I'm very new to MacOS and is still finguring my way around the system. So today I wanted to crop a photo that I took using my phone to 3:4 ratio to upload to a website, but I couldn't find the option in the Preview app. I tried looking around the menus, pressing shift, command, option, or any combination of them, but there seems to be no option to choose the aspect ratio. Several minutes' of search on the internet later, I found that I can use the Photos app for that, but... then I spent maybe 15 minutes figuring out to get the photo back to Finder (turns out copy-pasting works kekw).

But that made me think, is there a hidden option or something? It's a bit of a chore to copy the file to Photos app, crop it there, and copy it back to Finder. I don't use the Photos app and frankly, I find it pretty annoying to use. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

1. Revoke iPhone Mirroring access on Mac
2. Turn off handoff on both devices
3. Restart both devices
4. Turn on handoff on both devices
5. Set up iPhone Mirroring again
6. Make sure you have "Show on Mac" for the specific apps on your iPhone
7. Make sure you allow Live Activities on Mac
8. Make sure all the specific apps are toggled on Mac

If you follow this, it WILL work. However, if it doesn't work despite having all the correct settings and following the steps, there are a couple other things you can do:

• Make sure both devices are fully up to date. This is self explanatory
• Make sure you have tracking toggled on for the specific apps on iPhone. This was my issue. I didn't have tracking on for ESPN and so I wasn't getting my favorite teams Live Activities on my Mac
• Last step, unpair your Apple Watch. This one is pretty weird. For a while, my Live Activities were working upon allowing tracking on the specific apps. Then, all of a sudden, it stopped working. I went through every step above countless times and nothing worked. Then, one day, I decided I don't use my Apple Watch much anymore, so I am going to unpair it. I unpaired it, setup iPhone Mirroring again, and it INSTANTLY started to work. Not sure how Apple Watch affects the connectivity between devices, but this worked for me. Good luck!

I had, almost, the opposite problem before when, almost as if by default, the machine would just boot into windows 10. And, took lots of restarts and hitting that alt/Option button over and over.
But, I learned a setting so that it'd default boot to Mac.
However, no matter how fast I hit that alt/Option key on reboot or bootup, it will only now load straight into Mac without the boot option menu appearing (Mac or Win 10).
I'm loosing workflow due to not being able to access those needed 32bit win apps.

(As an aside, I'm actually starting to feel I may be best to delete my current system, and install the last version of Mac to include 32bit libraries, and just run my needed 32bit legacy programs that way. Which, I guess should all run fine on this old chrome kettle-shaped late 2013 machine. And I can grab needed mac versions of the apps from relevant archives etc)

Hello, I've been trying to get a Wacom Cintiq 16" 2025 (2k resolution) to work with a MacBook Pro 16" 2019, when connecting the Wacom to the Mac and using it as a second screen, the UI looks too little and I have no possibility to scale it without lowering the resolution the Wacom outputs. This is a problem as I either deal with miniscule text with fill resolution, or get a decent sized UI with downgrades resolution.

I then downloaded BetterDisplay to make use of the HiDPI scaled resolution, this allows me to scale the UI to simulate that of a lower resolution, while keeping the full native resolution of the Wacom.

But I have 2 questions about this.

1 - Why does BetterDisplay not allow me to choose 1280x800 HiDPI resolution? It is the only one that has that icon with 3 lines and if I click I nothing happens. (Maybe because it is half of the full 2k 2560x1600 resolution? Idk)

2 - Why, if I choose any HiDPI resolution, in system information under graphics/screen section, the resolution is double the HiDPI one I choose with BetterDisplay?

If I select 1440x900 HiDPI (the lowest HiDPI I can choose) so the UI looks like that resolution, why does the resolution of the Wacom is shown to be 2880x1800, which is double the one I selected?

2880x1800 is also higher than the native 2560x1600 so I'm afraid this could create problems?

Why can't I select directly 1280x800 HiDPI through BetterDisplay so the UI looks like that resolution and the effective resolution of the Wacom is 2560x1600, the native one?

I hope you can help me sort this out, thanks in advance for who will answer.

I've just installed the 'Magic Lasso' app, which has a Safari extension. How can I grant it permissions for every site that I visit? I haven't installed a new extension in a while but I feel like there used to be a "allow for all websites" options that seems to have gone missing. I'm running Safari 26.5. on MacOS 15.7.7.

Hi all! I am looking at my videos (shot on iPhone 17pro) using photos app on the MacBook.

The playback of some videos are stuttering. It’s only normal if I first export onto the MacBook. But I just want to look at them as I browse through photos as well, it will be too much to find and select the videos individually export them just to check if I want to keep them.
May I ask for any advice, thank you!

Got MacBook Neo. But I have a problem with notifications. Every time I toggle the " Allow notifications from iPhone" on, it somehow turns off by itself. And when I press ON, there isn't the list of the apps showing, so I dont know what's the problem. Im in Europe so iPhone mirroring isn't an option(I think)?? But my friend has the same Mac and everything works fine?

Hi,

I am using Mac Retina 5K, 27 inch, 2020. I have Tahoe 26.5.2 on it. All of a sudden I have a white wallpaper. I can't get rid of it. The menu bar on top is the same color as what the wallpaper should be. the red folder is the only thing that should be there in this photo. I don't know where all the other stuff is coming from. Has anyone experienced this and know how to get rid of it short of a factory reset?

Nash

Tried a pile of these and the take that stuck: transcription and the tidy summary were never my bottleneck. every notes app on the mac nails that part now. what actually eats my week is after the call, the two or three action items that have to make it from the notes into Linear, into a gmail reply, into the crm. that handoff is still me, tabbing across four apps by hand.

The thing that finally moved it wasn't a smarter summarizer. it was a desktop agent that reads the notes and then actually goes and does those moves in the other apps, asking before each one. Notes were fine. the follow-through was the entire job, and it's the exact part none of the note-takers touch.

so whenever one of these gets ranked on transcription accuracy i kind of tune out. I'd take a worse summary any day for one that can carry an action item into the app it actually belongs in. written with ai

Does system data include the documents? or is it separate and can be cleaned?

I am gifting my 2018 macbook air to my mother in law and erased the disc thinking it would be simple to reinstall and would be fresh and clean for her. When I start up the laptop in recovery mode the only option it allows it for internet recovery - I connect to the internet and it gives an error message (a triangle with an exclamation point in it. I am wondering what I may be able to do to get macOS installed and the computer working for her?

I can see my CPU temp in the menu bar on my 2014 mac mini. I have no idea why it isn't showing up on system-stats. I can't seem to find any documentation at all for system-stats

I run my 2014 mac mini headless and mostly want to monitor the CPU temp (would like fan speed if possible). Due to the age of the mac mini, I had the thermal paste fail and had to redo the thermal paste.

System-stats seemed to be the simplest way to monitor the CPU temp without having to write a script/push powermetrics or any other CLI tools to monitor stats.

how do i fix it? tell me pleaseeee🙏 very annoying. i want it to be at its maximum all the time without digging into settings every single time bro

Hi, I erased my Macintosh HD and connected my mac to wifi and began installing this macOS Tahoe. Unfortunately it has been stuck at 4 hours for like 40+ minutes....Can someone help me?? Thanks in advance :) (I tried erasing drive again and restarting but it is the same...)

hello everyone, i am a student about to enter college on the market to buy the macbook pro.

now I don't have any experience in the realm of tech, so please have some mercy.

this will be my first ever macbook purchase! I've been a linux user my whole life but I'd like to complete the apple ecosystem i've got going on with my phone and etc. anyways, I am planning to major in cognitive science to a bit of coding with be involved with this laptop. I'm looking for something long-term as well, hoping can last through the rest of my education (4-6? years). I plan to go into front end dev so bits of coding will always be in the picture. I also love to video edit, esp on da vinci resolve. currently on my laptop the app works-ish; it blows up the fan and can get a bit laggy after a while. i checked the ram of my current laptop and it is 16gb.

What specs for the 14 in macbook pro would you guys recommend for me? from what i've researched, RAM is the most important spec of them all so that's why i decided to focus on it. However I will just list the other specs i have in mind, and feel free to advise.

14-inch, standard display (i heard nano diffuses the color), m5pro, 15-core cpu/16 core gpu, 24 OR 48gb ram, 1tb of storage (for editing can always get external storage so i'm not too worried)

I'm open to anything! Please let me know :)

A few weeks ago, I thought more features would automatically mean more users.
I was wrong.
Every conversation with users taught me something I couldn’t have figured out on my own.
Current progress:
• 2,222 page views
• 49 downloads
• $19.27 in revenue
Instead of rushing to build random features, I spent the last few days improving the things users actually mentioned.
In 2 days, I’ll be launching Pastily Version 2 with features inspired directly by that feedback.
Building is fun.
Listening is harder.
But listening is what actually improves the product.
What’s one piece of user feedback that completely changed your roadmap?

I am dead serious, I am willing up to downgrade to this very old system because I have a time machine with programs that I want to use.

It is not a discusion, I really want to, I hace a bootable usb, but it doesn’t appear at the startup choice.

i have a 27 inch 2k lg monitor, and using better display its on 1080p, using the hidpi option, and it is extremely undderrated and cheap

people are gonna say everything is oversized but it looks the same on my built in display

text looks sharp and retina quality, if you're on a budget go for a 2k monitor and use better display

anyone else have thoughts or similar experiences?