Night Shift automatically changes the colors on your display to warmer tones after dark, which may help you sleep better if you plan to do some late-night computing by cutting down on how much blue light your eyes receive before bed. You can also click the Night Shift button in the lower-right corner of the Displays menu to customize the feature for your Air. You can manually adjust the brightness up or down by sliding the Brightness bar accordingly, and you can disable the Automatically adjust brightness feature by unchecking its checkbox if you don't want macOS futzing with screen brightness in response to ambient lighting.

There are some other options you can use in this menu to customize how your MacBook Air's display looks. Play around with this setting to see what looks best to your eyes, then select whatever option feels right. If you set your Resolution to Scaled, you can choose different scaling settings which either make details (like text) appear larger, or make them appear smaller so you can see more on screen. You should see that your Resolution is set to Default for Display, which is good but not always ideal, especially if you have a hard time reading small print. Click the Apple button in the top-left corner again, then navigate to System Preferences > Displays.Ĭhanging your MacBook Air's display to a Scaled resolution can make it more comfortable to use, especially if you have a hard time reading small text. To do that, you have to open the Displays menu within the System Preferences menu. Your MacBook Air defaults to a standard screen scale and brightness setting which may not be ideal for your needs, so it's a good idea to customize your screen early in the setup process. Customize your screen to suit your tastes You can tell macOS to automatically check for updates and install them from here on out by checking the Automatically keep my Mac up to date checkbox at the bottom of the menu. If you do, simply click the Update Now button to begin the installation process. The Software Update menu will tell you if you have any outstanding macOS updates to install. Simply click on the Apple logo in the top-left corner of your MacBook Air's screen and navigate to System Preferences > Software Update. Luckily, macOS makes checking for updates a straightforward process. If there are any updates available, hit the Update Now button to install them.

Launching Software Update should be one of the first things you do on a new MacBook Air.

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