macOS High Sierra 50 essential tips

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There are two sides to macOS High Sierra. Apple first talks about new technologies at the very heart of the system.

These 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 present tasks faster.

The other side to High Sierra 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 fullscreen, and the odd addition to a System Preferences pane. Doubtless, though, that even such relatively small changes can make a big difference to people who use these applications and settings every day.

And there are plenty of bigger changes. Safari now enables you to customise 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 makes it almost 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 colour within your snaps, now you can.

Over the following pages, we highlight all the great things that we’ve discovered in macOS High Sierra, and a smattering of features you may not know existed. Dig in, and they should make you a master of your Mac.