January 2022 • Macworld 95disabled, you have
to separately slide
the Ringer and Alerts
level to the far left in
Settings > Sounds
& Haptics.
One further note:
a few countries
require a shutter
sound on devices that
take photos. While
in those countries,
which include Japan
and South Korea,
the snapshot sound
will always trigger.
It appears to be
based on the SIM, as
travellers from other
countries who swap
in a local SIM find their snapshot
preference overridden.
WHAT TO DO WHEN
SWITCHING TO A MAC
WITH A SMALLER DRIVE
For reasons of cost, we might buy a
new Mac with a smaller drive than
the one we’re replacing. If your
current Mac has more data stored
than the capacity of the new one, you
probably feel you’re in a pickle. But
you can strategize how to make this
transition work.
When planning the transition,
I highly recommend that you try
to keep free at least 50GB on a
256GB drive and 100GB on drives
that are 512GB and larger. Here’s
how you can reduce your storage
requirements before migration.- Enable iCloud Photos and set
Photos (in Photos > Preferences
iCloud) to store only optimized
versions of your images. This does
result in you not having the ability to
create a full local backup of all your
Optimize Mac Storage lets you offload unneeded files to
iCloud Drive across many apps and for general storage.