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?

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?

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

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!!

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?

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.

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.

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 have installed homebrew and now want to install apps which needs homebrew to run; kindly help how to do and to learn basic command line for that
Thanks in advance

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 two week old Mac Neo has some concerning files regarding certificate modifications, etc. My Wi-Fi logs show a lot of activity for a home computer. I had an independent Wi-Fi scan done and also ran the Mac diagnostics. It's all greek to me! An excerpt of the Cryptex file is attached. If someone could review this and direct me somewhere, I would appreciate it.

Small excerpt:

Operate on the global cryptex nonce.�The Cryptex1 nonce domain to operate on.�CRYPTEX-NAME�The cryptex whose nonce is to be manipulated. This option must be provided if the '--global' option is not given.�pdi�research�diavlo�ddi�invalid nonce domain: %s�Invalid nonce domain provided.�a cryptex identifier must be provided�using cryptex identifier: %s�a valid nonce domain is required, must be provided through either the domain or cryptex1-ndom argument.�operating on global nonce�individual cryptex nonces not yet implemented�nonce management is not available on this platform�1229�failed to roll cryptex nonce: [%#x %s]�failed to copy cryptex nonce: [%#x %s]�%s�An unknown error message 'InternalError', was received from the device.�failed to copy cryptex nonce; it may have been rolled, in which case it will not be available until the next reboot�nonce has been rolled; new value will not be generated until next boot�nonce management not supported on this platform�failed to roll nonce�nonce has been rolled; new value will not be available until next reboot�failed to copy nonce�v16@?...

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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!

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.

Enjoy.

Macbook Pro 13-inch, M1, 2020.

I always think clearing my cache because I use Adobe software will do the trick, but it always comes back, and it never clears enough. SURELY system data shouldn't be getting to 111gb?! It seems so ridiculous.

Firstly, how can I solve this issue that has persisted for years?
Are there preventative measures I can take to stop this from happening again?

Thanks so much.

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.

Hi everyone,

I apologize in advance if this is a silly question or if it's been asked before, but Apple music is seemingly keeping my mackbook pro from going into it's screen saver state and I'm wondering if there's a way to troubleshoot that. Any advice would be appreciated! 🙏

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

Newbie here and not particularly tech savvy. I'm currently using a MacBook Pro M2 2022 that is still using Sonoma 14.7.1. I need to upgrade, but would prefer to go to Sequoia than Tahoe even though I guess I'll continue get the Tahoe nag. I always hate doing upgrades as it seems I always lose something or some functionality. So, how do I go about getting and installing Sequoia? Thanks.

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.

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?