How to change your default web browser

How To Change Default App Mode

1. Make sure that the other web browser is installed.
2. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click General.
3. Choose a web browser from the ”Default web browser” menu.

How to change your default email app

In macOS, you can change what app opens a specific file type from the file itself. Right-click a file that you want to change the default app that opens, and select Get Info. How to set your default email reader on Mac. Mail is likely the default email app on your Mac, but just in case you have others downloaded, you can set the default reader. Here’s how: Launch Mail from your dock or the Finder. Click Mail in the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click Preferences. Click the drop-down next to Default Mail Reader. The default apps can be changed any time you like and the change doesn’t require admin rights. MacOS won’t stop you from setting an incompatible app as the default app for a particular file so make sure the app you’re using as the default app for a certain file type can actually open it. There are also apps out there that awful major upgrades from Mac default app functionality. Take Mail.app, for example: a truly broken email application that doesn’t seem to get any better. There are far better options out there on the Mac App Store, which you should definitely explore. Apple has included a series of default applications in OS X that they hope you’ll love and want to use regularly. Calendar, iTunes and Pages are three such stock OS X apps. Mail, Apple’s email program that’s found in both OS X and iOS, is another built-in app that comes standard with any Mac, iPhone and iPad.

How To Change Default App Mode To Light

1. Make sure that the other email app is installed. Although you might be able to use a web browser for email (webmail), a web browser isn't an email app.
2. Open the Mail app.
   
3. Choose Mail > Preferences, then click General.
   
4. Choose an email app from the ”Default email reader” menu.

You might be prompted to add an email account before you can change the setting in Mail. If you don't want to do that, check the preferences of the other email app. You might be able to set a default email app from there.

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Change the default web browser or email app on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

Set Default Apps Mac

Every document or file you save on your Mac is associated with a particular application, so when you try to open it, it always opens with that app, not another app, when you double-click that file’s icon in the Finder. However, you can change the default app that opens a file. For example, so that presentations made with PowerPoint are always opened with Keynote. Let’s figure out how to do it.

Change the default app you use to open a file

Sometimes, you may want an app to open certain file types by default. For example, use VLC to open all.avi files instead of QuickTime, which will not play them for you. Or as I said before, open all the presentations you receive or download in Keynote, and forget about PowerPoint.

In the Finder window, or on the desktop, right-click the file whose default startup application you want to change.
From the context menu, select Open with → Other…

A new window will appear for you to select an app to open the selected file with. In our example, we are going to select Keynote, even though, as you can see in the image above, it already appears in the conceptual menu because I recently used it for this type of file.

• Find and select the app you want to use (Keynote, in this case).
• Check the box “Always open with this application”.
• Press “Open”.

Osx Default Apps

The selected file will be opened with the app you have indicated, but the most important thing is that whenever you want to open this type of macOS file it will be opened by default with the application you have just indicated.