Get ready for macOS Ventura
Make your Mac Ventura-ready and keep your files safe
Written by Carrie Marshall
Apple’shomage to its home state continues, with macOS Ventura due for release this autumn. As the next version of macOS is near, it’s a great time to get your system ship-shape, your storage streamlined and your Mac Ventura-ready.
As in real life, we all know that we should strive to stay on top of our Mac housekeeping – but as in real life, it’s often tempting just to skip it, just this once, because we’ll totally catch up next week. Or the week after. Or the week after that. Before long you’ve got a cupboard full of spiders, a chair barely visible under a pile of clean laundry or a Mac that’s full of unwanted apps, duplicate photos and remnants of long-deleted documents.
That doesn’t just look bad. It’s inefficient too. It can mean frantically trying to free up space because an app or macOS update doesn’t have room to install. It can mean spending ages trying to track down that important thing when you need it in a hurry. And it can mean discovering at the worst possible time that the document, file or photo you’re looking for has been lost or damaged. That last one is why we’re also looking at another kind of housekeeping: backing up. macOS and third-party apps can make backing up your irreplaceable photos, videos and other important data completely automatic and utterly effortless. Backups have saved us from catastrophes on endless occasions, and there are lots of really effective options ranging from free tools that come with your macOS to affordable but extremely comprehensive backups for businesses.