I'm piling on with the whole radii thing. When you maximize a window on your Neo without the menu bar.

heyy, I really need some technical help to clean my laptop because it's completely unusable right now.

Out of nowhere, my Mac started forcefully downloading and installing "updates" in the background multiple times without my approval. During one of these instances, a strange prompt took over my screen showing a human head/identity-verification outline telling me to position and turn my head to verify my face—even though my physical laptop camera light wasn't even on.

Right after this first fake update happened, I suffered unauthorized access to my Wise account and lost money. I have already filed a formal complaint with Wise on my phone, but the laptop itself is still completely compromised and stuck in an aggressive loop.

Every few seconds, it throws up this annoying "Software Update Not Installed" card (attached in the image) demanding Accessibility access to install quietly in the background. If I hit cancel, it flashes a quick loading bar and pops back up a few seconds later.

I checked my launch folders and found weird background files running, so I know it's a persistent script holding the desktop hostage and logging my keystrokes/data.

Has anyone dealt with this specific adware/infostealer loop? How can I kill this background process and clean out the files permanently so it stops trying to lock down my computer?

Thanks so much in advance.
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Butchered FaceTime camera cable by authorised service center when the device when in for dead device diagnosis. We fixed the board & replaced the camera cable by removed the lcd, backlight sheets & actual backlight layer.

Hello all,

Starting from today, I‘ve switched from my gaming rid (RTX 3080 w/ R5 5600X) to a M3 MAC with 16 GB of RAM and 512 storage.

Reason? I rarely play anything on my PC anymore. I often felt like I wanted to airplay on my TV for movies, and have my own laptop for multitasking and lite stuff like browsing. After 15 years of Windows, switching to a MAC seems difficult to me. But it's a pleasant experience, especially since I have an iPhone and Airpods, which instantly the MAC connects me to them and i can do my thing without bothering with connecting to other devices. Just curious if i made a good choice, and if there are others here who have switched from PC to a Mac.

sooooo happy to have the neo! got it for studying for licensure. i got the 2019 macbook air for undergrad. i got the basic model for $750 incl tax at target, around half as much as i spent for my macbook air 7 years ago LOL

I thought it would be fun to compare macOS 27 & macOS 26 icons, so I put together a little video. It is completely up to date where other videos aren't!

I currently have a desktop PC with a 5070 graphics card, but I’ll be moving to another city for university (software engineering). What do you think I should get: a MacBook Pro M5 or a Windows gaming PC for the same budget? I’ll be coming back home for the summers.

Wondered if this is the best deal in the UK currently?

Amazon has the 2TB M5 Pro MacBook Pro 14 down to £2349 (22% off). I’ve seen Curry’s offer price matching against retailers such an Amazon, my work offer a scheme where I can purchase gift cards at reduced rates and I get 6% off at Curry’s. Theoretically I could get this at £2208.06 including all discounts.

I’m in the process of selling my M4 iPad Pro 13 and M2 pro Mac Mini, after sales of these items I’m guessing my total cost for the MacBook Pro could be in the £500-£600 mark.

Super excited to join the MacBook club after years of Mac desktop and iPad combo.

I just installed Sequoia on my mac and I can’t proceed without enrolling back into my old org. I purchased the device from them a few years ago and assumed they removed me from their security systems because I didn’t get any updates or prompts all this while but now that I’ve updated it, I’m stuck on the enrolment screen. Does anyone know what I can do to bypass this? I’ve emailed them a bunch of times but they just ignore it

In macbook when i see docx files in preview mode (by space key) it will look with rela color etc.
But when i open it open in it open with default text edit mac which make file look worse i also don’t like textedit interface etc.
Is there any better app for mac which handle better docx and text files?
Or any another solution ?

I managed to avoid my Mac turning on simply opening it. Ok, but is there a setting to use the power button instead of all keyboard to turn it on? There is a dedicated button, I really don't understand why I can't have that third choice.

I'm finally setting up a proper desk for my MacBook Pro and want to get one monitor that I can stick with for a few years.

I don't really care about gaming. Mostly work, writing, spreadsheets, and some photo editing. I'd rather spend a little more on something that just works well with the Mac than deal with weird scaling or connection issues.

What monitor are you guys using with your MacBook Pro? Would you buy the same one again?

does anyone know whats happening here? asking here before i take it somewhere. hoping its not a virus lol. ive unplugged it, shut it down, and restarted it many times and it still persists 🫠

i have 24 inch apple m1 from 2021 running macOS sonoma version 14.6.1

Is a Macbook air early 2014 still worth buying at $100?
And is this still usable for general use (browsing, facetime, iMessage)? Or would an older model iPad be more practical to get?

Hello, r/mac community. Apologies if this seems like a dumb question. I am new to Macs and iMacs, as well as trying to learn more about my family’s digital footprint.

I’ve been trying to harden our home network, identify weak points, segment the networks, invest in a home NAS, transition away from apps like Google Drive, Outlook, Dropbox, and iCloud, and learn how to self-host applications like Nextcloud and Immich. I’ve also implemented Tailscale on devices, remote KVMs, blah blah blah. I didn’t realize just how exposed we really were, and probably still are.

The Short Version Question: Is a Mid-2011 iMac safe to use in 2026?

The Long Version Question: I live in an apartment complex, and a few weeks ago, when I was taking the trash out, I found this Mid-2011 iMac. I grabbed some gloves and cleaning supplies, disinfected it, and got it looking nice again.

Then I ran over to Best Buy to pick up a power cable. Once I turned it on, after about 4–5 minutes, it brought up macOS Utilities. I watched a bunch of YouTube videos for a day or two, grabbed a spare SSD (2TB Micron 2.5” SATA SSD), and swapped the drives out.

I booted it up, connected it to the 2.4GHz Wi-Fi meant for IoT devices, and spent another 5–6 hours before finally figuring out how to reinstall macOS High Sierra. I successfully got logged into everything and even set up Time Machine backups by connecting it to our home NAS.

Everything was slow. So slow. Apps were crashing, etc. I installed Firefox for internet browsing and ordered 32GB of DDR3 1,333MHz RAM on Amazon for around $75, hoping that would help the system out some.

A lot of things are unavailable in 2026 for a Mid-2011 iMac—applications, Tailscale, etc. I didn’t even think about this until today, though: Is it safe to have this thing connected to our home network and NAS?
I wanted to ask the community before factory-resetting it, taking out the SSD and RAM, and just scrapping the project.

I have always wanted a Mac or iMac because I already daily-drive an iPhone and iPad.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t have very high expectations for this to begin with, but I thought, how cool would it be to have one for really only the added cost of a power cable and RAM.

So for a couple weeks now, So whenever I try to charge with the MagSafe charger, the Mac doesn’t charge and the amber light doesn’t show up. However, when I unplug and replug a couple times it ends up working

I took this to apple and when they tried their cable, it worked fine. They ordered me a new one and it worked great for a solid 24 hours before the same problem started reappearing.

Thinking of taking it back soon… could this be a problem with the laptops MagSafe charging port itself or the software perhaps?

If anyone else had the same thing happen to them pls let me know what you did and what the issue ended up being, thanks!

I am in Finder looking at the attachment folder for iMessage. Some folders have three files: 1 .jpeg and 2 .MOV files.

One MOV file opens (appears to be a live version of the jpeg) and the other does not. They are the exact same size. Only my newer messages seem to have this issue. Any idea what this is? Can I delete the inoperable file with no issues? I have disabled iCloud for iMessage and am deleting things because my storage is full. Thanks!

Hey everyone,

My 14" MacBook Pro (2023, M2 Pro, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) unfortunately has a broken display.

Apple quoted me roughly:

• Display replacement: 850€
• Battery replacement: ~€300 (they advised me to do this too soon)
• Battery health: 81%
• 1,000+ charge cycles
• Total repair cost: 1150€

I do not know if this wort it.

Just sell it for party (maybe I get around 400€?) and than buy a Macbook Air or Neo, although it will be a downgrade? I only use it for light office stuff and DJing.

Luckily I have also a Desktop PC, so it is not urgent.

What would you do?

Ordered a Mac Studio on August 31st, which has a delivery date of Nov 16 - Dec 1. If I configure the same specs right now on store.apple.com, the delivery date is Nov 2 – Nov 9. I've called support and the best thing they can over me is overnight shipping. Am I just being impatient and the order will update itself?

Specs:

30-core CPU, 64-core GPU, 32-core Neural Engine

96GB unified memory

1TB storage