macOS Monterey: 40 Tips, Tricks, and Features You Might Have Missed - MacRumors

Simply click the Save to Photos button to the right of the image instead.

To do so, go to System Preferences -> Accessibility, then click Display (under "Vision") in the left column.

To view them as a list, simply select a volume and choose View -> Show APFS Snapshots from the menu bar.

To turn on the feature in Mail, select Mail -> Preferences...

in the menu bar, click the Privacy tab, and then check the box next to Protect Mail Activity.

Start playing a song/podcast or video on your ‌‌iPhone‌‌ or ‌‌iPad‌‌, tap the ‌AirPlay‌ icon in the app's media playback interface, and then select your Mac from the list of ‌AirPlay‌ devices.

Convert Image is a new pre-installed Quick Action in Finder that can quickly convert an image file from one format (JPG, HEIC and PNG) to another.

To use the Convert Image Quick Action, right-click (or Ctrl-click) an image file and then select Quick Actions -> Convert Image.

You'll also see the Quick Action in the Finder preview pane when viewing images.

To create a new Tab Group, click the Show Sidebar icon next to the traffic lights and then select New Tab Group.

(Alternately, click the down arrow next to the Show Sidebar icon and select either New Empty Tab Group or New Tab Group With X Tabs, "X" being the number of tabs currently open.

Simply click the chevrons in the bottom-right corner of the media controls overlay and select your preferred speed from 0.5x to 2.0x.

Click the Tabs tab and select Tab Layout: Compact to turn on the original compact tab bar that merged everything together.

Click the Apple () symbol in the menu bar and select System Preferences....

When the preferences pane appears, select System Preferences -> Erase All Content and Settings from the menu bar, and then follow the onscreen instructions provided by the Erase Assistant.

Open System Preferences and click the Battery pane.

To do so, select the conversation thread in Messages, click the info (i) icon in the top-right corner, and uncheck the box next to Show in Shared with You.

Quick Notes can also detect the app you're currently using or that you just recently used, and provides a dropdown menu at the top of the editor window from which you can add a link to the specific message you're viewing in Mail, or the website you were just viewing in Safari, for example.

Go to System Preferences -> Users & Groups, and then hover your pointer over the circled profile picture and click edit.

Invoked with a press of the spacebar, Quick Look is a great way to swiftly preview files in Finder without opening them in their associated app or the dedicated Preview app.

For whatever reason, Apple in previous versions of macOS removed the ability to select text in a document when viewed in Quick Look for copying/pasting elsewhere.

Not only that, Apple's Live Text feature means the text you select needn't be in a document – you can also highlight text displayed in a photo and perform different tasks on it, such as translation and web search.

To enable it, open ‌FaceTime‌, then click the Control Center icon in the menu bar and select Video Effects -> Portrait Mode.

Thanks to the introduction of the Shortcuts app to macOS, you can now add shortcuts as Quick Actions to execute in Finder.

Simply launch the Shortcuts app, and then drag shortcuts from All Shortcuts to Quick Actions in the sidebar.

You can then make the shortcuts accessible in Finder's right-click contextual menu by checking them in System Preferences -> Extensions -> Finder.

Simply click Create Link in the ‌FaceTime‌ interface, and then select a method of sharing your link from the Actions menu, e.g.

When an app is using the camera or the microphone on your ‌Mac‌, a small indicator light will appear in the menu bar just next to the Control Center icon (if you have the menu bar hidden, it'll appear in the top-right corner of the desktop).

If you click the Control Center, you'll see which app is responsible for using the camera or mic.

It's easy to miss, but Monterey includes an enhanced version of the Go to Folder menu bar option in Finder (Go -> Go to Folder...).

Highlight some webpage elements, such as text and images, then right-click (Ctrl-click) and select New Quick Note/Add to Quick Note.

Now, the next time you click the captured elements in the Quick Note you created, you'll be taken to the original webpage with the highlighted elements still there.

There's a new Shared collaboration folder for the Finder sidebar, where you can easily find documents shared with you over iCloud or using the collaboration features in Apple's productivity apps.

To add/remove the ‌iCloud‌ Shared folder to the Finder sidebar, select Finder -> Preferences..., click the Sidebar tab, and then click the checkbox next to (‌iCloud‌) Shared.

When setting up a Focus mode in System Preferences -> Notifications & Focus, click the + button at the bottom of the box labeled Turn On Automatically, and then select Add App Based Automation.

Just select some text and right-click (Ctrl-click) to bring up the Translate option, which works with several languages.

Not only can you read and copy the translated text, click the play button and you can get macOS to say it out loud to you so that you can better understand the verbal pronunciation.

Simply select an audio recording, click the controls icon in the top-right corner of the window, and you'll find both settings under "Playback Speed.".

Next, click the Control Center icon in the menu bar, and then click the Sound volume bar.

To do so, go to System Preferences -> Dock & Menu Bar, and in the Dock & Menu Bar options, uncheck the box next to Automatically hide and show the menu bar in full screen.

We've already mentioned that you can make them available as Quick Actions in Finder, but you can add them to your menu bar, too

When you've dragged some shortcuts into the Menu Bar section of the Shortcuts app, a new menu item will appear in the menu bar listing those shortcuts, allowing you to control HomeKit devices from your desktop, for example

Go to System Preferences -> Displays, and then click the Display Settings..

If you're using an external monitor, select your MacBook Pro's built-in Liquid Retina XDR display in the side column, then click the dropdown next to Refresh Rate and choose from the following: 120Hz (ProMotion), 60 Hertz, 59.94 Hertz, 50 Hertz, 48 Hertz, and 47.95 Hertz