50 essential macOS tips

Craig Grannell delves into High Sierra, revealing all the great new features that will improve your Mac experience

Conquer High Sierra by exploring new features such as pinnable notes, an enhanced cross-device Clipboard, web browsing personalization, and more!

There are two sides to mac OS High Sierra. Apple first talks about new technologies at the very heart of the system, which are designed to make your Mac more capable and reliable. They lay foundations for the future, and offer great potential – in some cases enabling entirely new apps to be created by brilliant developers – while making tasks you do already faster.

The other side to the new system is all about Apple refining existing features and apps. In some cases, these are small tweaks – the ability to pin a note in the Notes app, the means to compose Mail in Split View when in full-screen mode, and additions here and there in System Preferences. Even such relatively small changes can make a big difference if you happen to use the improved apps or features every day.

There are plenty of bigger changes, too. Safari now enables you to customize websites on an individual basis, rather than you adjusting the likes of Reader and page zoom levels as you browse. And the update to Photos almost makes it feel like a new app, due to a revamped interface, and a superb update to its editing tools. If you’ve ever wanted to do more with Live Photos, or get more precision control over color within your pictures, now you can.

Over the following pages, we highlight all the great things we’ve discovered in mac OS High Sierra, including invaluable features and tweaks you may not know existed. Dig in, and you’ll soon become a master of your Mac.