Using Logitec MX Keyboard without Logitech's Options+ app. It works fine, but I can't control backlight on-duration. There are key-mapping utilities, but I can't find one for backlight control. There is no key for this setting and I don't know of a shortcut, either. **Can I control backlight on-duration with an app other than Options+?** I don't want to install it. PS: When/How did functions like these become so locked down?

I have received an Otterbox charger from my employee with my iPhone 14. I've just updated to iOS 17.6.1 and found out that charging doesn't work anymore. As soon as I plugin an original Apple cable the iPhone charges again. Why is this and can't I use this Otterbox charger? It has a much longer cable which I like to use and is it even allowed to make you devices be limited to charge only by your own cables.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/38555/are-there-third-party-keyboards-that-have-the-apple-layout I found this question but it is not my one. I mean, "**STRICTLY**", Mac layout. The sizes of keys, the paddings between keys, no Num Lock, have Fn, no numbers' area... everything is equal to the Mac keyboards, including MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and Apple Wireless Keyboard (but not the USB one). ---- Amendment #1 ---- Sorry for missing this important part. What I'm seeking are **mechanical** ones. I searched "mechanical keyboard Mac layout" and found the question mentioned above but failed in noticing that question was not only talking about mechanical keyboards.

No, not the menu bar. I want to hide application menus like File Edit View on the menu bar. I have searched for several hours and could not find a single solution to do it.

I was looking at iMac 5K models and found out that some people have successfully gutted them and turned them into external displays by installing a third-party display driver board, such as this one [https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006038403601.html] . On the product page it mentions that the controller supports either 5K resolution at 60Hz or 4K resolution at up to 120Hz. **Q: Is it possible to "overclock" an iMac 5k display panel to run at at 144hz@4K?** I didn't find any results when searching online, the only results about people overclocking mac panels are from pre-2015 models. Would running at a lower resolution have any effect on this other than saturating the DisplayPort bandwidth? It's not like it's a CRT where the resolution can change depending on settings.

Is there currently a simple way to just access/export all data from an iPhone app to a MacBook computer? I have been using a third part app for 5+ years in which I created a lot of data, mostly audio and video files. Unfortunately, it turns out the app doesn't have any sort of 'export' function and I can't access the data in the iOs Files app or in a simple way via my MacBook. I have not found any way to access the data from this third party app. I've tried iMazing, but it seems that the functionality of iMazing seems to have gotten very limited, correct? It seems to only allow me interact a few dedicated apps. I've gotten to a point where I don't even care right now whether I can actually extract the data in a usable format. I would be glad if I can just back up the app in some way or another, to re-install at some later point (including the data) and deal with it later. Is there any way to do any of this? It baffles me that I have so little control over the apps, or even just the data I've created on my iPhone.

I upgraded to Ventura this weekend, and now csshX won't run. I get the error messages

Unimplemented: POSIX::tmpnam(): use File::Temp instead at /System/Library/Perl/5.30/darwin-thread-multi-2level/POSIX.pm line 185.
Unimplemented: POSIX::tmpnam() at /Users/barmar/bin/csshX line 1130.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /Users/barmar/bin/csshX line 1130.

I don't think the solutions at csshX not working on Mac OS Big Sur will work because perl5.18 doesn't exist any more. The only versions of perl are 5.30 and 5.34.

I found this folder called .cleverfiles and it takes over 130 Gb of space on my MacBook. I found it accidentally but before I deleted it I went to check what this folder is then I lost its path and I can't find it again. Can anyone help me, please? I did uninstall Disk Drill safely but the folder remains, hidden, and I can't search for it. This folder is actually created to save deleted files so you can recover them again. ![Screenshot of the location of the folder .cleverfiles using the app Disk Cartography ][1]

This icon appeared on the right side of my menu bar; it had no name or dropdown menu when I moused over it or selected it. ![macOS menu bar icon consisting of a vertical line with diagonal line running NW to SE and down arrow in SE corner] I researched Apple documentation and believe it's something I installed and not part of the OS. Does anyone recognize this or know how to sort out which app injects an icon into the menu bar?

I have got an Thinkpad external keyboard with my mac. The keyboard has some mouse buttons and trackpoint. The trackpoint mouse function with two mouse button works fine but scrolling with middle button + trackpoint isn't. Is there any chance to configure scrolling with trackpoint? I have Logitech mouse with scroolwheel, that works out of the box. I use Yosemite. Thanks

I’m a resident in a developing country with lots of fake products. There’s also no Apple store except in the capital, and the ‘authorized resellers’ may actually still have fake parts. Now I need to replace the battery in my iPhone SE 2020, but I want to make sure it’s not a fake and dangerous battery. If I have the battery replaced here and the iPhone does not warn me that it’s a fake battery, is that actually reliable and can I trust on that to not have the battery explode in my face?

Yesterday I have updated my M1 Mac mini from 12.2.1 (or .2) to 12.3.1. I had some work apps opened (vscode, figma, slack, firefox..) so I decided to let the Mac update given that my work day was over. So I start the update, leaving all of my apps opened (as I always do, I mean, I don't close the apps before an update, the OS will close them when it restarts). The updater ask me to reboot and I click reboot now. At this point I leave my desk as I know it can take a bit. I return after some minutes and I see that the Mac has finished updating, cool. I go and try to open Firefox, it starts, but it's stuck, it can't to anything. So I try with vscode, same, crashing. Then I open Slack, crashes. Figma, crashes. I contacted the support, followed the procedure: created new admin user, no luck, safe mode, same errors, reinstall the OS, same errors. During the last contact I had with Apple they said that might be caused by the apps themselves rather than the OS and that I should contact their support but they will open a ticket. Also tried to reinstall all of these apps and there is always the same problem. Tried also to download some more apps which are optimised for M1 which I did not had installed when I updated (downloaded Edge, Brave, vscode insiders, opera) and I always see the same behaviour. The only way of making the apps work is to open them with rosetta. Suggestions? Here's a of the problem Edit: this is the output I get from ps -p $(sudo fuser /usr/libexec/rosetta/runtime 2> /dev/null)

PID TTY           TIME CMD
  282 ??         0:00.72 Core Audio Driver (Background Music Device.driver)
  521 ??         0:04.00 /Library/Application Support/Logitech.localized/Logite
  553 ??         0:00.23 /System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/XPCS
  567 ??         0:00.26 /Applications/AdBlock.app/Contents/PlugIns/AdBlock-Ext
 1001 ??         0:01.40 /Applications/iTerm.app/Contents/MacOS/iTerm2
 1002 ??         0:00.01 /Users/*myusername*/Library/Application Suppo
 1008 ttys000    0:00.02 login -fp *myusername*
 1009 ttys000    0:00.04 -zsh

For example, if I have multiple USB drives, an SD Card, an internal SSD, and multiple external SSDs and HDDs connected to a mac, I would like to save time and run First Aid/Repair/Erase/etc. on multiple drives at the same time. Is there anyway to do so with Apple's provided software or through some third party software?

There are already several questions here on this site dealing with the error message "$App is damaged and can't be opened". The workaround given (which has worked for me) is to use xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine on the affected app package. The developers of LaTeXDraw , a small open source tool, state that hints about solving this would be welcome. LaTeXDraw shows the problem when installed through their DMG image, as well as through Homebrew. It seems this is a rather old piece of academic software primarily used and developed on Linux, which they just build along for macOS as well, so I would like to help them out. I thought the "proper" solution to this is just to become a registered developer -- is that correct and sufficient? What is the technical cause of this (very confusingly worded) message, i.e. what would need to be changed in the app package?

When macOS starts, you are asked to enter a name and account. I wonder if this potentially personal data third-party macOS apps can read, especially the user's name or username. I'm on macOS Big Sur 11.1.

To phrase it differently: Over the years, Mac computers have come with various pieces of software not developed by Apple, many of which are games, such as Marble Blast Gold, Bugdom, and the Big Bang Board Games suite. After much searching, I've been unable to find a comprehensive list anywhere. What non-Apple games have been preinstalled or bundled with computers running Mac OS, and when were they included?

Suppose that a third-party app is encrypted (say, with AES 128), and that this app stores data in iCloud through iCloud Drive. In general, can Apple decrypt this data as it would with data stored in native iOS apps?

As you know, the sound volume of Mac laptops isn't too loud. I bought Boom , a volume-booster software for Macs, and after some months of using it for listening to music or viewing videos at loud volume, the bass of my MacBook Pro's internal speakers died. Now the laptop has very feeble sound, no bass at all. Sound through external speakers has not been affected. Sometimes the bass seems to come and go as if something is loose inside. I suspect the loud volume achieved with Boom caused vibrations that damaged the speakers. - Am I right ? - Is Boom the culprit ? - Has this happened to anyone ?

I know that question is borderline, but my app does not contain third-party content: only links.

I need to replace a cracked Retina Display on a 15″ MacBook (2015), but I do not want to buy Apple's expensive replacement parts. Is there third-party hardware that I could use? "Retina Displays" are simply high-PPI IPS or OLED displays, which many other brands of laptops also use.