System Preferences - MacTech Solutions https://mactech-solutions.com MacTech Solutions Your Local Apple Experts Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:35:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://mactech-solutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-MacTech_logo_pngicon1-32x32.png System Preferences - MacTech Solutions https://mactech-solutions.com 32 32 Giving Away a Mac Running macOS 12 Monterey? Try “Erase All Content” https://mactech-solutions.com/giving-away-a-mac-running-macos-12-monterey-try-erase-all-content-and-settings/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:04:30 +0000 https://mactech-solutions.com/?p=53693 In Monterey, Apple has made the erasure process much easier for newer Macs that use Apple silicon or that are Intel-based with a T2 security chip.

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]]> Before macOS 12 Monterey, if you wanted to sell, trade in, or give away your Mac, you had to boot into Recovery, erase the internal drive with Disk Utility, and reinstall macOS to ensure that the new owner would get a fresh start and couldn’t see any of your data. In Monterey, Apple has made the process much easier for newer Macs that use Apple silicon or that are Intel-based with a T2 security chip. Open System Preferences, and from the System Preferences menu (yes, it has menus), choose Erase All Content and Settings. You’ll have to enter an administrator username and password to enter the Erase Assistant. It suggests you back up to Time Machine before erasing, and if you’ve already done that or don’t want to, click Continue. Verify everything that will be erased on the next screen and click Continue. Finally, log out of your Apple ID when prompted to complete the erasure.

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]]> Where Did Your Scroll Bars Go? Use This Setting to Ensure They Show https://mactech-solutions.com/where-did-your-scroll-bars-go-use-this-setting-to-ensure-they-show/ Fri, 28 Aug 2020 13:27:08 +0000 https://mactech-solutions.com/?p=52323 Check out this quick trick for making Mac scroll bars always available.

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]]> On the Mac, scroll bars are essential for both orienting yourself and navigating within a Web page or document window. But they may not appear unless you hover the pointer over the right spot or start scrolling with a gesture on a trackpad or a turn of a mouse scroll wheel. If that bothers you, go to System Preferences > General and under Show Scroll Bars, select Always. That way, scroll bars will always be visible without you having to guess where they are or perform some incantation to reveal them.

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