About Mac Field Guide

Short, practical answers to the Mac problems people actually search for, checked against current macOS.

Who writes it

Mac Field Guide is written by the people behind Oromac, a small studio in Prague that makes Mac utilities, such as Mission Boost. We spend our days inside Mission Control, the Dock and window management, which is why the guide starts there.

How we pick topics

We start from real searches: Google's suggestions and public support forums show which problems come up again and again. Each guide answers one of those questions, with the answer first.

How we check guides

• Every guide lists the macOS versions it applies to and the date we last reviewed it.
• Before a guide goes live, we check its steps in a clean macOS virtual machine, and we revisit guides when a new macOS version ships.
• Terminal commands come with a way to undo them. If a command we used to recommend stops working, we say so on the page.

Search and AI answers

The search box answers from our own guides only, and every answer links to the guides it used. Answers are written by Claude Haiku, a small AI model from Anthropic, so they can be wrong: the linked guide is always the source to trust. We keep the questions people ask, without IP addresses, to find guides that are missing.

An open guide

Anyone can suggest an app or link, request a guide, or report a mistake. A person reads every suggestion, and guide requests go on the public most requested list, where people vote on what we write next.

Found something out of date? Email support@macapp.ondrejromancov.com and we'll fix it.

Privacy

Reading the guide sets no cookies unless you allow them. We use Google Analytics to see which guides help people, in Google’s Consent Mode: until you click Allow it sets no cookies and sends only cookieless pings, and ad features and Google signals are always off. Click Allow and it sets its cookies to count your visits. You can change your answer with the Cookies link at the bottom of any page. Questions typed into search are kept without IP addresses so we can see which guides are missing. Suggestions you send are read by a person; an email address, if you leave one, is used only to tell you when your request is done.

Our own apps

Some guides mention apps we make. They're always labelled Made by us, including in comparison tables, which also list free and competing apps fairly. We don't take payment for coverage. Links to our apps carry a tracking tag so we can see whether the guide is useful to people.

Other good places for Mac help

We link out a lot, because no single site has every answer. These are worth bookmarking:

• Apple Support: the official guides for every macOS feature.
• Apple Support Community: questions answered by other Mac users.
• MacRumors Forums: long-running threads on every macOS release.
• TidBITS: careful, independent Mac coverage since 1990.
• 9to5Mac: news and how-to guides.
• macos-defaults.com: hidden defaults settings with before and after demos.
• r/MacOS and r/macapps: community help and app recommendations.