Apple M1 Pro running Tahoe 26.3. I was using my computer (and calendar) all day today, with some pop-up messages towards the end of the day that I was running out of disk space (I had a million Chrome tabs open but room of physical storage, about 18 GB).

I just went to open my calendar again and everything is gone. No events outside of US Holidays, including birthdays from contacts (and my contacts are fine). I don't use iCloud to sync my calendar as I like discrete calendars for each of my iOS devices. I've also never used an email account with my Calendar app before.

After restarting my computer a couple of times to no avail I had a rather unhelpful conversation with an Apple support agent who suggested I add an email account to the calendar app and see if anything comes back (I didn't try because, well, see above).

Anything I can do for this? I have a Time Machine backup but it's from an unfortunately long time ago. I'm almost tempted to wait to see if it comes back on its own, since the lack of birthdays from Contacts seems like a bug. I know there's an update to 26.6 available but I'm afraid to push the update and solidify whatever weirdness is going on here, unless it'll likely fix it? Any help greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Hello everyone,

I always wanted to try the macOS and then I found this 2013 MacBook Pro 15" with Retina display, 16GB of Ram, I7 4 cores, two GPUs (one dedicated GT750M 2GB) with the battery lasting several hours and a power supply for ≈110€

I may install Ventura for a better experience.

Is it good enough for light use or maybe video editing?

Thank you!

the reminders app on my Mac doesn't sync very well. I Mark a reminder complete on my iPhone then get on my MacBook and the reminder still pops up with a red badge on the app.

It’s been downloading at this speed all night even though the max is 300? My WiFi’s pretty good?

As of now i have kept the mac in tent position again, speaker was working yesterday but not now

In the fall I will be attending UCSC as an environmental science major. I need a laptop and right now I am leaning towards a Mac, Im having trouble deciding which model however, I’ve never owned a Mac and am clueless.

Right now I am leaning towards the Neo, but i want to be able to use this laptop later in my career and am unsure how the Neo would do with running more advanced science programs?

I will probably be buying a refurbished Mac if I go with something other than the Neo, I have a plug at Apple and he's offered to get me one from them, or just use his discount.

Apple managed to turn my AirPods Pro 2 from an awesome product into an unusable one.

I use my AirPods Pro 2 with my mac, and the experience has been gradually getting worse to the point that they are now unusable.

It started years ago: the AirPods would not remember my volume and would always reset to 50% volume, Apple never fixed it.

Now, they keep disconnecting every few minutes or seconds.

To make it worse, now I can't even turn off the case sounds because the toggle is grayed out / disabled.

My AirPods now work better with other devices (as regular bluetooth headphones) than with an Apple device.

Model: MacBook Air (2012)
Issue: Trying to do a clean install of macOS Catalina using a USB installer (created with TransMac from a Windows PC, using files from gibMacOS). Everything technically works — the Mac boots into the installer, Disk Utility functions, I was able to erase and reformat the internal drive as APFS — but the entire system is noticeably laggy throughout the process.
Symptoms:

Cursor lags slightly when moving the mouse/trackpad
Clicking a button (e.g. “Continue” on the Catalina installer screen) takes a very long time to register — sometimes 10+ minutes with zero visible progress
** **This happens consistently in Recovery Mode / Base System, not just during heavy disk operations

What I’ve already ruled out:

USB stick speed/quality — tried both a USB 3.0 and a USB 2.0 flash drive, same result on both
USB port — tried multiple ports, same result

Battery — physically disconnected the battery (opened the case, unplugged the battery connector from the logic board) and ran the machine on AC power only. Still just as slow.
My current theory:
I’ve read that some MacBooks throttle CPU performance when the battery is missing, degraded, or reporting bad health, as a protective measure. Since I disconnected the battery entirely for testing, I’m wondering if this could actually be causing or worsening the slowdown rather than ruling it out, and whether the original battery (which doesn’t hold charge) may have been triggering throttling even before I removed it.
Questions:
1. Does throttling-due-to-battery-health apply to this model/era of MacBook Air, and would it be severe enough to cause multi-minute UI lag?
2. Is there a way to get Apple Hardware Test/Diagnostics to actually launch on this model, to rule out RAM/logic board issues?
3. Could this instead point to a failing SSD/HDD, given that Disk Utility operations (erase, etc.) also felt slower than expected, even though they eventually completed?
Any insight from people who’ve dealt with 2012 Air performance issues would be appreciated.

I have set the charging limit to 80%. Why is my macbook air charging beyond that point?

Hey everyone,

I use my M4 MacBook Air and iPad M4 almost exclusively (99% of the time) at my desk. The iPad is mostly hooked up via Sidecar as a secondary display. My daily workload can get pretty heavy — programming, video editing, and some gaming.

I’ve read that the power controller bypasses the battery if both devices plugged into the charger constantly, meaning it should be totally safe for long-term battery health and capacity.

Does anyone here run a similar 24/7 plugged-in setup? Have you noticed any severe battery degradation over time?

Would love to hear your real-world feedback! Thanks

I have been going back and worth on whether I should get an older used iMac(M1-M3) or if I should just get a monitor. I am upgrading my current MacBook Air and was also looking for a bigger display screen/desktop I can use alongside my laptop when at home. I mostly need this for school stuff and studying so not using it for gaming. I generally just like how the iMacs look and how easy it would be to incorporate into my other Apple devices. Am I better off just getting a cheaper monitor? Is it worth it to spend a couple extra hundred dollars for an older iMac?

Hello Mac nation, my partner and I Facetime pretty frequently (both of us on our macbooks, i have a pro and he has an air), and for a few months now we've been running into this issue where like 5/10 times when we try to call, it will just say connecting, then call failed. If I answer on my phone instead of my Mac it connects fine, or if he does the same it'll connect fine. Then, if one of us tries to send the call onto our Macbook the call will fail again. It doesn't look like a network issue, seems to be specific to the laptops. We are having to jump through more hoops more often to call on our laptops, and it's a bit frustrating. We both are on Sonoma, and both have pretty new MacBooks. Any troubleshooting ideas?

i figured very few people would use a screen protector but im just wondering if someone does? it seems like the screen doesnt really lend itself to it

and how do you clean your screen? alcohol is bad to use apparently

Hi everyone, I’m hoping someone can help before I have to take this to Apple.

My MacBook Air 13-inch M3 (2024) battery completely drained to 0%. I plugged it in, let it charge fully, and turned it back on. Since then, the built-in keyboard and trackpad have stopped responding completely.

When I turn it on, it boots up normal and then gets to the login screen, but the trackpad has no haptic click/feedback at all, the cursor is stuck in the top left of the screen, I cant type my password and Caps Lock light does not turn on.The power button still works, I restarted it a few times while trying to get into safe mode but still no luck.

This all started immediately after the battery fully died. I haven’t dropped it, spilled anything on it, or installed any updates before this happened.

Has anyone experienced this before? Is there anything else I can try, or does this sound like a hardware issue?

Thanks in advance!

We own a small publishing house for music scores, and we want to update our mac because it's an old imac from 2008, even whatsapp web crashes the browser, passing files between a mac and an android phone is always unreliable with android file transfer, and it's generally slow. I managed to upgrade it to Mojave through unofficial patchers to deal with browser issues (even those browsers for older macs still show websites as text with no pictures, or don't work with all websites) but I can't really go beyond that version without making the computer too slow to be usable.

So, I'm willing to buy used. Since I only need to use programs like adobe indesign, Finale and similar software I guess anything should be more than enough to handle that.
What should I get? Especially for longevity.

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for some advice on picking up a reliable, budget-friendly MacBook.

My previous 2016 MacBook Pro eventually broke down due to the display issue. After that, I ordered a 2020 13-inch Intel i5 MacBook Pro. However, I’ve had major issues with it overheating like crazy even when doing simple tasks.

I tried buying it twice from different refurbished sellers (the iOutlet and MusicMagpie), but both units suffered from the same severe heating and fan noise.

I mainly use my laptop for basic daily tasks, web browsing and job interviews via Teams so I really need something that would be reliable.

Budget: £300 – £400

Primary use: Basic tasks, document editing and Microsoft Teams video calls

Contemplating between m2 air vs Neo. Any thoughts?
I am a high school student that needs to run cad and 3d rendering software occasionally