It’s exciting to personalize your MacBook and make its features unique to you. But it can also be a little frustrating if you don’t know which app or setting to start with. But don’t worry! This guide will show you a bunch of ways to personalize your MacBook. This includes customizing your MacBook Dock, changing your MacBook wallpaper, changing your MacBook file icon, and more!
We'll give you a step-by-step process to make your MacBook not only an extension of your personality, but also an organized tool that increases your productivity. Kraft
Customizing Your MacBook: All the Settings You Can Customize
Personalizing and organizing your MacBook can elevate your user experience by blending functionality with personal aesthetics. From changing your wallpaper to organizing the MacBook Dock, every detail can be customized to suit your needs and preferences. Let's walk through the many ways you can personalize the look of your MacBook.
The Most Important Step: Use Protective MacBook Cases
KraftCover MacBook protective cases allow you to reflect your unique style to your work environment with color and texture options.
- A vibrant orange color that will show off your colorful character?
- Or is it the dark blue color with its soothing texture?
- A gray MacBook protective case that matches the Mac's sleek gray?
- Or a more formal and powerful aura with a stylish leather MacBook sleeve?
The KraftCover MacBook case collection has options for all styles! It's all about what your style prefers. Moreover, all our cases are super protective for your Mac thanks to their hard and shock-absorbing inner body.
Step 1: Customize Wallpaper and Screensaver
Choosing a MacBook wallpaper that matches your style is key to the look of your MacBook. While there are plenty of ready-made wallpapers available online, creating your own wallpaper adds a unique and personal touch.
Before you create your own wallpaper using apps like Photoshop or Canva, you can change your MacBook wallpaper with stylish and inspiring images that you can download from Pinterest. MacBook wallpaper images that will motivate you before you start working can be a good idea.
So how do you change your MacBook wallpaper? Let's show you with a screenshot. Right-click on your MacBook and click "Change MacBook Background" in the menu that opens. A window will appear where you can easily make your selection! 
Setting Screen Savers
Screensavers can add a dynamic element when your MacBook is idle. To choose designs that coordinate with your wallpaper, create a general color scheme and choose images from that scheme. Raya has selected a selection of aura lights screensavers to coordinate with the wallpaper.
Step 2: Organize Your Desktop
Creating a clear and logical folder system is important for an organized desktop. Consider creating folders for different categories:
- Latest Downloads
- Watch Later
- School Studies
- Instagram Photos
- YouTube Resources
- Current Editing Projects
How to Customize Folder Icons on MacBook
Customizing file icons on MacBook can be a great idea. Customize your folder icons to further enhance the visual appeal of your desktop.
For example, you can create your own white, circular icons that give your desktop a clean, minimalist look using applications such as Photoshop or Canva. If you have the image ready, follow these steps:
- Go to the image you want to use and copy it. You can use the Command C shortcut for this.
- Hover over the file and right click.
- Click on ''Provide Information''.
- Click on the light blue file icon at the top of the window that opens.
- While holding down this icon, press Command V. This will paste the image you copied as a file icon. It's that simple!
Step 3: Customize the Dock
Customizing the Dock, also known as the submenu on a MacBook, makes using your MacBook more functional and easier to find what you're looking for. What's more, it also allows you to organize things visually, making your Mac speak to you.
Adjust Dock Preferences
To adjust the Dock's size, location, and magnification to suit your preferences, go to your system preferences and find "Dock." You can choose a slight magnification to easily find what you're looking for, or you can specify where the Dock sits on the screen.
You can also specify which items you want to include in the Dock and which items you want to exclude.
Organize the Dock
Keep your Dock clean by organizing it with only the most frequently used apps. This not only provides quick access, but also a clean look. To strike a balance between functionality and aesthetics, we recommend keeping only essential apps in the Dock, or those used at least weekly.
Step 4: Implement Widgets
You can track your work plan and daily goals using widgets on MacBook. Planning on MacBook is really easy with Widgets.
Using Smart Tasks
The Smart Tasks widget lets you create tasks right on your desktop so they're always visible and at the forefront of your mind. Customize the color and the list shown so it matches your wallpaper and overall aesthetic.
Include Color Widgets
Color Widgets can be customized to match your chosen color scheme while displaying the time, date, or a personal photo. Raya chose a calendar and clock to ensure key information is always visible at a glance.
Step 5: Additional Customizations on MacBook Pro and Air
We also wanted to add the applications you can add to your MacBook or the additional customizations you can make at the end of the article:
Implementing the Flip Clock App
Add a Flip Clock app to your desktop to add an extra touch of elegance. This app offers a variety of designs and customization options that allow you to choose colors and formats that match your overall design.
Managing Notifications
Avoid distractions by effectively managing your notifications. Go to your system preferences to choose which apps are allowed to send notifications.
