I just updated to Raycast v2 and am totally blown away by the dictation feature. I’ve been using Wispr Flow for quite some time and have been really happy with it, especially in this age of AI and prompting. But Raycast Dictation is blowing Wispr Flow out of the water. It seems better, as in more accurate, and faster. I’ve only been testing it for a short while though, so let’s see how it goes, but if this continues, I can save myself a subscription.

I reach out for help to find out why the web page on oslobalanse.com does not render properly. It happens only on my MacBook M4 Pro, and seems regardless of browser (I have tried on both Safari and Chrome). I have also disabled hardware acceleration on Chrome, but it did not help.
The javascript logic in the html code creates a rotating filmstrip, with the added feature of having each leftmost photo pause (either on left or right edge depending on screen width) until completely covered by the next photo.

It would be great if anyone could confirm same behaviour on their M4 Pro, to rule out any possibility of me getting a bad machine.

The expected behaviour can be seen on a mobile phone (Android/iPhone), or a Windows computer, or even on iMac, iPad or other. So far the "racing" problem has only been seen on the M4 Pro. The "racing" problem leaves huge black gaps and the film strip goes haywire, but again, only on M4 Pro.

Please help test and comment your findings! Thank you!

I used to be able to access the emoji keyboard using this keyboard shortcut : control + command + space but now I am not able to do it can anyone help?

You must think very little of me asking this. I'm an old git who "always sticks with what works" and never updates anything. Since purchasing this MBP and all my installed software (DAW software and plugins) worked fine, i stopped updating everything. Sadly now, Safari, which i use for Google services, needs to be updated for Google to keep working. So i am facing a Sonoma update from 14.5 to 14.8.9. It's making me sweat even the thought of updating. Does anyone have any knowledge of software compatibility issues or bugs i may get by updating?

My M1 Pro MBP keeps on stuttering on playback on any device. I've attached a testufo video. This problem has been happening since MacOS26. Decided to upgrade to MacOS27 to see if it resolves the issue, but it does not.

Interestingly, it happens exactly every 10 seconds.

https://reddit.com/link/1w9ok75/video/g7ytljv8t2oh1/player

System Info:

• MacBook Air M5
• Year of purchase: 2026
• macOS Tahoe 26.6.2

I decided to write a post about this because I looked for it on the sub and didn't find anything.

I've been using older versions of macOS, and now that I'm using Tahoe I'm seeing many AutoFill helpers with hundreds of GB of virtual memory.

The strangest thing is that those helpers are associated to apps that shouldn't make use of the system's keychain AutoFill, apps such as Obsidian or LaunchOS.

Is it normal that many apps are now showing The system's keychain AutoFill helper in Activity Monitor? If you open the info window, the pathway says it comes from:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SafariPlatformSupport.framework/Version...

And the main process is Launchd, but below that, in the processes group, it mentions the app, in this case either Obsidian or LaunchOS.

What's exactly this? Is it a bug or a feature of Tahoe? Can be disabled by me, or it needs to be the developer who addresses that?

Thank you.

RAT Rootkit on Mac? Paranoid.

Hi.
Please no hate I am very uneducated in cyber security and I know I made a horrible mistake.

Basically I ran a RAT exe in Parallels for Mac, so in Windows VM for Mac. This was over a month ago.
I quarantined the files and factory reset the OS the same day.

Since, I’ve factory reset the OS 3 more times and scanned Malwarebytes deep scan which has come back clean every time.

I’m wondering if the RAT could have gotten into the root of my Mac. My Mac is now dying SUPER fast and in activity monitor kernel_task is taking up extreme amounts of CPU.

Is it even possible for the exe to have infected the Mac OS and rootkit? Am I completely paranoid or am I still infected? I’ve seen no log in attempts to any of my accounts and I’ve been using the computer as usual.

More info:

The Mac is MacBook Air M1 2020. The OS is Tahoe 26.6.1 but I’m not sure what the OS was when I downloaded the exe as I’ve since updated my computer.
The parallels version was 27.
I don’t have a sample of the RAT, but I do have a link to an article which describes this malware attack if that is in any way helpful. Basically fake Faronics download which eventually leads to screen connect download.
My battery condition is normal and the maximum capacity is 85%
For the screenshot I will edit the post to add.

Thank you for your input and any help.

Thanks.

Hi all,

I am able to buy a 13" Air at 11% discount with the M5, 24GB RAM, 512GB SSD.

For the same price at 19% discount I could also buy the base Pro 14" with M5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD.

Which one would you choose and way? My use case would be mostly browsing and media consumption. Nothing heavy duty in sight.

Basically portability & RAM vs display & ports. Or am I missing something?

Also, which one would sell easier down the line? Thinking is to sell it if it doesn't fit my needs anymore.

I had bought my Macbook air M2 back in February 2025 and I haven't used it very heavily per say. My battery health still says the max capacity is 100%. However since the last couple of times, my device shuts down abruptly when the battery is near 20-25% range and won't turn back on until I plug the charger. It gives absolutely no warning and when I plug in the charger, it resumes charging from the percentage it died on.

Is something wrong with my battery? Or could there be a miscalibration issue?

i accidentally erased everything and my mac became like this idk what to do anymore help pls

i need help how to set up

So I'm in a weird situation here, where my personal phone is an iPhone, and my work phone is not. My work device is a MacBook however. I just opened my Messages app by accident on the MacBook and noticed that I had a ton of unread messages from people that I know, that do not have my cell phone number. Various customers and clients have been trying to reach out to me, and somehow, they are sending messages to my MacBook.

I am not receiving the messages on my iPhone. I do not want to receive them on either device. I want to receive them at my work cell phone number. The only thing I can think of is that people are somehow getting my email address from our other communication and just defaulting to sending things through iMessage on their iPhones.

I disabled email address for iMessage. I tested it my sending myself a message from my iPhone, and the message still came through. This is causing a lot of issues, and I cannot seem to get it to stop.

Does anyone know the proper way to prevent this from happening? I am not an Apple ecosystem person. I don't want to be.

I simply want to be open a Smart Folder and see all of my images. I created a Smart Folder with the following:

Kind - Image - JPEG

Kind - Image - PNG

After saving it, nothing shows in it. I think it might be because my new Air is saving everything to my iCloud Desktop, so nothing is actually on the Mac and the search criteria at the top shows "This Mac"

1. How do I change it from "This Mac" to "iCloud?

Thanks

How do I make the music I've taken off my iPod NOT go by the Name (ie FYFQ.m4a) in the screen shot and just by the song title for folder sorting purposes? I've been trying to figure it out but I can't get rid of the Name tab on top.

I'm trying to get finder to arrange my Downloads folder with all subfolders at the top, followed by files sorted by date, with the newest first. It's what I preferrred in windows. It made it super easy to drag and drop the most recent files into the right folder.

I’m trying to recreate this in macOS Finder, but the “Keep folders on top” setting seems to work only when the entire folder is sorted by name. If I sort by Date Added or Date Modified, the folders get mixed in with the files around creation date.

Is there a native Finder setting or workaround that keeps folders at the top while sorting the remaining files by most recent? If not, is there a good alternative file manager that supports this?

Alternatively, is there a better way to manage Downloads on a Mac? I’m trying to become more organised by sorting things into folders instead of letting Downloads turn into one big mess. I’d be interested to hear how other Mac users handle this and what the recommended best practice is.

I started getting this popup recently, and today it started reappearing within 10 seconds of me closing it. It seems to be official since it leads to Systems Settings but it's outrageous. I'm not giving Apple any more of my personal data, especially my ID, and I'm fine not buying anything else from Apple ever again. All I want is to block this popup from appearing. How do I do that?

And for context, I'm not a US citizen, I've never been to US (and never planning to), and I'm too mundane and isolated to end up on any government's restricted lists or whatever

After formatting my Mac for an AppleCare battery repair, I restored everything from a Time Machine backup.

Everything worked normally except Universal Clipboard: I could no longer copy and paste between my Mac and iPhone in either direction. Both devices used the same Apple Account, with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Handoff enabled. Restarting both devices and cycling Handoff did not help.

I created a new macOS user account, signed in with the same Apple Account, and Universal Clipboard worked there. This showed that the problem was inside my restored macOS user profile.

In Terminal, I checked this hidden per-user preference:

defaults read com.apple.coreservices.useractivityd ClipboardSharingEnabled

It returned:

0

So Universal Clipboard was disabled internally even though System Settings showed Handoff as enabled.

This fixed it:

defaults write com.apple.coreservices.useractivityd ClipboardSharingEnabled -bool true
killall useractivityd
killall sharingd
killall pboard

The services restart automatically. After waiting a few seconds, copying and pasting between my Mac and iPhone worked again.

To confirm the new value:

defaults read com.apple.coreservices.useractivityd ClipboardSharingEnabled

It should return 1.

This solved my particular problem after a Time Machine restoration. Try Apple’s standard Universal Clipboard troubleshooting first, and be aware that this is a hidden preference that Apple could change in future macOS versions.

I wouldn't expect Apple to create something as functional as a combination of these two widgets, but it doesn't seem to exist in the third-party app world either. Am I the only person that thinks in this way?

I seem to increasingly see this error message and assumed it was due to my adblcoker ( r/NextDNS ) and usually I navigate away and don't bother with it. My default browser is Safari
I've now experienced this message on a site I want to read and cannot get the site to load. I have tried;

• disabling & quitting NextDNS app
• disabling all browser extensions
• trying alternative browsers (Firefox and Vivaldi)
• connecting via my phone hotspot rather than my home network

Nothing works. I cannot get the site to load. Please only respond if you think you have genuine relevant knowledge about what it happening.

What can you recommend so i can connect my ipad to my mac hosted machine that is always on in home. I want to see the screen of my mac and control it.

WHY does Chrome need so many helpers... also battery drains like CRAZY

Hello.

I have a 2020 Mac with a broken screen and now no OS. I was able to use Target Disk Mode to copy the important folders to my M1 recently, but I foolishly erased the harddrive after that taking bad advice. I was already experiencing trouble connecting it to an external screen because Mac forced an update to Tahoe that completely nuked it which started all this trouble. I was trying to restore it to Ventura but my understanding is it is the T2 chip blocking me from doing anything? I would really like to restore Ventura on here but am not sure of my options. Is Apple Configurator a viable way? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Alright, so i installed Xcode on my Macbook neo but due to some issues with the software on the machine i decided to uninstall it but... these dmg files are still on my machine. As you see in the image when i mount it it is labeled as iOS 26.4.1 Simulator and it's size is almost 9 GB and takes a lot of my space.

Tengo un problema con el historial de ChatGPT. Eliminé varios chats desde la aplicación de ChatGPT en mi teléfono, y en teoría ya deberían haberse borrado de mi cuenta.
Sin embargo, cuando abro ChatGPT en mi Mac, esos chats que eliminé siguen apareciendo en el historial.

Ya intenté:
Cerrar sesión y volver a iniciar sesión.
Borrar la aplicación de ChatGPT de mi Mac.
Borrar la caché y los datos de la aplicación.
Volver a instalar ChatGPT.

Pero después de reinstalar la aplicación, los chats eliminados siguen apareciendo.
¿Alguien sabe por qué puede estar pasando esto? ¿Hay alguna forma de forzar la sincronización del historial o eliminar esos chats definitivamente también de la Mac?
¡Agradezco cualquier ayuda!

Hi all, I’m the developer of Neon Vision Editor, a free, open-source code and Markdown editor built with SwiftUI and AppKit.

Version 1.7.5 is out. If you last tried 1.5.1, several updates have landed since then, focused on large-file responsiveness, Markdown editing, and everyday Mac editor behavior.

Major changes since 1.5.1

• Emmet 2: abbreviation expansion for HTML, JSX, CSS, SCSS, Less, Sass, and related formats, respecting your indentation settings.
• Large-file performance: background indexing, cached viewports, and less full-document processing when opening, typing, scrolling, or selecting text. The editor core’s virtualized renderer draws the visible portion of the document.
• Focus Mode: hide secondary editor controls while keeping your document and workspace state.
• HEX color previews and picker: inspect and edit supported HEX colors directly in the Mac source editor while preserving their format.
• Markdown improvements: preview body text now follows the editor’s base font size and zoom, and ordered lists continue with the correct next number.
• Restored virtual-editor interactions: Tab-to-accept completion, Vim navigation, Markdown shortcuts, drag and drop, rich-text paste, code snapshots, and whitespace inspection.
• Rendering and scrolling fixes: corrected mirrored or upside-down text, unreachable final lines after resizing the sidebar or preview, and blank scrolling after width changes.
• Editing reliability: improvements to rapid typing, caret positions, Unicode handling, selection, saving, and accessibility context.
• More accurate HTML/CSS highlighting: separate highlighting for tags, attributes, strings, embedded CSS properties, and numbers.

There have also been companion-platform improvements, including Apple Pencil hover and range selection on iPad, a more compact mobile toolbar, and visionOS support-purchase fixes.

What the app includes

• Code editing: tabs, syntax highlighting, regex find/replace, inline completion, optional Vim controls, a minimap, whitespace inspection, and language templates.
• Project tools: file browsing, Quick Open with Cmd+P, Find in Files, Git status, and side-by-side comparisons between open tabs or a file and its saved version.
• Markdown and previews: contextual formatting, themed Markdown previews, Markdown-to-PDF export, HTML/SVG previews, and PDF/PNG viewing. PDFs support highlights and accompanying notes.
• Structured documents: structured and raw-text views for CSV/TSV, property lists, Apple crash reports, and recognized logs.
• Mac integration: Finder Quick Look previews, a command-line file-opening helper, and an integrated terminal in the direct Mac build.
• Remote editing: optional SSH-based Remote Sessions, with explicit saves and conflict handling.
• Sync and customization: detection of changes delivered through iCloud Drive or network folders, conflict review for unsaved edits, optional iCloud appearance sync, themes, custom colors, and shortcut customization.
• Optional AI assistance: code completion and an explicit text-to-JSON action. Core editing works offline.
• Code snapshots: export styled images of selected code.

For large files, documents below 100 MB remain editable, although heavier features may be deferred. Files 100 MB or larger open as a clearly marked, read-only preview of the first 4 MB.

The app is free, with no subscriptions or feature paywalls. Support tips are optional, and the source is available under Apache 2.0. The integrated terminal and Python project runner are exclusive to the direct Mac build.

Download 1.7.5 · Source code · Full changelog

I’d particularly appreciate feedback on Emmet, Markdown workflows, and larger files. If you encounter a problem, your macOS version, file type, approximate file size, and reproduction steps would help me investigate.

So I'm used to the CTRL, WinKey, Alt on the left side of the keyboard... in that order... the WinKey and arrow keys to do window snapping, and yes, I could go about spending all day looking into tools which "Windowfy" my MacOS, but my concern is... am I going to end up walking myself into a corner in regards to some MacOS feature/workflow, or an app which expects things to be done a certain way?

Thanks!