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Fifteen settings to learn on a new Mac, in the order they matter
入手 Mac 後必學的 15 個設定，讓使用體驗更順暢｜塔科女子
About this video
Seventeen minutes on fifteen settings, and unlike most lists of this kind it works from the outside in: the lock screen first, then the trackpad, the Dock and the menu bar, then the desktop, then Finder, and only at the end the two settings that connect the Mac to an iPhone. Recorded in November 2024, on Sequoia.
The pace is slower than most videos in this format and that is the reason it works. Each item gets enough time to show the pane it lives in, so a viewer can follow along without pausing — and the order is outside-in: the lock screen first, then the trackpad, then the Dock and the menu bar, then the desktop, then Finder, and only at the end the things that involve another device or another window.
The trackpad section is where the two settings that surprise people live. Tap to click at 1:33 is off by default and makes the whole pad feel lighter; three-finger drag at 2:13 is not in the Trackpad pane at all but under Accessibility, which is why a dedicated video is worth watching instead of hunting for it.
The middle third is desktop housekeeping — widget size, icon size, automatic arrangement, the folder toolbar, the path bar. Individually these are small. Taken together they are the difference between a desktop that accumulates and one that stays legible, and the path bar at 10:33 is the specific fix a Windows switcher will want first, because Explorer shows where you are and Finder does not.
The last two chapters step outside the machine. Handoff at 13:06 is the setting that makes an iPhone and a Mac behave like one device, and split screen at 14:43 is the full-screen pair that macOS 15’s window tiling has since supplemented rather than replaced. Quitting apps at 15:30 is a fitting end: ⌘Q against the red button is the last habit a switcher breaks.
What it covers
- The first three settings are about the trackpad and the lock screen — the two surfaces a new owner meets before any window is open.
- Two of the fifteen are desktop housekeeping that macOS hides behind a right-click: icon size and automatic arrangement.
- Showing the folder path at 10:33 is the single setting here that a Windows switcher misses most, because Explorer shows a path by default and Finder does not.
- Handoff at 13:06 and split screen at 14:43 are the only two items that involve a second device or a second window, and they close the video.
Chapters
Chapter times are the creator's own list, published in the video description.
Apps in this video
No app page is linked. All fifteen items are settings inside macOS — the lock screen, the trackpad, the Dock, the menu bar, the desktop and Finder — and no third-party app appears in the video or its description.