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r redirects here for the generic class of programs see system profiler system information formerly system profiler is a software utility derived from field service diagnostics produced by apple s service diagnostic engineering team at that time located in apple satellite buildings in campbell california that was bundled with the classic mac os since mac os 7 6 under the name apple system profiler in mac os x 10 0 the first release of macos it was renamed system profiler with the release of mac os x 10 7 lion it was again renamed to system information 70 other new features in lion are the ability to look up support information for the user s hardware model as well 71 in os x mountain lion and later versions of macos users can also access system information by holding down the option key and system information will replace about this mac in the apple menu it compiles technical information on all of the installed hardware devices drivers applications system settings system software programs and kernel extensions installed on the host computer it can export this information as plain text rtf or in the plist xml format this information is used to diagnose problems system profiler can be extremely useful if attempting to diagnose a hardware problem a user can send the information directly to apple if the user desires it has support for scripting automation through applescript and some limited support in automator system information can also be accessed by using the system_profiler command through macos s terminal application 72 terminal edit main article terminal macos terminal 2 11 running the top program under macos terminal is a terminal emulator program first originating in nextstep and openstep before being carried over into mac os x 73 74 it provides text based access to the operating system in contrast to the mostly graphical nature of the user experience of macos by providing a command line interface to the operating system when used in conjunction with a unix shell such as zsh the default shell since macos catalina 75 76 the user can choose other shells available with macos such as the kornshell tcsh and bash 76 77 voiceover utility edit main article voiceover voiceover utility is a screen reader application which allows the user to listen to spoken directions from the computer providing accessibility for blind and low vision users 78 79 voiceover also includes support for many braille displays in addition voiceover includes features for those that cannot use the mouse such as keyboard based navigation features edit control center edit control center provides access to system controls such as wi fi bluetooth and sound in a unified interface accessible from the menu bar some of these controls can be added to the menu bar by dragging them from control center additional components can be added in system settings 80 available controls include the template below col begin is being considered for deletion see templates for discussion to help reach a consensus wi fi bluetooth airdrop focus stage manager keyboard brightness available on macbooks screen mirroring display sound now playing accessibility shortcuts battery available on macbooks fast user switching dock edit main article dock macos the dock is the main method of launching and switching between applications it is a component of the graphical interface shell of macos it can hold any number of items and resizes them dynamically to fit while using magnification to better view smaller items by default it appears on the bottom edge of the screen but it can also instead be placed on the left or right edges of the screen if the user wishes finder edit main article finder software finder is the default file manager it is a component of the graphical interface shell of macos it can be used to open files and launch other applications and is responsible for the overall user management of files disks and network volumes the finder uses a view of the file system that is rendered using a desktop metaphor that is the files and folders are represented as appropriate icons there is a favorites sidebar of commonly used and important folders on the left of the finder window finder can also display previews of a range of files such as images applications and pdf files the quick look feature allows users to quickly examine documents and images in more detail from the finder by pressing the space bar without opening them in a separate application following the deprecation of itunes finder is also now responsible for the backup and transfer of files to iphone and ipad devices launchpad edit launchpad is an application launcher that was introduced in os x lion it displays all applications installed on the user s machine in a grid of icons which can be put into folders launchpad provides an alternative way to start applications in macos in addition to other options such as the dock finder and spotlight search launchpad can be used to uninstall apps that came from the mac app store 81 the launchpad was replaced in macos tahoe with an applications interface which integrates with spotlight and categorizes apps into categories similar to the app library on ios and ipados 82 mission control edit main article mission control macos mission control is a window management system and application introduced with the release of mac os x 10 7 lion combining the features of the previous dashboard exposé and spaces programs it allows a user to view and organise all open application windows at once including the ability to move windows between different connected monitors and virtual desktops notification center edit notification center displays notifications from apps and websites users access notification center by clicking the clock in the menu bar on macos big sur or the notification center icon in earlier versions of macos notification center can be customized in system settings siri edit main article siri siri is a digital assistant introduced in macos sierra that allows the user to interact with it to ask questions make recommendations and perform actions either on the device or by delegating requests to a set of internet services with continued use it adapts to users individual language usages searches and preferences returning individualized results spotlight edit main article spotlight apple spotlight in macos big sur spotlight is macos s selection based search system used for indexing documents pictures music applications and system settings within the computer in addition specific words in documents and in web pages in a web browser s history or bookmarks can be searched it also allows the user to narrow down searches with creation dates modification dates sizes types and other attributes time machine edit main article time machine macos time machine is a backup mechanism introduced in mac os x 10 5 leopard it creates incremental backups of files that can be restored at a later date and allows the user to restore the whole system or specific files the software is designed to work with both local storage devices and network attached disks and is most commonly used with external disk drives connected using either usb or thunderbolt 83 84 system components edit archive utility edit archive utility bomarchivehelper until mac os x 10 5 is the default archive file handler in macos it is usually invoked automatically when opening a file in one of its supported formats 85 it can be used to create compressed zip archives by choosing create archive of file leopard compress in the finder s file or contextual menu it is located at system library coreservices applications archive utility app in os x 10 10 and later system library coreservices archive utility app in 10 5 through 10 9 and system library coreservices bomarchivehelper app in 10 4 86 prior to archive utility s inclusion in mac os x v10 3 beginning with mac os 7 6 apple bundled the freeware stuffit expander with the operating system invoking archive utility manually shows a minimal gui letting the user change archive utility preferences or choose files to compress or uncompress bom is an abbreviation of bill of materials bill of materials files or bom files are used by the macos installer program to document where files in an installer bundle are installed what their file permissions should be and other file metadata thus a bill of materials is read by the installer and archive utility helps it by extracting the files specified in the bom crash reporter edit crash reporter is the standard crash reporter in macos 87 crash reporter can send the crash logs to apple for their engineers to review crash reporter has three modes of operations basic the default mode only application crashes are reported and the dialog does not contain any debugging information developer in addition to application crashes crashes are also displayed for background and system processes server the default for macos server systems no crash reports are shown to the user though they are still logged none disables the dialog prompt crash reports are neither displayed nor logged the developer tool crashreporterprefs can be used to change modes as can using the terminal command defaults write com apple crashreporter dialogtype basic developer server in basic mode if crash reporter notices an application has crashed twice in succession it will offer to rename the application s preference file and try again corrupted preference files being a common cause of crashes citation needed when reporting a crash the top text field of the window has the crash log while the bottom field is for user comments users may also copy and paste the log into their e mail client to send to a third party application developer for the developer to use diskimagemounter edit diskimagemounter is the utility that handles mounting disk volume images in mac os x starting with version 10 3 diskimagemounter works by either launching a daemon to handle the disk image or by contacting a running daemon and have it mount the disk like bomarchivehelper diskimagemounter has no gui when double clicked doing so does nothing the only gui the program ever displays is a window with a progress bar and mount options cancel or skip verification or an error report if it could not mount the image it is found in system library coreservices diskimagemounter app starting with version 10 7 apple removed double click support for images using legacy metadata 88 diskimagemounter will not be able to open img ndif only smi self mounting dc42 disk copy 4 2 and dart dart disk image formats that were previously supported in version 10 6 and earlier diskimagemounter supports a variety of disk image file types 89 apple disk image dmg com apple disk image udif disk images udif com apple disk image udif udif segment devs dmgpart com apple disk image udif segment self mounting image smi com apple disk image smi dvd cd r master image toast dvdr cdr com apple disk image cdr com roxio disk image toast disk image segment dmgpart 89 raw disk image ostypes devr hdrv ddim com apple disk image raw pc drive container ostypes opcd com apple disk image pc iso image iso public iso image sparse disk image sparseimage com apple disk image sparse sparsebundle as of macos 11 0 support for the following formats has been removed disk copy 4 2 disk image dc42 diskcopy42 com apple disk image dc42 dart disk image dart com apple disk image dart ndif disk image nb 1 ndif img com apple disk image ndif ndif disk image segment imgpart com apple disk image ndif segment directory utility edit directory utility is a utility included with the macos previously mac os x operating system to configure connections to directory services prior to mac os x 10 5 this tool was named directory access apple s ldap implementation is called apple open directory dvd player edit dvd player formerly apple dvd player is the default dvd player introduced in mac os x 10 1 it supports all the standard dvd features such as multiple audio video subtitle tracks as well as dolby digital 5 1 passthrough dvd access urls and closed captions in some instances users can choose which vob file to open dvd player is also fully compatible with dvds authored by dvd studio pro and idvd including hd dvds by dvd studio pro 90 as of macos mojave it has been updated to 64 bit sports a new icon and has better touch bar support dvd player complies with most copyright laws and will thus enforce most restrictive measures of dvd technology such as region restrictive encodings and user inhibited operations disabled actions it does this even when using an all region dvd drive it will even force apple s screenshot program to cease functioning through the finder interface until the dvd player application is quit effectively preventing the user from taking screen captures of visual dvd content the software does not contain a dts decoder so dts tracks cannot be played through the mac s built in speakers or analog output however dts tracks can be output to devices that have their own decoder so playback is supported through outputs such as s pdif displayport and hdmi it has never supported the ability to play blu ray discs 91 feedback assistant edit the feedback assistant is made available to customers in the apple software customer seeding appleseed for it or apple beta software programs and allows a user to manually send feedback reports or requests to apple 92 helpviewer edit help viewer is a webkit based html viewer for macos aimed at displaying help files and other documentation it is found in system library coreservices help viewer app the default file extension is help help index files are generated with help indexer macos applications typically use help viewer to display their help content rather than a custom system help viewer s implementation in mac os x 10 5 leopard found its way to rob griffiths list of leopard criticisms because apple changed the software from a standalone application with a standard window interface to one with a floating window that always appears in front of all other application windows obscuring the interface for which one is seeking help see image below although one can close or minimize the help viewer window it is difficult to consult the help viewer while simultaneously working with the application short of changing the size of windows so both fit on the screen 93 the help viewer window also does not work with the exposé window management feature mission control in os x 10 7 or later there is a workaround using the defaults command accessible in the terminal 94 95 installer edit installer extracts and installs files out of pkg packages allowing developers to create uniform software installers installer launches when a package or metapackage file is opened the installation process itself can vary substantially as installer allows developers to customize the information the user is presented with for example it can be made to 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