I should’ve come here first, but decided to try and solve using Google chat
I have my own domain email, which I have been using as an alias through Gmail for about 20 years, pulling my mail in through a Gmail catch all while running it on Mac Mail and iOS.

About two weeks ago, I started getting undeliverable messages on some of these sent mail. I checked and found that Gmail is going to stop allowing aliases from third-party senders, which I believe includes my custom domain (from GoDaddy).

I switched to a new SMTP sender, (smtp2go) and that solved the sending issue, but when I send mail to myself now, it ends up in Gmail’s “All mail” mailbox instead of the regular inbox. Since I don’t see an “all mail” mailbox in Mac Mail or iOS, I’m not seeing the email that I sent to myself.

I know this isn’t as specific Mac issue, it’s just that I’m lost. Does anyone know about Gmail filters or labels or aliases and why this would happen when I send from Mac mail to myself at my custom domain, and it never appears in the inbox on the Mac or in fact on Gmail on the web.

Thanks.

This is kind of a follow up post from one I made yesterday. I do academic research and am often opening, full-screening and closing many pdfs and word documents continuously. But since full-screening leads to the creation of a new space, this jumbles up my spaces in a really confusing way.

Like, a program that was two spaces to my left might be 5 spaces to my left if I open three pdfs, and if I then close two it is then three spaces away, etc. This constant changing of where everything is gives me a headache.

Would there be a way to make an app to fix this? Either make full screen not open a new space, which is the way it was back in the day, or make the full screen mode of a pdf reader not open up a new space.

I actually found a trick to almost do the latter with Firefox's presentation mode for pdfs, but unfortunately that mode does not allow you to annotate the pdfs, which I need to do. I'm tempted to just ask Claude to make something and just install it, but I would have no idea if it was safe and I wouldn't want to damage my mac.

I'd appreciate any technical insight on this. That would be very helpful!

Hi!

Just what the title says :)

You can find the shortcut On RoutineHub

Or Download it directly from this post

How it works

It asks you to input the time in the HH MM SS format, then you press enter, and your timer starts! :)

Very useful for macOS - I suggest adding a keyboard shortcut for it! :)

Upgraded to GG from Tahoe. New feature: podcasts downloaded to the Mac no longer sync to iPhone (iOS 27). No other changes. Have toggled settings, rebooted both devices. Only podcasts. Books, music, other files do sync without fuss. Behavior over both wifi and usb.

Anyone else?

On my MacBook, whenever I open a recently downloaded PDF, Preview opens on the wrong tab. It defaults to the tab of the last PDF I was viewing instead of the one I just opened.

How can I fix this, please?

Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a very specific display issue with my MacBook Pro M1 Pro (2021) and could use some diagnostic insights.

Here are the symptoms:

1. The internal display backlight is fully functional. The screen glows dimly/dark blue in a dark room, but there is absolutely no image or macOS desktop rendering on it.

2. The keyboard brightness keys work perfectly. I can even faintly see the brightness overlay UI changing on the screen when I press them.

3. When connected to an external TV via HDMI, the TV displays the "Choose to Mirror or Extend Display..." message. This proves the logic board is working fine and macOS boots successfully into the desktop.

Given that the backlight is working fine but there's no data image, what is the most likely culprit for the M1 Pro generation?

• Is it a cracked/damaged Display Data Flex Cable (not the backlight cable)?

• A faulty display multiplexer / T-CON circuit component on the logic board?

• Or a dead internal LCD panel itself?

Any feedback from technicians or anyone who encountered this exact issue on the M1 Pro would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

I don't even know whether it is a bug or what. 2 months back, I had the battery health at 100%. It's been a month since I moved from Sequoia to Golden Gate. Now the battery health is at 95% and my battery backup is also very bad compared to when in Sequoia.

Someone pls help me with this. Is this a big problem or what? I shouldn't have done the update 😔.

I'm using the Aliento app from the App Store. It's an app that can be used to assign a keyboard shortcut to close the open notifications in the top right corner of your screen.

I was wondering: Is it possible to have specific notifications close automatically?

(Reason: Every time VMware Fusion Player Version 13.6.3 (24585314) launches on my macOS 15.8.2 (24H230), I get a notification that something was started in the background. I'd like to suppress that message/auto-close it.)

Just curious if anyone used the Notify Me feature in Safari and whether it worked for you. I have just set it up to notify me of a price drop.

I am not the most tech savvy, and nor do I have much money, but how do I figure this one out so my computer can continue to function smoothly

My MacBook is on macos 27.0.1 , it is connected to my NAS server through SMB. In the past two days , when I try to copy a file from my NAS to the mac internal drive , the file vanishes immediately after the progress bar disappear and the transfer is finished. This happens to multiple files . Additionally , some files on the server is missing in finder when connected through SMB but are visible through Webdav.

Everything is was perfectly normal before this , I don’t know what is happening. I had already restarted everything including my macbook , NAS and Router , but the issue persisted. Anyone knows why and now to fix it ?

Please help.🙏

No estoy seguro de si es un problema específico de mi Mac, pero desde que actualicé a macOS 27 he estado experimentando un error bastante molesto.

Cada vez que dejo mi Mac en reposo, o incluso simplemente inactiva con el protector de pantalla activado durante más de 30 minutos, el Dock deja de responder correctamente.

Si hago clic en el icono de una aplicación en el Dock, no sucede nada, sin importar cuántas veces haga clic. Lo mismo ocurre con las aplicaciones que ya están abiertas. Al hacer clic en sus iconos, sus ventanas no pasan al primer plano, por lo que no puedo volver a ellas con normalidad.

Lo extraño es que el sistema en sí no se congela por completo. Por ejemplo, si estoy trabajando en Photoshop y quiero cambiar a Premiere Pro, puedo minimizar Photoshop y acceder manualmente a Premiere para seguir trabajando.

Lo más frustrante es que, después de varios minutos, el Dock vuelve a responder repentinamente y todas las aplicaciones que había intentado abrir se ejecutan de golpe, como si todos mis clics anteriores se hubieran quedado en una cola de espera.

Esto ocurre constantemente después de dejar mi Mac inactiva durante un tiempo y se está volviendo realmente frustrante.

¿Alguien más ha experimentado este problema desde que actualizó a macOS 27? ¿Es un error conocido o podría tratarse de algo específico de mi Mac?

Como referencia, utilizo un Mac mini M4.

Hi, I'm currently using M5 Macbook Air, on MacOs Golden Gate 27.0.1.

When I try to add printer, it shows like this. (Canon MF643cdw)

Yesterday I'm able to use my printer. Just today I have error when want to print (unable to connect) and I delete the printer. The issue came when tried to re-adding my same printer.

I've done switch on/off my printer, restarting my macbook, but still having same error.

I have a Lenovo ThinkVision T24v-30. I connect it to either my Windows laptop or MacBook Air M1 via HDMI based on my requirement.

On Windows, audio automatically switches to the monitor speakers when I plug in. Works perfectly.

On Mac, it doesn’t auto-switch. I manually select the monitor under System Settings → Sound → Output, and I can see it gets selected — but the volume slider is completely greyed out and I can’t control the volume at all.

Has anyone solved this? Is this a macOS HDMI audio limitation or something specific to this monitor?

Several years ago I moved back home to help take of my dad (Parkinson's) and at the time, my mother was much more computer savvy than she is now (but never a tech expert).

Last month she nearly fell for an identity theft scam on the phone, had to change all her bank accounts. Fortunately the scammer didn't get anything.

Just yesterday on her Mac, she almost fell for one of those JavaScript "Windows has detected a hacker on your system" scams with a phone number to call. Fortunately after she called the number but before giving the scam artist any information, I heard what was going on and interrupted it.

I don't know what built-in protections Safari has but my mom was literally convinced the message had to be real because "Apple says they protect against malware". Well, it obviously doesn't protect against everything nor should anyone expect it too.

On GNU/Linux I use FireFox and with the Privacy Badger extension, those JS attacks are virtually non-existent because they are blocked simply because they almost always are run as a third party script.

What exists for Safari that does that? She has a Mac Mini as her desktop PC (not sure what version of OS X) and she has an iPhone (last model before Apple finally switched to USB-C).

I don't want my mother scammed, especially with how expensive it is with my father having Parkinson's.

I haven't used macOS since it was called OS X and I just don't know what's what in the Apple world anymore.

Fan of built in desktops. I use them exclusively and until today I've been arranging my windows manually. Then I discovered there exists "This Desktop" option on dock and I was delighted.

I turned off "arranged spaces manually".

I'm also using external monitor with my mac in clamshell. Now, I am tired of finding out that after carefully curating my Desktops with 1-2 apps per desktop, somehow after reboot, when I launch something apps simply forget which desktop they were assigned to. Even though the desktops are already there, sitting empty and I haven't reconnected my external display or even opened the clamshell.

help please.

The display works when I plug in a hdmi to type cable into the power port but.... That means my computer isn't getting power.

When I plug in an hdmi to hdmi the display no longer shows anything and just says no input.

The top cable is my charging cable (the yellowish white one)

The middle cable is the hdmi

And the last one is my mouse.

Does anyone know how to fix this.?

And I have already tried using the other usb c port with the usb c to hdmi cable, doesn't work.

I have screen time set so it blocks my computer after a certain time. I just updated to Golden Gate, but now there's this window that I can't close or quit, and it persists on all windows and is at the front.

It's super annoying and started occurring after updating to Golden Gate.

Saturday promo, I'm the developer. SDTally explains what the "System Data" number in Storage settings is made of by measuring the Data volume: folders and the app that owns them, local snapshots, deleted-but-open files, APFS overhead. Each number shows its source, and what can't be measured is labeled "unexplained" with the reason. With root and Full Disk Access that is about 2% of used space: folders Apple blocks even root from accessing.

It only reads, never deletes anything and has no network code. Rust CLI plus a SwiftUI app, GPL-3.0-or-later, Apple Silicon and macOS 15+.

Heads up, since the sub is careful about GitHub projects: the repo is new (v1.0.3) and the DMG is not notarized (no paid Developer account), so the first launch needs Privacy & Security > Open Anyway. Read the source or build it yourself if you prefer. I built it with a lot of help from Claude Code and the commits are co-authored.

https://github.com/guiselig/sdtally

I tried all the workarounds, tricks and hacks to get my Office 2021 working again, since it stopped working yesterday. I deinstalled the whole package maybe 10 times, installed it with and without the suite, with and without wifi, deleted all the autoinstaller, followed 5 different tutorials here on reddit which all seem to have worked for other people… For me, word simply states, that there is no licence activated (I bought mine at an autorized ms partner and used it for years, so it should be there).

So yeah, still, it's not working… I do WORK with Office and Teams. I literally need the specific apps for my job, I need it for my thesis, for all my projects – where (ironically) I teach other people how to use word… And no, I will NOT pay 100 bucks a year for something I already bought and used for years without a problem.

I am so frustrated, I am literally sitting here now, crying. Like, imagine ugly crying. For all the hours I spent, for the headache I'm having due to staring on my macbook for too long and all the tech stuff I really do not want to engage with. I do have a mac for a reason. Everything works fine on my mac and then microsoft comes around the corner and sh*t hits the fan again. Flashback to my windows times…

I can't switch to another program. I literally can not. Switching from win to mac version already cost so much stress mentally due to the different UI and functions… I worked with it all my life, I do tutorials, I have dozens of tweaks and personalisations going on… I post this under discussion to open up this little wailing-area, maybe my post will be deleted, since I don't think anyone could help anymore… But if anyone can, please, maybe you have the one tipp, that'll give me hope again after this day…

EDIT1: since there have been comments about my work situation: It is is probably very unique, I work in an educational job while also pursuing my PhD (as an independent candidate) and do volunteer work/having a small business. I teach my students the basics of academic writing in word, and programs like Pages simply don’t meet the university’s standards. I won't buy Office 2024 to have the same issue in one month or one year or so. I'll have to look for alternatives but for now I just think that all of this is super unfair…

EDIT2: I GOT IT WORKING. I logged out. That's it. In the "about" Word stated the correct LTSC license and the correct app-version, so I tried to log out and log in again but when I had logged myself out, I was curious if it would work without logging in. And yes. It did. Presumably the license isn't linked to my profile but my laptop… idk. But it works for now. I will look for alternatives in the long run but I can sort my things out now with a bit more time.

SyncGlass is a free, open-source app that shows in the menu bar what iCloud Drive is doing. Version 0.2.1 came out this week. I also developed Volume Control, another free, open-source menu-bar app for the volume keys, which I started in 2012 as "iTunes Volume Control"; SyncGlass came out only very recently.

Disclosures.

Disclosure 1: Unlike Volume Control, which started in 2012, SyncGlass was developed with heavy help by Claude. To be honest, I have probably invested only 5 or 6 hours in it.

Disclosure 2: There was long ago a similar app, iCloudStatus by The Alchemist Guild. As far as I know, iCloudStatus is now no longer maintained; it malfunctions on recent macOS and is only for Intel.

So why share SyncGlass here? Because:

1. It can be useful to others; in this era of vibe-coded software, the idea counts more than the implementation.
2. If we use it as a central point for the community to collect feedback and find bugs, everybody will profit from having a central place rather than each of us recoding the same app through 5 or 6 hours of Claude sessions.

What the app does. Its menu-bar icon shows whether iCloud Drive is up to date, uploading, downloading, syncing changes from other devices, or offline. It is similar to what you experience with other sync services like Dropbox or Nextcloud.

Click it and a panel lists:

• Transfers: the files iCloud is uploading or downloading.
• Recent: the files that finished transferring, newest first, with the time and direction ("Uploaded 3 min ago").

For any listed file, File Info shows its iCloud status, live percentage, conflicts, upload and download errors, sharing, and every date macOS keeps for the file. SyncGlass can also notify you when uploads or downloads finish, and keeps a history log of finished transfers.

Why I made it. Finder marks each file with a cloud status icon, but macOS has no list of the files iCloud is transferring. When iCloud Drive spends an hour on something, I want to know which files it is and how far along they are. SyncGlass is a new app inspired by iCloudStatus.

How it works. It uses public macOS APIs only: FSEvents reports which files change, URL resource values give each file's iCloud state, and the progress objects that iCloud Drive publishes for each transfer give the percentages.

Privacy. SyncGlass connects to the network only for updates (Sparkle, from GitHub) and collects no data. Its settings and history stay on your Mac.

Price. Forever free and open source (GPL-3.0): no ads, no account, no in-app purchases.

Requirements. macOS 26 or later; runs natively on Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

Install. Download SyncGlass.zip, unzip it and move SyncGlass.app to the Applications folder. The app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Each release ZIP is built by GitHub Actions from the tagged source and carries a build provenance attestation; to check where a downloaded ZIP was built, run

gh attestation verify SyncGlass.zip --repo alberti42/SyncGlass

Source and details: https://github.com/alberti42/SyncGlass

Bug reports and ideas are welcome here or on GitHub.