9 New Tips & Tricks for MacOS Ventura to Check Out Now

Oct 25, 2022 - 7 Comments

MacOS Ventura features

Did you just install macOS Ventura on your Mac? Or maybe you’re thinking of downloading Ventura and installing the latest MacOS release, and you are just curious to see what some of the more exciting features and tips are for MacOS 13? Then check out some of these great new capabilities that the Mac has gained with the Ventura release.

1: Use Your iPhone as a Mac Webcam

Assuming your iPhone is running iOS 16 or newer, you can use it as an HD webcam on your Mac with Continuity Camera.

Selecting the iPhone as the camera to use is really easy, though it may vary per app. Look for where ever the camera selection setting is, and choose your iPhone from the camera list.

Use iPhone as a webcam in macOS Ventura

You can get the snazzy Belkin iPhone webcam adapter for newer model iPhones directly from Apple if that looks enticing to you.

2: Use Quick Look in Spotlight Results

Spotlight is the fantastic search feature accessible anytime from the Mac by hitting Command+Spacebar, and now you can preview your search results even better with Quick Look which now works with Spotlight search results.

Just select a result in Spotlight and hit the spacebar as usual to open Quick Look.

Quick Look in Spotlight results

3: Clock App Comes to the Mac

The Clock app has come to the Mac, finally!

Clock app on Mac

This may not seem like a big deal if you rely on your iPhone or iPad for timers, stop watchers, and alarms, but for those who want the option to set an alarm or timer on their Mac, the inclusion of Clock app in MacOS is a nice added touch.

4: Stage Manager Brings a New Multitasking Option

Stage Manager is a new multitasking interface available to the Mac (and select iPad models) that allows you to group apps and windows and flip between those apps and windows at once.

The interface takes some exploration to get used to and may not for everyone, but like all multitasking interfaces and window managers, it’s worth exploring to see if it clicks with you.

Stage Manager in MacOS

You can access Stage Manager on the Mac by going to Control Center and toggling into it to turn the feature on and use it.

And if you like Stage Manager on Mac, you might also appreciate it on the iPad too.

5: Undo Sent Messages

You sent an embarrassing message. Or maybe you sent it to the wrong person. Or maybe the message could be interpreted as rude. Or maybe you didn’t mean what you said. We have all been there, right?

Just right-click on a sent message and choose “Undo Send” from the menu options.

Undo Send to unsend messages on Mac

Now with MacOS you can unsend sent messages, as long as the recipient is also using a modern MacOS, iOS, or iPadOS version.

This feature is available for five minutes, and only works with other iMessages (meaning blue text messages), and for those running the latest system software versions (macOS Ventura 13.0 or newer, iPadOS 16 or newer, iOS 16 or newer).

6: Edit Sent Messages

Similar to undoing sent messages, you can edit sent messages on the Mac.

Right-click on a message after you send it and choose “Edit” to edit that message. Perfect for correcting a typo, the wrong word, capitalization issues, improper grammar, or whatever else you’re looking to adjust.

Edit Sent messages on Mac

And just like unsending messages, this feature only works with other iMessage users (meaning blue messages), and between users running the latest system software versions (macOS Ventura 13.0 or newer, iPadOS 16 or newer, iOS 16 or newer).

7: Schedule the Sending of Emails with Mail App

You can finally schedule the sending of emails right from the Mail app on Mac.

This is a great feature if you want to send a particular email at a given time, whether it’s a birthday wish, anniversary reminder, a resignation letter, or anything else that is time relevant.

After you compose your email in Mail app, look for the little pulldown menu next to the send button, and choose when you want to send the email from the options.

Schedule the sending of email on Mac from Mail app

You must have the Mac and Mail app open for email scheduling to work, so if you schedule something out to send two years from now, you’ll need to keep that in mind.

8: Undo Sending of Emails on Mac with Mail App

Much like you can unsend iMessages now, you can unsend emails for a limited time too.

After you send an email in Mail app on Mac, look for the “Undo Send” option in the lower left corner of the main Mail window. Clicking that will unsend the email.

Undo sending of email on Mac Mail app

The default undo sending offers 10 seconds to undo the sending of an email, but with Mail Settings you can adjust that to a longer period if desired.

All this really does is delay the sending of the email by the time, but since it’s often right after clicking ‘send’ that people have regrets about what they sent, or realizations of a typo or error, it’s reasonable to behave this way.

9: Redesigned System Preferences Becomes System Settings

System Preferences has been renamed to System Settings, and it looks like someone copy and pasted everything from an iPhone over to the Mac.

If you like scrolling through lists of settings more than clicking on familiar icons, you’ll really appreciate the all new System Settings in MacOS Ventura.

System Settings in MacOS

Some settings will be in familiar places, whereas others have moved to new locations and under new names, keeping us all on our toes.

What do you think of the new features, tricks, and changes brought about in macOS Ventura? Do you have a favorite? Let us know in the comments.

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Posted by: Paul Horowitz in Mac OS, News, Tips & Tricks

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  1. Bob says:

    Looks a whole lot like Linux/Gnome with an OSX skin. My first time going through it and I’m like WHAT?? this is awfully familiar to my Ubuntu desktop, and I’m Highly Disappointed in it. Doesn’t feel like a Apple product but a refined linux one. I miss Aqua…OSX is getting more Bloat from services/features I don’t use, like windows has. How do I fix the F/kin Keyboard?

  2. jill cd says:

    Stage manager looks like it would be so useful if only it could be set at the right hand side of the screen !

  3. Keh Haruta says:

    4. Stage Manager
    I thought this would be a great feature. Unfortunately there is a hidden restriction. I have assigned some of the apps to “All Desktops.” These apps that have been assigned this way never go to the left side of the screen. They just stay in the middle. So this feature doesn’t help me.

  4. Ken Haruta says:

    4. Stage Manager
    I thought this would be a great feature. Unfortunately, there is a hidden restriction. I have assigned some of the apps’ option to “All Desktops.” These apps that have been assign that way never move to the left side of the screen − they just stay in the middle. So, for me, this feature is useless.

  5. Peter J. Large says:

    Item 9 is a massive improvement. I now can find out easily how to do some things that previously I had no idea where to find the action that I needed.

  6. Elwood Downey says:

    Nothing too exciting for me. Worse thing so far about Ventura is ssh broke from my iPad using UNIX Reflection. To fix I had to edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config to add these lines:

    HostKeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa,ssh-dss
    PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms +ssh-rsa

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