login problem

I woke up this morning and logged into my Mac (Ventura 13.2.1). For some reason, it required me to change my password before I could log in. I never had to do that before. On top of that, it requires a >=14 character password. My last password was not that long and I prefer to keep it that...

Hello, I am trying to run a mac that will be used by multiple users. macOS allows up to 5 users to be logged in simultaneously. If a 6th user try to login, an error message appear with the following message: "The maximum number of logged in users has been reached". Hence, one of the 5 users...

Weird thing happened just recently on my old MBP. From the beginning (may be this give some important info) 1. I have replaced the HDD to SSD ~4 months ago and installed Mojave 2. Laptop was used sometimes, never had problems with it 3. Last 3 months wasn't used at all. It was switched OFF. 4...

I have an admin and can log into that but not the user account that has all of my stuff. I login to my user account and it just spins. I have Mac Desktop 2019 and just downloaded Big Sur.

Yesterday I tried to update to the newest MacOS. First it failed bescause I had not enough space on my mac. Before second try I got the messegage that there was not enough space, so I deletet things and then I had like one more gb than I needed for the update. Should be working..... I started...

Before I start with the problem, I am a newbe with Mac OS so please be patient with me. We have a number of iPhones, iPads and even an old iPod Classic at home that are all used happily on a daily basis. It is only recently that I started replacing our Windows systems for MacBooks and of course...

Hi, I have different questions that are probably linked to the same problem. Last night when turning on my laptop, i had an unusual login request where it asked my login and password, and couldn't recognize my usual password. I have then searched the forum to look for similar problems and...

My searches come up with answers to different questions than what I need, so hopefully someone here might know: Is there any way to use the iOS Pandora app while having your facebook account deactivated? I pay for Pandora, and I don't need the sharing features at the moment. But when I try to...

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone is having this issue. When I turn my non emoji bar MBP 2016, at the login screen, the keyboard response per key and mouse movement have a significant delay. Both the onboard keyboard as well as the bluetooth connected keyboard and Mmouse2. (if they even...

I was wondering if you guys think I possibly fried my wired apple keyboard. I have used Lysol cleaning wipes about every couple weeks or so on my apple keyboard to clean up the germs and gunk with no problems. Yesterday, it just stopped working and I am now locked out of my computer (whole other...

Hello. I have two accounts on my mac. Both are administrators. But for some reason, only one (the least used one) is an option for login when the mac is first started up. Once I log into the one account then log off, they're both present. But why is only one of the accounts a login option when...

Ever since updating to the new OS, the users on my computer have trouble logging in to their user account. What will happen is as soon as you start to type a password the computer will run off about 11 characters, making it impossible to enter the proper password. The only way to correct it is...