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macOS Catalina includes a number of new features, new ways to perform tasks, and of course a few hidden features and tricks, not all of which have been discovered yet.

Of course, that’s what we expect from a new version of the macOS. In this Rocket Yard guide, we’ll take a look at tips and tricks for using macOS Catalina.

If you haven’t upgraded yet, you may find these Rocket Yard guides helpful:

• How to Upgrade Install macOS Catalina
• How to Clean Install macOS Catalina
• How to Use Migration Assistant with macOS Catalina

General macOS Catalina Tips

We’ll start with some of the basics.

Finder Sync: Catalina split up iTunes into multiple individual apps that focus on specific media types. The new apps, Music, Podcast, and TV, handle their respective media types. But what happened to the file syncing capabilities of iTunes? They’ve been moved over to the Finder, which is a better fit for the task of syncing files between devices.

iOS devices you connect to your Mac now show up in the Finder’s sidebar, along with your drives, shared folders, and networked devices. Selecting an iOS device in the sidebar brings up a number of options, including backing up and restoring information on the device, managing how connections are made, and updating software on devices if needed.

You’ll also find the usual syncing options for Music, Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, Audiobooks, Books, Photos, and Files. Each category has its own sync settings you can configure. Using the Finder for media and file syncing appears to be an improvement over the all-in-one iTunes method, and provides plenty of options to manage the process.

App Tiling: Most apps and their windows support a new window tiling feature in macOS Catalina. Tiling divides your screen in two, with a left-hand and a right-hand side. The currently active window takes up one of the two sides, while other windows are reduced to tiles. The tiles are similar to thumbnails, though a bit bigger, and displayed on the opposite side of the screen.

Selecting one of the tiled windows will expand the window to fit into one side of the screen.

To make use of tiles, open an app and hover your cursor over the green traffic light bubble. You’ll see a dropdown menu listing three options: Enter Full Screen, Tile Window to the Left of Screen, and Tile Window to Right of Screen. Make a selection from the menu to activate window tiling for the app.

To exit window tiling, press the Escape key.

Apple ID in System Preferences: macOS Catalina moves the management of your Apple ID to its own dedicated system preference. This may not seem like much of an improvement, but with Catalina, you can manage all of your Apple account information from one place. You can review and edit account information, change password and security settings, including enabling two-factor authentication, review or change payment methods and shipping information, manage media, and manage purchasing settings used with your account.

In addition, you can configure most of the iCloud settings as well as see all the devices associated with your Apple ID.

There may not be anything new in the Apple ID preference pane, but it’s handy having all the information in one place.

iCloud File Sharing: It took Apple a long time to implement this much wanted feature: the ability to share information in an iCloud drive with others. macOS Catalina lets you share iCloud folders and the information they contain. You control who’s invited to share your information as well as what permissions they have, such as viewing only or the ability to make changes.

You can find out more about iCloud Drive’s new shared folders in the Rocket Yard guide:

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Removing iCloud Drive Files: With Catalina, you can delete an iCloud Drive file you have locally on your Mac while keeping the file available on your iCloud Drive. This can be helpful for reducing the amount of storage you’re using on your Mac.

Files you remove from your Mac are still shown in your iCloud drive, but with an iCloud icon next to their name. If you need the file, you can click or tap the iCloud icon and the file will be restored to your Mac.

To use this feature, open the iCloud Drive folder in a Finder window’s sidebar.

Right-click the file you wish to remove from your Mac and select Remove Download from the popup menu.

The file will be removed from your Mac and an iCloud icon will be placed next to the file’s name to indicate it’s still available in iCloud.

macOS Catalina Mail Tips

Here are a few tips for macOS Catalina’s Mail app.

Unsubscribe From an Email List: Email lists can be a good way to keep up to date on a favorite hobby, product, or other topic, but after a while, you may decide the list isn’t quite what you had in mind. It’s at this point you discover that getting off an email list can be a bit of a nuisance. Usually you have to send an unsubscribe email to a specific address, and sometimes figuring out the email address to use, or the format that the unsubscribe request must be in, can be a pain in the patootie.

Catalina’s Mail app makes the process of leaving an email list as simple as clicking or tapping a button. Next time you receive an email from the list server, simply open the email; you’ll find an Unsubscribe button in the message’s header. Click or tap the Unsubscribe button and the Mail app will remove you from the email list.

Mute an Email Thread: Have you ever been on the receiving end of a mass email that went out to everyone and their cousins? Perhaps you just received your company’s announcement of a holiday party, and everyone, and I mean everyone, is using the reply all option. The upshot is, every few minutes you’re receiving notifications of a new email message on a subject you no longer have any interest in.

The new Mute thread option will turn off notifications for any response to the thread, leaving you in peace. Muting does not delete or prevent the reply to the message from occurring; it just stops the pestering notifications from trying to grab your attention.

You can find the Mute option by selecting the offending email in the message list and right-clicking it. The popup menu will contain the Mute option.

Block Sender: You’ve probably already been blocking senders by creating new Mail rules that sends emails that match the rule you created to the trash. This can be effective, but it’s a bit time consuming. With macOS Catalina, Mail gets a new Block Sender option that does all the work for you, moving any message that matches up to the Block List to the trash for you. And you can enable blocking just by clicking the sender’s name and selecting the Block option from the popup menu.

There are also a number of blocking options available from Mail’s preferences (look in the Junk Mail tab), including marking a message as blocked, but leaving it in your inbox, or moving blocked messages directly to the trash.

Safari Tips

The Safari browser has a few new or improved features. Here are two of them.

Safari Picture in Picture: Safari has had a picture-in-picture capability for some time but its implementation varied, depending on the site you were visiting. Most sites offer a small picture-in-picture icon from the embedded video player’s window. Others, such as YouTube, require you to double right-click to see the option to use picture-in-picture.

With macOS Catalina, Safari gains a simple way to enter picture-in-picture; just start the video playing, then right-click the speaker icon in Safari’s URL bar. A popup menu will include the option to Enter Picture-in-Picture.

Selecting the option will pop the video out into its own window, letting you watch the video while you continue browsing.

Weak Passwords: Safari will help prevent weak passwords from being created for use with websites you visit. When you create a password for a site you’re visiting, Safari will pop up a warning if the password is considered weak and easily cracked. Safari will offer to replace the weak password with one a bit stronger.

Safari can also save the passwords for you, to more easily allow you to create hard-to-break strong passwords. After all, who’s going to remember As5-f4C-h&n-bb7?

Additional Catalina App Tricks

Here are a couple more tips for you to try.

Take a Note:The Notes app in macOS Catalina has gained new sharing capabilities. You can set up a folder of notes and allow those you invite to collaborate with you on the notes. You can also control who has permission to view and change notes.

Invites to the shared folder of notes can be sent via Mail, Messages, or Reminders, or by links.

Document Signing: The Preview app has supported document signing for quite a while. With earlier versions of Preview, you wrote your signature on paper, then held the paper up to your Mac’s camera. Preview would take a picture of your signature and store it for later use on PDF documents, which was a somewhat cumbersome process.

With macOS Catalina, Preview can now use your iPhone or iPad to capture your signature by simply writing on the iOS device’s screen with your finger or an Apple Pencil (or any supported stylus). Of course, you can still use the camera or write on a touchpad, but the iPhone/iPad option will likely produce a better-looking signature.

What Features Do You Like in macOS Catalina?

As more of our readers make the transition to macOS Catalina, it would be interesting to find out which features of the new OS you really like, or for that matter, which ones you don’t. Let us know either way in the comments below.

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macOS Catalina gives you more of everything you love about Mac. Experience music and podcasts in two all-new Mac apps. Enjoy your favorite iPad apps now on your Mac. Extend your workspace and expand your creativity with iPad and Apple Pencil. And discover smart new features in the apps you use every day. Now you can take everything you do above and beyond.

Music and podcasts take center stage.

iTunes forever changed the way people experienced music and podcasts. It all changes again with new, dedicated apps — Apple Music and Apple Podcasts — each designed from the ground up to be the best way to enjoy entertainment on your Mac. And rest assured; everything you had in your iTunes library is still accessible in each app. iCloud seamlessly syncs everything across your devices — or you can back up, restore, and sync by connecting the device directly to your Mac.

Presenting Apple Music on Mac.

The new Apple Music app is the ultimate music streaming experience on Mac. Enjoy all the music you’ve collected over the years and find it all in your music library on all your devices.

Listen up. Podcasts on Mac.

The best entertainment, comedy, news, and sports shows are now available on your Mac with Apple Podcasts. Search for podcasts by title, topic, guest, host, content, and more. Subscribe and be notified as soon as new episodes become available. And in the Listen Now tab, you can easily pick up where you left off across all your devices.

The apps you love.
Right on your Mac.

Experience your favorite iPad apps now on your Mac. With Mac Catalyst, developers can easily create Mac apps from the iPad apps you already know and love. They run natively alongside your existing Mac apps so you can drag and drop content between them. They take full advantage of the larger screen and powerful architecture of your Mac. And because they are built from their iOS versions, they provide a seamless experience across your devices. Enjoy a broad range of Mac apps — from travel, entertainment, and gaming to banking, education, and project management.

The Twitter for Mac app takes full advantage of the native Mac features like multiple windows, drag and drop, keyboard shortcuts, and more. See more of what’s happening on a larger screen and easily work alongside your other Mac apps.

Morpholio Board for Mac lets interior designers create their mood boards on a larger screen with much more detail. Users can scroll through a huge library of furnishings; use new editing, composition, curation, and organization tools; and work alongside web browsers, notes, and email.

With the Post-it® App on Mac, users can easily organize all their notes on the big screen. Grouping and sorting is much faster using a keyboard and mouse or trackpad. And importing boards from other users is even easier.

With Jira for Mac, manage projects like a boss. Take advantage of native Mac features and move through Jira faster than ever, push notifications, keyboard shortcuts, drag and drop, custom menu bar, and more.

The American Airlines app for Mac lets users check in and choose their seats, and even see three-dimensional renderings of their seats powered by SceneKit.

With TripIt on Mac, you can review all your plans in one place, edit and share your trip details, and research your destination, all while multitasking with other Mac apps. Your itinerary is even available offline, whether you’re at your desk or at 35,000 feet.

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The Crew app for Mac is the first communications app designed for workers who don’t have easy access to communication technology on the job. Managers often use Mac computers in the back of house at stores, so users can access the experience they expect on the platform they prefer.

This popular language-learning solution opens a whole new world on Mac. The desktop is wonderfully suited for focus and learning. Rosetta Stone is tightly integrated with the Mac microphone and includes an offline mode for a seamless app experience that’s just not possible on the web.

Proloquo2Go on Mac is designed for people with communication challenges who are unable to make themselves understood using their own voices. The app lets parents, teachers, and therapists customize the app vocabulary using the keyboard and provide new words without requiring access to their child’s device, which may be at school or at home.

Even more amazing Mac apps.Even more amazing Mac apps

Developers are continuing to build for Catalyst as many more of your favorite iPad apps will be coming to Mac.

The apps you use every day, made extraordinary.

With macOS Catalina, the apps you love are now more beautiful and intelligent than ever. So your everyday tasks are easier than ever.

Focus on your best shots.

Photos has a new immersive, dynamic look that showcases your photos and memories. See only the best shots in your library, without the duplicates and clutter. Browse your favorite photos by days, months, and years and get larger previews of all your photos. And Photos is even smarter, so it can highlight important moments like birthdays, anniversaries, and trips.

Easier to find. And easier to share.

A new gallery view and more powerful search help you find your notes quicker than ever. Shared folders let you collaborate on entire folders of notes with another person or a group. And new checklist options let you move completed items to the bottom, quickly reorder items using drag and drop, and more.

Organization.
Reorganized.

The Reminders app has been completely rebuilt, with an all-new design and new ways to easily create, organize, and keep track of reminders. Add attachments to reminders, create or change reminders with the quick edit buttons, and let Siri suggest new ones found in Messages. Smart lists automatically organize and display your upcoming reminders. And if you tag someone in a reminder, you’ll be notified the next time you’re chatting in Messages.

Start browsing.
Faster.

An updated start page helps you easily and quickly access your favorites and frequently visited sites. And Siri suggestions surface bookmarks, iCloud Tabs, and links from your reading list, as well as those you receive in Messages.

Extend your desktop. With iPad.

Sidecar lets you extend your workspace by using your iPad as a second Mac display.¹ Work in one app while you reference another or view your artwork on your Mac while you use tools and palettes on your iPad. You can also mirror the screens so they both display the same content, making it perfect for sharing exactly what you see with others.

Express your creativity. With Apple Pencil.

Bring the ease and precision of Apple Pencil to your favorite creative Mac apps with Sidecar.² Just drag your app window from your Mac to your iPad as you would with any second display. Then use Apple Pencil to design in Illustrator, edit photos in Affinity Photo, or create 3D models in ZBrush. The handy sidebar puts essential Command, Control, and Shift keys right at your fingertips.

Make your mark on Mac.

Use Apple Pencil for everyday tasks like drawing and sketching or marking up screenshots and PDFs. You can easily insert a sketch from your iPad into any document on your Mac.

Powerful apps. Made even more powerful.

Discover all the amazing apps that are compatible with Sidecar, including illustration, photography, and 3D apps.

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Screen Time.
Now on Mac.

macOS Catalina brings all your favorite Screen Time features to Mac, giving you greater insight into how you’re spending your time. Monitor usage, schedule downtime, and set limits for both apps and websites across all your devices. And with Family Sharing, you can set app and communication limits for your kids to help them focus on the right things.

Communication Limits

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Communication Limits let you choose who your children can communicate with throughout the day and during downtime, so you can make sure they’re always reachable.

Combined Limits

With Combined Limits, you can combine individual apps and websites, and even whole categories, into a single, easy-to-manage limit. Set a limit for a group of apps and websites, like gaming or your favorite streaming apps.

One More Minute

Need an extra minute to wrap up what you’re doing? You’ll get a notification when you’ve reached your time limit, so you can quickly wrap up a conversation, save a file, or close a game session before your time runs out.

Increased security.
Greater privacy.

With macOS Catalina, there are enhanced security features to better protect macOS against tampering, help ensure that the apps you use are safe, and give you greater control over access to your data. And it’s even easier to find your Mac if it’s lost or stolen.

More secure hardware.

The Apple T2 Security Chip keeps your Mac secure by ensuring that you’re running trusted software and automatically encrypting your stored data. It also provides secure authentication for Touch ID. And now macOS Catalina features Activation Lock, so only you can erase and reactivate your Mac.

Safer-running software.

macOS Catalina runs in its own read-only volume, so it’s separate from all other data on your Mac, and nothing can accidentally overwrite your system files. And Gatekeeper ensures that new apps you install have been checked for known security issues before you run them, so you’re always using good software.

Data protections.

Apps must now get your permission before directly accessing files in your Documents and Desktop folders, iCloud Drive, and external volumes, so you’re always in control of your data. And you’ll be prompted before any app can capture keyboard activity or a photo or video of your screen.

The new Find My app combines Find My iPhone and Find My Friends into a single, easy-to-use app on Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Find My can help you locate a missing Mac — even if it’s offline and sleeping — by sending out Bluetooth signals that can be detected by Apple devices in use nearby. They can then relay the detected location of your Mac to iCloud so you can locate it in the Find My app.

It’s all anonymous and encrypted end-to-end so no one, including Apple, knows the identity of any reporting device. And because the reporting happens silently using tiny bits of data that piggyback on existing network traffic, there’s no need to worry about your battery life, your data usage, or your privacy.

Powerful features to empower everyone.

macOS Catalina includes new features to help everyone get the most out of Mac. Tools for users with low vision allow you to zoom in on a paragraph of text or the entire screen.

Zoom Display

If you have two screens, you can keep one screen zoomed in close while the other remains at a standard resolution. It’s great for everyday work and giving a presentation.

Hover Text

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Hover Text makes it easier to view text on your Mac display. Just hover over any text with your cursor and press Command. You’ll get a dedicated window with large, high-resolution text. You can even choose the fonts and colors.

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The power of Mac.
Taken further.

Featuring all-new, dedicated apps for music and podcasts. Smart new features in the apps you use every day. And Sidecar, which lets you use iPad as a second Mac display.

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New tools to build new worlds.

If you can imagine it, you can create it. ARKit 3 gives you new tools to build incredible experiences on the world’s largest AR platform.

Develop for macOS Catalina.

The Apple SDK offers enormous possibilities for developers to create apps that will work across Mac, iPhone, and iPad.