Essential Apple User Magazine - UK (2020-04)

First Steps with Your Mac

If your screen’s too bright, there’s a couple of great desktop

features that help. First of all, open System Preferences.

Dark Mode is found at the top of the General pane, where

you can see Light, Dark, and Auto buttons. Dark and Light

buttons switch to those modes, and Auto lets you schedule

the changes between light and dark.

With Night Shift Mode enabled, the colour spectrum of

your screen shifts from blue to yellow. If you use your Mac

late at night, too much blue light can interfere with sleep

patterns, so using Night Shift Mode close to bedtime can

prevent this. In the System Preferences’ Display pane, click

the Night Shift tab. From here, you can schedule Night Shift

Mode to run from sunrise to sunset or during custom times;

or you can simply turn it on by checking the Manual box.

when you’re finished.

actually opening it. Click on a file or folder in Finder to

showing a large-sized preview of that file. Tap Space again

file using the Share icon, annotate it with the Markup icon or

files before pressing Space. The Quick Look window gains

two extra controls: chevrons to cycle through the files and a

Dark Mode and Night Shift

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Devices

Quick Look

Quick Look Markup

Connect a device, such as an iPhone

or an iPad, to your Mac and it appears

in the Finder’s sidebar. Click on it, and

you can update, restore, or back up the

device, just like you used to do with the

now-defunct iTunes app.

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Night Shift reduces

the blue light emitted

by the screen.

The Mac’s

screen with

Dark Mode

activated.

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