Of all the "under the hood" components of Mac OS X, my personal favorite is preferences files. Why? For starters, they are important. They potentially affect every application you use, from the Finder ...

Apple likes to monkey with System Preferences in macOS. Every few releases, they move things around, rename items, and change how it works. But you might have overlooked a long-running option to ...

Welcome back to the tutorial series that covers everything you ever wanted to know about preferences (.plist) files. So far, we have explored what .plist files are, how to interpret the content of ...

In macOS, the System Preferences app located in the Applications folder is where you can adjust various settings to customize your Mac. Most system preference panes are native to macOS and cannot ...

You can change your default web browser on Mac from System Preferences or from your browser's settings page.

This detailed guide with images covers how to see Mac System Report in macOS Ventura plus some tips on the new System Settings.

macOS has gone through a handful of visual changes over the last several years, but one thing that has stayed largely the same is System Preferences. A new concept imagines how Apple could revamp ...