macOS Ventura – 14 Settings You NEED to Change on Launch

The release of macOS Ventura is near and after playing with the latest beta over the last few weeks on the M2 MacBook Air, here's the 14 settings you absolutely must change once you upgrade to macOS Ventura, or when you get a brand new Mac. These settings help bolster security, optimize speed and help organize your digital life.

What settings will you change through this video and how are you liking the new macOS so far?

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0:00 - Apple macOS 13 Ventura Settings
0:30 - Enable Rapid Security
1:26 - Updated Hide My Email
2:14 - New Optimized Spotlight
3:40 - Ambient Sounds
5:18 - Featured Content
6:20 - Setup New Fonts
7:28 - Stage Manager
8:30 - Enable Live Captions
9:40 - New Weather Notifications
10:20 - Smart Folders
11:32 - Sync Desktop Folders
11:52 - Duplicates
12:45 - Disable Natural Scroll
13:32 - Nintendo Controllers

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macOS Ventura – 14 Settings You NEED to Change on Launch
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[pindabter]

Team natural scroll, 100%. If I swipe up on my trackpad, I push the content up. On mice with scroll wheels, however, that makes less sense.

In the end, it's all about muscle memory and what you're (willing to get) used to.

[somekindofmonster]

Natural scroll is same as scrolling with your iphone, a gesture we are so used to now. When it is disabled it really feels unnatural :D

[bryncb]

I can't imagine scrolling with a trackpad without natural scrolling enabled. It mimics the gesture you'd use on mobile and also if you were pushing a piece of physical paper up and down. It's so much more intuitive than the reverse.

[BrenoCaldeira]

Nice tips! There's one that I love, it's not new, but a lot of people don't know about it:
Go to:
Settings > Accessibility > Pointer Control > Trackpad Options.
Turn on: Use trackpad for dragging
Dragging style: Three Finger Drag.

Now you can drag any window (on the top bar), icon and other stuffs with 3 fingers. That's is awesome and I don't know why is not inside Trackpad menu.

[OMGWTFLOLSMH]

I'm with you on the scrolling. I like to move my fingers down to scroll down. I've been doing it that way for decades and I'm not changing.

[littlesots]

Mac vendetta - super great video thanks!

[christophertran]

Another well-framed 14 settings video. Very practical informative and enjoyable. Thanks!

[sunshinecycling]

Stage Manager looks great, but I think you need a big enough screen, so it doesn't feel as intrusive. Perhaps at least a 16" MacBook or even a standalone monitor.

[colethomas]

Team natural scroll, but what has driven me nuts about macos is that for some reason, natural scroll on trackpad and on mouse is linked. On the trackpad, I like natural scroll, I hate it on a mouse though, but whenever you change it for either trackpad or mouse, it changes it for the other. So recently I've just been sucking it up and using the unnatural scroll for the trackpad cuz I use a mouse 90% of the time...

[ItssBrian]

I like natural scrolling on the touch pad, but hate it on a mouse. I use an app called scroll reverser 2 to get the setting I want.

[landylaura]

Agree about the natural scrolling. Natural? Unnatural. How did they ever come up with that? But this has been around for ages.

[kossboss]

Team Natural Scroll. I like the default on MACs for the trackpad because it feels like pulling on a piece of real scroll or something. Then for mouse I like to toggle it. There is a free tool yet.

[JCFILM]

13:18 this is the very first thing I turn off when setting up a new Mac. totally on you side!

[TheDrigodamus]

You can drag that ear icon on to the top toolbar also…anything from control center pretty much. 5:08

[LieSociety]

I'm with you on Natural Scrolling. There is NOTHING natural about it!! Down is down and up is up :)

[thermogenesis]

the stage manager I'm not gonna lie it was pissing me off, did not know how to remove it.. dude thank you soooo much man stage manager I hate it.. I was gonna go to the Apple Store and jump on some ones back to take that thing off.. you are a life saver man "MAC VENDETTA"

[DonnaBrooks]

The scrolling setting drives me crazy, too. I didn't have to watch your video to find out how to change it because as soon as I tried scrolling, I was like, "Oh hell no!" I went to System Settings within, like, 30 seconds, and I just searched for the setting & changed it. IDK what's considered UNnatural about moving your finger DOWN when you want to go DOWN!

[AntonioCuamatzi]

Natural scroll seems so much… NATURAL for me. I love it.

[zoestar]

I like the idea of Stage Manager but I also like to have windows open next to each other in case I need to reference between the two. I wish there was a way to make both possible. Also I'm team unnatural scroll, so you're not alone!

[daypeace]

For trackpad, team natural scroll, because we are moving the page, just like using the phone or tablet.
For mouse (beside Magic Mouse), team unnatural scroll (or should I say scroll bar). I think apple should give a setup of scrolling for trackpad and mouse, otherwise need to use "reverse scrolling" app.