I am giving my MacbookAir to my daughter and would like to change email address from mine to hers. How can I delete my email and change it to hers?
Also, is there a way to set up Parenting Control without creating another user account? It is so confusing. I just don't want her to have access to inappropriate websites, especially when she downloads new games from the web. Thank you.
MacBook Air
It may be best to leave your account on the Mac and make her a new account. You will still be the admin and make her a standard user making the account with limited access to system items. To make an account follow these instructions.
You can setup parental controls on this system by making a new account for her on the Mac, go into your system preferences and click on users & groups, click the lock icon to unlock, then click the plus sign, make sure the standard user is selected then fill in the info, then click create user. Then click the Enable Parental Controls to restrict the websites.
To change you email address in Mac Mail, go into your system preferences and click on Mail, Contacts & Calendars, then select your account the click the minus sign, then click the plus sign to add her email account.
It may be best to leave your account on the Mac and make her a new account. You will still be the admin and make her a standard user making the account with limited access to system items. To make an account follow these instructions.
You can setup parental controls on this system by making a new account for her on the Mac, go into your system preferences and click on users & groups, click the lock icon to unlock, then click the plus sign, make sure the standard user is selected then fill in the info, then click create user. Then click the Enable Parental Controls to restrict the websites.
To change you email address in Mac Mail, go into your system preferences and click on Mail, Contacts & Calendars, then select your account the click the minus sign, then click the plus sign to add her email account.
If you follow Eric's advice and set up a new account, you don't need to worry about email addresses : the first time your daughter launches Mail it will prompt her to set up her email account, where she will enter her own details. Yours won't be there.
Thank you so much. It worked! Is there a way to avoid log in when she starts up Mac? Make her log in account as a default? I have the same issue with my new MacbookPro, I don't want log in account and password, just go strait to desktop view.
Yes, go to your system preferences and click the security & privacy then click the general tab and click to unlock then put a check mark in the disable automatic login.
Do bear in mind that this could be a security issue - if someone stole your Mac and booted it, they would go straight to your account with all your stuff in there, without needing a password or anything.
That didn't work. "Disable automatic login" is checked and I just restarted both Macs and still password is needed.
And is there a way to set up her account as a default? When I start her Macbook Air two there are two accounts to choose from, mine and hers. Can it be just hers? Thanks so much for your help.
You need to go to your account then make sure you have the check mark, then go to her account and remove the check mark.
In System Preferences, having gone into Login Options, instead of having Automatic Login set to 'Off', click the menu and select her account from the list.
If her account is not an admin account, you have two options for future problems :
1. Keep your account on her machine, password protected, and login to it to resolve any problems she encounters that needs an admin solution.
2. If she is savvy enough, make her account an admin account too, so she can troubleshoot her own problems.
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