How to Prank Someone on a Mac

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Last Updated: June 12, 2023

Pranking someone can sometimes be long, painstaking, and difficult to pull off. However, with more people owning computers, pranking has become much easier. Move down to Step 1 to find out how prank someone on a Mac!

Method 1

Method 1 of 5:

Flip the screen and alter the trackpad

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You can either find it in the dock, or when you scroll down from the apple in the lefthand corner. Open the preferences up in the home page.
Notice the new function, Rotation.

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The trackpad changes settings as well, so, at 90°, if you move to the right, the cursor moves down. If you move up, it moves right. Also note that the dock and menu bar change positions as well! (This is only at the 90° setting!)
Watch your victim struggle with the screen. Laugh gleefully.

Method 2

Method 2 of 5:

Enlarge the cursor

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You can either find it in the dock, or when you scroll down from the apple in the lefthand corner. Open the preferences up in the home page.
This is in the bottom righthand corner, and the icon is a person inside a blue circle.
The icon is the same as the Display icon on the home page.
You can scale it varying amounts, but as a prank, the biggest is the funniest!

Method 3

Method 3 of 5:

Have the computer read everything on the page

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You can either find it in the dock, or when you scroll down from the apple in the lefthand corner. Open the preferences up in the home page.
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Choose a voice to read everything.
- Go to Diction and Speech. The icon is an old-time microphone.
- Go to text to speech. Click on system voice. Choose a voice already installed or continue on to the next bullet. Be aware that by clicking on the voice here will not change the voice on the voiceover.
- Click on Customize if you want a different voice. Scroll down to English (United States) - Novelty. Choose one of the voices. To hear them, click on the name, then press play.
It is in the bottom righthand corner, indicated by a person inside a blue circle.
Click on it.
A window will pop up saying "Welcome to VoiceOver." Continue to set up VoiceOver by clicking Use VoiceOver.
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Change the voice on the VoiceOver by:
- Clicking on Open VoiceOver Utility.
- Clicking on the Speech tab.
- Changing the voice to whatever voice you want.
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Lock the volume by:
- First turning the volume up as high as it can go.
- Go to Keyboard.
- Check Use a F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys. This will prevent them from changing the volume.
Watch heads turn towards your victim when they walk into the cubicle and open their macbook, and the VoiceOver starts blaring.

Method 4

Method 4 of 5:

Messing with the colors

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You can either find them in the dock, or when you scroll down from the apple in the left-hand corner. Open the preferences up in the home page.
It is in the bottom righthand corner, and is a person inside a blue circle.
The icon is the same as the Display icon on the home page.
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To change the colors to black and white:
- Check grayscale.
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To invert the colors:
- Check invert colors.
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To increase contrast:
- Bring the contrast slider all the way up to the top.
Watch the victim struggle to undo the changes!

Method 5

Method 5 of 5:

Play an annoying video after login

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You can either find them in the dock, or when you scroll down from the apple in the left-hand corner. Open the preferences up in the home page.
It is two silhouettes of people.
Go to Login Items.
A new window will come up.
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Change the victim's homepage to an annoying video, such as:
- Staying Alive: [1]
- Cat Bounce: [2]
- NaNaNa cat: [3]
- Narwhal: [4]