Tell stories like never before. A simple design and intuitive editing features make it easy to create beautiful 4K movies and Hollywood-style trailers. Learn more about iMovie. The easiest way to create great-sounding songs on your Mac. Learn more about GarageBand. This powerful word processor gives you everything you need to create documents that look beautiful. And read beautifully. It lets you work seamlessly between Mac, iOS, and iPadOS devices. And work effortlessly with people who use Microsoft Word. Learn more about Pages. Create sophisticated spreadsheets with dramatic interactive charts, tables, and images that paint a revealing picture of your data. Work seamlessly between Mac, iOS, and iPadOS devices.

And work effortlessly with people who use Microsoft Excel. Learn more about Numbers. Bring your ideas to life with beautiful presentations. Employ powerful tools and dazzling effects that keep your audience engaged. And work effortlessly with people who use Microsoft PowerPoint. Learn more about Keynote. For professionals ready to push their creativity, these industry-leading apps offer maximum control over editing, processing, and output of music and film. Logic Pro puts a complete recording and MIDI production studio on your Mac, with everything you need to write, record, edit, and mix like never before.

Learn more about Logic Pro. Take your Mac to the stage with a full-screen interface optimized for live performance, flexible hardware control, and a massive collection of plug-ins and sounds that are fully compatible with Logic Pro. Learn more about MainStage. Learn more about Final Cut Pro. Motion is a powerful motion graphics tool that makes it easy to create cinematic 2D and 3D titles, fluid transitions, and realistic effects in real time. Learn more about Motion. Add power and flexibility for exporting projects from Final Cut Pro. Customize output settings, work faster with distributed encoding, and easily package your film for the iTunes Store. Learn more about Compressor. The Mac App Store features rich editorial content and great apps for Mac. Explore the Mac App Store. Bundle up to six Apple services. And enjoy more for less.

The safer way to make secure, contactless purchases in stores and online. Which Mac is right for you? Notebook Desktop. MacBook Air M1 chip. Buy Learn more View in AR. Apple M1 chip. Touch ID. New MacBook Air M2 chip. Apple M2 chip. Up to core GPU. Touch Bar and Touch ID. Up to core CPU. Up to 8-core GPU. Up to 16GB unified memory For increased performance and power efficiency. Mac mini. Search: Search provides better results when you're searching for a topic or people even find episodes featuring a specific guest or host. Syncing Media syncing: All three services Apple TV, Apple Music, and Apple Podcasts sync your content through the cloud across your devices.

Or sync it from each of the apps if you prefer using a cable. Back up, update, and restore through the Finder: Each time you connect a device, you can find it in the Finder sidebar. From there you can back up, update, and restore your device. Photos All-new Photos tab: A beautiful new browsing experience showcases your photos and memories. Day, month, and year organization: Photos is organized by day, month, and year views so it's easy to find photos or relive your memories. Animations and transitions keep your spot in the timeline so you can switch between views without losing your place.

Large photo previews: Photo previews are larger to help you distinguish between shots. Photos uses intelligence to find the best part of your photo in previews, so you see the full, unedited version when you open the photo. Auto-playing Live Photos and videos: Live Photos and videos begin playing as you scroll, bringing your library to life. Personalization: Using machine learning on your Mac, Photos can understand who's in your photos and what's happening to highlight important moments like birthdays, anniversaries, and trips. Your best shots: Photos intelligently showcases the best shots in your library, removing duplicates and clutter. All Photos: The All Photos view displays all your photos and videos in a grid. Choose to zoom in for large previews, or zoom out to get an overview of your entire collection.

You can also choose to view your photos and videos in square or original format. Memory movies: Now you can view Memory movies on your Mac and edit the duration, mood, and title. Edits sync to your other devices when you use iCloud Photos. Notes Gallery view: The all-new gallery view displays your notes as visual thumbnails, making it easier than ever to quickly find the note you're looking for. Shared folders: Collaborate on entire folders, including all the notes and subfolders inside. Invite others to a folder, and everyone can add notes, attachments, or subfolders. View-only collaboration: You can now share notes or entire folders as view-only so that you're the only one who can make changes. More powerful search: Search can now recognize objects or scenes within the images you've added to your notes and can help you find specific text in the items you've scanned using the built-in document scanner.

Search is also helpful before you type, with suggested searches that you can simply click to view. New checklist options: Quickly reorder checklist items using drag and drop or keyboard shortcuts, and move checked items to the bottom and out of the way. If you've completed the checklist and want to use it again, you can click to uncheck all the items and start over. Reminders All-new design: The Reminders app has been completely rebuilt with an all-new user interface and more powerful features, making it easier than ever to create, organize, and keep track of reminders. New edit buttons: Quickly add dates, times, locations, or flags to reminders using the new edit buttons, all without having to go to another view. Enhanced Siri intelligence: You can type longer, more descriptive sentences and Reminders understands and provides relevant suggestions.

Siri intelligence on your device can also help anticipate your needs by suggesting that you create a reminder while you make plans in Messages. Attachments: Add attachments to your reminders to make them more informative and useful. You can add photos, scanned documents, or even web links that take you directly to a website related to the reminder. Tasks and grouped lists: There are more options for organizing your reminders. You can capture tasks associated with a top-level reminder. You can also group multiple lists. Smart lists: All-new smart lists automatically organize your upcoming reminders into easy-to-find categories like Today, Flagged, Scheduled, or All to see them in a single list.

Customize list appearance: Customize the appearance of your personal or shared iCloud lists, choosing from 12 beautiful colors and 60 expressive symbols. Messages integration: Tag someone in a reminder and the next time you're chatting with the person in Messages, you'll be reminded that now might be a good time to talk. Safari Updated start page: An updated start page design includes favorites, frequently visited, and Siri suggestions that surface relevant websites in your browsing history, recently visited sites, bookmarks, reading list, iCloud Tabs, and links you receive in Messages.

Weak password warnings: When you sign in to an account in Safari with a weak, easy-to-guess password, Safari warns you and helps you replace it with a stronger one. PiP from the tab audio button: Quickly enable Picture in Picture from the tab audio button. Switch to open tab from the Smart Search field: If you start typing the address of a website that's already open, Safari directs you to the open tab. Mail Block sender: Mail can block all email from specified senders and move their messages directly to the trash. Just as in Messages, you can access this feature by clicking the sender's name in any email header. Unsubscribe: An unsubscribe link for email messages from commercial lists now appears above the email header. Clicking Unsubscribe requests removal of your email address from the list. Mute Thread: Mute Thread prevents notifications from an overly active email thread. Updated classic layout: Arranges the Mail viewer in a column layout, with an option to preview the current message below or to the right of your message list.

Sidecar Extended desktop: Use your iPad as a second display for additional screen space. Refer to one app while you work in another, or see how a presentation looks in presentation mode on your iPad while editing it on your Mac. Mirrored desktop: Mirror the screen on your Mac to have two screens displaying the same content, making it perfect for sharing with others. Wired or wireless: Connect your iPad to your Mac using a cable to keep it charged, or use it wirelessly within 10 meters for greater mobility. Apple Pencil: Use the precision and intuitiveness of Apple Pencil with your favorite creative Mac apps that support drawing tablets. Draw and write naturally, edit a photo or graphic, and use it to point and click as you do with a mouse. Gestures: Use the same Multi-Touch gestures you're familiar with on iPad, along with all-new text editing gestures that let you cut, copy, paste, and undo without lifting your hands from the onscreen keyboard. Sidebar: Get easy access to your most commonly used controls from the sidebar.

Use modifier keys to enable shortcuts in pro apps, and access buttons that allow you to undo as well as display or hide the menu bar, Dock, and keyboard. Touch Bar: For apps with Touch Bar support, the controls appear at the bottom of your iPad screen even if your Mac doesn't have a Touch Bar. Developer support: Developers don't need to do anything for Sidecar support it just works. Apps with advanced stylus support can use Tablet Events in AppKit to enable pressure and tilt for Apple Pencil. Additionally, developers can specify custom behavior for double-tap on the side of Apple Pencil through a changeMode event. Continuity Markup and Sketch Continuity Markup: Write and sketch on PDFs or mark up your documents with Apple Pencil. See the updates live on your Mac as you mark them up on your iPad. Continuity Sketch: Create a sketch on your iPad using Apple Pencil and easily insert it into any document on your Mac.

Screen Time Usage reports: Screen Time creates usage reports that show you how much time is being spent on your Mac, which apps are used most, and how many notifications are received. With iCloud, Screen Time combines all your usage information and syncs Downtime settings and App Limits across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Downtime: With Screen Time, you can schedule downtime so you or your child can only use specific apps you've approved. App Limits: With App Limits, you can set the amount of time you want to use your apps and websites. Set App Limits for total time, categories, or specific apps. Combined Limits: Create combined limits with a combination of app categories, specific apps, or websites. One More Minute: When a limit is met, you can tap "One more minute" to give you time to quickly save your work or wrap up a conversation. Communication Limits: Communication Limits let you control who your children can communicate with and who can communicate with them throughout the day and during downtime.

Managed contact list for children: Parents can use Screen Time to manage the contacts that appear on their children's devices. Family Sharing: Parents can configure Screen Time from any device iPhone, iPad, or Mac and have everything set up for their kids on all their devices. Security Enhanced Gatekeeper: Gatekeeper will ensure that all new apps you install from the App Store or the internet have been checked for known security issues by Apple before you run them the first time and periodically thereafter. This extends the protection from the app's source to include automated checks for what's in the app. Data protections: macOS Catalina checks with you before allowing an app to access your data in your Documents, Desktop, and Downloads folders; iCloud Drive; the folders of third-party cloud storage providers; removable media; and external volumes. In addition, you're asked before an app can perform key logging or capture a still or video recording of your screen.

Activation Lock: All Mac models with the Apple T2 Security Chip now support Activation Lock just like your iPhone or iPad. So if your Mac is ever misplaced or lost, the only person who can erase and reactivate it is you. Dedicated system volume: macOS Catalina runs in a dedicated, read-only system volume which means it is completely separate from all other data and helps improve the reliability of macOS. DriverKit and user space system extensions: Previously many hardware peripherals and sophisticated features needed to run their code directly within macOS using kernel extensions, or kexts. Now these programs run separately from the operating system, just like any other app, so they can't affect macOS if something goes wrong. Find My Two great apps in one: Find My iPhone and Find My Friends are now combined in a single, easy-to-use app to help you locate the people and devices that are important to you. Find offline devices: Locate a missing device even if it's not connected to Wi-Fi using crowd-sourced location.

When you mark your device as missing and another Apple user's device is nearby, it can detect your device's Bluetooth signal and report its location to you. It's completely anonymous and encrypted end-to-end, so everyone's privacy is protected. Enhanced location notifications: Location notifications include the ability to schedule notifications for different days of the week, more useful place names, and enhanced privacy controls. Approve with Apple Watch View passwords: Anywhere you need to type your Mac password, such as viewing passwords in Safari preferences, you can now double-click the side button on your Apple Watch to authenticate on your Mac. Approving app installations: Unlock a locked note, approve app installations, unlock settings in System Preferences, and modify root files, all with your Apple Watch.

Accessibility Voice Control: Voice Control is a new way to fully control your Mac, iOS, and iPadOS devices entirely with your voice. Accurate dictation: Voice Control improves on the existing Enhanced Dictation feature using the Siri speech recognition engine, so you get the latest advances in machine learning for audio-to-text transcription. Add custom words: Whether you're writing a biology report, filling out a legal document, or emailing about a favorite topic, you can add custom words to ensure that Voice Control recognizes the words you commonly use. On-device processing: All audio processing for Voice Control happens on your device, ensuring that your personal data is kept private.

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Jump to a Section. This article covers what you need to build a Hackintosh and why you would build one, how to create a bootable Hackintosh installation USB drive, and how to install it on a PC. The first step in installing macOS on a PC and creating your own Hackintosh is to create a bootable USB with macOS on it. This requires a working Mac that has access to the Mac App Store , a USB thumb drive, and some time. It isn't difficult, but it is a little time consuming, and it's important to make sure that you get each step exactly right. Scroll to the bottom to see a full list of what you need to build a Hackintosh. Before you proceed, consider backing up your Mac just in case you run into any problems during the initial creation of the installation media.

If you have your Mac and a USB thumb drive ready, then you can follow these instructions to make a bootable macOS USB:. Using a Mac, open the Mac App Store. Log in using your Apple ID if prompted. Search for and download the latest version of macOS. This will allow you to load into recovery mode. Wait for macOS Recovery to load. With the terminal open, type csrutil disable and then press enter. Wait for the terminal to display a message that SIP has been disabled. Once your Mac has booted up, connect your USB drive. Open Disk Utility. Select your USB drive in the left column, then click Erase. In the pop up menu, enter a name for your USB drive, select Mac OS Extended Journaled , and click Erase. Click Done. If you didn't already download it earlier, download the latest version of UniBeast from the Tonymacx86 tools download section. Click Continue. Click Agree. Click the USB drive that you set up earlier, and then click Continue.

Select Catalina , then click Continue. Select UEFI Boot Mode or Legacy Boot Mode , then click Continue. UEFI Boot Mode is recommended for all systems that are capable of using UEFI. Only select Legacy Boot Mode if you have older hardware that can only use BIOS. If you are using an NVIDIA or ATI graphics card, make the appropriate selection and click Continue. Take a look at your selections, and click Continue if you didn't make any mistakes. Enter your password if prompted, and then click OK. UniBeast will now create your installation media.

This process can take a while, so just leave it alone until it's done. After you have successfully created your macOS installation USB, you will need to remove it from your Mac and plug it into the PC that you want to turn into a Hackintosh. This is a fairly long process that involves formatting the drive in your PC and performing a clean installation of macOS. If you don't want to format or erase your drive, you'll have to remove it and install a different one before you proceed. For this tutorial, an Intel NUC DCIYE was used as the PC base to create a Hackintosh, and the settings seen in screenshots pertain specifically to that hardware configuration. Make sure to select settings that are compatible with your hardware. Here's how to install macOS on your PC:. From the Clover boot screen, select Boot macOS Install from Install macOS Catalina. If your PC is set to boot from USBs, you'll see this screen without needing to do anything. If it isn't, you'll have to press F8, F11, F12, or the appropriate key for your motherboard to choose your USB drive as the boot device.

Select your desired Language , and click the forward arrow. Select Disk Utility from the macOS Utilities menu. Click your PC hard drive in the left column. Click Erase. Enter a new name for the drive, select APFS for the format, and click Erase. Return to the main macOS Utilities menu, select Install macOS , and click Continue. Click Continue to proceed with the installation of macOS on your PC. When you complete the installation process, your PC will reboot. You may need to manually select macOS Catalina from the bootloader if it macOS doesn't load automatically. Your PC has macOS installed at this point, and it will probably work to one degree or another depending on the specific hardware that you used. You may find that some peripherals don't work quite right, the graphics aren't displayed correctly, or that there are other issues. Even if your new Hackintosh seems to work, the final step of installing macOS on a PC is to run the free MultiBeast tool from Tonymacx This app configures your macOS installation to work seamlessly with your PC hardware, so skipping this step is not advisable.

Run the Multibeast app. From the Quick Start menu, select UEFI Boot Mode if your PC supports UEFI, or Legacy Boot Mode if it only supports BIOS. If you didn't already download it earlier, download the latest version of MultiBeast from the Tonymacx86 tools download section. This is a different app from UniBeast, but you can find it in the same location. Click Drivers , and select the audio drivers that are necessary for your hardware. Click Misc , and select any necessary drivers. Click Bootloaders , and select your desired bootloader. Click Build , verify your settings, and click Save to save your Multibeast settings. If you have problems with these settings, you can load and alter them later to fine tune things.

Click Install. Enter your password if prompted, and click Install Helper. When you see this screen, you can restart your Hackintosh. If it runs as expected, you're done. Otherwise you'll need to run MultiBeast again and make sure you have selected all the right drivers and settings for your individual PC hardware. Building a Hackintosh is a multi-step process that isn't exceptionally difficult, but it is time-consuming, and it's also very precise. While you can technically build a Hackintosh without any specialized knowledge or experience, having a background in PC building and some knowledge of macOS helps. This is the hardware and software you need before you can build a Hackintosh:. There are a lot of reasons to make a Hackintosh instead of just buying a Mac, but the primary factor is cost.

You can build a Hackintosh with more powerful specifications than any Mac for less money. If you prefer macOS over other operating systems, but you want to save some money by putting together your own system, then building a Hackintosh is an attractive option. The downside is that Apple doesn't support this procedure, and they have even actively discouraged it. You won't be able to get tech support for macOS on your PC, and Apple may block services like Facetime and iMessage on your custom Hackintosh as well. If you're willing to risk it, then you stand to save some money and have a much greater level of control over your hardware choices than you would with an off the rack Mac. To update Macs running macOS Mojave You can update Macs running macOS High Sierra To run Windows on a Mac , the best-known option is Boot Camp. This utility is included free with your Mac and allows you to install Windows directly on your Mac's hardware.

Get the Latest Tech News Delivered Every Day. By Jeremy Laukkonen. Jeremy Laukkonen. Jeremy Laukkonen is automotive and tech writer for numerous major trade publications. When not researching and testing computers, game consoles or smartphones, he stays up-to-date on the myriad complex systems that power battery electric vehicles. lifewire's editorial guidelines. Reviewed by Jessica Kormos. Jessica Kormos is a writer and editor with 15 years' experience writing articles, copy, and UX content for Tecca. com, Rosenfeld Media, and many others. Tweet Share Email. In This Article Expand. How to Create a Bootable Hackintosh Installation USB Drive. How to Install macOS on a PC Using the Installation USB. Finish Setting Up Your Hackintosh. What You Need to Build a Hackintosh. Why Make a Hackintosh? Frequently Asked Questions.

You may find that some peripherals don't work quite right, the graphics aren't displayed correctly, or that there are other issues. Automatically store all the files on your desktop and in your Documents folder in iCloud, and access them from all your devices. Learn more about Pages. Shared Tab Groups Share tabs and bookmarks, send messages and start FaceTime right from Safari. AirPlay 2 for iTunes Control your home audio system and AirPlay 2-enabled speakers throughout your house Play music at the same time on multiple AirPlay 2-enabled speakers in your house, all in sync Other improvements and fixes Fixes an issue that may prevent Photos from recognizing AVCHD media from some cameras Fixes an issue that may prevent Mail users from moving a message from Gmail to another account Previous release notes: The macOS High Sierra

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