Monstrous rain has come to my city and I guess my backpack is not that waterproof (even though I packed the laptop into a bag it still got wet)

I assume water got both onto (or I'd rather say INTO?) display and usb/hdmi ports. It works fine but I turned it off (I have no idea when exactly this happened)

Any help is appreciated!!!!

Over the past 3 or 4 days, whenever i've gone to use my mac in the morning like normal, my music sounds weird, then i go into the settings to find out the audio balance is messed up and I have to manually change it back

I haven't installed any new programs or changed anything about my setup. The only thing that has changed in the past 3-4 days is I am not using the Mac for as many hours everyday as I was prior but I doubt that would cause issues

I only ever use AirPods Max (Gen 1 Lightning) for my audio, I've had a ton of issues with APM and many AppleCare+ replacements in the past, could this be a Mac problem or yet another faulty pair of AirPods Max? and if it's a mac problem, how do i solve it?

I’m trying to remap Command + E so that it performs the same action as Command + W for closing a window.

I went to System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts → App Shortcuts, selected All Applications, added “Close Window,” and assigned Command + E to it. However, it simply doesn’t work.

I’m wondering if Command + E is already being used by certain apps and that’s preventing the override.

Is there another way to force macOS to use Command + E for Close Window, preferably while still being able to exclude certain apps like Chrome? Or is something like Karabiner-Elements my only real option?

I really just want Spotlight to show my apps. It's a quick way for me to open my app. Nothing else. But for some reason these days it's always busy indexing all my files, and worse, my app doesn't even show up. I use it all the time.

Any suggestions?

Hi -
I’m trying to bring macOS into a windows environment, and I’m using Intune to manage applications and configurations. I’m running into a heck of time setting the camera, screen recording, audio recordings, and hard drive permissions via Intune for application like Zoom, Teams, and Slack.

Anyone have experience they can share?

It changes depending on what I’m using. If I go to upload something from there, you can’t always find what you are looking for.
Go to Finder, everything’s there just like normal. What is the logic in this, why would it need to be that way? It does it on my MacBook Air and my Mac mini.
Is there a fix or is it just like taking away the headphone port on my phone? Something inconvenient that’s supposed to be a “feature”

Interesting that enabling System Settings > Displays > High Dynamic Range produces a brightness slider for an external monitor in the Controls widget, whether or not the monitor qualifies as HDR. (Though non-HDR monitors look bad with HDR enabled.)

I'm not sure why my M2 Macbook 16 drives an Acer XV275K monitor at 144 Hz, whereas a friend's M5 Macbook 16 only goes up to 60 Hz. I'll investigate. Tahoe 26.6.2.

What’s the best budget MacBook for someone who wants to spin up virtual machines

I cant stand the iOS-ification of everything

Anyone else still stuck at fully understanding the macOS workflow after being on windows for decades? I’m still stumped why “alt tabbing” still sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. Obviously it’s user error on my part. This is just one example

It used to be fine many years ago but for last year and a bit it's constant high cpu on features I do not use. It's duetexpertd, stocks, spotlightd, that thing for syncing with iphone and the cloud. Even when it's on low power mode and not plugged in.

I used to be able to lay down with it and place it on my chest but now I have a nice rectangular erythema ab igne.

There are some tips on this sub how to fix this or that but they don't really work fully. And honestly I don't want that, I want a computer that just works without fiddling with it.

So I guess when the updates run out instead of getting a new macbook air I'm just gonna install a linux on it.

Estuve buscando una aplicación para macOS similar a la de iOS pero lo único que encontré es weather desktop y no me gustan los fondos que tiene. Será que alguno sabe otra?

I've been on this journey of making my mac workflow more Keyboard-Driven.

There is no shortage of tools out there, native and third party. We can naively categorize the ecosystem into two approaches:

Manual snapping/switching: Tools like Rectangle, Alt-Tab... etc. You manually snap windows into halves/thirds,..., but switching between arbitrary windows still relies on cycling linearly through an Alt-Tab like list of some sort, or using Mission Control/mouse.

Automatic tiling window managers: Tools like Yabai, AeroSpace, or Amethyst. They give you powerful keyboard focus (navigating directionally with h/j/k/l or arrow keys), but they force everything into rigid, automatic grids,BSP trees, i3-style splits, forced full-screening, and strict layouts.

A lot of keyboard-first enthusiasts seem to gravitate towards and recommend automatic tiling management. I’ve tried (yabai, AeroSpace) but couldn't get used to this approach. I found it hijacks the desktop more than I could tolerate, forcing tiling and not letting me just adjust one window's size for example.

What I actually want is much simpler: say manual tiling is fine, if I'm focused on a window, I hit the right arrow (or l, or whatever), I want the focus to move to the window that is physically to the right of the one I'm on, in a spatial/directional, not sequential manner. The window that’s actually on the right side of the window I'm on (or the most reasonable spatial candidate if things are not perfectly aligned/overlapping).

Just navigation through space on the standard, free-form desktop, the way the eyes already scan the screen. Kind of like old/simple video games where you just move with the arrows, you don't think about it much you just go there.

Anyone found something that does that (directional nav) without the rigid "management" tradeoff, or has everyone just accepted the grid is unavoidable?

After the latest macOS update, my Mac charged to 100% even though I have the charge limit set to 80%.

tahoe 26.6.2 (25G83)

I then unplugged it and used it actively for several hours, but the battery percentage stayed almost at 100% the whole time. You can see the screen usage in the graph.

Looks like a battery percentage/calibration bug. Has anyone else noticed this after the update?

I was in Finder, but I thought I was in my web browser. I attempted a force-refresh of a webpage via ⌘ + Shift + R …but—lo and behold, that hotkey combo made AirDrop appear in my current Finder window! (Edited to clarify that I was in finder the whole time. My Finder window was beside my browser window, ergo the confusion).

By the way, I already have the AirDrop shortcut in my Finder toolbar, which is good, because I’ll probably forget this shortcut.

Hi, i’m probably one of many people to ask about it but i’m still on the latest sequoia version on my m2 air 16gb macbook. should i upgrade to 26.6.2 and what’s the performance boost or downside. i want to hear from people who recently upgraded or wanting to upgrade.

I got my Macbook Pro M5 around 5 days back. Today while setting up handoff and airdrop, the screen suddenly froze for about a minute, with the cursor still responding and display intact. After a minute, this pop-up came saying "Window Server quit suddenly". I closed the lid for about 10 seconds and when I opened it, the lock screen showed "Password is required to enable touch Id" After that it worked fine. It's practically a new device so didn't expect an application crashing so soon. The device is updated to macos Tahoe 26.6.2.

Anyone else has faced the same? Is this a hardware problem?

Can you suggest me some wallpaper source for macos I am little bored of default mac wallpapers

Is there shortcut that creates new desktop/space?

I have an Airport for backup, but I have been receiving messages that this will no longer be compatible with OS 27, but use SMB disc which seems to be something used with Microsoft products. What are the options for backups with the new OS?

Can't figure it out and it's really bugging me. Maybe because it IS a bug? Would much appreciate any guidance as to how to prevent it from happening. Thanks in advance.

P.S. I don't have any ethernet connections or PPPoE configurations, at all, and I'm tired of dragging it off the menubar. Tahoe 26.6.2

Recently got my macbook m3 repaired by a sketch repair guy (my relative said they knew someone). It took 1 day and they gave it back but I immediately noticed that they didn't replace the entire top lid, just a "lcd" (which is suspicious bc afaik for the m3 laptops you need to replace the entire top). Then when I logged in, it would load a bit, turn pink screen, then restart. I did this 5 times before I realized something was sus so I tried looking up pink screen issue but most says its could just be LCD issue or memory leak. But I also noticed that the time is stuck on Thursday April 1 at 8:00 so I'm just really scared that they messed up my laptop, got personal info, got my passwords etc. I mostly use that laptop for school but have passwords logged on it w my apple id and stuff. Before I got it repaired, the laptop was perfectly fine except the LCD was just cracked so this is definitely sus for me.

TLDR Did I get hacked or is the LCD just a shit job

With that, should I get a new laptop or repair this with someone else thats more certified? If I buy a new one, is it worth retrieving the files on this laptop?

Apple seriously needs to stop f*cking removing customization just because they changed their minds. The floating sidebar is a perfect example. Some of us actually liked it. It was clean, modern, visually interesting, and gave applications more personality. So why the hell was the ability to explicitly set NSSplitViewItemSidebarDefaultsToFloatingAppearance to true taken away? If Apple doesn't want it as the default anymore, then don't make it the default. That's literally it. But removing the option entirely is where you've completely lost me. Apple changing its preferred design direction is one thing; Apple deciding developers shouldn't even be allowed to choose a different appearance is something else entirely.

And frankly, that's becoming an increasingly frustrating pattern with macOS. A developer can spend real time and effort building a tool that gives users more control over the appearance of their Mac—floating sidebars, rounded corners, alternative UI treatments—and then Apple can simply pull the underlying functionality out from underneath them. Now that work is potentially obsolete. Not because it was unsafe, malicious, or broken, but because Apple apparently decided, “We don't want people doing that anymore.” That's bullsh!t.

Simplification does not mean deleting every option that isn't part of Apple's preferred configuration. The average user doesn't need to know what `NSSplitViewItemSidebarDefaultsToFloatingAppearance` means—and they shouldn't have to. But developers, customization tools, and power users do. That's the entire fucking point of having advanced options. And this is macOS—the platform historically built around flexibility, creativity, experimentation, and letting developers create things Apple didn't think of themselves.

So please, Apple: change the defaults. Push a new design direction. Build something better. But stop ripping out functionality that people are actively using just because Apple wants tighter control over how everything looks. Give us your beautiful defaults without making them mandatory. Let developers build. Let users customize. And for the love of Baby Jesus, STOP F*CKING CUTTING OUT OPTIONS.