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
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Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac
If you use Time Machine to back up the files on your Mac, you can easily get back lost items or recover older versions of files.
On your Mac, open a window for the item you want to restore.
For example, to recover a file you accidentally deleted from your Documents folder, open the Documents folder.
If youre missing an item from the desktop, you dont need to open a window.
Use Spotlight to open Time Machine (in the Other folder). A message may appear while your Mac connects to the backup disk.
Use the arrows next to the Finder windows to navigate through your backups. The currently selected backup is highlighted in red in the timeline on the right
If you see a pulsing light to semi-dark grey tick mark, it represents a backup thats still loading or validating on the backup disk.
Select one or more items you want to restore (these can include folders or your entire disk), then click Restore.
Restored items return to their original location. For example, if an item was in the Documents folder, its returned to the Documents folder.
With many apps, you can use File > Revert To > Browse All Versions to view previous versions of documents in Time Machine, then find and restore the version you want.
You can use iCloud Drive and iCloud Photos to safely store your documents, photos and videos in iCloud. See Ways to back up or protect your files.