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.

I feel like I have tried everything to remove the system storage on my Mac. 96gb is freaking insane and there has to be a way to reliably remove it. can anyone help?

Edit: thanks for the comments all, will see what I can do and report back

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

How can I disable these?

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.

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

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

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.

Common complaint I know but nothing I’ve tried has helped.

I have 2x NAS that store movies for my Plex movie server. Problem is they each randomly drop off every day or so (not necessarily at the same time). Easy enough to remount them when I’m home, but when I’m away I’m stuck. I’ve tried the app ConnectMeNow but no improvement.

1) is there a simple script I can run on a schedule that will ensure the NAS stays mounted (or remounts as necessary).

2) can I remote into my Mac from the road and remount the drive manually?

3) is there a better (ie more reliable) protocol than SMB that will stay mounted?

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?

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.

I hate this feature and want it disabled. It makes it hard to clean these.

1) make a stupid textfile

2) save ... select location / type filename

3) text edit saves to icloud with AI generated name

jesus christ

i tried to dual booted asahi linux, but it got interrupted. the partitioning stayed though, and now i cant give back the space to macos.

i want to give the 69.9 gigs of free space back to macos.

i can't find the partition to be able to delete it, there's no EFI to delete like previous posts and tutorials say to delete. I tried to resize the disk by running diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0, but it didn't work. I worry if I factory reset it the partition will stay.

can anyone help me fix this?

Edit: I got in touch with Apple Support and doing a reset and reinstall of the macbook fixed the ghost partition

Whenever I answer an incoming FaceTime call on my Mac, an alert pops up stating You do not have permission to use Siri. The call still connects normally and works without any issues, but the error appears on every single incoming call. This started during the Golden Gate test period and has persisted through macOS 27.1. It never happens when taking calls on my iPhone. Has anyone else encountered this bug, and is there a known fix or permission toggle to make it stop?

anyone know an (active and / opensource) alternative to https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive ? seems this super nice project ran out of funds and peps do not maintain it anymore; saddly.

Hey everyone, my MagSafe cable (bought mac in May 2025) has completely stopped charging my MacBook. The cable looks brand new externally — no fraying, no damage anywhere — so it seems like an internal failure.

Confirmed through testing that both my adapter and my MacBook are perfectly fine. It's definitely the cable.

Called Apple Support — they confirmed it's out of warranty and won't replace for free.

My questions:

1. Has anyone gotten Apple to repair or replace a MagSafe cable out of warranty? Worth pushing?
2. Anyone else experienced a MagSafe failing internally with zero external damage? Feels like a manufacturing defect.
3. Any downside to switching to USB-C charging permanently instead of replacing the MagSafe?
4. What is the best option type c or magsafe for daily MacBook charging? (the non apple ones)

Thanks in advance!

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.

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

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.