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Question 1

I've always been able to update iOS software using direct connect to the computer via cable and Finder until now. I prefer to use this method rather than wireless updating. Yesterday, I connected my ...

Question 2

I'm tripping over a small problem with my colleague's laptop and I'm looking for what I'm missing. How do I dig out the supportive components that validate the license? The version works just fine; it'...

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I have three monitors on a Mac mini m4 v 15.1 with the following configuration: I tried to change wallpaper via AppleScript on a multi-monitor setup (no error, no change) osascript -e 'tell ...

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On my Mac, Safari can't seem to remember any of my activity between sessions. This isn't a problem within a session, but as soon as I close the app with ⌘+Q, Safari seems to forget everything I've ...

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I would like to use the macOS Zoom video conferencing app in the native macOS Picture-in-Picture mode so that I can get work done while also keeping the video call on-screen. Is picture-in-picture ...

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Apple website says "Trade in your iPhone, ... for credit towards a new one, or recycle it responsibly for free." That suggests we can't do it to buy a refurb, but it doesn't explicitly say we ...

Question 7

I have a projector with a native 16:9 aspect ratio that projects against a 4:3 screen. No matter what I set the resolution on my Apple TV to, it always seems to fill the entire area of the projector. ...

Question 8

I'm trying to achieve 2 goals: connect remotely to a Mac mini on my home network and log in via the Mac mini's login screen; and set the shared screen resolution to 2560x1600, ie, full screen for my ...

Question 9

I have a complex schedule I want to share on a web page of a site I host. I have the calendar in the Calendar app shared as a public calendar. I want to use JavaScript to fetch the .ics file, which I ...

Question 10

Previously our company had no Apple Business Manager account, and every MacBook was set up as if it were a personal device. We completed the Domain Capture and are now in the process of enrolling the ...

Question 11

Suppose I want to use rsync -a to archive some directories - either somewhere else on my Mac (Sequoia), or on an APFS formatted flash drive. I could use openrsync protocol version 29 + rsync version 2....

Question 12

I recently received a replacement phone after breaking my old one. I transferred over the SIM card instead of replacing it with a new one. My issue started a few days after this. First, I would like ...

Question 13

I keep getting a "password is locked" pop-up at random moments on my MacBook Pro. Why is this happening, and how do I stop it?

Question 14

When I try to open (display) a playlist in Apple Music from my own library, I am experiencing significant delay (10s of seconds). I have restarted both the app and my MacBook. There is no such delay ...

Question 15

I am trying to print a booklet from a single-page PDF and impose it in Preview. Since I am printing a 6-up booklet, the page order should be: 12-1 2-11 3-10 4-9 5-8 6-7 This is what I am getting: Did ...

Question 16

I’m using Swift Playgrounds on macOS 26 to learn app development, starting with the "Get Started with Apps" template. Every time I run the template, macOS shows a pop-up asking: "Get Started with Apps"...

Question 17

This was a pretty common feature back in the day, on other browsers: A webpage has an input field. You previously provided input to that field. When you visit that page again after a few days, you ...

Question 18

when I'm dragging a window around sometimes I accidentally get too close to the menubar and the window maximizes (or not quite... it never goes to fullscreen mode, just takes up all of the screen ...

Question 19

I have over 1000 contacts. There are many duplicate records in iCloud due to certain VCF files imported (exported Google contacts) multiple times into iCloud. Usual solution is Apple’s native "merge ...

Question 20

All published iCloud IPv4 egress ranges that I can find in the 104.28.x.x class end at 104.28.151.255 but I see evidence (from web logs) that the subnets 104.28.152.x and 104.28.153.x are in use. I'm ...

Question 21

I've been charging my iPhoneSE2 wirelessly for a couple of months now, enjoying the standby screen that turns on at the slightest movement, telling me the time and the current weather. I don't know to ...

Question 22

When I opened a video located on an ISO file in VLC > File > "Open Recent", the ISO was automatically activated and the video started playing. After moving the ISO file to a different ...

Question 23

In Messages on iOS, you are able to quickly attach an emoji Sticker to a message by opening the emoji keyboard and dragging and dropping an emoji over a message bubble. Is it possible to send an ...

Question 24

I was reviewing Apple's documentation regarding security and unauthorized tracking devices, which included the following statement (mirror): If any AirTag, AirPods, Find My network accessory, or ...

Question 25

Macbook (16 inch 2021 M1 Max) runs very sluggish, fans always run at 100%, even on idle, and even in safe mode / recovery menu. The Apple diagnostic test returns nothing. Activity Monitor shows no ...

Question 26

Before switching from macOS 10.13 to macOS 15 I had some scripts in the /usr/local/etc/periodic/ folder for execution on daily/weekly basis. Some of them were writing to a file in my home folder. In ...

Question 27

I have a sleep schedule set up to use sleep focus daily. If I change my next alarm for tomorrow in the Clock app, my sleep focus turns off at my original alarm time instead of the updated alarm time. ...

Question 28

I use Logitech K400 Plus Wireless Touch TV Keyboard meaning not really a Mac keyboard. Here is my Mac version: ozkan@ozkans-Mac-mini ~ % sw_vers ProductName: macOS ProductVersion: 26.1 ...

Question 29

On iOS 26, with Photo Shuffle on, some of my pictures appear blurred on top. For some reason it appears to be more evident with landscape pictures where clouds are visible. Depth effect is off. Is ...

Question 30

After annotating a PDF on iPad (iPadOS 18.7.1) using "Readdle Documents" and syncing it with my MacBook Pro, some PDF metadata is corrupted, causing "Spotlight" indexing (finding ...

Question 31

I have an older Mac mini 6,1 (Late 2012) which I am trying to install Ubuntu on via USB flash drive. Is it possible to use my iPad (bought in 2024) as a external display from when I boot the Mac into ...

Question 32

I'd like to apply a macOS "service" to a large number of filenames. It doesn't seem possible to do this, en batch, from the Finder GUI. Is there a way to call a service from the command line?...

Question 33

My mac (Sonoma 14.2, MacBook Pro) is currently hellbent on syncing 61GB of stuff from iCloud. It doesn't even have 10 on disk. I added a bunch of .nosync extensions to large files on iCloud, but some ...

Question 34

I tried creating a script to automatically search definitions and log the word to a document. Keystroke doesn't seem to work: on run {input, parameters} -- Save current clipboard content to ...

Question 35

Are there privacy settings that block apps from screen-sharing other apps' windows? When a MacOS user tries sharing his full screen with me on Signal Desktop, I only see his Signal window; everything ...

Question 36

Earlier, I reported on digital glitches in detail using the Apple Community website. The original topic is located at Digital blocky glitches/artifacts appear in some resulting HEVC videos after using ...

Question 37

What should I do if, after connecting the Apple Pencil 2 to an iPad Air 4, I don't see the battery, just such a big rotating Apple Pencil on the screen? I would like the battery to be displayed, not ...

Question 38

Theres not much to explain. Ive done a bit of research and got my hopes up with a thunderbolt cable to hdmi to connect these two. Unfortunately, I just found out that the 'target display mode' is only ...

Question 39

I'm currently trying to do a small script that pulls some files from my Android phone to a folder in my Mac, kind of an automatic backup. The script is working perfectly. The .plist file is also okey ...

Question 40

I was upgrading my development setup, and I found this path in my PATH variable: /opt/pmk/env/global/bin, and it's added by /etc/paths.d/10-pmk-global. Usually, a system-related program would go in /...

Question 41

Using the keyboard, how can you focus the modal window that appears after iPad Sidecar disconnects? The modal in question merely contains a message Unable to connect to "Joe's iPad" and an ...

Question 42

I have an iPhone 17 Pro Max running iOS 26.1 and an Apple Watch Series 9 running watchOS 26.0.2. I have a sleep schedule set up daily with Sleep Focus. If I go to the Clock app on my iPhone and change ...

Question 43

I have an iPhone 16 Pro Max and it takes generally great pictures. While troubleshooting some focus issues, I discovered the EXIF Metadata fields 'FocusDistanceRange', 'AFPerformance', 'FocusPosition'...

Question 44

In Safari (iPad, iPhone, Mac) it often tries to autocomplete the web address to an overly specific page. So for example if I type "Amaz", it will fill in the address of a specific product page that I ...

Question 45

Recovered a Mac mini A1993 (late 2018) Intel from a friend who passed suddenly. Trying to just factory reset the thing, and it's now locked in Internet Recovery loop. It ignores holding option, ...

Question 46

My sister just lost three months of travel pictures since Nextcloud (on iOS) was pretending that the sync with the server was complete (while it was not working), so she removed the images locally. On ...

Question 47

Possibly because I had turned on Secure DNS inside Firefox as an experiment, I've been having weird DNS issues on a new Mac mini (running macOS Tahoe). Via Wireshark, I've just confirmed (well, to the ...

Question 48

I have a 2011 iMac. It turns on, but none of the ports on the back work. I can’t use the keyboard or trackpad. I would like to transfer the data on the hard drive to my M2 Mac Mini. I removed the hard ...

Question 49

I've set up the Logitech MX Master 4 mouse without Logi Options+ fine, as apps like Karabiner Elements or Keyboard Maestro can trigger actions from buttons 4, 5, 6 and 7. The mouse itself triggers the ...

Question 50

I have a Mac Mini M4 with 500 GB SSD running macOS Tahoe 26.1. The internal drive is formatted APFS, of course. I’m getting some confusing results when I try to see how much storage I have available. ...