How to Prank Someone on a Mac

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! Open system...

Method 1 of 5:

Flip the screen and alter the trackpad

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    Open system preferences. 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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    Hold ⌘ Cmd+⌥ Option down, and click on Display. Notice the new function, Rotation.
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    Change the rotation settings to 90°, 180°, or 270°. 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!)
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    Watch your victim struggle with the screen. Laugh gleefully.
Method 2 of 5:

Enlarge the cursor

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    Open system preferences. 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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    Go to Accessibility. This is in the bottom righthand corner, and the icon is a person inside a blue circle.
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    Click on the display tab. The icon is the same as the Display icon on the home page.
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    Move the cursor size slider to large. You can scale it varying amounts, but as a prank, the biggest is the funniest!
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    Watch your victim scratch his head in confusion as he sees the giant cursor.
Method 3 of 5:

Have the computer read everything on the page

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    Open system preferences. 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.
  2. Choose a voice to read everything.
    1. Go to Diction and Speech. The icon is an old-time microphone.
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    2. 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.
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    3. 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.
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    Go to Accessibility. It is in the bottom righthand corner, indicated by a person inside a blue circle.
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    Go to the VoiceOver Tab. Click on it.
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    Check Enable VoiceOver. A window will pop up saying "Welcome to VoiceOver." Continue to set up VoiceOver by clicking Use VoiceOver.
  6. Change the voice on the VoiceOver by:
    1. Clicking on Open VoiceOver Utility.
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    2. Clicking on the Speech tab.
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    3. Changing the voice to whatever voice you want.
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    Lock the volume by:
    1. First turning the volume up as high as it can go.
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    2. Go to Keyboard.
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    3. Check Use a F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys. This will prevent them from changing the volume.
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    Watch heads turn towards your victim when they walk into the cubicle and open their macbook, and the VoiceOver starts blaring.
Method 4 of 5:

Messing with the colors

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    Open system preferences. 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.
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    Go to Accessibility. It is in the bottom righthand corner, and is a person inside a blue circle.
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    Click on the display tab. 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:
    1. Check grayscale.
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    To invert the colors:
    1. Check invert colors.
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    To increase contrast:
    1. Bring the contrast slider all the way up to the top.
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    Watch the victim struggle to undo the changes!
Method 5 of 5:

Play an annoying video after login

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    Open system preferences. 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.
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    Go to users. It is two silhouettes of people.
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    Click on the victim's user name. Go to Login Items.
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    Click on the Plus. A new window will come up.
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    Add Safari to the Automatically Opened When Logged In List.
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    Change the victim's homepage to an annoying video, such as:
    1. Staying Alive: [1]
    2. Cat Bounce: [2]
    3. NaNaNa cat: [3]
    4. Narwhal: [4]
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    Watch the victim get annoyed again and again.
Update 04 March 2020
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