on the other one. Whereas if you didn't have this toggled on, then you would just say have two spaces on each monitor and when you flick from one space to another, it would move all of them together. Next is mouse and keyboard shortcuts. So you've got mission control, which is what we've just been doing. So control and the little up arrow, and that shows you all of the different windows, but you can also do it by application. So if you press control and down, it will do it for just that open application. So if you've got an application that's got multiple windows open or multiple documents, then it would just show you basically all of the documents open that are in that particular application. Show desktop is F11. So that is basically gonna clear everything off your desktop so that you can see what's underneath. So if you do have files on your desktop and you want to easily get to them, then that is how you can toggle those. You can also assign all of these to different mouse buttons as well. So if you wanted to assign those to a mouse button, you can just do it from within here as well. The hot corners that I mentioned earlier are also featured in mission control as well, because some of the mission control features you can activate with hot corners. So it's exactly the same functionality that we looked at earlier. It's just that it's also being duplicated in this section. And that is the mission control. Now I'm actually gonna stop there because it's about 30 odd minutes that we've been going a little bit longer. And all of these other ones are specifically for language, region, things like that. And so for most people, you probably won't need to set these sorts of things up. So as I say, I will do one on sort of accessibility, things like that. If you are sort of international and you want different keyboard settings, you can do that from within here. But again, it's really most people, once they've set up their keyboard and things like that from the start, they won't need to come into those. So that is where I'm gonna leave it for this video. But if you've got any particular questions about any of the other settings and you've got a new Mac and you're not sure about them, then do leave them in the comments and I will certainly look to make a video to answer those questions. And if anything that I've said in this video is unclear, or if you're doing things differently, then also feel free to comment and let me know as well. And if you found this useful, as always, don't forget to go and hit that like and subscribe button and turn on notifications. And also, if you know anybody else who's got a new Mac who you think might find this useful, then feel free to go and share it as well. I don't mind. You can share it with as many people as you want. So what I'll do is I'll leave a link to my playlist over on the bottom right with all my other sort of Mac setup videos. And until the next time, have a great day.