I recently picked up an early 2015 macbook air 13", and installed macOS Sequoia (with OCLP) on it. I then saw that many apps & tools no longer "support" intel macbooks because of apple's bullshit planned obscolesence.

If any of you are looking into making your intel-based apple hardware useful, you should try an Ubuntu-based Linux distro (like Kubuntu). It's support is really good out of the box, with minimal tweaking required to get shit to work.

tried searching for a contact and gets me this 🤦

I'm helping a family member with their new iphone, their previous iphone was stolen and the new phone I am helping with is the one they purchased and moved their number to and obviously marked their previous phone as stolen to disable access and start using their number on the new phone.

Let me start off by saying that this family member is not tech savvy so they don't know their security questions, that is 100% on them and not apple's problem.

Here is where I believe apple has a problem, with the recovery/reset process.

They didn't know their icloud password (they have all their passwords stored in one note file on the iphone that was stolen) so step 1 was to reset the icloud account password. Thankfully they knew their gmail password which is where their icloud is tied to so that was simple, type their email, click forgot password, reset email arrives and I proceed to reset the password. Apple tells me it is successful and I THOUGHT I could simply login to icloud.com and see the notes app on there and/or login with the new password on their new iphone and wait for sync to do its thing. This is where things went bad. Several issues.

1. As soon as I tried to login to icloud.com, iforgot.apple.com, account.apple.com it accepted the password and immediately took me to the security questions that I needed to answer. They didn't know any answers (again, 100% their fault) but I couldn't get past this part.

2. Tried logging into the new phone under settings, apple account, typed in the information and it could not verify the account.

3. Tried to reset the security questions, it asked for apple ID and password, successfully authenticated and then a message appeared stating that the security questions can't be reset at this time.

4. Called support, 0 wait time, but I had to go through their crappy AI agent, I get to a human and they instruct me to attempt to reset the security questions online, I explained that I tried several times so they did a screen share with the apple device we were on and the support agent kept saying that the screen we should be getting should be a security questions reset screen but all three times we tried their method it was only showing to reset the apple account password. They wanted me to download the support app and just as I was getting ready to open the app store and download the app, they hung up on me. Thanks apple.

What a crappy experience this was and we still were not able to get into the account. They are going to go to the apple store, tomorrow, and try having one of the agents help them. One of the things that the support person told us during the call was that there is a possibility that the system is 'timing out' since we previously tried resetting and that's why this isn't working. We never did try resetting the security questions, but we did make enough attempts to have the system tell us to try again later, so it could be related to that.

I was expecting more from apple. Not knowing the security questions is on the user, 100% their fault, but I'm a bit shocked that apples account reset options suck.

Pls suggest any good type c to lightening connecter that can be bought online from amazon india.

All these years and the only way to clear cache is to hope the app has the feature built in by the developer; if not the you have to delete the app, reinstall it, replace it on your Home Screen if it’s there which is already a maddening process, and then login again.

Part of the problem is that there’s no reason Best Buy needs nearly 2gb. YouTube is taking 3gb and I have one single 30 minute video downloaded. But rather than just clicking one single button to clear this extra data, I have to delete them all every time I feel they’re getting greedy. And this whole process has to be handled individually because I can only delete the app, or delete the app but keep the cache data that I’m trying to delete in the first place (offload).

The question to Siri: “Is Top China closed?”

This is absolutely unacceptable. I'm the owner of a MacBook Air M3 256GB 16GB RAM. Recently updated from Golden Gate 27.0 where storage was okay to 27.0.1. Checked the storage out of curiosity. In what world is this normal, or acceptable? Never even activated Siri or Apple intelligence on this machine, and yet it still takes 20GB, and now System Data also takes 83GB???? What would even be the fix, DFU restoring this back to Sequoia? Losing back all my data? Not to mention Golden Gate ain't even close to the "Snow Leopard" state it was hyped up to. Crappy bugOS Tahoe was better than it, and that says a lot. What is Apple even doing anymore... I'm extremely disappointed

I mean: why does Confirm and Cancel buttons switch with screen rotated?

Edit: it’s the screenshot tool. I stitched both orientations in one picture.

Help me to figure out how much charge left on my AirPods

Today is 9/28/26.

This has probably been mentioned before, but it just keeps getting worse with every update. How can the accuracy be worse now than it was 3 1/2 years ago when I purchased my iPhone 15? The last couple of updates have resulted in random words being improperly capitalized mid sentence and a ridiculous number of unnecessary commas.

I have also noticed that my phone will occasionally not allow me to correct the voice to text mistakes. Most recently, it recorded mis-direction as mid-direction. Despite making repeated manual corrections, each time it eventually reverted back to mid-direction.

I can assure you, my southern accent has not gotten any worse since 2023.

Does anyone know of any solutions?

And the argument is always "I trust Apple more than Microsoft!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!" like in what way one of them is more trustable than the others lmao.

Cross posting here from r/righttorepair

Someone needs to file a class action lawsuit about "system data" and iOS storage. I've known multiple people in my own life who have felt the need to buy a new phone or purchase iCloud storage because iOS has taken up so much of their existing device's storage through a gigantic and undeletable cache file.

There was some sort of lawsuit about this a while back when iOS 8 took up over 3 GB of storage on 16 GB iPhones: [https://audetlaw.com/current-investigation/apple-storage-class-action/\](https://audetlaw.com/current-investigation/apple-storage-class-action/)

Back then, the amount of storage for "iOS" seemed to be consistent across different devices. Now, it seems almost totally random. My iPhone 14 Pro will cycle anywhere between using around 9 GB and 25 GB for the "iOS" storage category.

"System Data" is even worse. On a PC, Android or Mac, you can clear cache files that aren't being used. On iOS, the operating system not only hogs more storage under "System Data" than any other operating system I've ever used, but it absolutely refuses to let you clear out the cache or figure out what applications are using the cache. My 14 Pro uses anywhere from 20 GB to 80 GB for "System Data." Across the internet I've seen people with literal hundreds of GBs of "System Data." That's completely insane -- I can't even imagine how 64 GB or 128 GB phones are handling this.

All in all, this means that on my 256 GB phone, iOS sometimes claims nearly 100 GB of storage for undeletable cache files and operating system files, with zero ability to clear these files or see where they're coming from. That is completely unreasonable. Meanwhile, Apple is happy to peddle additional iCloud storage or sell you on a storage upgrade at the point of sale as if your purchasing ability -- not their poorly optimized software -- is the problem.

This is an ongoing issue that seems deliberate. I am certain that the phone does not need to be holding on to this much cache under "system data," and it makes no sense that between identical phone models and iOS versions, the "iOS" category takes up different amounts of storage. There's clearly a profit incentive here. Consumers are pressured into purchasing cloud storage or buying a new phone when their perfectly functional device seemingly runs out of storage.

At the end of the day, willful or not, this is anti-consumer behavior. We are being taken advantage of in the name of increasing sales for cloud storage and new phones. This is a documented issue that has existed for years, and Apple has done nothing to address it. Apple has acted against consumers before, with [slowdowns over battery capacity](https://www.npr.org/2020/11/18/936268845/apple-agrees-to-pay-113-million-to-settle-batterygate-case-over-iphone-slowdowns). They won't change their behavior until public pressure or legal action takes place.

All these years in development and Apple still hasn’t figured out a decent suggestions algorithm.

Take the TV app - i search a song, say keyword “moon”— it plays that song, then “Autoplay” thinks the next best appropriate song to play is all other songs that came up in the searchlist.

Like yeah - “you know what, today I wanna listen to all songs ever with the word Moon in the title” ?!??

The apple magic mouse absolutely SUCKS. I just got the logitech g305 and i will never touch the magic mouse again.

Firstly the ergonomics on the magic mouse is trash i literally cannot hold it and move it around normally, the magic mouse cant left click and right click at the same time, you sometimes accidentally scroll the magic mouse thanks to its touch screen, and you dont get a scroll wheel button. I hear people say the gestures on the magic mouse are nice which I guess are okay because i never really used them. But still the magic mouse sucks and apple probably knows it.

Yeah sure the magic mouse "looks" good but no one really cares about that. So why did apple choose to make this utter garbage? Im sure their top tier engineers and designers know what they're doing.

Other reasons: reduced battery life, no configurable touch controls, no native EQ, volume & balance adjustment resets every time connection drops, ×2 or ×3 price vs equivalent 3rd party models with all these features (when used with Mac without iPhone)

It would be nice if things with Apple worked again. I have constant issues with my homepods and their connection to appleTV (among a thousand other things)

Sometimes there is no way to get the homepods to reconnect to the AppleTV besides resetting everything (maybe 2 or 3 times a week I have to turn the appletv off and unplug the homepods so they will re-pair and reconnect). The home app had me create a stereo pair to “resolve the issue” #1 I dont want them stereo - Im deaf on the right side #2 It did not resolve the issue and now i can only control the volume of a single pod by getting up and tapping it.

Sometimes the video will be playing but no sound comes from the homepods NOR the television, though everything is properly networked together.

In todays example, the homepods are on and working but their status is shown as “paused”. Sometimes they will be on and working but “controls are unavailable” - and yes even when im on the same wifi - and everything is within 10 ft of everything else.

Look, we can all be guided to a “work around” or supposed “solution” but ive never had to be so consistently engaged with my devices just to have an anticipated or expected experience.

Unexpected behaviors have become normal and I
don’t want to be gaslit in to thinking thats normal. Im looking at YOU MST3k! 🤣

I’ve now used Apple’s Express Replacement service twice under AppleCare+, roughly two years apart, for two different Apple devices with genuine hardware faults. Despite the time between the claims and the fact they involved different devices, I ran into exactly the same issues both times.

The first problem is that Apple told me my address wasn’t eligible or “serviceable” for Express Replacement. The strange part is that I’ve ordered products directly from Apple to the exact same address many times without any issues. This happened at both my old house and my current house, so it wasn’t specific to one address.
What’s even stranger is that both times, after I asked for a manager callback, the Express Replacement was suddenly approved and arranged without any further issues. That makes me wonder whether the initial refusal is intended to reduce the number of people using the service, even though it’s included with AppleCare+.

The second issue is the temporary authorization hold on the credit card. I understand why Apple places the hold until the faulty device is returned, but on both occasions the hold wasn’t released after they had received the faulty device. I had to chase Apple to get it removed, which meant paying my credit card bill while that amount was still tied up before eventually getting the money back.
The fact that these were two genuine warranty claims, on two different devices, around two years apart, yet the exact same issues occurred both times, makes it difficult to see this as a one-off mistake.
Has anyone else had similar experiences with Express Replacement—particularly being told their address wasn’t serviceable until the case was escalated, or having to chase Apple to release the authorization hold?

A rant in 3 pictures

I’ve commented about Apple and their horrible settings, this one’s even funnier. Recently the lock button has stopped working on my device and I’ve turned on assistive touch so I can still lock my phone. But I recently had to use Apple Pay and realized that I couldn’t use the double click feature so I looked into the settings and sure enough, you can turn on paying with your wallet using a Face ID or ur pin, so obviously I tried to turn that on. Turns out that in order for you to do that you have to double click your lock button to confirm kek

If you have an HDMI or DisplayPort monitor with speakers, good luck with controlling volume from within MacOS. Best you can do is maybe adjust the volume slider of whatever program is playing sound, but a master volume control? fuhgeddaboutit. Same with an external soundcard/recording interface. This is just stupid. Even Linux has a master volume control. Apple likes to claim that this is a feature: that its for pro audio routing and whatnot, but come on - 99.9% of the time you just want to turn the volume down when answering a call or when talking to someone in the room. There are various hacks, like SoundBridge, where people have written virtual audio devices with master volume controls that you can attach to sound sources, but this is such a basic function that even Windows and Linux can do it?!?

I'm not going to go deep into this, but as everyone knows managing windows on macos is pain in the ass compared to other operating systems.

I especially hate the fullscreen behavior which drags window to its separate space and by itself behaves on completely different logic than on other operating systems, even efforts to make it different fail due to how sandboxed whole operating system is.

Asking for help on multiple mac forums just leaves you with get used to it and every other option or willingness to discuss this topic is bad which says a lot about the whole apple mac community and I guess even apple's approach to this.

Really wanted to give mac a os go specifically by using their laptops with all the latest hardware advancements that are often supreme to windows/linux laptops, but if the os itself doesn't serve the customer all this other stuff become pretty much useless.