M1 Pro (16", 2021) and my Spotlight search quit working sometime in 2024 - 2025. Yes, I can reindex it, but that is only temporary, and always breaks. More recently, the search box in my Notes app is intermittent (not sure if related??).

Yesterday I spent like 1-2 hours using AI to run a bunch of prompts in Terminal, restart, etc.....all to no avail. Spotlight STILL doesn't work. This is over my head.

My question is this: is there a company or service I can hire to find the gremlin in my Macbook??

I want to get a new MB soon.....but I'm very concerned that if I do the file transfer migration process..........that same gremlin will come over other the new machine.

What company or service can I hire to find and fix this problem?

The icons on the sidebar won't change back to their default icons. I tried changing the folder icons, removing or unpinning the folders from the sidebar, relaunching Finder, and resetting Finder via Terminal but nothing was able to fix it.

Note: I'm using a MacBook Air on macOS 27.0.1.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue and were you able to solve it?

hey all, started a new work and got a mac. I'm a Windows user for the last 20 years and struggling right now with the new Control, Option, and Cmd keys.

I'm aware about Karabiner but want to hear what's the best advise for some looking to use shortcuts like copy, paste, close tabs, switch between apps, etc, preferably using a singleain key.

Thanks!

Got a new M6 Mac mini that came with MacOS 27... I have used this HDR capable monitor for a while now (Samsung G80SD OLED)... It supports VRR, 240Hz... M1 Max can't do that but can do 120Hz and HDR via USBC to DP...

So now on this new Mini I used 2.1 HDMI and off a fresh restart I can see 240Hz and HDR... and set it.. and this works fine. Until the Mini (or rather the monitor turns itself off via Lock Screen setting). When it wakes back up I am then limited to 4K and 120Hz but can't select 240Hz and enable HDR. My cable is 2.1, 48Gbps certified. Just the fact that I get 120hz at 4K makes me think its not cable related...

Anyone come across an issue like this. Not sure if a monitor or OS issue.

Moving mouse over a control should not move the control that user is about to click.

Recently, I updated my MacBook Air M2 to iOS 27.0.1. I am using a Canon LBP2900B as a printer on this MacBook with a patch. Initially, to get it working, I installed Rosetta. Now, whenever I cancel a print job, the printer stops responding to commands, and I have to reinstall Rosetta and reboot the laptop.

In addition, I am also facing an issue with page management. I was printing a book and found that the printer was printing random pages.

Please help me out

I’m really struggling with the notifications in Mac. They don’t jump out at you and I’m forever missing stuff.

Anyone used any third party apps or settings tweaks that might make them stand out?

Hi.

I have almost everything on iCloud. And I do backups to Jottacloud daily.

I am thinking of getting an external harddrive for additional backup- then preferably through Time Machine.

Is this any overkill for an average user? No company, just personal stuff: documents, book scripts and such. Is Jottacloud enough? Or is TimeMachine better? If so, do I need Jottacloud?

Or is it advised to use both solutions after all? Moneywise it is not so big thing if you think the HD has a lifetime of at least a couple of years.

Im running a M2 Macbook Pro and a TCL C8L that i bought specifically for HDR editing.

It dosent run EDR nativly as far as i can tell lol and im told that EDR can be turned on, im just not excatly sure how. I already have BetterDisplay but i have not seen any obvious toggle or anything like that.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

In the first picture that keeps popping up on my Mac. I don’t click the scan button because I don’t want the virus to take over my computer fully. If it is a virus. How do I get rid of that? I downloaded bit medic on the App Store and it’s not able to read that it’s something on here.

I've found other people complaining about a similar issue:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1mkzyck/is_there_a_way_to_stop_opening_apple_music/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1d8twn6/music_app_keeps_reopening_when_quit/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/s75c7a/how_do_i_stop_music_from_opening_randomly/
• https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255346032
• https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255008235
• https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252505697
• https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255972837
• https://osxdaily.com/2024/09/20/stop-music-opening-mac/

So, yeah, I know there is a utility I can download to stop this, but I've been using this MacBook for like 2 years and never had this problem until now.

I'd really like to know the trigger. I'm still on MacOS Sequoia (I decided to skip Tahoe entirely and I'm planning to upgrade to Golden Gate after a couple major patches are out).

I haven't done a major update to MacOS in a while. I haven't installed any new apps that would integrate with Music (I did install SoundSource after the problem started, because I couldn't figure out where the music was coming from).

I'm not pressing any play buttons. It doesn't happen with any particular app. I'm not using any new peripherals.

It seems like it happens sometimes when I end a call in a chat app.

I want to know why this started. It's super annoying.

Hi everyone!

Are there any tools or an automation I can use that saves the Display Arrangement so when Universal Control resets it I can get it back quickly?

I managed to create a macro on KM that opens the Display Arrangement window for me but I need to get it fully automated. All my Displays are aligned at bottom, as they are physically.

TIA

Apple said iOS 27 and macOS 27 improve dictation accuracy, so I wanted to see if that reaches the speech engine built into macOS, the one third party transcription apps call.

I had a benchmark published back in July on macOS 26.5.1, 300 clips of read speech from a standard public dataset, and I'd saved every transcript. So I re-ran the same 300 clips on macOS 27 and compared them word by word.

280 of the 300 came back byte for byte identical to macOS 26.5.1. 296 of 300 are identical if you ignore punctuation. Only four transcripts differ in any word, and two of those are the engine writing "20" where it used to write "twenty", and "second" where it used to write "2nd", so that's formatting moving in both directions, not accuracy getting better.

I ran it on a second Mac too, an M4 Pro, because Apple's newest on-device model needs an M3 or later with at least 12GB of memory. Both Macs gave the same words on all 300 clips. The only difference between the two machines was seven commas.

What this means if you use a Mac:

- if you use a transcription app that relies on Apple's built-in engine, going from macOS 26 to 27 won't make it more accurate

- a newer Mac won't transcribe more accurately through that engine either, the M4 Pro and the M2 Pro gave identical results

Method, every transcript, and the code to reproduce it (one Swift file, no Xcode project needed): https://lyonesse.app/blog/macos-27-speech-api-accuracy.html

I’m a relatively new Mac user; I’ve had a Macbook Air M2 for a little over a year now and have never had any issues with it until recently, after I updated to macOS 27. I never should’ve done it knowing what I know now, but it’s too late and can’t be undone, so here I am.

Ever since the update, my battery life drains much faster. I never even had to worry about battery life at all before, but now whenever I teach my online classes through Zoom, it can go from 100% to 70% in just an hour. I don’t even have other apps open when I’m teaching besides Zoom and Powerpoint.

It’s also affected my classes themselves because it’s made sharing my screen through Zoom a laggy experience. When I’m adding text or drawing for example using the Zoom tools, they won’t appear correctly until I try again a second time, or they’d randomly disappear and not show at all. And anytime I play a video, it’s extremely laggy and choppy. Again, nothing like this has ever happened before until the update. My experience with this laptop has been perfectly smooth and problem free until recently.

I’ve tried looking up if anyone else has had any issues like this. There was someone who had a similar issue who also taught online classes like me, but theirs had to do with storage space issues, and that can’t be my problem because I still have plenty of storage. People were also talking about indexing after a big update, but those take a few days at most. It’s been almost 2 weeks since I updated and these issues are still happening. There was someone else who said their issue had to do with third party apps they had installed that affected the update, and that things were fine after they uninstalled those apps. But they never mentioned the apps in question, so how am I supposed to know what apps to uninstall, if any?

Is there anything I can do to try and mitigate these issues? Or do I have no choice but to wait for further updates and hope that those will fix things for me? If anyone has any suggestions of things I could try, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks.

Drained my battery 20 percent within 1 hour of chrome.... should I be panicked?

I have an early 2015 macbook pro 13 inch 8gb ram. I needed an emulator for android, and I have continuously tried bluestacks, but it keeps crashing while trying to launch. If anyone has a solution, I would be very happy.

This is a solution to a niche "problem" some users might be experiencing. Every time it gets brought up, commenters say that the default behavior is the opposite of what the poster is expecting.

This is a macOS setting called "Automatic Termination"

Here's the way to fix it:

If you want these macOS document-based apps to quit automatically after you're done, type this into Terminal:

defaults write -g NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool false

If you instead want the expected macOS behavior of the apps still being open do:

defaults write -g NSDisableAutomaticTermination -bool true

IMPORTANT: The previous command, setting it to true, is NOT instant, because the app can be silently open, so you can add: && killall TextEdit at the end of the command for the setting to apply instantly, in that example I used 'TextEdit' but do 'Preview' or 'QuickTime Player' depending on what you had open. Alternatively just kill it from Activity Monitor.

Messing with System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Dock > Show suggested and recent apps in Dock can mess with this setting.

Remember that you need to click away from the app for it to quit, if you have trouble reproducing this.

Tested on Sequoia.

I am on an M5 MacBook Air using an external display, and it just randomly locks. It just started doing it today when I was playing some games and it kept messing me up. I have all my settings set to no auto-lock, so I am confused as to why this is happening. Only reason might be because I’m using monitor OC, but I don't think that's the issue. Please let me know if I can fix the issue, it drives me nuts.

My dream laptop when I was young!

This was my first apple computer!

Hi, After Updating to Golden Gate, I have noticed some issues when switching between apps. First off, when I use three fingers to get to mission control, and I click a full screen app, it takes about two seconds to actually switch. During that time, I briefly see my desktop (with no apps). Additionally, when I use the three finger method to get to mission control and try to use three fingers to go to an unfullscreen open app on the desktop, it not longer works. Additionally, when switching, the blue highlight will be on the desktop, but when I use the three finger gesture it returns to the tab I am on. I am not sure if this is due to the update, as this morning (before the update) my mac was buffering for the first time ever due to an unknown reason. This is an m4 256 gb macbook air. Thank you!

Hi everyone

I’m new to macOS (I’m using a MacBook Air M4 with macOS 27.0.1) and I’d like to share some of my impressions and concerns about the user interface, as well as ask for some advice.

Coming from experience with Linux, Windows, and FreeBSD, I really appreciate that macOS is a plug-and-play system, with seamless peripheral integration and exceptional audio quality for a laptop of this size. The trackpad, in particular, is truly excellent and reminds me of the reliability of the one on my old Toshiba laptop.

However, I’ve encountered a few aspects that aren’t very intuitive:

- Automatic startup: The Mac starts up when I plug in the power adapter or open the lid. I had to use Terminal to disable this behavior (which also woke up my girlfriend with the unexpected startup sound), which isn’t very user-friendly.

- Dock customization: To adjust the Dock’s appearance timing, I had to resort to Terminal again. Additionally, I find the activation when the cursor hovers over the bottom edge to be unresponsive.

- Magic Mouse: Despite its useful gestures, I find it unergonomic and more like a Magic Trackpad than a Magic Mouse.

- Scrolling with third-party mouse: When “natural scrolling” is enabled, the scroll wheel on a standard mouse moves in the opposite direction than expected.

- Stability and crashes: I’ve experienced a couple of crashes resulting in a black screen while using GarageBand, and I wasn’t sure how to handle the restart.

- Workspace management: Opening certain apps (like Telegram) automatically creates a new workspace in Mission Control. It would be helpful to be able to customize this behavior more easily.

What do you think? Do you have any advice or solutions to suggest for these issues?

Finally, since I’m new to the ecosystem, I’d like to ask if you have any free apps to recommend on the App Store to help me start exploring its full potential.

Thanks, everyone

As the title says. I have no clue what the other languages are but can Apple maybe get their shit together, that’d be great

It jumps around as I type but its never where its supposed to be above/under the cursor. This has been happening since like the last two OS updates and its driving me insane, especially when connected to a big external monitor where I'm forced to rotate my head to look for the box. As far as I'm concerned, this happens mostly/only with Google Docs. (M3 Air 2024 MacOS27.0.1)