Running Your Apple Devices Lean, Clean, and Mean. with Dave Hamilton

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1 Running Your Apple Devices Lean, Clean, and Mean with Dave Hamilton

2 What you ll learn How to keep your Mac and iphone running clean Preventative steps to take before problems hit What to do when things aren t right Mac Bliss & Cool Stuff Found: Some of Dave s favorite tips and apps he uses to keep his devices running smooth

3 What you won t learn Not focused on pushing your Mac to its limits Goal is to keep a machine running safe and sound so you can get your work done.

4 But first... why? What are the benefits? Computers builds up cruft over time. The more stuff you have, the more space it takes up. You probably don t use everything on your devices. Prep your devices and yourself for the day when disaster does strike.

5 Running Clean Startup Cleanup System Preferences- >Users & Groups Login items tab Check everything here Google what you don t know before removing

6 Running Clean Startup Cleanup Check launchd Use Lingon - peterborgapps.com/ lingon/ Be careful!

7 Running Clean Extensions You can Disable and Re-Enable Demo->

8 Running Lean Quitter Quits or hides apps after idle timeout Based on app s inactivity, not system wide If you haven t used QuickTime in 30 minutes, let Quitter quit it! Free!

9 Running Clean Activity Monitor Built into macos /Applications/Utilities/ Activity Monitor Real-time output of CPU, RAM, Network usage, Disk Usage Demo->

10 Tangent - Cool Stuff Found istat Menus At-a-glance access to System State/health Memory, Network, Disk, CPU Usage, Temperature in the menu bar - US$15

11 Running Lean App Tamer Throttle apps when they re consuming background CPU From makers of Default Folder X Better Battery Life, More Speed $14.95 from stclairsoft.com

12 Running Lean and efficient Content Caching Lets you cache icloud Content and/or Software Updates You only download it once over the internet, everyone else downloads locally High Sierra brings Content Caching to everyone (previously just macos Server)

13 Running Clean File/Cache Cleanup OnyX - Delete caches automatically

14 Tangent Keystroke Efficiency Synced Shortcuts Saving time is what it s all about Like TextExpander light, but synced to your main ios keyboard, too Demo!

15 Running Clean Spotlight smoothing Skip external drives and unnecessary folders Drag/Add to Privacy Demo->

16 Running Lean Hazel Automated Organization for your Mac Watches your files and folders so you don t have to Auto-sort downloads Demo(s)! -> Delete support files along with apps Auto-empty trash on schedule $32 from Noodlesoft.com

17 Tangent - Cool Stuff Found OmniDiskSweeper Finds sizes of everything on your drive Free at Demo->

18 Running Clean The BIG secret Unix was built for apps to start up and run for months or even years Consumers use computers differently: multiple apps, opened and closed regularly/daily As such, macos s RAM, virtual memory and caches can become full and fragmented The BIG secret: REBOOT! At least weekly.

19 Running Clean What we ve learned Clean up system startup Login Items Launchd (with Lingon) Reboot regularly! Clean caches (manually or using OnyX)

20 Preventative Maintenance Disk Utility Repair File System File System Repair can be run from boot drive. Better if run from Recovery Partition with CMD-R at boot.

21 Preventative Maintenance Test Account Go to System Preferences->Users & Groups Create new Test user with Administrative Privileges Remember the password Good when your system starts acting funky. You can log in as this user. If successful with test operations, you know it s a user preference and not a system-wide issue

22 Preventative Maintenance The BIG secret Well, rebooting doesn t hurt But Backing Up is better Time Machine - Built into macos Carbon Copy Cloner - bombich.com Prosoft Data Backup -

23 Tangent - Cool Stuff Found TimeMachineEditor Time Machine Backs Up Every Hour Can slow down your machine timesoftware.free.fr/ timemachineeditor/ Must Turn Time Machine Off Demo->

24 Preventative Maintenance What we ve learned Keep our drives happy Create a test user The Secret: BACKUP! and as a bonus... REBOOT!

25 Disaster Strikes Machine Won t Boot Go to single user mode (Cmd-S at Start), run fsck If that finds problems, it will fix them and automatically run again until it runs clean. Boot from Recovery Mode (Cmd-R) and run Disk Utility Boot from Drive Genius and rebuild directory Target-disk mode to another Mac to copy data and punt!

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27 Running Lean Check ios Wi-Fi Assist Wi-Fi Assist uses cellular data when Wi-Fi is present, but weak Good, but can result in surprise data usage Best to check how yours impacts you in Settings!

28 Running Lean Avoid the Scroll of Shame We all install way too many apps on our iphones. (It s a fact) Bulk removing apps is cumbersome, at best (also a fact) imazing to the rescue! $39.99 at imazing.com

29 Running Lean Check ios Battery Status/Usage ios 11.3 Now reports battery health and performance Also can see apps that use battery Some of them!

30 Running Clean Preserving Advertising Privacy There s nothing wrong with ads except creepy ads that know everything about you.

31 Running Lean on ios The (not so) Secret Your iphone is a computer that runs Unix, too Very similar to macos, in fact. The BIG secret: REBOOT! imazing will do it for you wirelessly

32 ios Preventative Maintenance Apple doesn t let us do much Backups are pretty much it. Definitely do icloud Also do a local one imazing (again!) imazing mini (free) will backup for you

33 When Disaster Strikes (but your iphone still works) Use the Apple Support App on ios Online chat in the app Remote diagnosis Schedule mail-in service Test your battery (and other components)

34 Q&A Visit Yes,