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 the ...

Are you forever opening up your Mac’s System Preferences app and searching for the section you need? If so, it’s because by default, all those Preference Panes are ordered by category, which — to me ...

One of the major (and majorly controversial) changes in macOS Ventura is a redesign of System Preferences. It’s now called System Settings and it’s designed to better resemble the iOS Settings app.

Macworld Your Mac is full of surprises, and even many years after first owning one, you can still find yourself learning new ...

I’ve never been able to find anything easily in macOS’ System Preferences. Even the most basic things, such as changing wallpaper-related settings, I find myself using the search bar inside the System ...

Every year, macOS sees updates and refinements to system features, and this year is no different. As usual, there is a variety of new system-level changes in Ventura, including a replacement for ...

If you find that System Preferences in OS X contains too many options that you don’t regularly use, then you should considering hiding rarely used sections of the app. By using the Customize option in ...

Make the navigation of your macOS System Preferences easier, by hiding icons for elements that you never access. Most users are familiar with System Preferences on their Mac. If there's a setting ...

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 take ...

A handful of MacFixIt readers reported that they are unable to access the "Displays" pane of System Preferences after updating to Mac OS X 10.3.8. One reader writes: "After having used 'Software ...

A sure-fire way to prevent your Mac from slowing down and avoid errors like "Your startup disk is almost full" is to ...