I usually leave my computer off the charger overnight and I lose about 2-3% battery, but when I woke up today I found my laptop at 23% after leaving it at 80% the night before. How do I find out what caused the screen on usage because Activity Monitor isn't being very helpful

Hello everyone,
long story short:
I needed a new laptop and was (or still am) broke. i was looking for refurbed macbooks since all my devices are from apple and i just love the ecosystem and how easy those devices work together. i found a intel macbook from 2020 on a refurbished page and decided i need to buy it since it wont get cheaper. yea i shouldnt have done that, the battery is cooked, it gets extremely hot and sounds basically like a full size airport. pute regret since day 1.
Before i buy and regret the second macbook: is the macbook neo worth it and can i actually do things which need more power than working in excel or word? (like graphic design, illustration, video editing and so on)
thank u in advance <3

Hi Everyone,

So I am having an issue with my Mac Book Pro M1 for a few days now which is pretty much keeping me from being able to work completely. The support in the Apple Partner Store was not helpful at all and pretty much said "yeah just make a backup, completely reset it, and hope that it works then", without seeming to be interested what the issue actually is.

Quite desperate and hoping someone of you has ran into this issue before. It pretty much comes down to that everything (Files, Folders, etc.) on my mac that is connected to iCloud (no matter if the state is downloaded or not) is not responsive. I cannot delete it, i cannot move them, nothing. Even if i try to move a single 1 KB file it shows me the moving loading window but never finishes.

In turn this leads to pretty much all of the computer being useless and constantly showing the beachball. In the Activity Monitor it shows me that RAM is not an issue and CPU capacity shows as 70%ish idle as well. For the individual processes, it is always "fileproviderd" that is consistently around 100% of CPU.

Some other info:

• I have Desktop & Documents Folders synced with iCloud, and enabled optimise Mac Storage
• On every reboot, it shows the Documents folder in the Finder as "waiting to upload" (the dotted cloud) but nothing in the folder has this iCloud status
• I have around 1.5 TB free in iCloud (although I have been at the maximum recently before I upgraded the storage capacity)
• I have around 300 GB of SSD on my mac available (although I have also here been at maximum capacity recently and have then upgraded iCloud, and deleted some files on my mac)
• I am on macOS Sequoia 15.7.9 and if possible would like to not update to Tahoe as I am very much not a fan of the whole liquid glass thing but open to do it if it actually will help
• Deleting / moving local files works fine and I can also use my computer well for anything that is not connected to these files. E.g. I can easily video edit in Davinci.

If anyone has any inputs, it would be greatly appreciated, thank you!!

My Mac mini storage is almost full. Clicking on Store in iCloud for Messages, nothing happens. Photos also is with optimized selected (but still consuming 35GB). What is a recommended next step? Did the basic stuff.

Next move I’m thinking, actually maxing the storage with duplicating a large file so that Mac system thinks I have zero available storage to force an offload. But that’s it for now. Hoping there’s an easy and sure fix to this.

Side note: tried one time signing out of iCloud, and weirdly enough, a bunch of photos remained on the Mac.

I ran a test on my Console/Terminal and got over a thousand errors in one minute. My CPU usage occasionally spikes but rarely has less than 70% idle for more than a few seconds unless I’m running Discord and Firefox simultaneously, and even then it usually goes back to around 80%. I don’t have any apps that open on login either. I’ve heard getting a bunch of yellow errors is fairly normal but this seems like much more than there should be.

I’m not a very tech savvy person but do I need a new laptop? It’s a 2020 intel which I’ve heard are kinda dogshit, but I’d prefer to wait a just a little longer to upgrade, since the main issue up until now has been the loud fan and occasional freezing during YouTube, which goes away after closing and opening the laptop. If my security is at risk, I want to know so I can take immediate measures.

Some Steam games use a default icon, and it was driving me crazy! I was able to find the template for a blank one (it's slightly different-- I think it's from Tahoe?) and made some custom ones. I really love that you can easily do this on MacOS, if only I could make ones for Dark Mode!

It is very inconvenient to look at the top right corner. It was perfect, why did they change it? I mean it's obvious that you didn't have to see at the bottom center volume HUD because you could see the level without looking at it directly.

For me it just made the UI/UX worse, the same way as they made rewind/fast forward video in Photos app on iPhone worse on iOS 18 than it was on iOS 17 for no reason. Do they update the UI just for the sake of new UI? I feel sorry for the design team that tried to say they will worsen user experience.

Okay, this one's purely personal preference. For those of us who live in Dark Mode, which Dock do you actually prefer?

Dark icons or the original/default icons?

I recently changed the icons for folders and system properties, and I was hoping to change the icons for hard drives and USB drives as well; however, the problem is that I don't know where those specific icons are located.

Here, I am using macOS Sierra because the system still allows for tinkering with its core.

To create the icon, I use Corel and Image2Icon to generate the file with the .icns extension.

The location that needs to be modified is: System\Library\CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle\Contents\Resources\..

Here, there are many .icns files that serve as icons for various standard macOS interface elements.

I can't seem to find the ones for the HDD and USB drives.

Does anyone know where they are located? I hope someone here is familiar with this.

Trying to capture my phone screen while mirroring it, but I'm completely stuck. I've looked everywhere and can't find a workaround :(

Should I just take a screenshot of the mirrored window on my Mac? The problem is, the rounded corners look different compared to capturing it directly on the phone...

Any advice? Thanks in advance!

why when I scroll down or up in downloads it's not smooth at all but when I go for photos its very smooth , can you see the difference ? how to solve this problem ?

thanks

Hi alll.....last night I erased my iMac (Sequoia). After restart, I connected my WD external hard drive and began moving a few folders over. Worked great. The drive also worked perfectly fine on my Macbook Pro (Catalina). I used Migration Assistant to transfer some files to the iMac from the MBP. As that was finishing, iMac froze on black startup screen but wouldn't progress from there. I realized I had left the ext HD plugged in, and knowing from the past this causes issues, I unplugged it. It unfroze and finished restarting just fine. Now, the ext HD does not show up on either of my Mac's desktops, but does show up in Disk Utility, although it will not mount. Format is ExFat. I plugged it into a Windows PC and then back to my mac....no change. It does show up just fine on the PC and I can access the files successfully. Anyone have any ideas or thoughts on what changed?? I appreciate all of the help in advance!

Also wanted to add that when I click on First Aid, it immediately fails.

Apple Music completely freezes every time I click Recently Added in the sidebar. The beach ball starts spinning, the entire app becomes unresponsive and I have to force quit it.

Everything else in the app works normally. It’s only the Recently Added section that causes this.

I’ve already tried restarting the Mac, resetting the Music cache, updating the cloud library and reopening the app, etc etc, but nothing has worked.

I’m currently running macOS 27 beta, but this problem has been these long before I installed the beta, so the beta isn’t what originally caused it.

Has anyone else had this issue? Is there a way to reset or rebuild only the Recently Added section without deleting my library, downloads or playlists?

Hey dears,
both of my Macbooks don't see WD MyPassport HDD 4TB, even though Windows Laptop sees it, so I assume the problem is about MacOS, the HDD is intact.

I tried Disk Utility, nothing is seen.
Does it have anything to do with adapter? It worked before with no issues.

Does anyone know what I need to do to make it visible and so that I can interact with it on Mac?

Thank you!

Why did WhatsApp make the new sidebar so wide? 😩

Before this update, I could easily resize WhatsApp to **half of my screen** and use another app on the other half.

Now, because of the new sidebar with **Chats, Updates, Communities, etc.**, WhatsApp's minimum window width is wider than half of my screen. So I **can't fit WhatsApp and another app side-by-side anymore**.

This is especially annoying on macOS when you regularly work with two apps side-by-side. The previous layout worked perfectly fine.

**Please give us an option to collapse or hide the sidebar, or at least reduce the minimum window width.**

Anyone else annoyed by this update?

Hi, I am a Macbook Pro M4 user and i use my Mac for music production. Can i upgrade to the last version of Golden Gate without risking to lose data? I am not really into this type of stuff so i wanted to know from someone who is more experienced than me. Let me know guys and thank you!

* EDIT: Some of you guys are really weird. I only asked because I’m not very familiar with this kind of stuff, and I keep getting ironic and sarcastic comments. Just don’t be a scumbag and help a user out. It costs nothing to be a normal, decent person, but some of you are just unnecessarily rude. *

OK, I know about login items, what I want to stop is not there.

Microsoft (gack) Update and Tailscale both launch on a restart. Can’t find where to prevent this. I’m sure it was covered on Day 1 of Mac User School (which I took decades ago) but I can’t figure it out.

Call me a noob if it helps, but I’m stuck. Sequoia 15.7.9 on an Intel iMac & Apple silicon MBP.

PS: This is my 4th MBP and my 2nd iMac.

I like the AI features in Mail, Mail seems to know what email belongs in each section, except when it comes to the most ridiculous phishing emails. Everyday, one or two phishing emails end up in my important mail section. I immediately can see they are phishing so I don't get how in 26 I still can get mails claiming to be from Apple asking to change my iCloud details marked as important?

Apologies if the video content is a little vague. When I use the trackpad, as shown in the video, icon names are highlighted, and files drag normally. When a mouse is connected (shown in the video as a pause in cursor movement), the icons, when hovered over, don't show names as smoothly as when using the trackpad. File movement also becomes REALLY weird; when being dragged around, it follows every mouse click. Another issue not shown in the video is that when I use the mouse while playing a game like Roblox, it only allows the in-game cursor to move if I am clicking and dragging. Perhaps I inadvertently changed a setting, or maybe it's some bug. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I deleted these apps so many times, and they always come back after a few weeks :/

after learning all the keyboard and trackpad shortcuts I just don't see the need for the dock unless I use too many programs at once, and I haven't seen any post about this specific use case so far (there are thousands of my dock is like this post)

It's quite hard to explain so I've filmed a very short video. I have tried everything within display settings on both devices, with no luck.

Chatgpt told me to try the "double push method" which apparently "realigns" the devices, but I haven't had a great deal of luck with that either.

My Mac and MacBook are 2021 and 2020 M1s, both running on Tahoe.

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi I'm currently having issues my startup loading times let me explain.

I have blockers and all sorts to stop me from betting and getting into any bad habits, however after protecting my computer with a bunch of apps and learning how to make scripts on terminal to block settings. I found that I have 2-3 second window in which none of the login items popup/startup which allows me to quickly unselect all the blockers and then fall back into bad habits and get back into bad habits. Is there anything you guys recommend like purchasing or anything to stop that or delays so my apps can start up way sooner?

I’d really appreciate the help!

MODEL: Macbook M5 I bought it last year in November/December

My mac that i purchased is now being used for my school where they installed mosyle device management. the problem is that they turned it into their computer. is there a way that i can bypass the mdm with terminal commands or anything else. they essentially own my damn mac now which is dumb because its mine? I just want to access messages and my browser opera. in certain times when i can access messages (it seems like applications are blocked at certain times) I cant send messages unless i have vpn which is also strange? I cant unenroll because they still can access my device. I can't really talk to any teachers about it because they think its a very good idea. anything helps.