5 Best Hidden Features for Mac You Should Know

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Apple provides various features for its smart gadgets, but if you wonder that your Mac computer kept multiple secrets that you are unaware of them. You might spend several years for finding these hidden secrets one by one. These features perform various interesting jobs for its users, such as the mass renaming process of large bunched files in just a few clicks, using emoji keyboards, etc. Your Mac packs with plenty of dynamic features that are unrevealed before this time.

Once you have got aware of such hidden features, then you will live without any one of these as they provide classic and trendy features that everyone wants to know.

Emojis

Have you ever wondered that your Mac has built-in emoji keyboard, but it’s hidden until you don’t know how to access it? This keyboard features several emoji to send to your friend or relative as fun in place of sending a text. The process seems difficult as it doesn’t hold any dedicated key for this feature.

It’s a sequence of keyboard tabs that everyone doesn’t know, but if you understand the process of accessing this feature, you will be a fan of it. Then, you can send emoji directly from your Mac device comfortably. This feature works as it is as you send emoji to your friend from social media platforms such as WhatsApp, or Facebook.

To access this emoji feature while typing anything from your Mac keyboard, you should tap three different keys altogether:

Ctrl
Command
Space bar

Once you have tapped these keys in cooperation with each other, then a pane containing various emoji will appear on your screen. You have to select your desired one and then hit the sent tab for sending it as per your desired recipient.

Dark Mode

The dark mode is good for eyes as the harmful blue rays diminished to a little. Therefore, the dark modes on various devices became popular, be it Android, Apple iPhone, iPad, and much more. Once you have activated Dark Mode on your device, the bright and light color of your screen will turn to something darker. It soothes on the eyesight and helps to read your screen while performing any task during Night.

To launch the Dark Mode on your device, you have to launch the System Preferences tab there.
After that, hit the General button and navigate to the upper portion of your Settings pane. There you will get three different options: Auto, Dark, and Light. The last two colors will make changes to black effects (Dark Mode). If you select the Auto Mode, it will adjust as per the time during day and Night.
Always Changing Wallpaper

If you have static and boring wallpaper on your screen that can’t change to another, now keeping the single wallpaper on your screen is not a good choice. You can make your mac device to change its screen wallpaper automatically. You have to select the dynamic desktop images as wallpaper for your device. It will change as per the location and situation such as day and night etc. In this case, the wallpaper will change the day entirely.

Here is how to adjust this setting that very little people know. It’s one of the hidden treasures that you should know. Make your device to change your screen wallpaper automatically in these steps:

First and foremost, hit the tab “System Preferences” option.
After that, tap the Desktop and Screen Saver option there. Now, ensure that the Apple pull drop menu is selected. If yes, then select one of the available desktop images there.

Note: The wallpaper will change on its own as per the changing of the time. For instance: you will see island image if your device follows sunset, Night, afternoon sun, and the sunrise. It will adjust other images as per the time and situation.

Tricks to Capture Better Screenshots

Taking screenshots on various devices is pretty simple, and if you want to capture it on your Mac device, then you will have to press combo tabs for taking the particular or whole of the screen screenshots.

The combo tabs for taking screenshots begin with the Command and shift keys, followed by a number.

If you want to take a screenshot of the whole of the display, then you have to tap Cmd + shift key + 3.
If you desire to take a screenshot of the particular area of your choice, then press Cmd + Shift key + 4 simultaneously.

One of the most preferred screenshots capturing keys is “Command, Shift key, and five numbers key.” You have to tap all these together to get the toolbar at the lowermost section of the screen. This toolbar shows you what you have captured or what or what has been left uncompleted.

You can also perform screen recording of your Mac screen, and this toolbar also provides you the accessibility of selecting the particular area on which you wish to save your screenshot.

Note: you should remember the combo keys that suit your preference.

Renaming Multiple Files Quickly

Renaming lots of files one by one takes more time and sometimes seems tedious. So, Apple has brought up a new feature that is unknown to various consumers on their hands. The feature is group renaming or renaming multiple files at one shot.

To rename the file, you should launch the particular folder containing multiple files.
Then, you need to select all of them by hitting the “All” checkbox.
One of the easiest ways to remove the file is to tap on the first file and press the Shift key and finally click the last file.
After that, apply the right mouse click on the highlighted file.
Then, choose the option “Rename” multiply the number of files that you wish to rename.
Now, pull the drop-down menu and adjust all the settings there.
Finally, press the Rename option.

Rdx Tango is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at mcafee.com/activate, and a professional cyber security analyst. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world.

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