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Mac User Guide
- Welcome
- About your Mac model
- Whats new in macOS Tahoe
- Get to know the desktop
- Mac basics
- Apps
- Files and folders
- Personalise your Mac
- Get to know Siri
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Apple Intelligence
- Intro to Apple Intelligence
- Translate messages and calls
- Create original images with Image Playground
- Create your own emoji with Genmoji
- Use Apple Intelligence with Siri
- Find the right words with Writing Tools
- Summarise notifications and reduce interruptions
- Use Apple Intelligence with apps
- Use ChatGPT with Apple Intelligence
- Apple Intelligence and privacy
- Block access to Apple Intelligence features
- Beyond Mac basics
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Use Apple devices together
- Intro to Continuity
- Use AirDrop to send items to nearby devices
- Hand off tasks between devices
- Control your iPhone from your Mac
- Copy and paste between devices
- Stream video and audio with AirPlay
- Make and receive calls and text messages on your Mac
- Use your iPhone internet connection with your Mac
- Share your Wi-Fi password with another device
- Use iPhone as a webcam
- Insert sketches, photos and scans from iPhone or iPad
- Unlock your Mac with Apple Watch
- Use your iPad as a second display
- Use one keyboard and mouse to control Mac and iPad
- Sync music, books and more between devices
- Apple Account and iCloud
- Screen Time
- Family Sharing
- Watch, play and learn
- Use accessories and hardware
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Accessibility
- Get started
- General
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Vision
- Accessibility features for vision
- Get started with VoiceOver
- Zoom in on whats around you
- Zoom in on your Mac screen
- Increase font size and icons
- Adjust the display colours
- Hover to zoom in on text and colours
- Listen to or change how text appears in apps
- Customise onscreen motion
- Increase the size of whats on your screen
- Make the pointer easier to see
- Have your Mac speak text thats on the screen
- Hearing
- Mobility
- Speech
- Privacy and security
- Restart, update, reset and restore
- Resources for your Mac
- Resources for your Apple devices
- Copyright and trademarks
[]Increase the size of whats on the Mac screen
Your Mac comes with built-in controls to make it easier to see text and other content on the screen increase the text size, zoom in on the screen and more.
[The Mail window is open on the desktop. Emails are displayed with large text.]
[The Calendar app is open on the desktop and the pointer is held over a calendar event. A large version of the text in the event is displayed.]Enlarge text youre reading or typing
Move the pointer over text or icons to display a larger version, or see what youre typing in a large text window. Choose Apple menu 
[] > System Settings, then click Accessibility [] in the sidebar. Click Hover Text, then turn on Hover Text, Hover Colour or Hover Typing.
[The Settings window is open on the desktop. An overlay shows a zoomed-in version of part of the window.]
[The System Settings window is open on the desktop. The display is using a lower resolution so user interface elements appear larger.]
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Tip: You can also quickly zoom in and out on images, web pages and PDFs with gestures like pinching or tapping on your mouse or trackpad. See the Apple Support article Use Multi-Touch gestures on your Mac.