Make the most of Monterey

Monterey makes all kinds of things easier

1 Tile your display

If you press and hold on the green button at the top left of an app, you can choose to tile it to the right or left of the screen or to move it to an external display or nearby iPad. If you choose one of the tile options it’ll then show available windows to tile in the other half of the screen. Windows will automatically resize if they’re moved to other displays.

2 Swap apps in Split View

When you’ve got two apps open in Split View, click on the green button on one and you can swap it for a different app. The selected app will pop into the same place. If you’re in Split View and make one app full screen, the other one will go full screen too.

3 Translate absolutely everything

Monterey introduced system-wide translation. Simply highlight the text you want to translate and then ≈-click it. Choose the translation option and a pop-up will appear with your selected text in the top and the translated text below. The menu enables you to change the destination language.

4 Share with SharePlay

Monterey, along with iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, introduced SharePlay for music, TV and movies. This enables you to invite others to enjoy the same media at the same time and chat with one another on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV.

5 Last longer in Low Power Mode

If you have a MacBook Air from late 2018 onwards or a MacBook Pro from early 2016 or later, you can go into Low Power Mode to eke out every last bit of power from your battery. It slows your processor and dims the display to make your Mac last longer.

6 Use Downtime on Demand

If you’ve enabled Screen Time in System Preferences > Screen Time, you can use the Downtime toggle to block everything but phone calls and the apps you specifically select. It’s effectively a distraction-free mode for when the working day is done.

Viva Ventura

The next macOS, Ventura, has improved accessibility and even more time savers including web page translation, passkeys instead of passwords, collaboration in Messages and a new multitasking interface called Stage Manager, which will also be on M-series iPads. System Preferences is refreshed and renamed as System Settings for faster access to key controls.