Apple’s latest OS X version, Yosemite, is ready for download, but simply installing the system is only the first step in a very interesting journey. Apple has made significant changes across OS X, improving the Safari browser, Notifications Center, Spotlight searching, and even how the desktop finds synergy with iOS devices.
It’s a potentially daunting collection of tweaks and additions, but we’re here to make your Yosemite education as painless as possible. Please join the Macworld staff as we walk you through our Yosemite primers—and if you don’t find the article you want, please make some suggestions in the comments below.
First, make sure your Mac plays nice with Yosemite
MacOS Mojave brings four new apps to Mac: News, Stocks, Voice Memos, and Home. And the new App Store design is rich in editorial content, making it easy to find just the app you’re looking for. Take a tour of what's new in macOS Mojave. At full native performance. OS X now exclusively uses a 64-bit kernel, but it continues to run both 32-bit and 64-bit applications. With its 64-bit kernel, OS X is able to address large amounts of physical RAM. OS X Yosemite has been tested to support up to 128GB of physical RAM on qualified.
If you’re already happily running Mavericks (Mac OS X 10.9) on your machine, you’re good for a Yosemite upgrade. But if you want more information on which specific Macs are compatible, check out this guide. Hint: Apple confirmed that you’ll need at least 2GB of RAM and 8GB of free storage for the installation.
Ready? Here’s our essential install guide
Yes, even in this day and age, there are still best practices for installing a new Apple OS. Our “How to install Mac OS X Yosemite” primer will walk you through everything from simple nerd wisdom (like updating apps and cautionary back-ups) to different strategies for installation itself.
On Retina optimizations and other visual tweaks
Yosemite has been built from the ground up to support Retina displays like the one deployed on the new iMac. As such, the new OS is chock-full of new visual optimizations, including a new font, translucency effects, and interface tweaks that advance the OS X design language. We explain everything in this brief of what you’ll encounter in the Yosemite design.
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All about the Handoff between Yosemite and iOS
At its Thursday event, Apple touted new Continuity features that foster graceful synergy between our desktop and mobile experiences. Key to the scheme is Handoff, a feature that lets you launch an app on one device (say, your Mac), and then “hand off” that activity to another device (your iPhone or iPad). It’s enabled in Mail, Messages, Maps and a host of other apps, and you can read all about how it works here.
Get to know the new Safari
More so than any other built-in app, the Safari browser has probably changed the most in the update from Mavericks to Yosemite. It’s a much cleaner (albeit sparser) experience, and you can read all about the changes in “Get to know the new, slimmed-down Safari.”
A vastly improved Notification Center
The new Notification Center is so dramatically different (and improved), we encouraged Apple to honor it with a new name. Notifications are now driven by individual interactive widgets, both from Apple itself and third-party developers. In our detailed walk-through of the new Notification Center, we also delve into the now-obsolete Dashboard interface.
Spotlight searching expands its repertoire
Spotlight started as a relatively simple system search tool. Today, in Yosemite, it’s a full-fledged Internet crawler that can not only rifle through your OS, but also the web, Wikipedia, news headlines, maps, Bing, the App Store, iTunes, and even movie show times. We discuss all the new Spotlight features here.
Mail, Messages and Calendars
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OK, they don’t pack the same levels of glitz and glamour as the tweaks listed above, but changes to Mail, Messages, and Calendar will certainly influence your Yosemite experience. You can read about new features like Mail Drop, Markup, and Soundbites here.
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The OS X Desktop
Chapter 1 Folders & Windows
- Getting into OS X
- Windows and How to Work Them
- The Four Window Views
- Icon View
- List View
- Column View
- Cover Flow View
- Yosemite’s New Preview Pane
- Quick Look
- Finder Tabs
- Logging Out, Shutting Down
- Getting Help in OS X
Chapter 2 Organizing Your Stuff
- The OS X Folder Structure
- Icon Names
- Selecting Icons
- Moving and Copying Icons
- Aliases: Icons in Two Places at Once
- Finder Tags
- The Trash
- Get Info
- Shortcut Menus, Action Menus
Chapter 3 Spotlight
- The Spotlight Menu
- The Searching Window
- Customizing Spotlight
- Smart Folders
Chapter 4 Dock, Desktop & Toolbars
- The Dock
- Setting Up the Dock
- Using the Dock
- The Finder Toolbar
- Designing Your Desktop
- Menulets: The Missing Manual
Programs in OS X
Chapter 5 Documents, Programs & Mission Control
- The Mac App Store
- Other Ways to Get Mac Software
- Opening OS X Programs
- Launchpad
- Windows That Auto-Reopen
- The “Heads-Up” Program Switcher
- Full Screen Mode
- Mission Control: Death to Window Clutter
- Dashboard
- Exposé
- Hiding Programs the Old-Fashioned Way
- How Documents Know Their Parents
- Keyboard Control
- The Save and Open Dialog Boxes
- Auto Save and Versions
- iCloud Drive
- Cocoa and Carbon
Chapter 6 Data: Typing, Dictating, Sharing & Backing Up
- The Mac Keyboard
- Notes on Right-Clicking
- Power Typing
- Dictation
- The Many Languages of OS X Text
- Data Detectors
- Moving Data Between Documents
- Exchanging Data with Other Macs
- Exchanging Data with Windows PCs
- The Share Button ( )
- Time Machine
Chapter 7 Mac+iPhone: Handoff, AirDrop & Continuity
- Mac as Speakerphone
- Texting from the Mac
- Instant Hotspot
- Handoff
- AirDrop
Chapter 8 Windows on the Mac
- Boot Camp
- Windows in a Window
The Components of OS X
Chapter 9 System Preferences
- The System Preferences Window
- Accessibility
- App Store
- Bluetooth
- CDs & DVDs
- Date & Time
- Desktop & Screen Saver
- Dictation & Speech
- Displays
- Dock
- Energy Saver
- Extensions
- General
- iCloud
- Internet Accounts
- Keyboard
- Language & Region
- Mission Control
- Mouse
- Network
- Notifications
- Parental Controls
- Printers & Scanners
- Security & Privacy
- Sharing
- Sound
- Spotlight
- Startup Disk
- Time Machine
- Trackpad
- Users & Groups
Chapter 10 Notifications
- Insta-Respond to Bubbles
- Shutting Up the Bubbles
- The Notification Center
Chapter 11 The Free Programs of OS X
- Your Free OS X Programs
- App Store
- Automator
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Chess
- Contacts
- Dashboard
- Dictionary
- DVD Player
- FaceTime
- Font Book
- Game Center
- GarageBand
- iBooks
- iChat
- Image Capture
- iPhoto/Photos
- iMovie
- iTunes
- Launchpad
- Maps
- Messages
- Mission Control
- Notes
- Numbers, Pages
- Photo Booth
- Preview
- Reminders
- QuickTime Player
- Safari
- Stickies
- System Preferences
- TextEdit
- Time Machine
- Utilities: Your OS X Toolbox
Chapter 12 Disks, Drives & iTunes
- Disks Today
- Disks In, Disks Out
- Startup Disks
- Erasing a Disk
- Burning CDs and DVDs
- iTunes: The Digital Jukebox
The Technologies of OS X
Chapter 13 Accounts, Security & Gatekeeper
- Introducing Accounts
- Creating an Account
- Parental Controls
- Editing Accounts
- Setting Up the Login Process
- Signing In, Logging Out
- Sharing Across Accounts
- Fast User Switching
- OS X and Security
- Gatekeeper
- FileVault
- The Firewall
- The Password Assistant
- The Keychain
- Five Privacy Shields
Chapter 14 Networking, File Sharing & AirDrop
- Wiring the Network
- File Sharing: Three Ways
- AirDrop
- Sharing Your Public Folder
- Sharing Any Folder
- Accessing Shared Files
- Networking with Windows
- Screen Sharing
- More Dialing In from the Road
Chapter 15 Graphics, Fonts & Printing
- Mac Meets Printer
- Making the Printout
- Managing Printouts
- Printer Sharing
- Faxing
- PDF Files
- Fonts—and Font Book
- ColorSync
- Graphics in OS X
- Screen-Capture Keystrokes
Chapter 16 Sound, Movies & Speech
- Playing Sounds
- Recording Sounds
- QuickTime Player
- The Mac Reads to You
- VoiceOver
- Ink: Handwriting Recognition
OS X Online
Chapter 17 Internet Setup & iCloud
- The Best News You’ve Heard All Day
- Network Central and Multihoming
- Broadband Connections
- Cellular Modems
- Tethering (Personal Hotspot)
- Dial-Up Modem Connections
- Switching Locations
- Internet Sharing
- Meet iCloud
- iCloud Drive
- Photos
- Find My Mac, Find My iPhone
- Back to My Mac
- Family Sharing
- More iCloud Features
Chapter 18 Mail & Contacts
- Setting Up Mail
- Checking Your Mail
- Tailoring the Look of Mail
- Writing Messages
- Stationery
- Reading Email
- VIPs
- The Anti-Spam Toolkit
- Contacts (Address Book)
Chapter 19 Safari
- The Unified Address/Search Bar
- Bookmarks, Favorites, and Top Sites
- Full Screen and Gestures
- Customizing the Toolbar
- Saved Passwords: The iCloud Keychain
- 15 Tips for Better Surfing
- Tabbed Browsing
- Privacy and Security Features
Chapter 20 Messages
- Welcome to Messages
- Setting Up Messages
- Let the Chat Begin
- Text Chatting
- Audio Chats
- Video Chats
- Sharing Your Screen
Chapter 21 FTP, SSH & VPN
- FTP
- Connecting from the Road
- Remote Access with SSH
- Virtual Private Networking
Appendixes
Appendix Installing OS X Yosemite
- Hardware Requirements
- Psychological Requirements
- The Standard Installation
- The Setup Assistant
- The Homemade Installer Disk
Appendix Troubleshooting
- Minor Eccentric Behavior
- Frozen Programs (Force Quitting)
- Recovery Mode: Three Emergency Disks
- Application Won’t Open
- Startup Problems
- Fixing the Disk
- Where to Get Troubleshooting Help
Appendix The Windows-to-Mac Dictionary
- About [this program]
Appendix The Master OS X Secret Keystroke List
- Startup Keystrokes
Appendix Colophon