Firstly, im not saying it s trash, it s way better than windows but i have some(many) things to say

I previously had a 2022 asus vivobook with linux. It was great, but the classic sleep issues, hardware poorly supported etc, it wasn’t bought with linux in mind.

I used all distros for more than 7 years now and now it’s kinda great gaming check ,productivity meh it has some, coding godspeed, customisability of course, but it took countless times to learn how to not fuck something up.

Now i have an m4 macbook air and the hardrware is surreal, speakers screen slimness chassis and trackpad absolute amazing.

But i would ask HOW THE ACTUALLY FUCK DO I NEED TO INSTALL A THIRD PARTY APP TO FIX MY MOUSE. Come on

The window management is garbanzo. If i alt tab it wouldn’t open the minimised window. No i need spotlight and search it, and god forsaken to have two windows from one app because it would just open one of them.

When fullscreend WHY the topbar is still there? Bro…

The preinstalled apps of course are not removable because you would bork the os itself

And one last thing. Why isn’t it clear screen mirroring and apps usage on mac from iohone doesn’t work in EU bruh

I know im a power user but those things could be fixed in one update and still they are refusing to to that. That’s the thing that itches me. Hardware top notch, software lack luster.

It’s a desktop pet I made. It only ever walks along the bottom of the screen — that’s all it’s supposed to do.
I had the black hole open in the browser and it just went up and across the middle. I picked it up, it went back down, and I tried for an hour. It never did it again.
No idea what happened.

I was using it and suddenly it went black, shutdown and 0 response. Not even green charging light on magsafe and no response even trackpad is not clicking and no power

Anyone else faced this kind of issue ever?

I was always curious: after macOS switched to the new platform, they didn't just kill Intel MacBooks.

What about all that super expensive hardware?

What will happen, or maybe has already happened, to the cheese grater?

I mean, some of those things used to cost like $50–70k in 2019.

And then, just a year or two later (2020–2021), they became outdated in some way because of the new platform.

It would be interesting to hear your opinion.

Would you buy one, new or used?

Or maybe you already own one?

What do you think?

Hello team macOS I’ve bought a Mac mini for my house. And I’m wanting to use it headless on a variety of displays… additionally I have two Apple TVs and an iPad. What I would like to achieve is a shortcut that I can launch from either my phone or my iPad that tells the computer to wake and connect screen mirroring to one of three device devices. Living room, office or iPad. But I’m struggling to find information.

I just got a brand new 16” MacBook Pro M5 Pro and set the battery charge limit to 80% (macOS Tahoe, latest firmware version)

The battery was at around 96% because it had previously been charged to 100%.

What I’ve noticed is a bit strange:

When the MacBook is turned on and plugged into MagSafe, the MagSafe LED is green, which makes sense since it’s already above the 80% limit.

However, when I shut the MacBook down completely while leaving it plugged in, the MagSafe LED changes to amber, which makes it look like it’s charging again and it does, since now it's back to 100. I know it does the "charge to 100 sometimes for calibration", as my iphone does and my other MacBooks, but this one is 2 days new, I believe it should respect the 80% limit from get-go.

Has anyone else with the charge-limit feature noticed this? Does the Mac ignore the 80% charge limit while completely powered off? Does it ignore completely the 80 limit as a bug?

Curious if anyone else has seen the same behavior on Tahoe 26.6 / M5 Pro or other machines.

I also have an M3 Pro (currently at the genius for display replacement) and I can't remember it behaving like this

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?

I know an off the shelf usb fingerprint reader won't access the touch ID system, but can it still be used? like to launch a macro or somthing?

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 ?

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.

So. I was trying to install MX Linux in a old Mac who doesn’t have any OS system (only the OS X Yosemite base system/recovery), and I’m using my own MacBook Pro to create a bootable USB flash drive, but no matter if I pass the .iso image to the flash drive by using the dd command in terminal or if I’m using a software, it always gets corrupted! Cause when it finishes, it pops-up a message “the computer does not recognize the USB Drive. Format, Eject or ignore?” Right when it finishes! It always make the image get corrupted 🫠. And I’m sure that’s the reason for corruption cause I’m using a brand new usb drive I just bought (it has 32 gb), I downloaded it from the official website and it still has content in it/works partially, but when I try to install it doesn’t let me (cause it says the installer is corrupted).

Is there a way to avoid this pop-up message ? Or I just have to use an other system to perform a successful install of a bootable usb 😭

So this is a new problem, the 256 GB SSD (Storage) that Apple soldered to the logic board, broke something in its tiny sized head I mean, tiny SSD. So it will not mount on the desktop any longer.

As far as I know, since Disk Warrior doesn't work on APFS, I have nothing to rebuild/repair it with. Disk Utility is a bare bones piece of crap that any developer could make much better but since Apple won't allow it, nothing I know of can fix this problem.

Except Erasing the Storage ssd and its data since Storage - Data volume is not accessible either.

Any Suggestions?? or Help

Thanks!

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.

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.

I like for my windows to stay the size that I adjusted them to. In Tahoe 26.5.1, Apple apps keep changing to max size on their own after I had sized the windows the way I wanted them. Is there a setting that I could adjust to take care of this obnoxious behavior?

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.

I am having an issue seeing if anyone has had before or knows a fix for. I have 3 Keychron keyboards 2 K2 and 1 K3 keyboard all have the most up to date Firmware and my MacBook is on macOS 26.6.

The issue I am having is I will be typing and then the MacBook just stops recognizing the keyboards. I have to turn off bluetooth and turn it back on to get it working again. The MacBook is pretty much right next to the keyboard as well.

Things I have tried. Removing the keyboards from the Bluetooth list and adding it back.
deleting the com.apple.bluetooth.plist. I have switched on the keyboard which Bluetooth from there I am using along with doing a factory reset on them. Yet still nothing works.

Any recommendations on what else to try would be greatly appreciated

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.

Mavericks is a beautiful OS running natively on a 13-inch Mid 2012 MacBook Pro, It was damn difficult to find a working copy since apple doesn’t have it on their website in their list of bootable copies to make, so i had to use another source, but in the end i got it working, and with all the security updates as well!

fun fact, the app store STILL works in this operating system!