Adam Kos If you've ever wondered if your home or office internet connection is fast enough, you've probably turned to web tools. You could also share the screen, for example. However, macOS Monterey includes these and a few other apps in its base, it just doesn't show them much.
Native and commonly installed applications can be found in Launchpad or Finder and its Applications tab. But not all of them are here. If you want to see the hidden ones, you have to find the drive of your computer in the Finder, open it, select it System -> Library -> CoreServices -> Applications. There are then 13 applications where, for example, About this Mac displays the same information as the company logo selection menu in the upper left corner of the system and the menu of the same name. In it you can also find storage management, i.e. the same application that is also found here.
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System apps not appearing in the normal app list:
- Directory utility
- Archive utility
- Wireless network diagnostics
- DVD player
- Feedback Assistant
- iOS App Installer
- Setting folder actions
- Expansion slot settings
- About this Mac
- Ticket browser
- Screen sharing
- Network utility
- Storage management
Wireless network diagnostics
This is an application that will find common problems with your wireless connection. It can also track intermittent connection drops on the wireless network. After the wizard completes, an appropriate diagnostic message will be saved to the /var/tmp folder.
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It's rather funny that even if you find a network utility icon here, after launching it, macOS will tell you that it is no longer supported. So the application refers you to the Terminal. When you enter a command in it networkquality you'll find out your actual upload and download capacity, commonly expressed in Mbps or megabits per second, along with a simple classification of your network quality as high, medium or low.
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Screen sharing may work if you specify who to connect to. Archive utility then it practically just replaces the Finder function that you can find under right-clicking on a directory, which is compression. Through Feedback Assistant then you can report system errors directly to Apple after signing in with your Apple ID.
