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  1. J

    External Drive Spinning in Finder

    I bought a Toshiba External Drive yesterday for my Macbook Pro. I connected it and it started to backup everything to this new time machine. However, the mounted drive shows a spinning icon next to it on the finder window. Is it supposed to be spinning continuously, or is it just for the...
  2. macduke

    [Weird iCloud Public Relay Bug] Safari YouTube videos not playing

    I'm having an issue which suddenly cropped up today with Safari and YouTube. For some reason every video just has a little spinning graphic on top of a black screen when I try to play them. Troubleshooting steps I have taken: Checked to confirm that there were no content blockers enabled (I...
  3. W

    Forever loading (spinning wheel) after login. NOTHING works!

    Hi, I had some issues with iMac (late 2017) - finder freezing, when I started download something in Safari, Safari crashed. Opera or any other browser crashed when opening and so on..). I decided to upgrade macOS from Mojave to Catalina. When it was done, loggin screen appered, I put my pass...
  4. M0bi0us0ne

    NEED HELP!! MBP late 2016 left fan always on!

    Long story short I decided clean the fans of my late 2016 MBP and, since the laptop was already opened, i also opted to replace the thermal paste, now after having reassemble it the left fan is constantly spinning at 100% while the right one spins at minimum speed even under heavy load. I tried...
  5. ragtopss

    iPhone SE (2016) Iphone SE not responding - need to recover notes

    This morning, while I was on my phone, the screen went black and a spinning circle appeared. My first thought was to do the hard reset by holding down the power and home button. This solved nothing, the apple logo came on and then it went back to the black screen. I contacted apple support and...
  6. S

    Fan issue driving me nuts

    So my 10 month old MacbookPro is driving me nuts, Apple tells me it's quite normal for the fan to start spinning the way it does. I took it to their store and they weren't concerned by the noise, of course in a busy store you can hardly hear the fan but in a quiet room it's infuriating. The...
  7. J

    watchOS apps stuck not spinning wheel

    Hi, Recently all my 3rd-party Apple Watch apps had stopped working. Any app I try to launch getting stuck on loading spinning wheel. I have tried the following: - Reboot - Reinstalling all apps - Restoring Apple Watch - Deleting all iPhone music which solved the problem but when I synced the...
  8. P

    Macbook won't shut down El Capitain

    Hello, I have an annoying problem. Sometimes when I try to shut down mac it freezes with spinning wheel. I tried PRAM, SMC reset, but nothing helps. I noticed that It happens more often when it's been plugged to power than when it runs on battery. Any thoughts what I can do, or clean-installing...
  9. adamisapple

    MacBook Pro 17" 2006 Weird Boot Issue PLEASE HELP!!!

    I just got a beautiful MacBook Pro 17" (2006) and It does this weird thing when I turn it on. It shows an Apple Logo, then a Progress Bar (But it only fills to 5% then disappears) and then the Spinning Icon below the Apple shows up and nothing happens. Any suggestions? Thanks, Adam
  10. J

    iOS 9.2 - Circle progress spinning top left corner

    Using iOS 9.2 on an iPhone 6s+ after every so often (hours.. days) after a reboot, I get the little circle spinning at the top left corner. I was curious is this a bug in iOS 9.2? I've deleted every app that can be deleted, reset all settings, even performed a backup/restore- was curious if...