Unanswered Questions
18,921 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Adjust delay for activating Full Screen Mode toolbar
Is it possible to change the delay on the full screen mode window toolbar in OS X Yosemite?
I'm thinking of something like this, but for the toolbar
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -...
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Migrated VPN server broken with macOS Catalina
My Mac mini has been working just fine with macOS Mojave as a VPN server following the migration method described in https://developer.apple.com/support/downloads/macOS-Server-Service-Migration-Guide....
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Apple Configurator 2 won't save changes to home screen layout
iPhone 8 Plus, iOS 13.1
Despite applying the changes in the Home Screen Layout menu, the changes do not appear to take on the device itself. When I open the menu again to change the layout it simply ...
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How to not import duplicates from shared Photos album
When I import photos from a shared library, either from my own Family album or one shared with other iOS users, they are imported as expected. I cannot reimport them again.
However, if you share a ...
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Notifications from Reminders Wake Screen in Catalina
I have an issue in Catalina that I'm not sure how to solve. Whenever a notification from Reminders comes through on my Mac, it wakes the computer from sleep, which in turn wakes up the external ...
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Set “Load remote content in messages” per sender?
In the Mail setting (under Viewing) tab, there is a option Load remote content in messages which I unchecked, so for each email that contains remote content, I need to click the Load remote content ...
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Why are some System Preferences icons “Generic” in macOS 10.15 Catalina?
Something weird is going on with the Icons for a few of the built-in System Preference prefPanes in macOS 10.15.x Catalina. For example, "Bluetooth" and "Internet Accounts". When I search Spotlight ...
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How to track screentime of Java apps with Catalina
I am using macOS screen time as a mechanism for parental controls. Before updating to Catalina, the screen time tracked the total time a one user was logged in with his/her credentials, regardless of ...
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How to change Safari HTTP header Accept-Language?
In Firefox Accept-Language is set globally for the browser in the general preferences or via an extension like "Modify Headers" for more frequent changes.
But how to do that in Safari?
Safari. On ...
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LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -600" I am getting error
While running ./getcov -s from Jenkin to MAC-OS and I am getting following errors:
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -600 for the file /Users/imacsbuild/Documents/XXX/XcodeCoverage-master/lcov/...
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Is there a way to get Firefox-like-Containers in Safari?
I'm looking for an extensions (or built in feature?) of Safari that does the same as Multi-Containers for Firefox. I need different users/containers to separate private browsing from different works ...
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Is there any way to prevent a MacBook Air (2019) from powering up when an input device (keyboard or trackpad) is touched or the lid is open?
While I know there is a hack to prevent MacBooks — 2016 and higher — from starting up when the lid is open, I would like to know if there is a similar hack to prevent a MacBook from powering up when ...
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Save 'Look up & data detectors' history?
A system gesture I use often when reading is to force press on a word which will pull up a definition and/or wikipedia page of the selected word (referred to as 'Look up & data detectors' in ...
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Zoom in or out with trackpad stops working
I am using OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G1217) on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015).
Sometimes when reading PDF's I notice I suddenly can not use the trackpad zoom feature anymore. It is not ...
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Why does my `rootless.conf` not always affect SIP’s choice of which files get the `restricted` flag treatment?
What sources say
Like everyone else’s, my /System/Library/Sandbox/rootless.conf file contains the following entries:
$ cat /System/Library/Sandbox/rootless.conf
[…]
/System
[…]
* /...
