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Wiki - macOS Setup - Preferences

macos setup preferences

In this step you will configure the macOS System Preferences and also other things like the touch bar, dock and launchpad.

Table of contents

  1. Home
  2. Applications
  3. Preferences
  4. Configuration
  5. Local Development
  6. Backup

System Preferences

Apple ID

  • iCloud:
    • Photos
    • Keychain
    • iCloud Drive: only Shortcuts & iCloud Drive
    • iCloud Mail
    • Contacts
    • Calendars
    • Reminders
    • Notes
    • Safari
    • Find My Mac
    • Stocks
    • Home
    • Siri
  • Media & Purchases > Use Touch ID for Purchases: On

Familiy Sharing

General

  • Appearance: Dark
  • Sidebar icon size: Large
  • Allow wallpaper tinting in windows: Off
  • Show scroll bars: When scrolling
  • Prefer tabs: always when opening documents
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleInterfaceStyle "Dark"
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSTableViewDefaultSizeMode 3
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleReduceDesktopTinting 1
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowScrollBars "When scrolling"
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleWindowTabbingMode "always"

Desktop & Screen Saver

  • Screen Saver > Epoch Flip Clock
  • Screen Saver > Screen Saver Options: All Displays
  • Screen Saver > Start after: 10 Minutes
defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver idleTime 600

Dock & Menu Bar

  • Dock & Menu Bar > Position on screen: Left
  • Dock & Menu Bar > Minimise windows using: Scale effect
  • Dock & Menu Bar > Minimise windows intro application icon: On
  • Dock & Menu Bar > Automatically hide and show the Dock: On
  • Dock & Menu Bar > Show recent applications in Dock: Off
  • Dock & Menu Bar > Clock > Display the time with seconds: On
defaults write com.apple.dock orientation "left"
defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect "scale"
defaults write com.apple.dock minimize-to-application 1
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide 1
defaults write com.apple.dock show-recents 0
defaults write com.apple.menuextra.clock ShowSeconds 1

Mission Control

  • Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use: Off
  • Group windows by application: On
  • Hot Corners > Left Top: Start Screen Saver
  • Hot Corners > Right Top: Notification Center
defaults write com.apple.dock mru-spaces 0
defaults write com.apple.dock expose-group-apps 1
defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-br-corner 1
defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-tl-corner 5
defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-tr-corner 12

Siri

  • Enable Ask Siri: Off

Spotlight

Language & Region

  • General > Preferred languages: English (UK) & Dutch (Netherlands)
  • General > Region: Netherlands
  • General > Advanced > Dates > Short: 01-06-2021
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLanguages -array "en-GB" "nl-NL"
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale "en_NL"

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleICUDateFormatStrings -dict-add 1 "dd-MM-y"
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLiveTextEnabled 1

# defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleMeasurementUnits -string "Centimeters"
# defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleMetricUnits -bool true

Notifications & Focus

  • Focus > Work > Turn On Automatically: 09:00 - 17:00

Internet Acconts

Passwords

Wallet & Apple Pay

Users & Groups

Accessibility

Screen Time

Extensions

Security & Privacy

  • General > Require password: 5 seconds
  • General > Show a message when the screen is locked: [FULLNAME | PHONE | ADDRESS]
  • FileVault > Turn On FileVault
  • Firewall > Turn On Firewall

Software Update

  • Automatically keep my Mac up to date: On

Network

Bluetooh

Sound

  • Sound Effects > Select an alert sound: Boop
  • Sound Effects > Alert volume: 75%

Touch ID

Keyboard

  • Keyboard > Key Repeat: Fast
  • Keyboard > Delay Until Repeat: Short
  • Keyboard > Turn keyboard backlight off after: 1 min
  • Keyboard > Touch Bar shows: App Controls
  • Keyboard > Press fn key to: Show Emoji & Symbols
  • Keyboard > Press and hold fn key to: Expand Control Strip
  • Keyboard > Customize Control Strip
    • Control Strip: Quick Actions, Brightness Slider, Volume Slider, Play/Pauze
    • Expanded Control Strip: Quick Actions, Show Desktop, Space, Keyboard Brightness, Space, Brightness Slider, Volume Slider, Mute, Space, Media
  • Keyboard > Modifier Keys > Caps Lock (⇪) Key: ⎋ Escape
  • Text > Correct spelling automatically: Off
  • Text > Capitalise words automatically: Off
  • Text > Add full stop with double-space: Off
  • Text > Use smart quotes and dashes: Off
  • Text > for Double Quotes: "abc"
  • Text > for Single Quotes: 'abc'
  • Shortcuts > Keyboard > Move focus to next window: ⌘ + §
  • Shortcuts > Spotlight > Show Spotlight search: Off
  • Shortcuts > Spotlight > Show Finder search window: Off
  • Shortcuts > Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls: On
  • Input Sources > Dutch
  • Dictation > Shortcut: Off
defaults write NSGlobalDomain InitialKeyRepeat 15
defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat 2
defaults write com.apple.touchbar.agent PresentationModeGlobal "appWithControlStrip"

Trackpad

  • Point & Click > Look up & data detectors: Off
  • Point & Click > Tap to click: On
  • Point & Click > Tracking speed: 8
  • Point & Click > Force Click and haptic feedback: Off
  • Scroll & Zoom > Scrol direction: Off
  • More Gestures > Swipe between full-screen apps: Swipe left or right with four fingers
  • More Gestures > Mission Control: Swipe up with four fingers
  • More Gestures > App Exposé: Swipe down with four fingers

Mouse

Displays

  • Resolution > Scaled: More Space
  • Night Shift > Schedule: Custom (from 00:00 to 07:00)`
  • Night Shift > Color Temperature: More Warm

Printers & Scanners

Sidecar

Battery

  • Battery > Turn display off after: 10 min
  • Battery > Low power mode: On
  • Power Adapter > Turn display off after: 30 min
  • Power Adapter > Prevent your Mac from automatically sleeping when the display is off: On

Date & Time

Sharing

  • Computer Name: [name] MacBook Pro [year]
  • Printer Sharing: On
sudo scutil --set ComputerName "$COMPUTER_NAME"
sudo scutil --set HostName "$COMPUTER_NAME"
sudo scutil --set LocalHostName "$COMPUTER_NAME"
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server NetBIOSName -string "$COMPUTER_NAME"

Time Machine

Startup Disk

Dock

dock

  • First remove all default applications (Manually remove the Downloads folder)
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array
  • Add most used applications
dockutil --no-restart --add "/Applications/Mimestream.app"
dockutil --no-restart --add "/Applications/Cron.app"
dockutil --no-restart --add "/Applications/Bear.app"
dockutil --no-restart --add "/Applications/Google Chrome.app"
  • Also adding a little space between those apps and other open apps
# defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type="spacer-tile";}'
dockutil --add '' --type spacer --section apps
  • After that I change the speed off the dock animation to fast or use no animation (super fast)
# Fast
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.1

# Super Fast
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -int 0
  • To undo, you can run this
defaults delete com.apple.dock
killall Dock

Touch Bar

touchbar normal touchbar full

Menu Bar

menubar

Finder

macos setup finder

Finer Preferences

  • General > CDs, DVDs and iPods: Off
  • General > New Finder windows show: 'Home folder'
  • Sidebar > Favorites:
    • Recents
    • AirDrop
    • Applications
    • Desktop
    • Documents
    • Downloads
    • Movies
    • Music
    • Pictures
    • 'Home folder'
  • Sidebar > iCloud:
    • iCloud Drive
    • Shared
  • Sidebar > Locations:
    • 'MacBook Pro'
    • Hard disks
    • External disks
    • CDs, DVDs and iOS Devices
    • Cloud Storage
    • Bonjour computers
    • Connected servers
  • Sidebar > Tags:
    • Recent Tags
  • Advanced > Show all filename extensions: On
  • Advanced > Show warning before changing an extension: Off
  • Advanced > Show warning before removing from iCloud Drive: Off
  • Advanced > Remove items from the Bin after 30 days: On
  • Advanced > Keep folders on top > In windows when sorting by name: On
  • Advanced > Keep folders on top > On Desktop: On
  • Advanced > When performing a search: Search the Current Folder

View Options on Home folder (Use as Defaults)

  • Always open in list view: On
  • Browse in list view: On
  • Group By: Kind
  • Sort By: Name
  • Show item info: On
  • Show Library Folder: On

Menu bar

  • View > Show Tab Bar
  • View > Show Path Bar
  • View > Show Status Bar

Sidebar

Favourites:

  • 'Home folder'
  • Applications
  • Desktop
  • Downloads
  • AirDrop

Locations:

  • 'MacBook Pro'
  • Network

Hidden options

# Expand save panel by default
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool true
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode2 -bool true

# Expand print panel by default
defaults write NSGlobalDomain PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint -bool true ?
defaults write NSGlobalDomain PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint2 -bool true ?

# Save to disk (not to iCloud) by default
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false ?

# Automatically quit printer app once the print jobs complete
defaults write com.apple.print.PrintingPrefs "Quit When Finished" -bool true ?

# Disable the “Are you sure you want to open this application?” dialog
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool false

# Disable Resume system-wide
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false

# Disable the crash reporter
defaults write com.apple.CrashReporter DialogType -string "none"

Desktop

  • Use Stacks: On

Emojis

Emojis
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ˆ = Control key (ctrl)
⌘ = Command key (cmd)
⌥ = Option key
⎋ = ESC key
⇧ = Shift key
⇪ = Caps lock key
⏎ = Return key
⌫ = Delete key
€ = Euro character
$ = Dollar character

Launchpad

launchpad