If you bought a Mac and plan to use it as a family computer, here’s how to create a user account so that each family member can have their own. While you could just use one user account that everyone ...

If you need a new Mac user account for your partner, your kids or your roommate, or want to get rid of an old account, it couldn't be easier. Here's how. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined ...

You can create a new user on your Mac computer to help you avoid issues related to having more than one person on the same profile, like logging in and out of sites and apps. Once you create a new ...

Setting up a guest account on your Mac provides a simple and convenient way for other people to use your computer without handing them access to your private data and digital workspace. Moreover, a ...

On occasion, you may want to allow other people in your home to access your Mac, but not your personal account. We'll show you how to set up and manage temporary guest users. If you are routinely ...

What’s the best way to manage user accounts on a Mac? If you share your Mac with other people in your household or office, you’ll want to set up separate user accounts for each person. Each user can ...

An Apple account serves as the cornerstone of your experience within Apple’s ecosystem, granting access to services like iCloud, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Vision Pro. Whether you’re ...

Although it is often simplest to add a new user to a computer running Mac OS X using the built-in graphical interface, you may prefer to do so from a Terminal window, perhaps because you are ...

If you find yourself always letting people borrow your computer, here’s how you can create a guest account so that they don’t mess with any of your own files. There are many times where might have ...