Guides

Dictation on macOS, written to be useful whether or not you ever install anything of ours.

• The Mac dictation shortcut.

  Where to set it, why the double-press option is the one that fails, and how to read what is actually bound when the settings screen disagrees with your keyboard.

• Mac dictation not working? Start here.

  Nine causes, ordered by how often each is actually the problem, with the fix for each on macOS 26.

• Clipboard history on a Mac.

  macOS remembers one thing you copied. What Universal Clipboard really does, and what to look for in a clipboard manager — starting with where it keeps your passwords.

• Offline speech to text on a Mac.

  Two different things get called offline. What runs on your machine, what still needs a network, and how to tell which you are getting.