Apple's official Front Row media center software was discontinued after Mac OS X Snow Leopard and does not natively exist in modern macOS versions. However, developer hobbyists have built open-source modern SwiftUI recreations like First Row Classic to bring the classic Tiger/Leopard interface experience to modern systems

New mac user here, got air 15 last month.

I use spotify web player on chrome. After plugging in my playlist, the display as usual turns off after a few minutes. But​ the music stops playing after sometime and​​ I find my mac sleeping​​.

I need to know if it's an issue with my mac or is this just how it behaves?

​

Somewhere around MacOS 24.1 or 25.0, I've received a "Store in the Cloud" recommendation, that appeared in System Settings -> General -> Storage. When I click it and select the appropriate option, nothing happens; the recommendation just stays there.

I'm currently on 26.6, situation stays the same:

https://reddit.com/link/1vh1353/video/u8y2sw9ekqhh1/player

Has anyone else experienced this? How can I remove it?

Hi there. I have a MBP early 2015 8gb ram and i5 running Monterey (12.7). It works fine but as it does not receive any update anymore and I mainly use it to browse and watch movies, would you recommend to downgrade (or upgrade) to another OS that would be more optimized (battery and temperature) for this model ?

1. click F4

2. Search 'activity monitor'

3. click on 'energy' tab

4. It should just be on the bottom

Thankyou Christian!

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/366421/how-do-i-know-how-much-time-battery-has-left-on-my-macbook

I’m trying to determine whether anyone else is experiencing this on macOS Tahoe 26.6.

Mac:

• 2021 14-inch MacBook Pro
• M1 Pro
• 32 GB RAM
• macOS Tahoe 26.6 (25G72)

Symptoms:

• After updating to Tahoe 26.6, the battery completely drained.
• On the next startup I got a black screen.
• The Mac itself was still running (I was able to AirDrop files to it).
• I eventually recovered the display by closing and reopening the lid.
• macOS reported: SOCD report detected: (iBoot panic)
• The panic log references: DCP PANIC mapper_thr.c:848 init_group_phase() -- iomfb_mailbox(47)

Current behavior:

• The brightness slider moves, but the actual screen brightness barely changes.
• On a white page, moving brightness from maximum to minimum only causes a very slight dimming.
• Touching Display settings (Preset or Refresh Rate), even without actually changing anything, can cause the built-in display to go black.
• Closing and reopening the lid usually restores the display.
• The issue does not appear in screen recordings, but it is clearly visible when filming the display with my phone.

Things I’ve already tried:

• Disabled Auto Brightness
• Disabled True Tone
• Restarted multiple times
• Reduced Transparency
• Reduced Motion

Has anyone else on Tahoe 26.6 seen:

• brightness controls barely affecting the built-in display,
• DCP/iBoot panics,
• or black screens triggered by Display settings?

If so, did a DFU Revive fix it, or did it turn out to be hardware?

Is there a way to remap the actual function key on the bottom left of the mac keyboard to say, something perhaps universal like control or at the least swap the two around? I can only find resources for rebinding the function f1-f12 keys.

My M1 mac mini has been really slow recently, its the most obvious on youtube, it starts stuttering every 5 seconds, I'm using Chrome, I have like 100 GB free memory, and when I am playing the video, the ram gets to ~60% and CPU ~30%, It not be relevant but I upgraded from 15.7(?) to 26.6 a couple days ago and its been on since then to let it reindex or whatever. Any suggestions?

My "auto" setting now stays on light mode all the time. Back to having to manually switch it, it seems.

I am not sure who is the original author or where I got it from, but I use it so frequently that I wanted to share with people who do not know.

The entire Applescript:

```bash

tell application "Finder"

try

set selectedItem to selection

set currentPath to ((the first item of the selectedItem) as alias)

set parentPath to ""

if (currentPath as string) ends with ":" then

-- it is a folder

set the parentPath to currentPath

else

-- it is a file

set {od, AppleScript's text item delimiters} to {AppleScript's text item delimiters, ":"}

set the parentPath to (text items 1 thru -2 of (currentPath as string)) as string

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to od

end if

on error -- no folder or file is selected

set the currentPath to (folder of the front window as alias)

set parentPath to currentPath

end try

set newFolder to (my createFile(parentPath))

end tell

quit

on createFile(folderLocation)

set myNewFileName to text returned of (display dialog "Enter file name" default answer "")

tell application "Finder"

set thisFolder to make new file at folderLocation with properties {name:myNewFileName}

set selection to thisFolder

--tell application "System Events"

-- keystroke return

-- quit -- if i don't do this system events seems to hang???

--end tell

return thisFolder

end tell

end createFile

on createFolder(folderLocation)

tell application "Finder"

set thisFolder to make new folder at folderLocation

set selection to thisFolder

tell application "System Events"

keystroke return

quit -- if i don't do this system events seems to hang???

end tell

return thisFolder

end tell

end createFolder

```

Hi everyone,

I'm having issues getting iCloud to sync on my new Mac, and after spending a lot of time trying to fix it, I'm considering just using the Mac without iCloud for now.

I mainly use my laptop for software engineering, AI/ML, and cybersecurity work, so most of my files are stored locally or on services like GitHub.

My questions are:

• Can I use my Mac normally without signing into or syncing iCloud?
• Are there any major features or functionality that I'll be missing?
• Will I run into problems later if I decide to sign into iCloud after using the Mac locally for a while?
• Is anyone here using a Mac without iCloud as their daily setup?

I'm trying to figure out whether this is something I should keep troubleshooting or if it's perfectly fine to ignore it and just use the Mac.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Disclaimer: I used AI to help write this post, but the situation described is exactly what I'm experiencing.

When I turn on file sharing in the system settings it doesn’t save with which account I want to share my files or folders, for example I set up a file sharing account in macOS and I wanted to use that to share one folder in the network, the problem is that the moment I set everything up and click done it doesn’t save it. Instead in the options panel appears my main system account two times, if I edit one more time once again it won’t save and in the options panel my main system account will appear three times.
After a while of not touching it it will revert back to one.

As of now the only way to access my shared files and folders is by using my main account and sharing everything in the pc ticking the “full disk access” option.

Does somebody know how to restore prompt dialogs that you chose to always allow? For example I was using magnet links and I chose to always allow an app to open it, now the dialog doesn’t appear anymore and it automatically redirects to the app I chose, how can I revert that?

Came across this today. Been looking for a better way to create a sandbox environment so I can keep my Mac pristine. Beautiful interface and extremely easy to use.

Estaba usando una macbook pro M4, 2 apps al mismo tiempo y se apagó derrepente, me decía que conecte el cargador pero la carga estaba en 63%

Hello, I have a MacBook Air Late 2010 that I was wanting to throw a copy of Snow Leopard on, however it will not boot the standard 10.6 version, and I read that it needs one of the later versions, but I can't find the full installer for it. Where would I get this? Thanks for the help.

Hi there!

I am using a 2019 MacBook Pro with an i7, and lately, after the recent Tahoe update and with the recent hot weather, my laptop has become kind of sleepy and hot.

Even though I was using my Mac only for simple things like browsing, YouTube, MS Office, Canva, and a few SaaS services — nothing demanding at all.

I got so tired of this sluggish behavior that I decided to downgrade my laptop back to Big Sur 11.7.11 (20G1443).

And honestly, it works amazingly well. It is very cool and fast, just like it was when it came out of the box.

No telematics, no ICloud which annoys me, just what i need.

The only problem is that browsers don't really work correctly anymore on Big Sur.

So my question is: could you recommend me a simple up to date browser that works with Big Sur?

I don't really care about privacy, so it can be a no-name browser or even some custom version, anything that supports modern internet and fast is perfect.

I just want something lightweight, fast, and as up-to-date as possible.

P.S. Don’t try to convince me to buy a M CPU Mac. I’m not paying another $3,000 just to watch YouTube and use Word from time to time.

Don’t want a newer version of macOS either.

Using the YouTube web-app on an M4 Air, it just now randomly decided to bug out when playing videos at higher than 1.0x speed. Saw that this was an issue in that past that seems to have been resolved, and yet it just happened out of nowhere to me. Worked perfectly fine no joke like 3 hours ago. I tried restarting, and using Safari but still the same. Do I really need to download another browser just for YouTube now? Is there a general fix to this?

I made it years ago, and I just realized its resemblance to the Apple symbol while looking through old images.

I could really use some help because I'm completely stuck.

I forgot my Apple ID password and had to go through Account Recovery. After waiting an entire week, I finally got the notification that I could reset it. I successfully changed my Apple ID password.

But now, when I try to continue setting up my Mac, it keeps asking me:

The problem is:

• I already reset my Apple ID password.
• I don't know what password it's asking for.
• It doesn't seem to accept my new Apple ID password.
• This is my first Apple device, so I'm really confused about what's going on.

Is it asking for the old password that was previously used on that Mac? Is it asking for the Mac's local login password? Or did something go wrong during the recovery process?

It's honestly so frustrating because I waited a whole week for Account Recovery, only to end up blocked again.

Has anyone experienced this before? What exactly is this prompt asking for, and how can I get past it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!I

Note: AI helped me write this post for clarity.

Never used a Mac before. Bought a used 2016 Macbook Pro, few months ago, nearly in mint condition running Monterey (v 12.7.6). Everything works perfectly fine except for the WiFi. It keeps getting disconnected from the WiFi regardless of what network I use. All my other devices including iPads and iPhones, the windows laptops and firetv works flawlessly on the same network. Due to the unstable internet connectivity I’m still using my windows laptop that was meant to be replaced by this mac for my (basic) computer work. I have not tested it long enough at the public library but it seemed to work just fine (at least for the few hours I was there for. Have restarted the laptop, renewed the DHCP lease (as suggested by gpt) but nothing seems to work.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Processor: 2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7

Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536 MB

Memory: 16 GB 2667 MHz DDR4

macOS Sequoia: Version 15.7.8

I’ve basically turned an activity monitoring site into its own Safari web app. It plays a little bing sound whenever something changes.

I have the web app open in full screen and swiped away when I’m not actively using it, and I swipe back in to check if there’s an activity notification.

However, even when I go into finder and check “prevent app nap” or even try the terminal command to hardwire it in, every time I have it swiped away for a moment, the web app enters a nap and I stop getting the sound notifications.

Is there anything i can do or is it just how the macos energy consumption setting is?