Teach Yourself VISUALLY MacBook Pro & MacBook Air, 6th Edition

CHAPTER 3

Sharing Your MacBook with Others

macOS makes it easy to share your MacBook with other people. Each user needs a separate user account for documents, e-mail, and settings.

Create a User Account

Configure Your MacBook for Multiple Users

Share Your MacBook with Fast User Switching

Set Up Family Sharing

Turn On Screen Time and Set Downtime

Set Time Limits for Apps and Websites

Make Apps Always Available to a User

Apply Content and Privacy Restrictions

Review a User’s Actions

Create a User Account

A user account is a group of settings that controls what a user can do in macOS. By creating a separate user account for each person who uses your MacBook regularly, you enable users to have their own folders for files and to use the settings they prefer. You can also use the Screen Time feature to limit and monitor the actions a child user can take.

When initially setting up your MacBook, you create an administrator account that you can use to configure macOS. You can also create a nonadministrator account for yourself for day-to-day use.

Create a User Account

While logged in using your administrator account, press  + click System Preferences () on the Dock.

The contextual menu ...