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Hi all Please help recommend an app to put Events & Tasks, Reminders onto Calendar & block time. Great if there is a companion iPhone app. (a.) Must work with native apple calendar. (b.) Block time on calendar is must. Looking for streamlining Work, Events and Task Managemnt (Both Work and...

Hi, I’m wondering if anyone can help me. Every device in my house and that’s ever connected to my Mac Bluetooth is on iOS. I have now twice opened my laptop and gone straight into Bluetooth and the first time it said ‘Samsung Galaxy S9’ is connected and then yesterday it said ‘Pixel 3a‘...

Hey! I searched a lot on the web for OS X Mavericks installer file, but i didn't find any, but the updates. It was removed from the App Store, so that's not an option, it is why i'm here. Can someone give me a link for the full Mavericks installer? I want to create a bootable disk. An Apple ID...

Can anyone confirm if I can run 2 bootable drives (Mac + Windows separately) off a single PCIe card, if I intend to clone the Bootcamp partition before popping it in the adapter? They're plain old SATA SSD drives.

Hello everyone, i would like to have a thread about debloating macos, where we can discuss the various services and background tasks that can be killed to improve the performance of macOs. I have tried to post some similar discussions on Hackintosh forum without much success, and i find it...

Hello and Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays, I have a mid-2012 13” MBP running on 10.12.6 Sierra, which I’ve been trying to update to the latest OS for some time now. Any update that is newer than Sierra throws a “An error occurred while verifying firmware” error. After removing the CD/DVD drive...

I'm experiencing a reoccurring problem. It doesn't matter whether Photos is launched before or after connecting my iPhone 12 Pro Max. Problem: Photos on macOS freezes on the "unlock your iPhone" screen. No matter what you do it will never recognize the phone in this state. Fix: Press Volume up...

I enabled screen time on my iMac running macOS Big Sur, and it's been logging constant Twitter usage ever since. For example, it's ~9am and I'm at 9 hours of Twitter usage today on my iMac specifically. Last night, my iMac was asleep and had a few webpages open in Safari, but none of them were...

Made the jump to an M1 Mini from an aging windows PC for my daily driver, and this caught my eye when I plugged in my external SSD that I use to store my music collection. On my PC, it says I have 170 GB free of 465 GB total storage - 48,434 total files. 290 GB total usage on disk. On my new...

Hi folks, I want to connect a bluetooth device on macos 10.15 for development reasons. But any read/write operstion to the characteristics fails with this message: The console app of macos show the following corresponding error: In the Bluetooth settings the Countour device is paired...

My iMac 27" 2017 with fusion drive starts very slowly with Big Sur, 4-5 minutes until ready, just 2 usual login items. There's SSD in the drive and it should start as fast as by previous versions of macOS. Is it normal for the fusion drive to look like this? SSD not separated and...

Hello - I've been a Mac user for a few years now, and I switched to an iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard back in April. Alas, M1 Mac's arrived, so I've got rid of the iPad and I'm Mac on Big Sur with an M1 MBA. For those of you who used the Magic Keyboard with iPad OS; the directional button...

iOS 14 bugs: messages, texts and audio not syncing among devices Laggy typing on idevices, mostly on iPad AppleTv screensaver issue AppleTv sound issue- Safari blank icons and more Apple Mail: all the bugs we’ve dreaming fixed since Mac Os 9 ?! Apple Watch : keeps the language you chose for...

Hello there, I was considering giving Cisdem Video Player a shot on my machine running Big Sur, VLC has had many problems functioning on Big Sur since it debuted and Cisdem boldly displays on the site that it is Big Sur compatible. I was curious as to any of you have tried it out. Is it any good...

On my new M1 Air (1TB), Disk Utility is showing that there's a Data volume (803.22 GB), com.apple.os.update-{long string} (14.95 GB), and Free (174.75 GB). A couple questions: What is that "Free" volume(?). Storage Management is saying I have 702.51 GB free out of 994.66. When you add up the...

Added an item from Finder to Dock. It is a network path to private NAS (let's call it NAS-Dock item). The bug appears when the NAS is not turned on and a Question Mark is displayed at Dock. The bug is: When I change from internal to external display/screen the resolution will change and the...

Hi Everyone! I just thought I would document all the new tech support procedures or information specific to Mac with Apple Silicon (for example accessing the Target Disk mode or using the bootloader). This thread is a wiki so feel free to add anything else you find! Mac computers with Apple...

For those who use Mac Pro 2013 (6,1) for video editing and are looking for the best OS to use, taking in account render speeds, smooth editing, and project time finishing demands, what is the OS that is overall gives the best overall performance? Using a Mac Pro 2013 (6,1) 12-Core 64 GB RAM 1...

2 days ago, waking my 2020 MBP 16" from sleep, it didn't accept my system password. I tried switching the input language as this was a source for trouble a while back, but it was no use - I was locked out of my system. So I reset the password via iCloud to the same password I had before and this...

Hello, I was curious if Wacom Drivers emulate well on M1 ARM-based Macs or if it's just completely hung up on x86 based ones? Also, I can't seem to find if any of these graphics tablet companies are developing or have already developed drivers for the new Macs yet. Maybe I'm just looking in...