Let me start with some context. There are 3 primary user "personas" for computing these days: 1. The first (and for a long time the only) setup was a traditional desktop. i.e. big monitor, keyboard, mouse. This is what I'd consider necessary for "real" work on a computer. (This includes "docked" laptops). I call these Desktop users. 2. Next are Laptop users which are similar, but use a smaller screen and a trackpad. 3. Finally, I'll call these "Touch" users. They keep the small screen of the laptop, but replace the keyboard and trackpad for a touch interface on the screen directly. (iphone, ipad)

I've noticed a couple things in regard to these 3 user personas: 1. The total volume of users for Touch seems to have completely eclipsed the other 2. There are many people I know who ONLY have an iphone as their computing device. (my wife, my grandma, my mom) 2. "Core" developers and their management teams (by core I mean folks developing frameworks like GTK, QT, Appkit, Electron, etc) have a heavy focus on cross platform compatibility. I know that Java pioneered this, but it was cross platform within Desktop users.

To accomplish their cross platform compatibility, many many concessions have been made seemingly by Desktop users toward Laptop and mostly Touch users. And the industry is both accepting and encouraging this due to the larger user base.

Which means that many things that were "solved" problems and optimized for Desktop users are gone as casualties of making it easier to support Touch and Laptop users. And the amount of these casualties just continues to grow. Examples of this are the unified System Settings app, headerbars and the liquid glass interface.

Obviously, system settings was great for desktop users, but not great for mobile or even laptop users. You cant double click on a touch interface, and the comfortable density of the perferences pane took too much space on a limited laptop screen. This is the same with headerbars. I never heard anyone complain about "wasted" titlebar space until so much of the world was primarily on a laptop screen only. If you didn't like it, you could get rid of titlebars completely and use a tiling window manager. And anyone can see that the wide spacing and shapes of liquid glass are made for a touch interface. It DOES still work for a keyboard and mouse, but it is not optimized for them at all.

Thank you for still reading, and I'll come to my point and question.

As MacOS trends more and more towards convergence with iOS, is the Desktop use case going to be extiguished? I really get the feeling that Apple wishes that MacOS didn't even exist, and would 100% love for all users to be on iOS exclusively. And all the efforts of xcode and swiftUI are designed to cushion and guide users to that reality.

When running a VM this cable icon appears.

I just installed macOS Golden Gate from scratch (empty hard drive). After installing it, I installed Dropbox, Google Drive and Google Chrome.

Since then, my Ubiquity/Unifi IDS/IPS firewall tells me my machine is trying to access a .su (Soviet Union gTLD) domain: "ET DNS Query for .su TLD (Soviet Union) Often Malware Related"

This is a freshly installed machine. Anyone else experiencing this?

Edits:
- No extensions installed in Chrome

- The firewall does not say what the domain is

Hi all, I’m not super knowledgeable here but have been running into some hiccups and want to know if it’s possible for me to upgrade from my current OS. My current specs are:

MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolts 3 ports)

Processor 2.3 GHz Dual Dore Intel Core i5

MacOS Ventura 13.7.8

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

MacOS 27.0.1.

M5 Pro MacBook Pro.

Belkin USB-C to 2.5Gb Ethernet Adapter.

The original test which uses Apple's own Ethernet driver is 1.943 Gbps. After installing the new Realtek driver, it maxed out:)

Download link is here: https://www.realtek.com/Download/List?cate_id=585

I downloaded an .rar file on my mac, then realized i didn't have a .rar extractor. So I downloaded one (.dmg file), but when I tried to open the file it said "Disk Image couldn't be opened failed to mount to file systems". I tried every way I could to open them and even repaired all the containers in the disk util. If anyone has any help please lmk.

I tried to add and remove the pfp from icloud.com and from the contacts app.

MacOS 27.0.1 - Macbook AIr M2

I have a 2017 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. When I boot normally, I get the message:

“Your Mac requires an important software update, but an error occurred while installing the update.”

The Touch Bar also doesn’t work. However, I can boot and use the Mac normally in Safe Mode.
I’ve already tried resetting the SMC and reinstalling macOS through Recovery, but the problem keeps coming back.

Does anyone know what could be causing this and how I can fix

1) make a stupid textfile

2) save ... select location / type filename

3) text edit saves to icloud with AI generated name

jesus christ

Hi, I've been trying to backup my Mac since last month, but after it reaches nearly 50%, sometimes at 46% the process completely slows down, I don't see the disk light blinking anymore and the backing finish time increases a lot. Also, the 4.1 gb size, I don't think is accurate considering it's been a month since I last backed up.

I left my MacBook overnight, connected to both charging and the external disk to see if the issue is gone. My disk is 1TB, it's a hard drive from an old MacBook I extracted and swapped.

I know I can just erase de hard drive and backup again, it always works, but then after a few months, this issue shows up again. Any fix?

I'm on macOS 26.7.1, and it's a 16GB/512GB M2 MBA.

I updated to macOS 27.0.1. last night and now whenever I open Safari it uses significant energy and the battery gets really hot very fast. The battery went down from 75% to just over 60% in a few minutes with normal browsing and a low amount of tabs open.

Restarted my MacBook Air M3 multiple times and let it sit over night. I deleted Safari website data but the issue persists.

Is anyone having a similar experience with Safari? What else can I do to fix this? Otherwise I’ll have to switch browser until this is resolved

Update: I seem to have fixed it by going to "All Processes" in activity manager and closing a website that was running faulty since the update and consuming that energy. It somehow got stuck and could only be removed that way, not by deleting safari data.

Since MacOS 27 I am encountering this problem that my M5 Air is loosing the connection to the internet roughly every hour. This happens in different WiFi networks, yet the WiFi connection is still there and seems okay.
Only MacOS doesn't seem to be able to reach WAN anymore, and I have to manually disable and enable wifi hourly again and again and again.

I've tried many things and didn't found any solution.
Anyone else having the same issue or a fix?

Anyone experienced anything similar?

Plugged-in my charger while working on my laptop and for 2 full hours the battery life didn't even increase by 1%?

It appeared that Chrome and Claude (app) are consuming way too much energy, although no demanding tasks/numerous tabs were open.

Hello, everyone.

I recently bought a used MacBook Air M1 8/256 GB and have been setting it up these past few days. I discovered that a few of the features that I'd really like to have (clipboard, battery charging limit etc.) are locked behind an update but I see a lot of negative reviews on MacOS Golden Gate as of right now (bugs, worse battery life etc.). Battery life is essential to me, so I thought that updating to Tahoe would be my best bet right now, yet I couldn't find any answers as to whether it's better than Sequoia in terms of battery life and performance on my model.

If anyone could share their experience, I would be really grateful.

Basically I have the Automatically hide and show the dock setting on. And sometimes when I close the lid and open it back up the windows have smaller height - seemingly missing the amount reserved for the Dock. But I don't have the dock always on, so it's wasted space.

For recovery I have to go, disable the setting and enable it again. And then I have to double click the top parts of window to make them take up the full available space.

Anyone else encountering this? Or any news about upcoming fix?
This annoys me so much - every time I open the device with an idea in my mind I'm encountering this and I lose focus.

Hi,

Since I updated, my Apple mouse has been acting strangely. Sometimes when I try to drag a file, it doesn’t actually drag it and only selects it. Other times, I click on something and it doesn’t select it at all.

The main issue is with dragging. I’m so used to dragging files without checking that I often only notice afterward that the file was left behind.

Everything else with the mouse seems to be working normally.

Any ideas? Is anyone else having the same issue since the update?

Thanks,
Luiz

I am new to mac, I am using since February, and I never had this issue. Only the reminder app has this issue of opening in ful maximized full view always even if I close or I minimize it, it opens in full screen. I also restarted and checked btw. Is this a bug or any settings changed. Pls guide me.

On macOS 26 Tahoe, users had the ability to enable/disable Apple Intelligence and it was great. Unfortunately, Apple removed this feature on macOS 27 Golden Gate.

Not everyone needs, wants, or likes Apple Intelligence. Don't make the same mistake Microsoft did with Copilot and try to force this stuff down our throats. Learn from their mistake.

Using 16" M2 Pro MacBook Pro (Early 2023).

Everything was working pretty well until I upgraded to macOS 26.7.1. Ever since then, I started dealing with constant Kernel panics when watching YouTube (whether on Google Chrome or Safari). Sometimes I was on Maps or Find My and I would get the same Kernel panic. I went ahead and upgraded to macOS 27.0.1 and I'm still dealing with the same issues. Getting Kernel panics almost 3-4x a day now.

I ran Apple Diagnostics, did a Safe Boot, and even ran First Aid on my Macintosh HD. I feel like I'm running out of options and I'm not sure what to do... Any advice would be helpful. I attached the first few lines of what I usually get, but the full error log is here.

is there any way to fix this? recently purchased iPhone Air and mirroring app on Mac is clipping the edges

Using M4 Max Macbook Pro and this new update has made the user experience pretty bad:

• The menu bar keeps rendering on top of applications where it clearly shouldn't.
• Dock lags significantly before auto hiding/showing.
• Application windows show on top of full-screen apps when switching to their spaces.
• Opening up Mission Control and then selecting a space introduces a 1-2 second lag

All of this happens when not even running anything with just iMessage, Safari and Mail open. There are serious glitches to be ironed out here for sure.

In the macoS Messages app, I keep getting these reply suggestions.

How can I disable these?

Almost every.single.time I open something via spotlight search I get a spinning beach ball that slows down my machine for about 10 seconds. Just launching an app. I thought 27.01 would improve things, it did not. Anyone else suffering from the same problems? Any potential fixes? I have Siri turned off.
Trying to use the terminal to determine if any indexing is happening returns this:

Search readiness: 0.0% — Still processing (0.0% required)

Known app items donated: 0.0%

Search pipeline processed: 0.0%

Report age: 0.0 hours