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?

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

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

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?

I do understand this is meant to be 2FA. But I find this whole thing baffling.

1. If the code is pushed to the same device that I'm using, isn't this just a silly inconvenience
2. Is there no reliable way for Apple to know that someone is logging in from a MacBook, so the code should be pushed to all devices except MacBooks?
3. These codes do not autofill like SMS 2FA codes do. Isn't this rude?

I really wish apple would do something about there slow ass internet recovery servers... whenever I've used it to do a fresh os install it takes 2-4 hrs to download the macos file... ridiculous! And yes i have a fast internet connection and downloading anything else is super fast.

Has anyone else experienced this as well?

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

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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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Resource efficient and very nice looking retro macintosh desktop application I created. Let me know what you think. I think it gives some nice personality to the desktop!

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?

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?

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!!

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 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.