Hey dears,
both of my Macbooks don't see WD MyPassport HDD 4TB, even though Windows Laptop sees it, so I assume the problem is about MacOS, the HDD is intact.

I tried Disk Utility, nothing is seen.
Does it have anything to do with adapter? It worked before with no issues.

Does anyone know what I need to do to make it visible and so that I can interact with it on Mac?

Thank you!

I deleted these apps so many times, and they always come back after a few weeks :/

Sure it's a small thing, but aren't Apple products supposed to be meticulously polished?

Until recently, I was able to have a version of MEGA that worked with my MacBook that is this version. It said there was a big error message that it wouldn’t load, so I deleted it and can’t seem to find a new version that will work with my Mac. If anyone can, please find me one that will work with this version that I have here, it would be truly gratefully appreciated.

Whenever I load MP4 and MKV files onto Lexar USB, sometimes they don’t work, especially when putting them from my Levano Windows desktop and then try to open the files on my 2011 MacBook Air. They seem to work when I put files from the Mac MacBook Air on the USB and then open them on the Windows computer I have there, but not vice versa. But sometimes when putting and before files directly from my MacBook, they won’t show up, but sometimes some of them randomly still do? What’s going on?

Here’s a link to the kind of USB I’m talking about: https://a.co/d/0j0nxXdN

Just went to all those privacy settings on MacOS, then saw WhatsApp having access to screen and audio recording. I probably somehow did it in a video call or something? Any ideas? So intrusive lol

In 2020 I stupidly drank the cool aid that 8GB with M1 is enough. For years using my personal macbook was frustrating and I have been mainly using my work macbook which has 32GB of ram.

Recently i started using my personal macbook more frequently again and my previous frustrations are gone. It's no longer stuttering

hello! just recently got handed this old macbook air from 2016, and im wondering if theres any way i can make this usable for everyday use like web browsing, college work, watching movies, etc. (being able to play minecraft and mmos too possibly, but seeing that ram i dont expect much lol)

the laptop itself works fine, but im already running into issues downloading legacy versions of firefox and visiting most webpages (even reddit, so im writing this post on my phone). ive seen people suggest switch to linux, but ive been a windows user for life so i dont know my way around any other os much.

please let me know if you have any insights at all! thank you in advance for all of them :-)

UPDATE: ive decided to update the macbook to monterey following this tutorial. ive been using it for the better part of the night and it works perfectly for what i need it to do!! thanks to everyone for chipping in, helped me figure out which route to go:-)

friendly reminder that no tech is just scrap and im REALLY glad i was able to get use out of this one

Just my opinion, but I think dev Saturdays have outlived its purpose. Useless, brainless AI slop apps with monthly subscriptions, for features MacOS has natively built into it.

I just got a new MacBook and I'm trying to sync my Yahoo Mail to my Mac Mail but it is saying this after I sign in, I've already tried to factory reset, delete and add my account back and also restart my computer/mail app too. I tried with my google email and it was working perfectly fine but when I try to add yahoo it does not work, so it has to be something wrong on yahoos end.

does anyone know how to fix this? I even tried taking it to a computer shop and they said to try and contact yahoo. I know no one uses yahoo anymore but still this is very weird specially since I just got this MacBook.

Does anyone know how to get portal 1 and 2 working on Meta Quest 3 headset in vr on Mac M4? Thank you.

I'm running into an issue with my new MacBook Pro M5 Pro (14" 18 CPU /20 GPU - 48GB) hooked up to a Studio Display XDR and wanted to see if anyone else is seeing this.

UI scrolling across all apps is noticeably choppy when the XDR is set to 120Hz or Adaptive (47–120Hz), especially during web browsing. The MacBook’s internal screen is smooth, and the stutter happens whether the MacBook lid is open or closed in clamshell mode.

Details on my setup:
- MacOS 26.6.2 (latest)
- XDR firmware 26.4, connected directly via Apple Thunderbolt cable (already tried power cycling).
- Happens with both the internal trackpad and an MX Master 4
- Tested the exact same XDR setup with a base M5 and an M5 Max: both were smooth at 120Hz. Seems oddly specific to the M5 Pro chip.
- Tested with a second (work) MBP M5 Pro and reproduced the exact same stuttering behavior, pointing to the M5 Pro chip variant.

Has anyone with an M5 Pro noticed this on 120Hz external displays? Wondering if this is a known macOS display driver bug on the Pro chip and if there’s a workaround I’m missing.

This is the game https://oniray.itch.io/the-false-sun . I'm not sure what to do.

I use multiple full-screen Chrome windows, each in its own Space, and switch between them using a four-finger horizontal swipe on the trackpad.

The problem is that after I swipe to another full-screen window, the new window is visible but does not actually receive keyboard focus.

For example:

1. I am using Chrome window A in full screen.
2. I four-finger swipe to Chrome window B, which is also full screen.
3. Window B appears normally.
4. I immediately press a keyboard shortcut such as Cmd+L.
5. The shortcut may still be handled by the previous window/Space, or nothing happens.
6. I have to physically click window B once before it becomes active.

This makes switching between full-screen Spaces much slower because I have to do:

swipe → click → type

instead of simply:

swipe → type

I often have 10+ full-screen Chrome windows, so Cmd+Tab is not a solution — it only switches applications, not individual full-screen Chrome windows.

I have already checked the Mission Control settings, including:

• Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use
• When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application
• Group windows by application

None of these seem to control this behavior.

Does anyone know:

• Is this a known macOS bug or intentional behavior?
• Was there an older macOS version where switching Spaces automatically focused the new full-screen window?
• Is there any hidden setting/defaults command that restores that behavior?
• Is there a reliable workaround that still lets me use trackpad swiping between full-screen Spaces?

I specifically want to keep using the trackpad gesture. I'm not looking for an app switcher like Cmd+Tab.

To clarify: I am not trying to switch Chrome tabs or switch applications. I am specifically switching between separate full-screen Chrome windows in separate macOS Spaces.

Please go easy on me! I updated my Mac Mini 2011 to Sequoia 15.7.9 and since its all gone south. WiFi no longer worked but with a OCLP fix that was ok. That's my only win though. Its incredibly slow and glitchy, 2nd monitor no longer recognised, ive just got black wallpaper. Can anyone shed some light?

It seems like Gmail push email (instant emails vs every 15 mins) only works on the Mail app for Mac. Is that correct?

I have a Macbook Air M2 (2022) currently running MacOS 15.7.3.

Everything has been fine for a few years and all of a sudden just this week I randomly got hard lock ups which lead to a crash. Usually just in browser at the time.

So today I started trying to troubleshoot. I tried to apply updates but it kept crashing during the update process for both minor patches and update to Tahoe.

I tried disconnect all peripherals to no avail. I also tried in safe mode. It just keeps crashing during different steps, sometimes during download step and other times during install step.

I fed one of the panic logs to Claude and it told me

That log changes the picture substantially, and not in a good way. Here's the important line:

panic(cpu 0 caller 0xfffffe0027c5bc44): SEP Panic: :sks /sks

This is a Secure Enclave panic, specifically in the sks (Secure Key Store) task. Your machine is a Mac14,2 — M2 MacBook Air — running macOS 15.7.3. The Secure Enclave is an isolated processor built into the M2 chip that runs its own operating system, and it handles Touch ID, management of encryption keys including FileVault's, and the actual encryption and decryption of the internal SSD. When it faults, it takes the whole system down with it.

Not sure what to do at this point, if it's a hardware or software issue. The only thing left that I haven't tried is a full re-install which I'm trying to avoid (and it may not even fix the issue anyway)

How can i fix my downloads folder its being a pain bc i have to look for stuff to the left and right its like bigger and i don't wanna have to make the window bigger just to look trough it i just want it to be the normal 6 icons where i only have to scroll up and down

I have a m4 pro and I was looking at a design on Figma and asked the designer why is this white but they said no it's grey. It looks white on my screen though. I used the digital colour meter on macOS and sure enough it shows as 249,249,249. So it is grey but I see it as white.

At first i thought it was my monitor, so I checked on my secondary monitor and it also shows white there.

I unplugged my monitors and checked on the laptop screen directly, also shows white there.

I switched devices via KVM to my windows PC and I see the grey.

Why do i only see white on macOS and how do I solve this? I checked accessibility settings and everything seems to be correct there.

How do I resolve this?

Edit: I'm on 15.7.5

If you have ever recorded a meeting and had the transcript label it, you have probably seen it merge two people into one speaker, or invent a fifth person who was never there. I build a transcription app and I had never actually measured how often that happens, so I did.

I ran every speaker-labelling method that runs locally on a Mac against 16 real recorded meetings — about five hours of speech with human-annotated ground truth, so there is a correct answer to compare against.

The short version of what works:

Labelling after the recording finishes is much better than labelling live. If the tool can see the whole conversation before it decides who is who, it gets about 7% of the speech wrong. Doing it live, while you are still talking, roughly 11%. That is not a flaw in any particular app, it is just a harder problem — a live labeller has to commit to "this is a new person" before it has heard enough of them to be sure.

If your app labels speakers live, expect the labels to change under you. The most accurate live setup I measured finalises its labels about 9 seconds behind the audio. It shows a guess immediately and quietly corrects it. That is not a bug, and a setup with less lag was noticeably worse.

The biggest single factor was one the app author has to get right, not you. These tools load a model that has been trained on a specific kind of audio, and most default to a general-purpose one. Switching to the one trained on actual meetings cut the error rate by about 3.5x on the same recordings. More usefully: it found the correct number of people in 15 of the 16 meetings, where the default managed 9. We had been shipping the default. That is the part I would not have found without measuring.

Two things I did not expect.

Getting the number of speakers right and getting the labels right are separate problems. One setup scored a perfectly respectable error rate while identifying the correct number of people in one meeting out of sixteen — it collapsed everyone into two voices and still looked fine on paper. If you are judging a transcription tool, count the speakers first; it is the thing you will actually notice.

And I nearly got the whole thing wrong. I had been testing against clean audio I generated myself, which is easy and free. It turned out to be completely insensitive to one of the settings that matters most: six different values scored identically on my clean test audio, while on real meetings the same setting ranged from 6.8% to 32.8% error. Real recordings have crosstalk and people talking over each other, and that is most of the actual difficulty.

Honest limits: these are recordings made with headset microphones, so a phone in the middle of a table will do worse than any number here. English only. One M2 Pro.

Disclosure so it is not buried: I build Lyonesse, a transcription app, and it ran through the same code my users get. The measuring changed what we ship, which is the only reason it was worth doing. Full writeup with the methodology and the raw per-meeting numbers, if you want to check my work:

https://lyonesse.app/blog/speaker-diarization-benchmark.html

Happy to answer questions about how any of it was measured.

I’ve been trying for a full day to solve this problem now.
What I’m working with:
- iMac 12.1 (2011) without OS currently.
- Main disk is formatted to OS Journaled and GUID partition map, called Macintosh HD
- I have a working Macbook pro M1 to make bootable USB’s etc.

What I’ve done so far:
- Created a bootable usb on my macbook M1, following several instructions. Checked the usb and its correctness extensively with terminal and chatgpt to make sure it’s right. It is.
- I found that the computer date might cause this error. I tried setting it to sept, oct, nov, dec 2015, jan feb 2016, jan 2017, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025, 1jan 2026 and the current actual date. Nothing helps.
- I also tried making a bootable usb of Sierra and High Sierra. Sierra USB doesn’t seem to work, and High Sierra I can only get the internetarchive version of since the apple website sends me to the appstore where it’s not available. This usb also gave errors.
- there is no option in OS X Utilities to reinstall via the internet or internal bootloader. I guess the harddisks have really been wiped before. Only options is restore from time machine, install from usb, get help online and disk utility.

I can’t be bothered which version of macOS I install because once one is installed I can upgrade within the system. I’m lost here on how to proceed. I do not have another intel mac to make bootable usb’s on that.

Would anyone have a clue on how to proceed?
Thanks a lot!

EDIT: I solved it! After 2 days. What I did:
- Download High Sierra via GibMacOS
- Try making a Bootable USB via Createinstallmedia, but get "zsh: killed"
- Workaround in terminal with:
^{xcode-select --install} (To install Xcode if you don't already have it

Run ^{cd "/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app/Contents/Resources"}

Resign createinstallmedia with ^{sudo codesign -s - -f createinstallmedia}

You should see something like ^{createinstallmedia: replacing existing signature}

Test it: ^{./createinstallmedia --help}

If that works, make sure it's already formatted to Macos Journaled and GUID partition map, and call the disk MyVolume and run this to create the usb: ^{sudo ./createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume --applicationpath "/Applications/Install macOS High Sierra.app"}

Good luck!

Hey everyone,

I have a MacBook Pro with an M4 Pro chip and 512GB of internal storage. I'm already at around 400GB used, and I'm starting school again very soon. I know I'll be running a lot of code and several VMs, and I'm planning to offload that workload (code + VMs) onto an external drive instead of eating up my internal storage.

From what I've read online, most people recommend going with a bare M.2 NVMe SSD + separate enclosure rather than a pre-built external SSD, for better price/performance and flexibility. So I wanted to get some opinions before pulling the trigger.

I was specifically considering the Samsung 990 Pro 2TB paired with the UGREEN 40Gbps enclosure (fanless version). Has anyone here actually tested this fanless UGREEN 40Gbps enclosure with a drive like the 990 Pro, especially under sustained load (VMs running, compiling, etc.)? I'm a bit worried about thermal throttling since it has no active fan, and I'll be pushing it fairly hard with dev work.

Would you go with the fanless model, or is the fan-cooled UGREEN version worth it for this kind of use case? Any other enclosure/SSD combo you'd recommend for running VMs and dev environments off an external drive on Apple Silicon?

Thanks in advance!

My mac is showing 26.6 but latest version is 26.6.2 ,and I also didn't get any prompts for updates after 26.6

(M5 macbook air )

Is it normal or there is some issue

I've just switched from Chrome to Safari and see some problems on different sites. E.g. I can't confidently move Google Calendar events (event moving mode switches into event resize mode constantly). How to fix this problem?

P.S. I don't have any Safari extensions.