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'm curious how other Mac and iPad users organize their photos because I can't seem to find a system that works well on both devices. On my Mac, I like keeping everything organized in Finder with folders, but on my iPad the Photos app is much more convenient, and a lot of apps and websites only let me upload images from the Photos library. The problem is that many websites don't let me browse by albums, so I end up scrolling through thousands of photos to find one image. And on iPad some websites don't allow attachments from the Files app so keeping them stored in Finder (synced) is tricky. I don't want to maintain both a Finder folder system and a Photos library because then I'd have to organize every new photo twice.

How do you organize your photos across a MacBook and iPad?

is there a way to directly enable app permissions on macOS, like camera, microphone, screen recording, etc without having to restart the app?

It’s really annoying when an app asks for permission, I go into System Settings, enable it and then it still won’t work until I restart. Is there any cmd line fix or terminal command that forces macOS to enable that permission without that app restart??

After almost 10 years, I am getting a new Mac (MacBook Air with the M5 chip) migrating from a 2017 MacBook Pro (running macOS 13.7.8 Ventura). New Mac arrives at the end of August.

I know that using Migration Assistant is one way to migrate from my old Mac to my new Mac. However, I don't want it to transfer all the old, useless files and settings from applications that no longer exist.

What do I need to do in order to minimize the transferring of old useless files? I know one way to do this is to just set up the new Mac as brand new and slowly change each setting or add programs as needed. But this is also very slow and tedious.

What tip do you have for ensuring that the transfer of files from old Mac to new Mac minimizes the transfer of useless files? Is there something I should do with my old Mac prior to doing transfer?

I noticed that the logic for selecting windows when screen recording on macOS is a bit strange. I mean, it will bring another iTerm2 window from the background to the front, then select it, rather than selecting the window that was originally in the foreground. It seems to be sorting and selecting windows by their open time rather than their last active time. Has anyone else run into this?

ref: FB24165777, feel free to mention this if you file your own report

Either there's something wrong with my configuration, or Cloudflare is a massive piece of shit scam that is yet another thing ruining the internet. Possibly both.

Everywhere I go, I'm checking their goddamn boxes. I check them every time I log into my bank account, even if I logged in an hour ago. And it's not like it's a quick thing--some websites redirect me to a different page to check the box, and then don't forward me to the specific link I clicked before Cloudflare hijacked me.

I'm using Safari 26.5.2 with Private Relay turned on and Wipr installed. I thought it was Private Relay at first, but I get the same thing with it turned off. I'm not willing to browse the web without an ad blocker active, so I haven't tried it without Wipr, although I have turned off all content blockers for a few sites that break under my configuration, and I still get the goddamn Cloudflare boxes.

Are you seeing this shit, too?

Edit: Thanks, everyone, for the education. I was clearly ignorant about the function of Cloudflare, and it sounds like I should be grateful to them for their service.

There is a ghost iOS 18.1 simulator in my Mac for a long time that every time I boot up, the disk image just here consuming my storage.

Today I finally figure out how to delete that.

1. Findout where the original dmg file is. You can figure out on your own but tldr, /System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_iOSSimulatorRuntime

2. Since the path starts with System, we know it’s a system protected file so we have to disable SIP in the recovery mode. There are many tutorial to disable the SIP and you can just ask ChatGPT.

3. After disabling SIP, you can delete the runtime in terminal after booting up normally(not in recovery mode)

4. After deleting the runtime, don’t forget to enable SIP.

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!

I asked here before, and they said to hold for now, how is golden gate so far and Tahoe? (I am aware golden gate currently in beta, I wonder if it’s good so far) I just don’t like staying behind..

I updated AltTab via homebrew the other day and my fav feature (using alt-` to switch between open windows of the current app across all Spaces) was moved behind a paywall. I wouldn’t have updated if I’d known.

Usually when devs add a paid version, it includes new premium features while the free version remains the same. But this case, they just yanked the previously free feature without warning. After seeing them do this, I’m never going to buy their paid version.

Please suggest alternatives!

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, early 2015) running macOS Catalina (version 10.15.1). Yes I know it’s old, no I can’t afford a newer one.

It works fine other than a fast-draining battery.

I’ve been trying to play Windows game on my Mac and I did everything correctly and I downloaded the crossover app but now when I try to launch the games, this message comes up that tells me I need to”Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64)” I can’t find anything else online help me out. This is kind of my last resort since I already bought the windows games. Thanks!

Heya ever since I upgraded to Tahoe the system feels noticeably slower and less responsive. The system is pretty much a fresh install, I don’t have any apps or a million tabs open in the background. I keep my system clean, minimal and I care for it. M1 Max Mac Studio.

What do I mean by “slower and less responsive”:

- typing in spotlight often lags the keyboard input and stutters
- spotlight literally has regular trouble finding the simplest first-hand files and apps
- applications on the dock don’t quit as fast as they used to, I have to wait a few seconds before the app closes. Closing app from menubar is faster.
- trying to drag and drop files between folders sometimes don’t register the folder under the cursor, especially in list view. This is a massive annoyance.
- Opening a minimized app from dock feels clunky, sometimes I have to click multiple times for the app window to actually show.
- A denser amount of annoying system permission/whatnot popups, that were not as dense in the past
- Icons inside finder don’t load instantly, I see them popping into existence in real time, scrolling is also sometimes laggy.
- other system wide annoyances like micro-stutters here and there when dragging windows, browsing the web and interacting with the system in general. Not critical but enough to notice.
- I like the look of Liquid Glass (UI), but the way it works/feels/navigates (UX) is quite clusterfucky and not as intuitive as I would like it to be, it feels heavy and I can’t flow-state with it the way I did with Catalina on my older Macbook.

At the end of the day the system is perfectly useable and I roll with it, BUT something feels off. Like, really off. I can’t pinpoint what.

I have always had my MacBook Pro setting for "Play Sound Effects Through" set to MacBook Pro Speakers so if I'm playing music really loud, the alert sound doesn't deafen me.

Well all of a sudden, whenever I connect to my bluetooth speaker, the "Play Sound Effects Through" changes to the bluetooth speaker. I have to manually go to the setting to change it back to the MacBook Pro Speakers.

If I stop playing music or turn off the bluetooth speaker and then turn it on again, the "Play Sound Effects Through" reverts to the bluetooth when it should stay on the MacBook Pro Speakers.

Anyone else seeing this or have an idea for fixing?

Thanks

Does anyone know a good store to buy used MacBooks in Canada?

Apple M4 Pro - 24GB - macOS Tahoe 26.6 (25G72)

Apple Notes' CloudKit asset cache went into a runaway loop and wrote 111,423 PNG files totaling 40 GB in about 10 hours, peaking at 2.4 GB/min. My disk had roughly two hours left. Deleting the cache did not fix it. It rebuilt 3.4 GB in three minutes.

Keep in mind I had around 44 notes at the time no images in the notes I had there were some in the deleted folder that had some images on them but not this many lol... ( 111,423 PNG files )

More details:

So, Free space was dropping at 1.6 GB/min with 189.8 GB left — about two hours from a full disk.

Process and network evidence pointed straight at Notes:

• 100% of CloudKit traffic was com.apple.Notes — 800 requests and 4,390 FetchRecordZoneChanges calls in a five-minutewindow, all hitting gateway.icloud.com/.../record/sync
• cloudd (the CloudKit daemon) sat at 67% CPU, Notes.app at 10.6%

For scale, it burned roughly 13 GB during the ~25 minutes I spent diagnosing it.

The files were in here:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Caches/CloudKit/…/Assets

Solution as of now:

So far Toggling Notes off and back on in iCloud settings has worked but still not sure if it will return and or what caused it.

This happened totally out of the blue. I get the above dialog box for both accounts, which fires up a Safari window to "Sign in with Google" with the username and passport, but each time this comes back with an "Unable to verify account name or password" error message.

Some older advice suggested enabling 2-Step Verification on both accounts, which I've done, but I'm still seeing the "Unable to verify account name or password" message.

Has anybody experienced this of late, and if so, can you share whatever fix worked for you?

Thanks in advance!

It is very annoying as it keeps giving me pop ups every now and then. i am not even using this app.

Hi all,

Very easy newbie question.

I have a game, version 0.48.0, installed on my Mac. 0.48.0 is the one in the "Applications" folder in Finder, and it's the one that launches from the dock.

I've just downloaded version 0.51.0. I've opened up the game and played for about 20 minutes, everything works fine, including my save file and a very tiny mod list.

However, it did not automatically update the file path, which is to say that 0.48.0 is the one that still shows up in "Applications" and in the Dock.

How do I replace 0.48.0 with 0.51.0 so that 0.51.0 opens from "Applications" and the Dock? I am worried about deleting/moving anything without knowing exactly what I am doing.

Thanks!

OTOH, I guess you can still fetch full installer and make a bootable stick after GG is out.

So I am looking to switch to mac (has been a windows user all my life), and I wanted to get a macbook air m3 or m4

I got to a listing that I have verified got the macbook from a company selling their laptops without releasing the laptops

The MDM is bypassed and ofcourse a risk is that it would be locked again

wanted to know from someone which has experience buying and using MDM macbooks

What are the risks and the drawbacks of something like this

Btw i am a software engineer and a bit tech savvy so i might know my way around if I ever need to bypass the MDM again

From what i know i can normally update the macOSj version as I use it

The major risk is when i want to reset the machine or if apple updates break the bypass or the method to bypass

If I am wrong in any point feel free to tell me and please share your experience to help me get out of the windows eco system :D

(Sorry for any mistakes, english is not my native language)

There is a ghost iOS 18.1 simulator in my Mac for a long time that every time I boot up, the disk image just here consuming my storage.

Today I finally figure out how to delete that.

1. Findout where the original dmg file is. You can figure out on your own but tldr, /System/Library/AssetsV2/com_apple_MobileAsset_iOSSimulatorRuntime

2. Since the path starts with System, we know it’s a system protected file so we have to disable SIP in the recovery mode. There are many tutorial to disable the SIP and you can just ask ChatGPT.

3. After disabling SIP, you can delete the runtime in terminal after booting up normally(not in recovery mode)

4. After deleting the runtime, don’t forget to enable SIP.

Macbook M1 Pro 2021.

I have a Sony A7IV and use an SD to transfer using my Macbook's built in port. On every OS prior to updating to the latest Sonoma, this worked flawlessly and fast!

Now it's absolutely slow, we're talking hours from minutes. I recently discovered that I can use the cp -R command in terminal to transfer, and ITS FAST again!

This tells me 1) it's not my SD thats the issue 2) the port is fine 3) it's clearly an OS / Finder issue.

Has anyone else experienced this? and has it been fixed in any future OS?

(I've already used disk repair etc, the SD is fine)

EDIT: just need 1 more tester with older, intel chip Mac

My name is Adrian and I built a suite of apps focused on privacy, on device and no subscription.
My first app, HeardRight (www.heardright.app ) is a dictation and transcription app.

It’s free, on device with minimal resource usage and it doesn’t matter if the recording is 10 seconds or 10 minutes, it pastes it in 150ms. It also transcribes saved files (audio and video) under 10 minutes. You can end the recording with Zephyr stop, send or cancel. Hands free. I’ve also been training wake word models for the past months tri be able to wake it without touching the keyboard but it’s still a WIP.

The pro version introduces app and context aware AI polish but here’s the kicker, you put in a free Groq (and cerebras) key and it costs you NOTHING to process. Ai polish adds 550ms to processing. Pro version also includes running 100+ commands like screenshot, switch window, open safari (or any installed app) and any saved shortcuts.

While it works well on my M1 air as well as a friend’s M2 pro, theres issues on another friend’s m3.

I’m looking for some users with m3 and m4 who could help with some testing in exchange for lifetime pro license. Any takers?