Can I save data storage space on my iPhone by moving Notes folders from On My iPhone to iCloud, if possible, how?

My iPhone SE 1st generation started to not hold charge about 1-1.5 years ago. I replaced it but still used it at home for streaming podcasts over its audio jack to my ghetto blaster. Over that time, the glass front plate started to get pushed away from the body, but it worked so long as I kept it plugged in. Today, the battery was so dead that it wouldn't come on. Even plugged in, the charge stayed near zero for hours. I want to recycle it, but found that it needs to come on before I can reset it to factory settings. Since I cannot, the nonvolatile memory hadn't been cleared. Is it still safe to recycle, or should I take a hammer to it (and hurt the environment, and possibly myself)?

I recently updated my 2017 MBP to Ventura. Ever since, my system has been running very poorly I've noted that 90% of the time, when it is acting up, there is an XProtectRemediatorSnowBeagle process taking up 2.01 GB of RAM – consistently. It does not go away, and force-quitting only works maybe half the time. Trying to kill it from terminal often fails as well, with some variant of "Operation Not Permitted" It's usually a root-owned process. At least once, there's been a second copy of it, taking up another 2.01 GB of RAM, owned by the active user account Other remediators, like XProtectRemediatorAdload, seem to run normally – they get up to something like 1.5 GB of RAM, and then finish what they're doing and quit. This one doesn't. It just sticks around in RAM Sampling it in Activity Monitor shows a call graph hung on a _dispatch_group_wait_slow -> _dlock_wait -> __ulock_wait. I can't find any suspicious files open with lsof I haven't tried a fresh install yet. I'm hoping to avoid it, as it's always a nightmare to get everything configured how I want it again. I'd really prefer to diagnose what's causing it to hang, and get rid of that... or reinstall XProtect, if that's a thing... or just disable it altogether, tbh, as I'm pretty confident in my ability to avoid malware on my own – but I can't figure out how to do any of that Any ideas? I've tried an SMC reset, NVRAM / PRAM reset, disabling csrutil... no dice. Raw logs below dtruss:

SYSCALL(args) 		 = return
bsdthread_ctl(0x100, 0x800004FF, 0xFFFFFFFF)		 = 0 0
bsdthread_ctl(0x100, 0x0, 0x310B)		 = 0 0
kevent_id(0x7FCF9BF68EF0, 0x700000F3F338, 0x1)		 = 0 0
kevent_qos(0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, 0x700000F3F5B0, 0x1)		 = 0 0
thread_selfid(0x0, 0x0, 0x0)		 = 233467 0
bsdthread_ctl(0x100, 0x0, 0x310B)		 = 0 0
workq_kernreturn(0x100, 0x700000DB6B80, 0x1)		 = 0 Err#-2
bsdthread_ctl(0x100, 0x800004FF, 0xFFFFFFFF)		 = 0 0
bsdthread_ctl(0x100, 0x0, 0x310F)		 = 0 0
workq_kernreturn(0x20, 0x0, 0x1)		 = 0 0
workq_kernreturn(0x40, 0x700000F3FB80, 0x0)		 = 0 Err#-2
kevent_qos(0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, 0x700000DB66A0, 0x1)		 = 0 0
bsdthread_ctl(0x100, 0x0, 0x310F)		 = 0 0
kevent_id(0x7FCF9BF66FC0, 0x700000F3F918, 0x1)		 = 0 0
workq_kernreturn(0x40, 0x700000DB6B80, 0x0)		 = 0 Err#-2
bsdthread_ctl(0x100, 0x0, 0x310F)		 = 0 0
madvise(0x7FD056009000, 0x1000, 0x7)		 = 0 0
psynch_cvbroad(0x7FD055008F68, 0xC0000000D00, 0xC0000000100)		 = 257 0
psynch_cvwait(0x7FD055008F68, 0xC0100000D00, 0xC00)		 = 0 0
ulock_wake(0x1000002, 0x102867E00, 0x0)		 = 0 0
ulock_wait(0x1050002, 0x102867E00, 0x3312)		 = 0 0
workq_kernreturn(0x100, 0x700000DB6B80, 0x1)		 = 0 Err#-2
__disable_threadsignal(0x1, 0x0, 0x0)		 = 0 0
madvise(0x7FD05600B000, 0x1000, 0x7)		 = 0 0
workq_kernreturn(0x4, 0x0, 0x0)		 = 0 Err#-2

Activity Monitor Sample:

Analysis of sampling XProtectRemediatorSnowBeagle (pid 4878) every 1 millisecond
Process:         XProtectRemediatorSnowBeagle 
Path:            /Library/Apple/*/XProtect.app/Contents/MacOS/XProtectRemediatorSnowBeagle
Load Address:    0x10271a000
Identifier:      XProtectRemediatorSnowBeagle
Version:         126
Code Type:       X86-64
Platform:        macOS
Parent Process:  XProtectPluginService 

Date/Time:       2024-02-21 18:35:09.954 -0500
Launch Time:     2024-02-21 18:11:30.241 -0500
OS Version:      macOS 13.6.4 (22G513)
Report Version:  7
Analysis Tool:   /usr/bin/sample

Physical footprint:         2.0G
Physical footprint (peak):  2.4G
Idle exit:                  untracked
----

Call graph:
    2519 Thread_204892   DispatchQueue_1: com.apple.main-thread  (serial)
    + 2519 start  (in dyld) + 1903  [0x7ff8186fd41f]
    +   2519 ???  (in XProtectRemediatorSnowBeagle)  load address 0x10271a000 + 0x2fda  [0x10271cfda]
    +     2519 ???  (in XProtectRemediatorSnowBeagle)  load address 0x10271a000 + 0x68fdc  [0x102782fdc]
    +       2519 ???  (in XProtectRemediatorSnowBeagle)  load address 0x10271a000 + 0x68c00  [0x102782c00]
    +         2519 ???  (in XProtectRemediatorSnowBeagle)  load address 0x10271a000 + 0x7d531  [0x102797531]
    +           2519 ???  (in XProtectRemediatorSnowBeagle)  load address 0x10271a000 + 0x53783  [0x10276d783]
    +             2519 _dispatch_group_wait_slow  (in libdispatch.dylib) + 43  [0x7ff8188b6aef]
    +               2519 _dlock_wait  (in libdispatch.dylib) + 45  [0x7ff8188b6849]
    +                 2519 __ulock_wait  (in libsystem_kernel.dylib) + 10  [0x7ff818a19cce]
    2519 Thread_205926
      2519 start_wqthread  (in libsystem_pthread.dylib) + 15  [0x7ff818a52bbf]
        2519 _pthread_wqthread  (in libsystem_pthread.dylib) + 427  [0x7ff818a53cb9]
          2519 __workq_kernreturn  (in libsystem_kernel.dylib) + 10  [0x7ff818a19c3e]

Total number in stack (recursive counted multiple, when >=5):

Sort by top of stack, same collapsed (when >= 5):
        __ulock_wait  (in libsystem_kernel.dylib)        2519
        __workq_kernreturn  (in libsystem_kernel.dylib)        2519

More of the sample [here](https://pastebin.com/iNTFjZQZ)

I'm trying to figure out what is using all of the memory in my Macbook Pro running OS X Lion. I have 8 GB of memory total. When I quit all active programs except Finder and Activity Monitor, then run a memory cleanup (FreeMemory) it shows about 5 GB of Free Memory, 1 GB of Active Memory, and 1.5 of Wired memory. Support docs say Wired Memory is full of stuff that "can't be moved to disk". What is taking up all of that memory? Is it the menubar processes? I have mozy, last.fm, dropbox, and growl running in the menubar but they all appear in Activity Manager and don't appear to be using a significant amount of memory. I also run Parallels but it is shut down completely so I thought all of it's stuff should be written to disk. Is it just Mac OS X using a reserved chunk of memory and labeling it "Wired"?

Is there a way to see memory usage per app in macOS? That is, I want to see the **total** memory consumed by each app, including its child processes. The Activity Monitor shows memory usage by process which makes it hard to determine, for example, how much memory the Chrome app is using, since it spawns multiple processes.

I've had a number of "your system has run out of application memory" crashes recently. I now keep the Activity Monitor running and swap is permanently pegged at 0. I've checked vm.compressor_mode: sysctl -a vm.compressor_mode vm.compressor_mode: 4 Checking vm.swapusage: sysctl vm.swapusage vm.swapusage: total = 0.00M used = 0.00M free = 0.00M (encrypted) What else can I try? Currently running Sonoma 14.0 but happened on the previous version as well. This is fairly new (a couple months) as I don't remember it happening over the past year that I've had this machine.

I have an Macbook Air M2, 2022. Although I would expect, that my M2 chip has a L3 cache of 8MB, I can not find it with sysctl. sysctl hw.l3cachesize returns empty sysctl -a | grep -i cache does show L1 and L2, but no L3. Also no Unified or Last cache with 8MB. Did I miss something? --- Spec's Reference: - [Notebook Check](https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M2-Processor-Benchmarks-and-Specs.632312.0.html) - [Wiki](https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M2-Processor-Benchmarks-and-Specs.632312.0.html)

I notice that mds is almost always on top for use of Real Memory. I wouldn't mind if this wouldn't be also the case when Free Memory runs out. Usually mds uses over 600MB on a system with 4GB (I know I need a new Mac) and no Free Memory. I notice that it might be somehow connected to Time Machine running (mds memory goes up when/after a Time Machine backup is done). I kill mds from time to time but pretty soon it is again using over 600MB. Googling this brings some workaround tips but nothing which is really on any foundation or analysis. I'm having this problem on Leopard (still stuck on a Q G5) but have seen reports on the net that the same problem also exists on Snow Leopard. Don't know about Lion though. **Update:** After the question in the comments if my Time-Machine is also indexed by Spotlight, I did some more research and found Setting Spotlight preferences in Apples MAC OSX 10.6 Help: > Note:If you add a Time Machine backup disk to the list, you will > continue to see messages that Spotlight is indexing your backup disk. > This indexing is necessary for Time Machine to function properly and > can’t be disabled. Spotlight will exclude from searches any items you > store on your backup disk that are not part of a Time Machine backup. So the Time-Machine partition is always indexed no matter what you set.

My iPAD Air (2021) started to behave as if it has low RAM, all apps are reloading after just couple of seconds. If I switch from Youtube app to Safari after some seconds Youtube app will reload completely. This happens with all the apps. It has around 9 gigs of free space. IOS 15.4.1 I wonder before erasing it if somebody has any info how this should be fixed (tried to exit all apps and restarted couple if times.)

When swiping to change spaces (after a few minutes of idle), there is 1-2 second of delay before the animation starts to play (and plays with a lot of stutter). It seems like this is related to swap or compressed memory because when I see lot of swap and compressed this issue becomes more rampant. My theory is that WindowServer has memory that is compressed/swapped which blocks the animation before it can be decompressed. After the memory becomes active the animation becomes smooth again, but after a few minutes of idle it is compressed/swapped again. An alternate explanation is that Chrome is a resource hog and it's the root of every problem. Is it possible to disable memory compression or swapping on a per-process basis to diagnose this issue? System info: macOS 12, m1 max with 64gb of ram. | Process Name | Memory | Threads | Ports | PID | User | Kind | Real Mem | Private Mem | VM Compressed | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | WindowServer | 6.71 GB | 35 | 181 | 17614 | _windowserver | Apple | 425.6 MB | 1.40 GB | 314.3 MB | Update 2/12: I had watched closely since I rebooted and recently this issue started again. However I can confirm no swap has been used. Is it any possibility that this issue is unrelated to swap but just compressed memory? But compressed memory is supposed to be really fast to uncompress?

Looking at a new upgrade with the Mac Studio and the M1 Max Chip running 32gb of RAM. It indicates that the RAM can be configureable to 64gb. Can I purchase the 32gb option and later on upgrade to 64gb or is the RAM soldered to the logic board? Not finding any solid answers on the question.

Recently, whenever I attempt to compose a message in Apple Mail, my entire system slows to a screeching halt and I have to shut mail down before I can have access to any other application. What's strange is that opening messages in my inbox and reading them has no effect on my computer's performance. I managed to boot up Activity Monitor during the most recent episode and it told me that Mail was using over 40 GB of memory. I'm no computer expert, but I'm fairly certain this is not supposed to happen. I've attached a screenshot for reference. Has anyone encountered a similar problem and been able to find a solution? Or does anyone have an idea what might be going on and have a recommendation on how to remedy the situation? If not, no worries, I can take my machine to the Apple Store, but hoping to avoid that journey if at all possible. Thanks in advance for your time and assistance!

My MacBook Pro has 128Gb of RAM. While running just a few programs memory use seen using top -o rsize shows as much as 126Gb used and even shows some swapping has occurred. Using Activity Monitor it reports "App Memory: 20.66GB", "Memory Used: 28.79Gb", "Cached Files: 102.78GB". If I run a program which uses lots of memory (e.g. an FFT on 2^30 points) the cached files decrease but then increase again when the large program terminates. Clearly there is some overhead with Sequoia caching so many files. Is there any way to limit the memory used for cached files?

I'm pretty familiar with the RES and VIRT fields in top on a typical Linux machine. I am currently running a Python process that I would expect to use 100+GB of resident RAM. My Macbook Pro has the M4 processor, 24GB RAM and is on MacOS 15.2. It is also now running this process. top shows MEM=58G+, PURG=0B, CMPRS=57G+ for said process. My machine is not experiencing any noticeable slow down, like what would happen if the kernel was furiously swapping memory pages to disk. Question : 1. How is MacOS managing this excessive memory utilization and what exactly do those MEM, PURG and CMPRS fields mean in MacOS's top? NOTE : 1. This question was flagged as a 'duplicate', but it is not. Most of the proposed 'duplicate' questions reference the "Activity Monitor" application, not top. 2. To boot, most to the questions and answers are over a decade old. MacOS has changed the way that it uses memory since then (e.g. using compressed memory). Operating Systems change over time, having questions relevant to different generations of software / hardware is important.

Since the last major upgrade to macOS Mojave, I have the **Wi-Fi** process taking up a lot of memory and in an exponentially way. Time to time I need to force quit it in Activity Monitor because it takes too much memory (around 5 GB). Did anyone else faced the same issue and was able to resolve? I am using a MacBook Pro 15-inch 2017 with macOS Mojave 10.14. Edit: I've recently noticed that the Wi-Fi process uses a lot of memory when connecting to the internet through personal hotspot on iPhone.

MacOS: Sonoma 14.6.1 I have a C++ program I have developed on my Mac and that I typically run from the command line. Depending on certain runtime parameters that I set, the program can run from ~10 minutes to ~24 hours (or more, I suppose, though I've never tried). I have been having a recent issue where the process running the algorithm for a medium-sized job mysteriously gets killed ("Killed: 9 \") after about 3 hours. I suspect that there is a memory leak and that some component of the OS is killing memory-hog processes like this one. To test this, what I would like to do is execute the program and launch a device to record the memory use of the relevant process. I do not want to manually monitor the memory usage through a device like Activity Monitor, top, htop, ctop, etc., until the process dies. I want to launch everything, forget about it, and then check the results in some log after, say, 6 hours when the process will have certainly been terminated. Is it possible to do this logging? __________________________ EDIT (2024.10.28): To be clearer, I would like to record the time series of the memory usage at fixed intervals over the life of the job. It is this entire time series, and not just a summary, that I would like to view once the process has finished.

I'm attempting to install Mac OS X El Capitan onto a blank SSD in my 2009 Macbook Pro but it's fighting me every step of the way. I've created a bootable USB via my Windows machine following the steps in this Youtube video by downloading an El Capitan ISO from archive.org , changing the extension from ISO to DMG and then creating a bootable DMG via TransMac . I plugged the USB into my Macbook, booted it up with the option key held down, found the drive and started the process by selecting the internal SSD. After going through the motions however, I'm faced with a dialogue box stating > This copy of the Install OS X El Capitan application can't be verified. It may have been corrupted or tampered with during downloading. I know that this is a familiar sight for some from my Googling and have see many fix their issues by changing the internal date via the Terminal, and I too have attempted to change the date to that which was reported to have worked such as 1st October 2015 vai date 1001012015; however, this still doesn't change the outcome of my attempt to install the OS. I'm honestly losing the will to live at this point as I've been on with this for the past couple of days! Any advice would be greatly appreciated. For a bit of context around the machine in general Mid-2009 Macbook Pro (with DVD drive) Has had HDD -> SSD conversion some years in the past - Now has Crucial MX300 525GB SSD Has had a second stick of ram installed some years ago - Is now 4GB (2 x 2GB) --- Update: Going off of @David_Anderson's recommendations to follow these instructions , I downloaded the official dmg from Apple and opened it up with 7zip , however, this is where more issues occur... Opening up the InstallMacOSX with 7zip shows the following: Whereas the instructions expect me to find InstallMacOSX.pkg...

I have an old MacBook Pro that I found laying about my house and it is specifically a MacBookPro9,2. I am aware that I can upgrade the RAM to 16GB DDR3 and that I can convert the hard drive to SSD; but I am wondering if there are other parts of the laptop that I can upgrade like the CPU, fan, or something of that nature if at all possible. If someone could shed some light on this, I would be grateful.

Newbie to macOS and was running into some memory issues. I've tried restarting my mac, which reset memory back to normal levels, but within 2-3 days swap and compressed memory fill up very quickly and I am forced to close applications or my macbook will crash. I haven't been running anything too memory intensive, probably just around 30-40 tabs on Firefox and a couple projects in Intellij. Any tips of how to troubleshoot and get to the culprit?

I've been using Macs for 15 years, starting from a 2009 MacBook Pro with 4 GB of RAM, then upgrading to a 2016 MBP with 16 GB of RAM, and now, since last December (2023), upgraded to my first Apple Silicon Mac, an M3 Max 16" MBP. For context, the first MBP has 320 GB of spinning storage, the second has 500 GB of SSD, and this one has a 2 TB SSD. Never until yesterday I had received the message shown here: "Your system has run out of application memory". I've been using the same kind of apps since 2009, and always had plenty of apps open at the same time, and I'm doing nothing really different now that I wasn't doing before. I regularly (at least once per week) restart or shut down the Mac. This is from Activity Monitor just after the message came up: I initially thought this was Acrobat since after quitting it (which was using about 3.5 GB of memory with no open document at all...) the situation stabilised for a while, then it happened again yesterday, and today when I opened Illustrator. Just launching the app caused this message to pop up. I have read previous posts on this same issue but no one seemed to relate to Apple Silicon. Again, on Intel, I have never had this, and with much less memory than I do. Also, look at the graph, no swap used at all. Shouldn't Mac just use Swap if there is an issue instead of asking the user to force quit apps? I honestly do not understand what is going on here. The SSD is about 80% free! Finally, I have been doing the same things since getting this Mac, and it had never happened before. Even if I launched all apps together at the same time, this should just not happen, and the system should manage memory far better than this. For the records, I am not noticing any slowdown in the way the Mac behaves, the CPU usage is not stressed at all. What can / should I do?