6/13/2023 0 Comments Spotify for mac big sur![]() ![]() Once that launches, the window shows all the options for your Dock: Go into System Preferences… off the Apple menu, then find and click on “Dock and Menu Bar” (note: I think the only reason it wasn’t renamed Dock & Control Center is that the words didn’t fit!) Suddenly pushing audio to an AirPlay compatible system – like my Vizio TV! – is ridiculously easy:īut what if you want to change what’s shown in Control Center? You can do that too. Handy to remember if you want to jump straight to that set of preferences and options in MacOS 11. Also notice on the very bottom the handy shortcut to the Display System Preferences window “Display Preferences…”. Please do enable Night Shift while you’re in this spot. Then you can expand a different pane to see what that offers, like Display… To back up from a zoomed in view like this, simply click on the Control Center icon on the menu bar once. You can see that I’m listening to the track “Aurora” from the Passengers soundtrack by Thomas Newman. For example, if I click on the Music area at the bottom it shows more details and more control buttons: What might not be immediately obvious is that each region of the Control Center is clickable to expand. The pause and next track buttons are indeed exactly the two I’d most want accessible! Notice also that the music player recognizes I’m listening to Spotify and offers a mini info and control window at the bottom of the Control Center. I do that to cluster my audio controls in the same spot personally.Ĭlick on the Control Center icon on the menu bar and Control Center pops up instantly in the top right of your screen:ĭarn handy to have all these controls front and center. Remember, you can still remove menu bar icons you don’t want with a Command-drag off the bar, and you can rearrange the order of them if you prefer with that same Command-drag left or right. Turns out a number of these are now managed by Control Center too, and I’m pretty darn sure that the music player controls is new too, and quite handy if you listen to music incessantly as I do! If you’re curious, my set of menu icons, left to right, are Dropbox, Clipy, iDrive, Bluetooth, Music Controls, Battery, Wi-Fi, Control Center and the date and time. See it? Rightmost next to the date and time. On the menu bar, there’s now a two “slider switch” icon: My suspicion: People might get those confused! Remember, a click on the very top right corner of your screen brings up the Notification Center, which I’ve used extensively since it first showed up, while a click on the Control Center icon in the menu bar brings up the Control Center. While it’s a bit early in the life of Big Sur to know what third party support will manage to find a space in either, it’s not too early to jump into the Control Center and learn a bit more about it and how to customize it to better meet your needs and preferences. The notable changes are mostly behind the scenes, with Big Sur adding significant underlying support for the new Apple M1 CPU chips (versus the older Intel CPUs), but the two most obvious updates are Notifications and the Control Center. Apps are snappier, battery life seems a bit better, and every single dialog box and window in all my programs has changed and looks different and just a bit more friendly. While there’s no denying that MacOS has taken a big step towards a unified user interface experience with iOS, I agree with you that the jump from MacOS X to MacOS 11 “ Big Sur” is a good one. ![]()
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