Questions tagged [macos]
Apple's Unix-based operating system. Use for questions about the operating system or to provide OS context. For Mac hardware questions, use [mac]. Questions about using macOS on non-Apple hardware ("Hackintosh"), are off-topic.
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How to deal with network jitter on macOS Tahoe (26.4)?
My macOS startup drive died. I reinstalled it through the Recovery Menu to macOS Sequoia (15.6). However, I started noticing internet lag, also known as jitter. I hadn't encountered this problem ...
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Why does opening a file with Preview quarantine all files of that type and reset the default app?
I have an image file. Its only xattr is com.apple.provenance.
$ sha1sum kirby.jxl
12d056f566097d4b235d8a68493bea59394d645f kirby.jxl
$ xattr kirby.jxl
com.apple.provenance
I open it. Even though I'...
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DupeGuru - How to Move Reference Files to New Folder Prior to Moving Duplicates to Trash?
I have a Mac Pro running OS 10.13.6 with four internal hard drives and a external drive dock that I've installed DupeGuru on.
I am a trying to eliminate duplicate files, mostly images, which are on ...
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What is this “iOS 18.1 Simulator Bundle” and why can't I delete it? It's not part of XCode
This thing has been bugging me for months now. It's not part of XCode, it's not in /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator. The DMG is protected by SIP, but it takes up a big chunk of my internal storage and ...
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Keychron V3 Max Won't Use Forward Backspace Shortcut
I have customized my Keychron V3 Max to have the following keybindings:
Layer 0
Layer 1
M0(1) on layer 0 is how I activate layer 1; I know it works at least some of the time because my pause key is ...
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Is it possible to download or copy the iOS SDK for Xcode 26.1 using command-line tools? If so, how?
I have Xcode 26.1.1 (installed on a Mac Mini with Sequoia 15.7.2), which was installed from the Universal .xip file available from the Apple Developer site. This file is 2.7Gb. When Xcode is run, ...
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Why doesn’t “kitty confirm_os_window_close -1” work as expected? It still prompts for confirmation when closing on macOS
My kitty terminal asks for confirmation when closing terminal windows even though I set it to:
confirm_os_window_close -1
My expectation is that there's no confirmation prompt if there are no active ...
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