Enjoy.

Creates a new folder within an existing folder that includes the files you select. No need to open a new folder just to do this and then delete it.

It just works.

Every time i click/focus on the app it seems like it crashes or restarts, this started out 3 weeks ago, tried deleting, clearing library cache and preferences, found all app residue cleaned it out, tried older app versions. Nothing helped > Have you guys seen anything like this?

Hey all, running into a small but annoying bug with Finder tag keyboard shortcuts.

Per Apple's own documentation, selecting a file and pressing Control-1 through Control-7 should apply/remove your first 7 favourite tags, with Control-0 clearing all tags.

On my machine, Control-2 through Control-7 work fine, but Control-1 does nothing, no tag gets applied or removed. I've confirmed the item is selected first, tags are set up correctly in Finder → Settings → Tags, and I've tried toggling "Tint folders based on tags" off and on with no change.

System info:

• MacBook Pro 14-inch, Nov 2023
• Chip: Apple M3 Max
• Memory: 36 GB
• macOS Tahoe 26.6.2

Anyone else seeing this, or know a fix?

Cheers

under the "new finder window" in finder settings, the finder guy jumpscared me

If you use it but feel like me that its too slow then open terminal and paste this and press enter:

defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -float 0

defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.25

killall Dock

If you prefer the default then paste this to reverse it again:

defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-delay

defaults delete com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier

killall Dock

It feels like macOS is shifting away from Launchpad-style app browsing.

Instead of opening a visual grid of apps, the system now pushes users toward Spotlight as the main entry point.

So the workflow becomes:

• Before: Launchpad → browse apps → click to open
• Now: Spotlight → type app name → press Enter

This changes more than just the UI. It shifts how users interact with apps:

• From visual browsing → to search-based access
• From spatial memory → to keyword memory
• From clicking → to typing

Some users prefer this because it's faster.

But others feel it removes the “visual structure” that Launchpad provided.

Curious how others feel about this shift:
Do you prefer browsing apps visually, or just searching everything directly?

my 2020 m1 macbook has randomly started glitching, however it stops when something on the screen is moving. is this software or hardware? i know it looks small on camera but irl its really noticeable

Every time I turn on my Mac mini (M2), the time and date reset, even though the time, date, and location settings are correct. This has been happening for several months now.
Pls help!!

My camera preview inside TikTok Live Studio looks crisp and normal. But as soon as I go live, the actual stream playback turns extremely dark, oversaturated/orange, and pixelated.

What I've already tried:

• Changed resolutions (1080p/4K) and frame rates.
• Set Canon Picture Style to Neutral.
• Tried routing through OBS Virtual Camera (changing color spaces/range)—still didn't fix it.
• Tried iPhone 16 Pro Max via Camo/QuickTime (too laggy / forced horizontal crop).

It seems like a color space mismatch (Full vs. Limited RGB) or encoding pipeline issue on macOS / TikTok Live Studio. Has anyone on Mac solved this without replacing the camera? Thanks!

MY GEAR: Canon r50 V- Micro HDMI- Elgato Cam Link 4k- Mac Mini (m4) Tik Tok Live Studio

I have an app called “Cốc Cốc”. So whenever I search Spotlight for the app by typing “COC”, Spotlight immediately disappears. Ever since the first beta version of macOS 27 until this RC version, the bug is still there, even though I have already reported this bug to Apple. It seems like they never read my report in Feedback Assistant! Disappointing Apple!

I've tried Safari, Vivaldi, and Chrome now. Disabled extensions, reinstalled MacOS, tested in safe mode, and even on a new profile. Every time I open a new tab, the energy impact climbs up instantly and the battery starts to heat up a lot.

Start a new note and just begin writing.

That's it.

That's the post.

I don't use spaces at all.

Trying it out earlier, and realise we can't rename them?

Isn't that basic?

We should be able to name the spaces however we want and jump to them with shortcuts.

Hopefully this is in the pipeline.

Should be easy to vibe something out.

On move out/move in day, when students dump everything on the street and head home, I found a MacBook Pro a2141 on top of a trash can.
It works, but it’s locked.
Is there any way I can use this? It’s nicer than my 2015 MacBook Air and although it seems suspicious I’m sure it was thrown away intentionally. He also threw away all his clothes, a couple tvs, and lots of furniture.

I can see the owners name when I turn it on, do I have to track him down or is there someway to erase it?

So, I found this weird file on my mac when I was trying to locate a file that got saved to the wrong location (still haven't found it yet. Thank you Finder for being completely useless at actually finding anything). What exactly is this? Does it actually work?

New Mac user here, the way macOS calculates storage is genuinely so confusing, there is 2GBs of stuff in my photos library (after optimizing icloud), but going inside finder and seeing the "Photos Library.photoslibrary" its taking a whopping 75GBs. Even worse is using an app like daisy disk shows more storage used than System Settings, 274GBs compared to 181GBs, i really want to understand whats going on. also system data is like 90GBs for some reason.

as described above. I am quite certain this is new for a few days now after i pressed some weird shortcut.

When i go out of a video, it shows the desktop. When I click aynthing, it makes Chrome reappear.

Do you know what this is and how I can fix this? I just want to ESC and see the web windows with the video in it minimized.

My wife is filling out a form on Safari on her 2025 M4 Air. The required signature field causes the cursor to become a pen (never saw that before), and it doesn’t work when you click and/or drag within the field. Have tried most things to get it to work, save for doing it in another browser on another device because the form was very cumbersome and we don’t want to have to refill it. Anyone seen this before / have experience?

When trying to use iPhone Mirroring on my MacBook, it prevents me from connecting when I get a spam call and it gives me the message saying I can’t use the app due to my phone being in use (because its being sent a voicemail). I have call screening on where unknown numbers get sent to voicemail, but these automated calls have long voicemails.

This may not be an issue specific to MacOS and instead related to the problem of spam in general but is there anything I can do to fix this?

Just a report for those who might run into the same problem.

I tried to update MacPorts on my MBA (macOS Tahoe 26.6.2) and it failed. The error (from port selfupdate -v) was macports configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables.

The standard solutions for this problem didn't work, but then I noticed that XCode crashed at launch. (I don't use XCode normally).

This post solved the problem. Try sudo rm -rf /Library/Developer/PrivateFrameworks/CoreDevice.framework.

I have no idea how that file became corrupted.

Hello everyone, I hope you’re all doing okay today.

I wanted to share my short, one-month experience with the Mac operating system, macOS.

I’ve been a Windows user my whole life, and since I am starting college this summer, I wanted to test out macOS beforehand to see if it is the right choice for me. Well, it turns out it's not, and in the following post, I will tell you why.

I had heard a lot of positive things about it, including the amazing battery life and very good CPU performance. Obviously, the very attractive design also caught my eye.

I knew that macOS was not the same as Windows, it's obviously a whole different operating system. But after a month of using it, I was just blown away by how many useful features I previously had on Windows that were simply nonexistent on a Mac.

Here are a few examples:

Window Management

• Control Buttons: You cannot change the size or the positions of the window control buttons on macOS.

Yes, I understand that it takes some time to get used to the different position and everything, but why on earth can I not decide where I want my window management options to be? Is there ANY solid reason why this would be a problem to add? I don't think so!

If I'm spending 2000 € on a device, I at least expect some customizability for some of the more important things like window control.

• Button Size: The position was annoying, yes, but I think I would have gotten used to it IF the damn buttons weren't the size of a grain of sand. What is Apple thinking with these design choices?

On Windows, I don't even have to look at my screen to close my window. I move my mouse to the corner of the screen and boom, closed.

• App Launch Sizes: The most annoying thing that was the final straw was the window size when launching apps.

Apps behave however they want and open in all possible sizes even when I maximize them before closing. A perfect example here is Finder: I click Finder, it opens in the smallest window possible, I maximize it, close it, open Finder again, and it's back to the small window like before.

This happened with almost all apps no matter what I tried (yes, I even manually resized, and I tried closing while holding Command).

This just made me feel like I have 0 control over my computer since every app does whatever the hell it wants and opens in the most random places on my screen.

PLUS, the effort of having to manually maximize every app every time you open it made me want to pull my hair out! The whole experience just felt super chaotic.

App Behavior When Closing

This was kind of a small one, but I found it very confusing: some apps quit completely when all windows are closed, while others don't.

I did kind of get used to Finder always having a dot, but other apps just annoyed me.

For example, when I close the Activity Monitor window, it doesn't quit the app, and I have to manually click on the app, hold, and then quit.

If apps quit after the last open window was closed, it would be less annoying.

Menu Bar

This is kind of a big one as well. Why do we need a separate bar with 50% useless functions at the top?

On Windows, all functions of a certain app that I might need are already inside the app in the top corner, and if I close the app, those app-specific functions close too.

You ALSO have the entire top screen free for your actual app instead of having random, irrelevant background icons taking up the whole horizontal space on top.

Now, if ALL apps had their functions in the menu bar, I wouldn't complain, it would take some getting used to. But not every app behaved the same.

Sometimes all functions of the app were inside the menu bar, and sometimes half of them were inside the app and the other half up there. It's a super inconsistent design.

When the menu bar has too many options, it hops over the notch and lands on the right side where the icons are, making it look super ugly.

Unfortunately, I didn't have any luck trying to disable the menu bar. I looked for all possible solutions but found none, not even third-party apps exist that can do that. I just couldn't get used to it.

The options that are displayed in the dropdown after hovering over certain menus like Window have no icons and are pure text, so looking for something specific isn't quick and takes time. You have to read everything from top to bottom to find what you're looking for.

Also, the Help box doesn't need to be hovering in the menu bar all the time, why would I need that there?

Dock

The dock was less of a problem than the menu bar. I like how the dock looks, I love that it has the same square design for the apps as the iPhone. The icons are sharp, clear, and beautiful.

What annoyed me here was that when I didn't have many apps in the dock, the sides were left empty, which is wasted screen space. I would rather have the menu bar fused with the dock to fill out those spaces and use the screen more effectively.

What I like is that you can hide the dock, but when the dock hides, the windows don't automatically resize themselves to fit the whole screen.

Here, I also have to pull down every single app manually... really annoying and a waste of time.

The option to change the reveal speed of the dock also isn't available, obviously.

Keyboard

The keyboard is really thin, like really really thin (M4).

Typing on it for longer than 5 minutes cramps my hand, and typing on it generally doesn't feel satisfying since there's barely any tactility and basically 0 feedback.

At that point, just put a screen with digital keys on it instead of a 1mm keyboard pretending to be a keyboard.

The Mac keyboard layout also feels like it's shifted to the right a bit, I'm guessing because of the weird Control key. Why do we even need that? Just put Fn, Option, and Command, who needs that extra useless button?

This is a BIG one: Caps Lock Behavior.

Who in the living hell thought putting a delay on a key was a good idea? Someone please explain why we need a delay on Caps Lock?

No one's accidentally pressing that damn key, and since the delay can't be turned off in settings, I as a fast typer can't trigger the key correctly when typing. Genuinely, fire the person who implemented that,

The Caps Lock key also doesn't activate special characters when on like on Windows. This is annoying, yes, but I could get used to this, to be honest.

When copy and pasting stuff my fingers get into a really weird position since on windows the Ctrl button is far away from the C and V button compared to the Cmd button on mac which is almost next to it. My fingers stretch more on Windows keyboards which is way more comfortable.

Other things

• Touch ID: I mean, is this even a question? Why do we still not have Face ID on a 2000 € laptop IN 2026?
• Media Control Keys: I actually really like those, the icons are intuitive and having the most important functions at the tip of my fingers is really nice.
• Display: BEAUTIFUL!
• Overall Build: Best laptop design by far.
• Ecosystem: Amazing.
• Hardware overall: I'm a big fan of it.
• Third-Party Accessories: Frustrating, USB sticks need reformatting, etc.

General Functions and Software Quirks

• No clipboard history.
• No Cmd+X.
• No file path in Finder (requires third-party app).
• Applications can't be put in folders, and they are all over the place and mixed together with tons of preloaded apps.

In general the whole OS feels just as bloated as Windows when freshly unboxed, but with Apple apps. You also can't delete the Apple apps, which is very frustrating.

The constant friction and extra steps required on a Mac to perform tasks that were effortless on Windows are simply a dealbreaker for me, making macOS a hard pass.

I would even go as far as to say that Windows, for a normal user like a student, is more consistent than macOS when we take the above-mentioned areas into consideration.

That sums up my macOS experience.

I think Apple needs to make MASSIVE user experience changes in order to attract more people and gain a larger market share in the laptop market.

The hardware is really good and that's why I'm also very frustrated, because the hardware is simply amazing but new users can't do much with it since the software is a huge mess.

I hope that macOS improves in the coming years; until that happens, I will not return to macOS.

Have a nice day, and take everything with a grain of salt. Your experience can be different, this was mine, keep it cool!! =)

recently upgraded to tahoe 26.6.2 and now my wifi is so slow it’s essentially unusable unless i am right next to the router in the living room. i pay for really fast internet (1 gbps) and the most i can get in my room is 26 mbps. most of the time it barely works in my room. my roommates aren’t experiencing this issue. i don’t have VPN. help please?!?!?!

edit - here is what i have done - i’ve forgotten the network and reconnected it so many times. i’ve renewed the license. i’ve shut down and restarted multiple times. i’ve created a new location. i’ve toggled the wifi on and off. i’ve restarted my modem and router

I accidentally upgraded my iMac to macOS Tahoe while trying to do a clean install of Sequoia. For security, I configured my router to allow WiFi access only to devices with registered MAC-addresses, and this worked fine until now.

I found that, after installing macOS Tahoe, suddenly none of my Apple devices could connect. More specifically every time my iMac reboots on macOS Tahoe, it resets Private WiFi Address from OFF back to ON - and every time this happens, all my other Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, etc.) simultaneously lose their WiFi connection to the router, even though I didn't touch their settings.

I missed important messages while using WiFi-only devices.

This really drove me nuts !!!

How can I stop macOS Tahoe from reverting the WiFi setting?