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Mac's time keeps changing back 15 days
One day my laptop accidently ran out of battery completely and was dead. It was dead overnight and in the morning when i plugged the battery back up and it started up the time issue got resolved by ...
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"globalprocesserfld" will damage your computer
I ran MalwareBytes (free for personal use) to clean this up on a Mac today.
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Wireless keyboard for mac keeps losing connection
For me, this happens mostly when I charge one of my devices. I have a Magic Trackpad and a Keyboard lying around. Then for some reason, only the one connected via USB is connected.
What does help for ...
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Macbook loses network connection when connecting external display
I had the same problem. I run two monitors and had a dongle plugged into both sides one for the left monitor and one for the right monitor. I ended up plugging them both into the right and that ...
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Unable to run MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) from an external drive on a 2018 MacBook Pro
The Mac needs a specific build of High Sierra.
10.13.6 was released on July 9, 2018 as build 17G65. The 2018 MBP was also released in July of that year, but needs build 17G2112, with additional ...
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macOS Sonoma Bluetooth headphone/speaker sound issue when multiple Bluetooth devices connected
I was curious, as I have suffered from this issue recently too, so I decided to take a packet trace of the bluetooth activity. I'm still studying the details, and I noticed three things.
I usually ...
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MacBook Pro: How to open last terminal tabs on restart?
"Save Window Group" is a feature you can find in the Terminal menu.
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External HDD doesn't show up in finder/disk utility, but shows up in System Information
Something happened to your HDD to cause this failure.
The data recovery person telling you that the more you plug it in the more corrupted it becomes is likely correct.
Ask the data recovery guy for a ...
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"Double-click Touch ID to pay" doesn't work on MacBook
I was able to restore the previous behavior by going to "System Settings", "Touch ID & Password", turning off "Use Touch ID for Apple Pay", then turning it back on ...
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External monitor stays on when MacBook Pro is in sleep mode
I had the exact same problem with my LG 35wn75c. MacBook Pro connected via USB-C (DP alt mode), but no dock.
What fixed it for me was changing this setting Battery > Options > Wake for network ...
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How to prevent MacBook Pro notch from hiding menu bar icons (from the right)
There is Say No to Notch available on the App Store.
Works as described on my MBA 2022 (moving the menubar down one row).
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Can I tell my Mac to charge to 80% only?
There are some new options for Macs with Apple Silicon. Apple refers to their system for battery charging as "Optimized Battery Charging"; the OP's question seems to be asking about "...
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Optimized Battery Charging issue for 2023 MBP, Apple M2 Max chip
I'm submitting an answer with this question - not because I feel it's the ultimate answer, but only to make sure that at least one answer is posted before the question is closed as a Duplicate. Please ...
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Enable All HiDPI Modes
System Settings -> Displays -> Checkbox "Show all resolutions", then pick whatever resolution you want. I don't have your laptop so I can't verify, but a 16" MBP allows me to pick ...
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Enable All HiDPI Modes
I think I found a pretty good solution.
Note : It involves the use of Terminal so proceed with caution.
Steps:
Install Homebrew if not yet installed
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw....
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What can I do besides taking in to service a Macbook to remove a firmware password?
This solution is applied to the Intel processor in my MacBook Pro 2018.
You could use the terminal to try the following commands to solve your problem. However, I want to emphasise the necessity of ...
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How can I reset the firmware password on a MacBook Air?
This workaround is applied to my MacBook Pro 2018 Intel chip.
You could try the following commands on the terminal to find a solution to your problem. However, I want to emphasize the importance of ...
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How do I find out what wireless card my Mac has?
On MacBook with Apple Silicon (M1 Pro) and macOS Ventura 13.6 the command mentioned in the other answers ioreg -r -n ARPT | grep IOName returned nothing. I had to adjust it to:
ioreg -r -n wlan | grep ...
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Unable to get rid of beeping sound from 2021 MacBook Pro
After trying various other options, I noticed that the sound can be heard even when starting up in recovery mode. A colleague suggested that the MacBook might be trying to start its fan. I installed ...
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2011, 15" MacBook Pro won't connect with Apple Cinema Display
Is the AMD(?) chip required to run external displays?
To answer my own question, it would appear to be the case.
I baked my faulty motherboard (and thus AMD GPU) in an oven at 200℃ for 10 minutes (...
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MacBook display issue with garbled screen. What happened?
Run the Use Apple Diagnostics to test your Mac
Described in details here
[apple test][1]
To start it depends on type of your Mac, for Intel CPU use the Turn on your Mac, then immediately press and ...
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MBP 2011 A1278 multiple disks with multiple os installs
Note: I am not sure if you wish to migrate your existing installation on the 128 GB SSD to the new larger SSD. In other words, do you what a dual boot between Yosemite and your current OS X/macOS? If ...
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MBP 2011 A1278 multiple disks with multiple os installs
There's going to be a bunch of side questions but let's cover two things:
When you run the macOS update from an internal disk - you get the best chance that firmware updates. On older macs, there ...
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MacBook Pro 2018 overheating
Once this happened to my 2017 Macbook pro and Apple serviced it to remove much dust from the fans and that returned back to normal afterwards.
Another thing you could do is to start the Activity ...
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Where is the Touch ID data stored?
This is impossible by design. The biometric data is computed into a numeric representation that is then stored in an encrypted file. No fingerprint is stored in the clear, made accessible to you or to ...
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How is it possible to configure the display on a Macbook to shrink icons like this?
Resolution: Text size is no longer an option in accessibility settings but you can change sidebar icon size under the appearance settings in control panel.
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How is it possible to configure the display on a Macbook to shrink icons like this?
The following method is not available to versions prior to macOS 14 Sonoma (it's a new feature).
It's all a matter of text size. If you look in System Settings > Accessibility > Display > ...
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Can MacBook Air (2020) be charged from airplane USB?
At least on Air Canada's 777's USB ports (no doubt found on other airliners, but will vary by airliner), I've measured the USB port to only output 0.44A at 5V, or 2.2watts. Takes a while just to ...
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Can you have a dock on every display?
You can have one Dock, on one display [at a time].
If you use 'Displays have different Spaces' then it will move to your currently-active Space if you hit the bottom of that display with your cursor.
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New market battery says No "Fully Charged"
Without me doing anything,
since I didn't use the laptop, but had it charging, now I can see via the system information, that "Fully charged" is set to "Yes", and "Charging&...
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How to check VT-x status on MacBook Pro
From Intel SDM Sec 24.6 Discovering support for VMX -
If CPUID.1:ECX.VMX[bit 5] = 1, then VMX operation is supported.
Python program to check this CPUID leaf, using python-cpuid package -
pip install ...
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Non-Retina (non-IPS) Display on Mac
I doubt very much that there is any "other" display that you can fit into a Mac laptop.
The last non-Retina Mac laptop was the MacBook Air 2017, which will run OSes between 10.12.4 (Sierra) ...
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M1 MacBook Pro jumps text while typing
This happened on my M1 MBP, and is now happening on my M2. It is really annoying. I see it mostly when I'm typing fairly fast. The jump is sometimes to the Home of the current page, and sometimes to ...
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How to get rid of different mouse tracking speeds on dual screen setups
2023 update: linearmouse might be able to help. It can already change mouse speed and acceleration for different applications. This helps if for example, you have a full-screen application on your ...
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macOS, Use fn + Command keyboard shortcuts work
Some fn key combos not in the documented built-in keyboard shortcuts list:
fn+e shows emoji picker
fn+a focuses keyboard on the Dock
fn+shift+a opens app launcher
fn+f switches the current app to ...
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MacBook Air/Pro: run script upon lid close?
There are suggestions about how to get status here:
Mac OS X - Bash script if statement based on system status
And then you might call a script from launchd.plist every so many seconds... Something ...
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