![]() ![]() About This Reviewįor this review, I spent about a month running macOS Sierra on my main system, a Mid 2015 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display with a 2.5 GHz Intel Core i7 and 16 GB of RAM. Console and System Information have both seen big upgrades this year, but more on that in a bit. ![]() The Utilities folder is full of familiar icons, as well:ĭisk Utility uses the same somewhat confusing user interface Apple introduced last year. The list of bundled applications that come with a clean install remains unchanged: Handoff, Instant Hotspot, Mac-to-iOS AirDrop, Apple Pay, Metal and Universal Clipboard are supported by these models:Īuto Unlock with Apple Watch is supported by Mac models introduced starting in January 2013, and requires two-factor authentication on your Apple ID. The days of unchanged system requirements for new versions of macOS have come to an end. System Requirements & Bundled Applications The Mac is a stable platform that is still growing, but at a much slower rate than Apple’s front-and-center operating system, iOS.īut it’s September, so there’s a new release to look at: macOS Sierra. OS X Yosemite brought a new design to the Mac, but past that, most users can’t tell the difference between it and El Capitan, let alone what was new in Mountain Lion or Mavericks.Īs I’ve written before, I think the lack of excitement in big macOS releases is mostly okay. Videos in iTunes: in the iTunes app, choose iTunes > Preferences > Advanced tab > deselect "Automatically delete watched movies and TV shows".Over the past several years, Mac OS X macOS releases have gotten smaller and less exciting. Seems like good advice to me.Įmail attachments: in the Mail app, choose Mail > Preferences (not "Accounts"!) > Accounts tab, then for each account do Account Information tab > Download Attachments pop-up menu > choose "All". Note that Adam recommends that if you do use iCloud to share photos across your devices, you should have one Mac set to "Download Originals to this Mac" and not to "Optimize Mac Storage", and then make sure that Mac gets backed up. If you want iCloud to store and share photos, but not delete local copies, you need to go into the Photos app, choose Photos menu > Preferences > iCloud tab > deselect "Optimize Mac Storage". Photos: if you turned off iCloud's Photos feature in the iCloud preferences, you're done. ![]() Trash: In Finder, choose Finder menu > Preferences > Advanced tab > deselect "Remove items from the Trash after 30 days". Note, however, that for some of these data types, you can enable them here and then use the relevant app to choose which items get stored locally and which are synced. I'll attempt to summarize.įiles: in System Preferences > iCloud pane > iCloud Drive Options button > deselect "Desktop & Documents Folders" (to prevent those folders from being stored in iCloud) and "Optimize Mac Storage" (to prevent deletion of local copies of the documents you do explicitly store in iCloud).Īfter closing that Options dialog, turn off any other kinds of that you don't want to have synced with to iCloud. There's a good explanation by Adam Engst in two articles over at TidBITS: Explaining Sierra’s Optimized Storage and How to Turn Off Sierra’s Optimized Storage. That Manage Storage window you got to from About This Mac is designed to let you turn on various Optimized Storage features, but not really useful to check their status or turn them off. Optimized Storage isn't a single feature you can turn off in a single place it's a bunch of similar features that you'll need to check and (if necessary) turn off individually. ![]()
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