User guide · version of October 1, 2026

Jarvis for Mac

A voice assistant with its own AI: files, movies, mail, documents and the web — in a single phrase. Here is how to install Jarvis, how to talk to it and what it can do.

1. Installation

You need: a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later). The built-in AI needs memory: 24 GB or more is comfortable. On a Mac with less memory you can connect an external AI (ChatGPT, Claude and others).

1. On jarvisapp.tech, leave a request and send a voluntary contribution of any amount. Once it is confirmed you get a personal code like JRV-XXXX-XXXX — on the request page and by email. Keep it.
2. Download the installer with the “Download Jarvis for Mac” button and open it.
3. Drag the Jarvis icon into the Applications folder.
4. First launch: the app isn’t signed with an Apple certificate, so macOS will warn you. Right-click the icon → “Open” → “Open”. After that Jarvis starts as usual.
5. When the app asks for the install code, enter your personal code.
6. Allow access to the microphone — without it Jarvis can’t hear you. The camera is only needed for gestures.

2. First launch

The first-launch wizard asks once:

• Language — of the interface, speech and answers.
• How to address you — for a man: “sir”, “Mr. + surname” or by name; for a woman: “ma’am”, “miss”, “Mrs. + surname” or by name.

You can change it any time: Settings → Form of address → “Change…”.

3. How to talk to Jarvis

• Start with its name: “Jarvis, …”. Without the name nothing happens — a conversation nearby or a line from a movie isn’t a command.
• Say it in one phrase: what to find, where to look and what to do — “Jarvis, find the supply contract and open it”.
• During a movie, just start talking — the sound dips so Jarvis can hear its name, then the volume comes back.
• If several options fit, Jarvis shows a list and asks. Answer “the first”, “the second”, “number three”, name the file, or say “all” or “cancel”.
• “Quiet” stops the answer. “What can you do” shows the list of commands.

4. Voice commands

These are examples, not fixed phrases: speak in your own words and Jarvis gets the meaning.

Find and act

Second brain — answers from your documents

Open

Movies and music

Mail, weather, the web

Files: move, copy, change

Apps, sound, windows

5. Home screen and folders

In the center is the golden sphere: it shows what Jarvis is doing. Listening — the rings speed up; thinking — a “radar” sweeps; speaking — the sphere pulses with the syllables. Widgets orbit around it: mail, weather, load, devices, network, app icons.

Change the look in Settings:

• Home screen: “Orbit” (widgets circle the sphere), “Callouts” (golden lines to panels), “Classic” (panels in the corners).
• Folders: “Around the sphere” or “Grid” — cards in rows.

6. Safety

• Anything that copies, moves, renames or deletes happens only after your “yes”. Jarvis says what goes where.
• Deleting means the Trash only — there is no permanent deletion.
• The built-in AI runs right on the Mac: commands and documents never leave the computer. Answers from documents are searched with Spotlight on the Mac itself.
• Keys for external AI are kept in the macOS secure storage, not in files.

7. Troubleshooting

Questions and ideas — in “Reviews & ideas” on the website. Jarvis grows with your help.

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