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  1. Setting the Gmail Website as the Default Mail App in Safari Unlike Chrome and Firefox, Safari does not let you easily add a configuration that handles email links. To do this task in Safari you will need an extension.
  2. What if I want to set web-based email like Google Mail as my default mail app? Use the above steps and set Google Chrome as your default email reader. Use Google Chrome as your browser and login to your Gmail account. Select the handler icon located on the right side of the Chrome address bar and choose “Allow“.
  3. To change the default email client from Apple Mail to the Google Web App (GWA) in Google Chrome, you need to do 2 things: 1) In Apple Mail, set Google Chrome as the default email reader: - open Apple Mail and select Preferences from the Mail menu - on the General tab, find Default email reader and click on the drop-down menu - click Select.
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Tired of Mail popping up for every email address you click? Find out here how to make Outlook the default email client on a Mac (even Outlook.com on the web).

To change the default app for a file on macOS 10.15 and set a new one, click on the browser of your choice from the list. Change the Default Email Application In the email department, Mail is the default application that macOS uses when opening emails. Despite being an old stalwart, Mail does not have cooler features of the modern email clients. Fantastical for macOS costs $49.99 on the App Store or direct from the makers. Note that if you buy from the makers you can get a bundle with Fantastical and Cardhop.

How to Make Outlook the Default Email Client on a Mac: FAQ

First, It’s Easier to Catch a Lion Awake

…than it is to meet an elephant that sleeps.

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For elephants, it turns out, sleep a mere 2 to 2½ hours per day. This is a record low for mammals (the lion we caught before dozes away some 80% of the day) and makes sleeplessness their clear default.

Mail on your Mac seems never to sleep either, catching each request for email, each request you want to send to Outlook for Mac instead?

Let’s wake up the latter to be the Mac email default:

How to Make Outlook the Default Email Client on a Mac

Time needed: 5 minutes.

To set up Microsoft Outlook for Mac as the default email program on your Mac using macOS:

  1. Open Mail.
  2. Select Mail | Preferences… from the menu in Mail.

    Mac keyboard shortcut: Press Command, to open Mail settings.

  3. Go to the General tab.
  4. Click the current default email program under Default email reader.

    Tip: This is also where you make any other email program the Mac default.

  5. Select Microsoft Outlook from the list of choices.

  6. Close the Mail preferences window as well as Mail itself.

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Microsoft Outlook is not in the list of email programs; what can I do?

If Outlook is missing from the list of choices for the default email program but is installed on macOS and happily running, you can try picking it manually:

  1. Open Mail preferences. (See above.)
  2. Go to the General tab.
  3. Under Default email reader:, choose Select….
  4. Look for and highlight Microsoft Outlook in the Applications folder or a personal applications folder.
    Note: If you installed Outlook in a custom location, do navigate there, of course, and highlight the Microsoft Outlook application.
  5. Click Select.

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Can I make Outlook on the Web at Outlook.com my default Mac email program?

Yes, using Google Chrome, you can use turn Outlook.com into an app, which you can configure as your default email program:

  1. Open Outlook.com in Chrome.
  2. Click Install Outlook (
  3. Now click Install.
    Note: This will install Outlook on the Web as a Chrome Web App on your Mac.
  4. Open Mail preferences. (See above.)
  5. On the General tab under Default email reader:, pick Select….
  6. Navigate to your Chrome Apps folder.
    Tip: By default, the folder is ~/Applications/Chrome Apps.
  7. Highlight Outlook.
  8. Click Select.

(How to make Outlook the default email client on a Mac tested with macOS Big Sur 11.0 and Catalina 10.15; updated May 2021)

During the pandemic, many people have found themselves sharing their Macs with family members and roommates. In that situation, you may not want every app that you install to be available to everyone who uses the same Mac. There’s a folder within your account that holds apps only you can run: instead of the main /Applications folder at the top level of your startup volume, it’s ~/Applications (technically, /Users/short-account-name/Applications).

Some apps offer a way to control how broadly they are installed, providing options during installation that read something like “install for all users of this computer” and “install for this user only” (the language may vary by installer).

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When installing an app from a disk image or that’s downloaded as a compressed file, you can copy it right to your personal apps folder. Choose Go > Go to Folder in the Finder and paste ~/Applications into it, and then click Go. Now, just drag the app into that folder.

However, if you’re installing through another method that places apps by default into the main Applications folder, including Mac App Store downloads, follow these steps.

  1. Open /Applications, either via Go to Folder, or by opening the main level of your drive in the Finder and double-clicking the Applications folder.

  2. Open a separate window with your app folder via the method noted above or navigating in the Finder through Users > full account name > Applications.

  3. Hold down the Command key and drag the app from the main Applications folder into your personal one. (You must hold down Command or macOS will create an alias instead of moving the app.)

  4. You may be prompted to enter an administrative password, or if you have a Mac with Touch ID, to validate the move with a fingertip.

This doesn’t prevent another user from installing the same app, if they have access to an installer or download, into the main Applications folder or for themselves, however.

This Mac 911 article is in response to a question submitted by Macworld reader Jade.

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Glenn Fleishman is the author of dozens of books. His most recent include Take Control of Your M-Series Mac, Take Control of Securing Your Mac, Take Control of Zoom, and Six Centuries of Type and Printing. In his spare time, he makes Tiny Type Museums. He’s a senior contributor to Macworld, where he writes Mac 911.