Using symbol and text substitution, you can easily write any special character or symbol like ™ or ® just by typing something like TM or (r). You can adjust this and set your own, and it's very easy to configure.
• Open "System Settings..." from the Apple menu
• Go to "Keyboard"
• Click on the "Text Replacements..." button
• Adjust text to replace with a symbol or add more text to replace by hitting the plus (+) button
• Click "Done"
For example, if you set "JS" to be replaced with "John Smith", anytime you type JS and hit space the text will be replaced.
Whether you’re for example browsing Amazon and have opened a bunch of product tabs that you need to share via Messages or have several tabs open for your research work that you want to add to your document, you can simplify this process by copying all open website addresses in one go. As a result, you won’t have to manually copy each open link, paste it, and then repeat this process back and forth for the remaining tabs. A couple of clicks and all open URLs will be copied to your device’s clipboard for pasting into other apps.
• Make sure you have the relevant tabs open on Safari
• Click the sidebar icon in the top left corner of the window or press the Shift+Command+L to show the sidebar
• Right-click over the profile or Tab Group name and choose Copy Links, all URLs of open tabs will be copied to your Mac’s clipboard
Now go to Notes, Messages, Mail, Pages, Word, or another app, and paste the links there. When using Command+V to paste in an app that supports rich formatting, you’ll notice that the website name with the URL linked to it is pasted. But if you use Command+Option+Shift+V to paste without formatting, or paste them normally in an app like Messages, you’ll have both the website name and the full URL in plain text.
Split View is a useful feature in macOS that lets you split the screen between two different applications or windows, in complete full screen mode. Split View is appreciated by many users who find it to boost productivity and focus, particularly if they already enjoy and appreciate full screen app mode on the Mac.
Split View is accessed slightly different with macOS Tahoe, unlike the original implementation releases, you now have to go into a sub menu to access it:
• Open whatever applications or windows you want to use
• Click and hold on the Green button in the title bar to bring up the window options
• Go to "Full Screen" submenu and choose “Left of Screen” or “Right of Screen”
• The opposite panel will now open into Expose where you can select another open app or window to split the screen with in Full Screen mode
You can resize either the left or right split view panel using the slider button in the middle of the screen. To exit Split Screen Mode in full screen, simply pull the cursor to the top of the screen and access the Green buttons again, or press/hold the Escape key.
Unlike the iPhone’s front camera, the built-in webcam on Mac isn’t of very high quality. And things take a turn for the worse if you’re in a poorly lit room. To help address this problem, macOS 26.2 adds a handy Edge Light feature that transforms the computer display into a decently bright light source.
The Edge Light video effect provides a pleasing fill light to evenly illuminate your face in low-light conditions — like a virtual ring light. And to ensure that you always have access to your content, the effect automatically recedes from the area around your mouse pointer.
From the Video menu that appears in the menu bar when a video call is in progress, choose Edge Light to turn the effect on or off. If using your computer’s built-in camera, the effect appears on your built-in display. If using Continuity Camera (https://support.apple.com/en-us/102546) or other external camera, the effect appears on your primary display.
When Edge Light is turned on, click the arrow next to Edge Light in the menu to reveal additional controls:
• A brightness slider to adjust illumination by changing the width of the effect
• A color temperature slider to make the effect more or less warm. Warmer color temperatures show more yellow and less blue
• A setting to enable Edge Light to turn on automatically when you start a video call and the ambient light is low
Edge Light works best in low-light conditions, such as dim indoor lighting at night. You can combine it with any of the other effects.
Longtime Mac users are accustomed to moving files around in macOS by dragging and dropping them between folders and directories. This method work just fine to relocate files and move things around, but another lesser known option to move a file can be done when that file is currently open, just by using the files window title bar.
This is a fairly hidden feature in macOS, so if you've never seen file relocation done entirely through the documents active window titlebar before, don't be too surprised. Hidden or not though, you'll find it useful and a cinch to use.
• With a file open, click on the files name in the window title bar to reveal a contextual menu (be sure to click on the text name itself, not the little document icon)
• Click on the pulldown menu alongside “Where” (the location shown is where the file is currently located)
• Select the destination you want to move the file to from the list (including iCloud) or choose “Other...” to browse the file system and select somewhere specific.
• Click away from the title bars contextual menu to hide it and resume work within the document as usual.
That's it, the document has moved. Simply changing the “Where” selection will move the file to the chosen destination instantly. There's no confirmation, no dragging and dropping, nothing else is necessary to relocate the file, it will move immediately as the window title bar action is taken, to the location specified by “Where”.
