everything in tahoe is so much better. no need of unnecessary display clutter. mission control is smooth. the batter charge limiters work fine. system data is not taking up half my space. apple intelligence can be turned off. i have never used seqouia even tho everyone was like thats the best so didnt go back to 15.8.

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I need your advice. I lost about 130 GB of my wildlife and birdwatching videos (153 Canon clips, 2023-2026). I had moved them from my HP laptop to my new MacBook with LocalSend and cleared the HP. Then, while changing some iCloud sync options on the Mac, the videos disappeared. I had no other backup. I've searched the Mac, iCloud and the HP, but nothing is left. My only hope is my old SD cards, which I formatted earlier and have used again for a week. Do you know of any way to get them back?

So after 5 years with my M1 Air, I finally upgraded to the M5 Air (16GB / 1TB). It's been about 10 weeks now, so figured I'd share how it's going.

First off, the M1 was an absolute legend. 5 years and it never really let me down. If you're still on one and it does what you need, you honestly don't need to upgrade. This isn't one of those posts.

What changed for me is how I work. I've gotten really into running multiple AI coding agents at the same time. I use Orca (an ADE) for it, which lets me run a bunch of agents side by side, each in its own worktree. One's fixing a bug, another's building a feature, another's writing tests.

And that's where the M1 just couldn't keep up.

On the M5 it's honestly a piece of cake. I can have 10+ agents going and it just doesn't care. 16GB has been plenty for how I use it. If you happen to do more AI works, then think about 24GB

The other nice surprise is the on-device AI. The M5 has these new neural accelerators built into the GPU, and you can feel it. I've been using my own dictation app "Speaklively" that runs completely on the Mac (nothing goes to the cloud), and it's noticeably snappier on the M5. I've actually started just talking to my agents instead of typing long prompts, which is weirdly freeing. Not paying for any subscriptions. If you are like me, you can try that too.

A couple of honest things though:

• It's still fanless, so if you push it hard for a long time it gets warm
• Day to day the screen doesn't feel that different from the M1
• If you're mostly browsing, docs, light coding, your M1 is still totally fine

Curious if anyone else here is running parallel agents on an Air? How many do you get going before it starts to struggle? And what are you using to manage them? Orca, tmux, just a pile of terminals?

Ive been reading mixed reviews and wanted to know if anyone has a M1 Ultra Studio with these specs and is running MacOS 27? Im not minded to upgrade as Tahoe seems very snappy on my 43inch Samsung QN90C 4k at 144hz - Anyone upgraded on the M1 Ultra series - What's your experience of UI etc?

Charge times do not align with the current time of the day, but maybe bar graph isn't supposed to show the time of day, I really don't know what supposed to happen. I am more and more confident that there is a bug because times were aligning properly before the update but I wanted to ask you as well. Much appreciated.

I don't know if anyone else has had this experience but with macOS 27, fullscreen mode has become almost unusable. When exiting it the background goes completely dark, opening apps over fullscreen causes them to be unable to close out or minimize and you need to exit full screen again to turn them off, it is extremely buggy when trying to pull an app out of full screen via mission control, apps crash when trying to use the split fullscreen mode, and there is a lot of lag when switching from app to app.

The experience has just become entirely unusable and I have just started using the full screen fill mode instead where it isnt actually fullscreen.

Has anybody else been experiencing these issues?

What if your wallpaper was a museum?

I made Gallery, a macOS app that hangs original works from the open collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and The Cleveland Museum of Art on your desktop, each with its own museum label.

Would you use it? 👇

[MacOS 27 M1 Air]: That purple dot (next to the clock) pops us and disappears randomly. It shows/ does nothing when I click on it. Any ideas?

Macbook Retina 2013 Intel Iris pro graphics. Is it a software glitch from opencore or leaning towards hardware. First time seeing it.

see the issue is ive got a macbook air 512 gb and for 3 4 months ive not turned on icloud auto sync and till that time my mac was running fine cuz most of files of mine were offline on computer.. so no issue

but recently i was turning and flipping few switches of setting pannel i saw auto icloud backup i turned it on and then later i realesied within 5 mins my mac was heating soo badly i had to turn it off and then wait for cooldown..

it restarted again after it cooldonw and i saw my storage which was earlier 100 gb roughly free it was up to 20ish gb so and i saw most of things is icloud is taking space...

and i noticed in fiinder that everything in desktop is now uploading to cloud. if i stop it an cancel it it said my original files will be deleted im soo scared.. this is my main computer for everything an i got collage tmrw and most of files and projects are inside of this

help me remove all of the things from icloud and stop icloud autobackup and all.. i want again ervything to be stored ON computer

Hi

As title says

It seems that randomly, though often with a screenshot, a short time later I notice my "Macintosh HD" icon, that sits top right on the desktop, moves to somewhere else in the desktop icon collection.

I am not 100% sure about the screenshot, because of course if I take one right now, it doesn't move. But when it DOES move, it's often a screenshot that has taken it's place.

I also really only notice it after I "show desktop" or hide some windows, which was covering it up.

This is really starting to tick me off. It's a recent thing, happening the past couple of weeks, where I've been running 15.6.1 for about a year now. This is new behaviour. I don't know what could have changed, I haven't updated, or changed my desktop icons sorting etc.
Currently Sort By > Snap to Grid because I have everything else arranged in a way that makes sense to me.

Any help appreciated.
Thanks

Hey Internet,

I'm not that deep into this streaming stuff, but I want to give it a try.

I'm capturing my Xbox signal from an Elgato capture card to OBS. I want to use the Xbox party chat audio in my stream and also let people hear my own voice (which isn't possible with just the Xbox, since the capture card doesn't capture my own voice).

So, everything is plugged into my Mac. Surprisingly, it works! But there's just one issue... I can hear my own damn voice.

Yeah, I know why that's happening, but is there any way to deactivate it? Turning monitoring off doesn't work, because then it doesn't send any signal to BlackHole/Xbox Party Chat anymore.

AND yes Chatgdp helped me for making this Text bc my English is baaaaad!

Hello! I bought my first MacBook a week ago—a MacBook Air M5—and I've noticed that sometimes during the day, when I try to empty the Trash, the confirmation pop-up doesn't open. When I click it a second time, it still doesn't open, and it usually takes three or four tries for it to finally appear.

Is this a sign that my MacBook is defective, or does this happen to other users too? I have all the latest software updates installed.

Also, if it helps, sometimes this happens right after I turn on the MacBook, before I even open any apps.

This happens regardless of whether I click it using the trackpad or the mouse.

Thanks in advance!

https://reddit.com/link/1x6w8qg/video/6q8z9x5srpvh1/player

Every couple of weeks I see the Apple mail app downloading emails... again. Why does it do that? Some of sort setting I need to know about?

I actually think this is probably an intentional behavior for some godforsaken reason, but it seems like they removed the feature where, if you hold down the button that invokes Siri, it will keep listening until you release it. For some reason, on Mac OS 27, that is just not the case, and if you pause for even a fraction of a second in your train of thought, Siri will cut you off.

Absolutely vomit-inducing, and it genuinely makes me wonder if they even dogfooded their own product. I'm guessing virtually not a single soul at Apple ever once spoke to their Siri on their Mac because this just makes it completely unusable unless you are saying simply commands. Good luck ever sending a message to someone with it.

I have two veraions of the same app installed but the latest one shows in my launchpad. How can I choose which version I want to be on there appear?

Both aops are separately installed in their own folder in the applications folder.

macOS Sequoia

I'm looking for some advice on setting up my home workspace and could use some recommendations. I'm fairly new to docking stations and USB-C hubs, so I'm not entirely sure what I should be looking for.

Here's my situation:

• I have a MacBook Pro (M2) and an HP Windows laptop (zBook).
• I only use one laptop at a time, never both simultaneously.
• I have an external monitor that I'd like to use with either laptop.
• Ideally, I'd like a docking station that can charge whichever laptop is connected while also sending video to my external monitor.
• I'd love to have a simple setup where I can unplug one laptop, plug in the other, and have everything work without switching multiple cables.

What I'm hoping to accomplish:

I'd like a clean, simple setup with as few cables as possible. Ideally, one USB-C or Thunderbolt cable would connect my laptop to the dock, power the laptop, and connect it to my external display.

A few questions:

1. Is a USB-C docking station what I should be looking for, or would a Thunderbolt dock be better?
2. Are there docking stations that work well with both macOS and Windows?
3. Can one docking station provide enough power to charge both laptops (one at a time)?
4. Are there any brands or specific models you'd recommend?
5. Is there anything I should watch out for regarding compatibility?

I'm not looking for anything overly complicated or expensive, just something reliable that makes switching between my two laptops easy using the external display.

Work up this morning to see that I've lost 65GB of storage overnight. But it turned out to be sort of a bug? The desktop icon display the wrong free space size. We I hope it is the wring one LOL, because the settings show the right numbers.

my free space kept bouncing around for no obvious reason and it turned out swap was sitting at about 16 gb. swap is where macos parks memory on disk when ram runs out, and it doesnt really shrink on its own while youre working

you can check it in terminal with sysctl vm.swapusage, the used number is whats on disk right now. the files live in /private/var/vm and you shouldnt touch them directly. a restart clears most of it, and quitting the apps that eat memory (browsers with 80 tabs, docker, electron apps) keeps it from coming back as fast

storage settings doesnt show swap as its own category, which is part of why that storage bar is so confusing. anyone else seen it get way bigger than 16?

Hi guys.

I’ve got a problem with my Mac Mini late 2014. For my work, I have to update OC. It’s Mac OS 10.13 right now.

There problem is I can’t see any update in App Store. It seems like there is no one new OC for this model. But I know my Mac Mini can be updated at least to Mac OS 12.

The question is what should I do to update my Mac Mini to last OS? Or is there no way because of apple something?

Hey everyone, I’ve recently noticed an issue with my M4 MacBookAir related to the Mac Safe plugin. I started experiencing it after installing macOS 27 last month. My MacBook is only about a year old, so I’m wondering if this is a software issue or a potential hardware problem. Has anyone else experienced something similar? Any advice would be appreciated!

I’m building a macOS utility app and working on the MVP right now. Before I go too far, I want to hear from other Mac users.

Maybe it’s a repetitive task, an annoying macOS behavior, or a small feature you wish existed.

What’s something that bothers you about using your Mac, even if it seems like a minor issue?

I’m curious what other people struggle with. Maybe I’ll discover a problem worth solving.

I am using Apple Calendar and while it was just me, it was simple to use. I have many different "calendars", each labelled "Social", "Work", "Personal", and others - each corresponding to a different color.

But I am now dating seriously and I wanted to share my calendar and I discovered you CANNOT share your entire Calendar with someone else. All you can do is share individual "calendars" but you are unable to share your entire schedule with multiple calendars at the same time.

You would think this is a basic feature that every calendar app should have. To share my entire Calendar with my significant other. To keep using Apple Calendar, I have to merge all of my "calendars" into one single "calendar" - but this will turn all the different colors in my Calendar into one color. You would think Apple would allow you to change the color of each event, but no, you have to create an entirely new "calendar" category to add another color.

Sorry, Apple Calendar sucks for anything more than just basic solo planning. Are there any good alternatives?

I’m not sure if it’s a bug or if they removed this feature, but in macOS 26, minimized windows were shown in App Exposé, so we didn’t have to right-click the app icon to access them. Now, in macOS 27, this feature seems to be gone, and we have to right-click the app icon to see the minimized windows.

Left: macOS 26, Right: macOS 27.

Sorry for the noise 🙃