Every time I connect a Bluetooth device, headphones or speakers, the output switches to the new device. This is fine, however, the input also switches. I would prefer for the microphone input to never switch. How can I permanently set a 2013 MacBook Pro Microphone to onboard hardware mic? Also, if there is a way to switch inputs via AppleScript or Alfred workflow, I would love to try them out.

I read on my iPhone 12 mini after switching the SIM card: > Carrier Settings Update
>New settings are available. Would you like to update them now? How can I find out which new carrier settings are available? [](https://i.sstatic.net/8MqcoENT.png) ([entire screenshot](https://i.sstatic.net/jtSzY6jF.png))

I'm receiving errors while installing pyencfsgui When I run brew install encfs or brew install encfs I get the message Error: encfs / gocryptfs has been disabled because it requires FUSE! I've installed the osxfuse brew package and rebooted my mac. After receiving the error message above, I installed the macfuse desktop package and rebooted my mac again. output of brew config HOMEBREW_VERSION: 3.1.2-11-gf904d63 ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew HEAD: f904d63e04b771d9ea2f42dd0523f9bb3f5bb814 Last commit: 2 hours ago Core tap ORIGIN: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core Core tap HEAD: 4815f82c119f8f46847f8ddbc6264e02e1a67925 Core tap last commit: 40 minutes ago Core tap branch: master HOMEBREW_PREFIX: /usr/local HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS: [] HOMEBREW_DISPLAY: /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.DEMpKIGHTF/org.macosforge.xquartz:0 HOMEBREW_MAKE_JOBS: 8 Homebrew Ruby: 2.6.3 => /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/vendor/portable-ruby/2.6.3_2/bin/ruby CPU: octa-core 64-bit haswell Clang: 10.0 build 1000 Git: 2.31.1 => /usr/local/bin/git Curl: 7.54.0 => /usr/bin/curl macOS: 10.13.6-x86_64 CLT: 10.1.0.0.1.1539992718 Xcode: 10.1 XQuartz: 2.7.11 => /opt/X11 output of brew list ==> Formulae adwaita-icon-theme libatomic_ops ocaml ant libbluray openblas aom libcroco opencore-amr aria2 libepoxy openjdk atk libev openjpeg autoconf libevent openssl@1.1 autoconf-archive libffi opus automake libgphoto2 p11-kit bchunk libicns p7zip bdw-gc libiconv pango bison libid3tag pcre boost libidn2 pcre2 c-ares libimobiledevice pidof cairo libmikmod pixman cmake libmp3splt pkg-config coreutils libmpc portmidi cpulimit libogg python cython libpcap python3 docbook libplist python@3.8 docbook-xsl libpng python@3.9 doxygen libpsl readline encfs libpthread-stubs rtmpdump ffmpeg librsvg rubberband findutils libsamplerate ruby flac libsndfile rust fontconfig libsoup sane-backends freetype libsoxr scrcpy frei0r libssh2 sdl fribidi libtasn1 sdl2 gcc libtiff sdl_image gd libtool sdl_mixer gdbm libunistring sdl_net gdk-pixbuf libusb sdl_ttf gettext libusb-compat shared-mime-info giflib libusbmuxd smpeg git libuv snappy glib libvorbis speex glib-networking libvpx sphinx-doc gmp libx11 sqlite gnome-icon-theme libxau ssh-copy-id gnu-getopt libxcb tcl-tk gnu-sed libxdmcp tesseract gnutls libxext texi2html gobject-introspection libxml2 theora graphite2 libxrender unbound grsync libyaml unison gsettings-desktop-schemas little-cms2 usbmuxd gtk+ lzo util-macros gtk+3 m4 vala guile mad webp hardlink-osx makedepend wget harfbuzz mercurial wine hicolor-icon-theme meson x264 icu4c mp3splt x265 intltool mpdecimal xcb-proto isl mpfr xmlto itstool mtr xorgproto jasper nasm xtrans jemalloc net-snmp xvid jpeg nettle xz lame nghttp2 yasm leptonica ninja libass numpy ==> Casks android-platform-tools macfuse retroshare eloston-chromium osxfuse spyder

I have over 600 of voice memos on iPhone 2020 SE (actually recorded on Apple Watch) ranging from a few seconds to a couple of minutes. How do I batch move them to a Linux PC, having the date of recording info without the woes of manually ticking 600 files? I've tried just selecting them and sending to Dropbox, but that is painfully unreliable: * Dropbox does not synchronize more than 10 files at once, * few out of those 10 are just left behind and unsynchronized by Dropbox, * the date of recording is lost when copying files this way. **UPD** Using answers from How can I transfer large files from Linux to iPad over a cable or wifi? didn't help: * ideviceinfo keeps saying "ERROR: No device found!" * Using third-party file managers is futile since they can't "see" the recording files, those are considered some other kind of files by iOS for some reason. * FileMaster app actually can share the files "sent" to it, but then again, I'd have to tick 600 hundred files to send the files into FileMaster and then click 600 hundred times in its web UI to download the files. My question is focused on **batch** aspect of transferring.

My iPhone has been paired with my earbuds and my car. In the list of devices, my earbuds are above my car. Whenever I turn on my car, however, the audio goes from my earbuds to the car. In order to avoid this, I don't want to disable BT on my car because when I *do* want the iPhone's audio to go to the car, it's inconvenient to re-enable it and wait for the connection. How does the iPhone decide which BT device to connect to? I would have thought that the list would serve as a ranking, with the top device being most preferred (if it is present). Though the problem with that hypothesis, however, is that there doesn't seem to be a way for the user to choose where a device sits in the list. So it could very well be wrong, in which case I can see no obvious scheme for deciding which device gets connected to. I can manually disconnect the car, but when I'm running around doing errands, I have to do this every time I jump in the car.

I'm getting this error when trying to run git fetch on my MacBook:

git fetch
/Users/emoji/.ssh/config line 4: Bad key types '+ssh-rsa,ssh-dss'.
/Users/emoji/.ssh/config: terminating, 1 bad configuration options
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists.

There are hosts in my SSH config ~/.ssh/config that use those algorithms to connect to older machines. For example here is my ~/.ssh/config:

Host emojilocal
Hostname 10.1.10.22
User root
    HostKeyAlgorithms +ssh-rsa,ssh-dss
    PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes ssh-rsa

There are no errors in my SSH config so I'm at a loss why I'm getting this error. It seems like git is reading my config for other machines and complaining about it. Any ideas?

I want to create reminders in the Reminders app and have them create pop-ups on my main screen, not in the notification center because if they are time-sensitive I might not see them right away. Is there a way to harness reminder notifications to display prominently on the Mac display and not just Notification Center?

I have a non-Apple trackpad, which worked fine in previous versions of macOS. But after the latest update to macOS 26 its drag/select functionality broke. It looks like it resets the drag action many times every second. Drag style is set to "With Drag Lock" and is enabled. Note that I have noticed that if I use the trackpad via Bluetooth instead of wired cable it works properly and is detected as mouse. But when used via wired cable it is detected as trackpad and has the problems. ![Animated image of the drag/select functionality not working properly after an update to macOS 26 ][1]

I have a user, upon logging in (no apps running except Terminal.app so I can probe), the Dock prevents my display from sleeping:

% pmset -g
.
.
 displaysleep         20 (display sleep prevented by Dock)
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ChatGPT helped me isolate that the Dock believes the Expose hot corner is active:

% pmset -g assertions | grep Dock
   pid 1160(Dock): [0x0002b60c00059546] 00:28:21 NoDisplaySleepAssertion named: "Turn off display sleep due to Expose hot corner"

So I zeroed out all my hot corner shortcuts: but that doesn't work. I've also tried to - killall Dock - pkill -9 Dock (as an admin user) - delete my Dock preferences (defaults delete com.apple.dock) - reset my Spaces preferences (rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spaces.plist) but they all don't help. what else can I try? My last resort would be to create a new user (as my primary user doesn't have this issue) but there is a significant amount of customization on this profile that it would be painful to rebuild. I'm on macOS Sequoia 15.6.1 (2020 MacBookPro M1)

I used to backup my iPhone to an external drive using the instructions here but now that I am backing up to my internal hard drive (the default location) I would like to delete the old backup. I was somehow successful at deleting the data within the directories, so it no longer takes up any space, but I can't seem to delete the directory itself even after a restart of the OS. Disk Utility repair shows no problems. If the directory is in the Trash and I go to empty it, it tells me the sub-directories are in use: If the path is stored in $directory, whether I use rm -rf $directory or sudo rm -rf $directory, I get a Permission denied error for each sub-directory: rm: /Volumes/VOLUME/iPhoneBackup/Backup/00008110-000G309221F0401E/61: Permission denied As far as permissions go, I am the owner of the top level directory and each sub-directory... I should also note that I looked for uchg (immutable) flags, and although there were none I used sudo chflags -R nouchg $directory which had no effect. I also used sudo chmod -RN $directory to remove ACLs in case there were any, also with no effect. If I use

-@AOelR $directory

to get file flags, ACLs, and extended attributes I get this:

0
drwxr-xr-x  3 username  staff  - 96 Apr 22 13:41 Backup

iPhoneBackup/Backup:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  258 username  staff  - 8256 Apr 22 13:18 00008110-000G309221F0401E

iPhoneBackup/Backup/00008110-000G309221F0401E:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  26 username  staff  -  832 Jan 13  2024 00
drwxr-xr-x  28 username  staff  -  896 Jan 13  2024 01
...[same results for each directory]

iPhoneBackup/Backup/00008110-000G309221F0401E/00:
total 0
...[same results for each directory]

How do I get rid of this directory?

This _should_ be a duplicate of https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/183306/2326 , but the answers there do not apply. Under Sequoia, with Preview v11.0, I am filling out a PDF. I have added a text box. I cannot find any way to change the font used in that text box. The screenshot below includes the Tips app showing where there SHOULD be controls for adjusting the font, abut as shown at the top no controls are visible. How can I adjust the font for text I'm adding as an annotation?

Is there a way to search one’s browsing history in Firefox on iOS? I can scroll the history, but I don’t see a search feature. Ultimately, I’d like to search for content and selectively delete it. Relevant: https://ilias.ca/blog/2018/10/how-to-edit-firefox-for-ios-bookmarks/

I have a MacBook Pro M3 that at home is connected to a Studio Display. There is also a USB hub connected to the Studio Display for it's USB-A ports that I connect my mouse and keyboard to. Often — but not always — when the Mac goes to sleep, I can't wake it up with the mouse or keyboard. Since there are no buttons on the display and the MacBook Pro is closed, there is also no other way to wake it up. I have experimented with connecting a gamepad via USB-C to the Studio Display and that works to wake up the MacBook Pro, but then the mouse and keyboard are not responsive. Unplugging and re-plugging the USB hub works 95% of the time, sometimes I have to do it twice. The USB hub is not exactly the cheapest China crap and aside from this issue works perfectly. Obviously, plugging it in and out several times a day, every day, can't be too good for the connector in the long run. *** **Update**: I have also managed to wake up the MacBook Pro by opening the lid while connected to the Studio Display and sleeping - and the USB keyboard/mouse were unresponsive. Any guesses what the problem is and how I can fix it?

recently I saw a youtube video where somebody used the terminal and when he used ls or cd, this popup came up: Does anybody know how to get this? I want to use it also.

I want to show open tabs on other devices that share the same Apple and iCloud account, but for some reasons there is no open tab on Mac Safari when I click the top-right icon (the icon of two tabs overriding). On my iPhone and iPad I can access the tabs opened on my Mac, but the other direction is not true. How can I open the tabs opened on iOS devices on Mac or maybe is it just a bug? --- ### UPDATE I found out that sometimes the tabs appear properly whereas other times they don't. ### UPDATE 2 This might be a bug, but I think 60~80% of the time the tabs don't appear. I upgraded to macOS 11.1 but the problem still persists. Any workaround would be appreciated.

I often get the "Allow * to find devices on local networks" prompt. I always answer "Don't Allow" and everything works just fine. MacOS 15.3.1 Chrome 134.0.6998.89 The annoyance: Privacy & Security mess: I'm wondering if each time a new profile or an incognito window is established chrome adds a new entry on the S&P screen and then asks for permission to look for devices on the network. However, I'm not so sure of this since while researching this more, I just got prompted again and checked the number of Chrome entries in system settings: there are now 11 entries for chrome. I am using an existing profile. How can I configure Chrome to not ask for this permission? How can I configure the Mac to turn off this prompt for all applications? [EDIT 2025-09-19] I have not proven it yet, but I starting observing this behavior again and I happen to be using chrome in a Parallels VM on the same computer. I will be paying more attention to get a strong correlation.

How can I have Numbers autofill interpolated values in a range of selected cells (from the value of the first cell to the value of the last cell)? I know how to do this with a formula but it's too awkward as I do this quite frequently. Therefore, I would like to use the Autofill function, or similar. But it doesn't seem to be intelligent enough to interpolate. Ex: […] […] […] ➾ [7.75] [8.5] [9.25]

My wife owns a MacBook and for some reason decided to lock her Apple ID. She called them already many times but they refuse to unlock it for 'security reasons', not telling her the exact cause. She now wants to reset the device to the factory defaults (wipe her personal data) and sell it. Is there a way to do that with the locked Apple ID? It's a Mac Book Pro 2017. If not, I guess she has to sue Apple to give her laptop free?

I don’t see a setting in messages to disable this. When I get a text message, I prefer to not see suggestions pop up. How do I turn these off?

I have an external volume (an SSD by Sandisk connected via a usb-c cable) rated at 1TB. Finder (macOS 14.5) says the disk is full (when I try to add a file it errors with: **No space left on device (28)** however when I look at the sizes of the directories on the external volume, of which there are two, one is called Movies and the other TV, the sizes do not add up at ALL: adding these two folder sizes adds up to a little over 700GB and nowhere near the 1000GB used as claimed by "Get Info" in Finder on the volume. Now I realize there could be hidden directories that are trouble so I looked at those using Cmd+Shift+. as you can see in the following screenshot: The only directory (of those hidden) that has more than 10MB is .Spotlight-V100 as can be seen here: Maybe the size on disk here is actually much larger than reported? To get to the bottom of things I also approached it from a different angle and ran the du and ncdu utilities in the terminal, the output of which is again attached here: These outputs lead me to believe the sizes of Movies and TV can be more or less trusted, however for .Spotlight-V100 and .Trashes unfortunately there seems to be no or wrong info for a permission issue. I am out of my knowledge here - maybe this is an exFAT specific problem? Should I try delete the Spotlight directory as a first step? Any help much appreciated! :) Also if anybody needs any more data, just comment. One last image of the info output from disk utility: