2022 M2 Chip Powered MacBook Air User Guide

By Stanley Lindberg

Apple has unveiled a revamped and improved 2022 MacBook Air. This model was the first to employ the new M2 CPU and included the MacBook Air series' most significant update since 2010. The 2022 MacBook Air has an updated design and does away with the tapered shape that previous generations of the Apple MacBook Air are known for. The new 2022 MacBook Air has a thin, unibody design similar to the MacBook Pro but with insane speed.

It is your best option if you need a high-quality laptop and have additional money to spend. Despite offering excellent performance, more than 14 hours of battery life, and a clear and vivid display, it has a delightfully portable design.

The device has many new features and functions that will make your MacBook experience amazing and interesting. Some of the things discussed in this guide include the new features, how to set up the device, how to set up a time machine, how to update macOS, how to sync with iPhone and iPad, and so much more.

Here is a snippet of what you stand to learn from this guide:

Set up Your New 2022 M2 MacBook Air

Create an Apple ID on Mac

Sign Up via System Preferences

Sign Up via the App Store

Sign Out of Your Apple ID

Sign In to Another Apple ID

Set Up and Use Time Machine

Turn On Time Machine Backups

Restore Files from a Time Machine Backup

Create and Remove Partitions on the Mac

Add a New Disk Partition

Remove a Partition on Your Mac

How to Update macOS

How to Use and Customize the Dock

Change the Dock's Size

Change the Dock's Orientation

Hide/Show Dock on Mac

Hide Recent Apps on the Dock

Set Up & Use Screen Time on Your Mac

Enable Screen Time

Monitor App Usage

Impose App Limits

Set Downtime

How to Setup Family Sharing

Invite Family Members in Family Sharing

Invite People in Family Sharing

Join Family Sharing Group

Any many more

• Language: English
• Publisher: Charles Smith
• Release date: Sep 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215165553

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2022 M2 Chip Powered

MacBook Air

User Guide

A Comprehensive 2022 M2 Chip MacBook Air User Manual with Tips and Tricks 

Stanley Lindberg

Copyright

Copyright © 2022 Stanley Lindberg  

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Features of the MacBook Air 2022

Chapter 1

How to set up the MacBook Air (2022)

Setting up the macOS Monterey on MacBook Air 2022

Chapter 2

Set Up and Use Time Machine

How to repair MacBook Air 2022 with Time Machine

How to recover data from a Mac using Time Machine

Create and Remove Partitions

How to Create a New Partition on a Mac's Disk

How to Remove a Partition

How to Use a Terminal to Erase a Partition

How to Update macOS Monetary

Chapter 3

How to Sync your iPhone & iPad with Your MacBook Air

Sync music to your device

Sync Movies to your Device

Remove Automatically Synced Movies from your Device

Sync TV Shows between your MacBook Air 2022 and iPhone or iPad

Remove TV shows that were automatically synchronized from your device

Synchronize podcasts on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad

Remove auto-synced podcasts from your device

Synchronize audiobooks on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad

Delete any audiobooks that have been automatically synchronized to your device

Synchronize books between your MacBook Air and iPad or iPhone

Remove automatically synced books from your device

Synchronize images between your MacBook Air and iPad or iPhone

Remove automatically synced photos from your device

Synchronize files from your Mac to your iPad or iPhone

Chapter 4

How to Use and Customize the Dock

How to Customize the Dock on Your Mac

Resize the Dock

Add a Spacer to the Dock

Hide Recent Applications

Change Position of the Dock

Adjust Magnification

Add and Remove Apps from the Dock

Add Folders to the Dock

Chapter 5

How to Set up & Edit iCloud

Change Your iCloud Account Information

Access your iCloud content on your MacBook Air 2022

How to Sign Out of iCloud on your MacBook Air

Private Relay

Setting up iCloud Private Relay

Chapter 6

Set Up and Use Screen Time on Your Mac

How to Set Up Mac Screen Time

How to Monitor App Usage

How to Place App Limits

How to Set Downtime on Your MacBook Air

How to Continually Allow Apps

Setting Communication Limits

How to Manage Privacy & Content

Chapter 7

How to Setup Family Sharing

How to Set Up Family Sharing

Add Family Members to a Family Sharing Group

Change the Credit Card Shared by a Family Sharing Group

Remove Family Members from a Family Sharing Group

Change the Services Family Members Use in Family Sharing

Share Purchase with Others in Your Family Sharing Group

Download and View Purchases Made by Other Family Members

Hide a Purchase from Other Family Members

Make Hidden Items Visible to other Family Members

Stop Sharing Your Purchases

Chapter 8

How to Enable Focus Mode

Setting up Focus Mode on macOS 12 Monterey

How to Set Up Details of Your Focus Mode

How to Activate Automatic Responses

How to Automatically Run Focus Mode

Other Focus Mode Options

Add or Remove a Focus

Chapter 9

How to use Quick Notes on a Mac

What Quick Note provides

How to Create Quick Notes

Create Quick Notes with a Click

Create Quick Notes by Selecting Text

Create Quick Notes with a Keystroke

Adding and Editing to Quick Notes

Add Links in Notes

Add Links to an App

Attach Files, Photos, and More in Notes

Add Items Directly from another App to a Note

View Attachments from All Your Notes

Hot Corners

What is Mac Hot Corners?

Setting up Hot Corners

How to use the Hot Corners in macOS 12 Monterey

Use macOS Hot Corners for Easy Drag and Drop

What if the Hot Corners don't work?

Chapter 10

How to use Notes on Mac

Customize the Notes Toolbar

Pick your view

Organize Notes with Folders

Rename a Folder

Rearrange Folders

Delete a Folder

Work with Notes

Create a note

Move a note

Pin a note

Lock a note

Delete a note

Format your notes

Sort your notes

Search Notes

Add items to your notes

Add media to notes

Add attachments to note

Browse attachments in Notes

Add tables to notes

Add checklists to notes

Share your notes

Add people

Use your Share Menu

Chapter 11

How to use Spotlight on the Mac

What can Spotlight help you locate?

Accessing and Using Spotlight

Customize Spotlight Results

Hide Content from Spotlight Search

How to Use Hey Siri

How to Enable Hey Siri without Touching the Keyboard on a Mac

Chapter 12

How to use Live Text on Mac

Interact with Text in a Photo Using Live Text in Preview

Chapter 13

How to Create a New Shortcut

Adding a Shortcut to the Menu Bar

Set up a Shortcut as a Quick Action

Create a Custom Shortcut

Gallery

Delete Shortcuts

Chapter 14

How to use Finder on a MacBook Air

Where is Finder?

Common Features and Mac Finder Solutions

Tips for Making the Most of the Mac Finder

How to Shut Down and Restart Finder on a Mac

Determining a Search Type

How to Change a Finder's Default Folder

How to Rename Multiple Files and Undo it

How to Show or Hide the All My Files Icon

Troubleshooting Common Finder Issues

Chapter 15

How to Set Up FaceTime on a Mac

Setting up FaceTime on a Mac

What you need for a Mac FaceTime video chat

How to call someone on FaceTime

How to accept calls on your Mac using FaceTime

What does group FaceTime entail?

How to Stop Unwanted FaceTime Calls?

Use FaceTime Links

Join a Call Using a FaceTime Link

Screen Sharing on FaceTime

Share Your Screen on FaceTime Using SharePlay

Use Share Play to Watch and Listen Together on FaceTime

Watch Video Together

Listen to Music Together

Turn off Shared with You in Each App

How to Stop Receiving FaceTime Calls

What Should be done when FaceTime isn’t Working?

Fixing SharePlay not working in FaceTime

Chapter 16

How to Split Screen

Adjusting Split View

Accessing Mission Control in a Split-Screen View

Why is my MacBook Air Unable to Use the Split Screen?

How to use other apps in Split View

How Can I Leave Split Screen Mode?

Picture-in-Picture Mode: How to Use

Picture in Picture in Safari: How to Use

How to use YouTube's Picture in Picture feature in Safari

How to access the playback menu's Picture in Picture mode

Access Picture in Picture from the Address Bar

Enter Picture in Picture Mode Using a Safari Extension

How to use Google Chrome's Picture-in-Picture mode

How to use Chrome's Picture-in-Picture mode to watch YouTube

Using Picture in Picture in Firefox

Chapter 17

How to Set up and Use Universal Control in MacBook Air

Device Compatibility

Upgrade your iPad and MacBook Air

Installing Universal Control

Enable Universal Control on the iPad

Using Universal Control

How to Disable Universal Control

How to Use iPad as a Sidecar

Setting up Sidecar

Change Sidecar Options

Chapter 18

How to Use the Continuity Camera

Take a Photo

Scan documents

Chapter 19

How to Use Memoji

The Process of Making Memoji Stickers

How to Change, Replicate, or Delete a Memoji

Using Memojis as Your iMessage Group Photo

How to Change Your iMessage Profile Picture to a Memoji

Chapter 20

How to use Voice Controls on Mac

How to activate Voice Control

How to Use Voice Control

Basic Navigation

Number Overlays

Grid Overlays

Dictation

Create your Voice Commands

Create your Dictation Vocabulary

How to Use Wake Up/Sleep in Voice Control

Add and Change the Voice Control Language

Create Custom Commands Using Voice Control

Delete Custom Commands in Voice Control

Modify the Microphone Settings for Voice Control

Enable and make use of the Overlay feature found in Voice Control

How to disable the Voice Control feature

Chapter 21

How to Use the Reminder App

How to Set Up Recurring Reminders

How to Set Up Assigning Tasks

How to Assign a Task to Another Person

How to Share a Reminder List

Share a List

Add People to a Shared List

Change who can Share the List with Others

Remove or Delete People from a Shared List

Stop Sharing a List

Add or Change Reminders

Add a Reminder

Add a Reminder Using Natural Language

Change or Add more Reminder Details Using the Inspector

Chapter 22

Set Up and Use Apple Pay on Mac

Setting Up Apple Pay in Safari

Managing Your Apple Pay Cards on Your Mac

Setting a Card as Default for Apple Pay

Remove a Card from Apple Pay

Chapter 23

How to Use Widgets on Your Mac

Add Widgets to the Notification Center

Customize Widgets in the Notification Center

Remove Widgets from the Notification Center

How to Record your Mac’s Screen

Screen Record Using the Screenshot Utility

How to Stop Recording Your Mac's Screen and Save It

Advantages of Recording with a Screenshot Utility

Screen Record Using QuickTime Player

Advantages of Screen Recording with QuickTime Player

Chapter 24

How to Use AirPlay

Show the AirPlay Icon on the Menu Bar

How to Use AirPlay on a Mac

Use AirPlay from the Menu Bar

AirPlay Audio and Video from Your iPhone or iPad to Your Mac

How to AirPlay Music From an iOS Device to a Mac Computer

How to AirPlay Videos from an iOS Device to a Mac

Add and Download Music

Add Music to your Library

Download Music to your MacBook Air

Chapter 25

How to Create and Customize Voice Recordings

Creating Voice Recordings on Voice Memos

Editing Voice Recordings on Voice Memos

Replacing a Section of the Recording

Trimming a Section of the Recording

Remove a Section of the Recording

Creating a Copy of the Same Recording

Remove/Delete Background Noise from your Recording

Chapter 26

How to use Tab Groups in Safari

Using the Tab Group Controls

How to create a Tab Group from scratch in Safari

Adding a single website to a Tab Group in Safari

How to see each tab in a group simultaneously

Close tabs in Safari

Chapter 27

Turn On Mail Privacy Protection

How to Turn on Mail Privacy Protection

Install and Run Microsoft Windows 11 on a 2022 MacBook Air

How Do Parallels Work?

How To Set Up

About the Author

Introduction

The 2022 MacBook Air has a whole new look, an upgraded M2 CPU, and a notched display. While it more closely resembles the design of the MacBook Pro, it is still the same ultra-thin and light laptop we have come to adore, but with a steep price.

The new, very thin MacBook Air comes in four gorgeous finishes and has a more prominent 13.6-inch Liquid Retina display, a 1080p HD camera, MagSafe charging, and other features.

Additionally, M2 adds 24GB of quick unified memory, ProRes acceleration, and up to 20 hours of battery life. The general aesthetic is quite similar to the current MacBook Pro models. Although the corners of the device have a somewhat flat appearance, they are not as thick as those of the MacBook Pro. When you take up the MacBook Air, you'll instantly note how small it is—it measures only a hair over 11 millimeters.

Two Thunderbolt ports and a MagSafe power input are located on the left side, whereas the only connector on the right is a headphone jack. Even while there aren't many connectors, you do get an additional Thunderbolt port to use while the tablet is charging thanks to the inclusion of MagSafe.

The MacBook Air 2022 model does away with the speaker grille on the laptop's lid, choosing instead tiny speaker grilles in the hinge and beneath the