Find what you saw on your Mac.
Practical guides: built-in macOS tricks first, then what a screen memory adds.
- Find text you saw on your MacYou saw it on your Mac — a number, a name, a sentence — and now it’s gone. Seven ways to find it again, from browser history and Spotlight to a screen memory.
- Search text in screenshotsFind a screenshot by the words in it, copy text out of any image with Live Text, and stop losing screenshots — built-in macOS methods first, then the shortcut.
- Screen memory and privacyAn app that remembers your screen sees everything. Ten questions to ask before you trust one — where it runs, what it keeps, who can open it.
- Screen Recording permissionWhy apps ask for Screen Recording on Mac, how to allow or remove it, why macOS asks you to confirm again, and how to see which apps can see your screen.
- Never lose tracking numbers and codesThe tracking number in an email you can’t find, the recipe you closed, the promo code that flashed by. Where to look now, and how to stop losing them for good.
- ChatGPT Computer History, explainedWhat ChatGPT’s Computer History logs on your Mac, where its files live, how long they stay, and how to pause it, exclude apps, delete it or turn it off.
- Find a website you visitedFind a page you visited days or weeks ago in Safari or Chrome on Mac — history search, synced devices, how long history lasts, and what to do next.