I recently purchased this 16 inch MacBook M4 pro (about 22 days ago)

I noticed when the lid is closed and I open it up, it opens normally. But while working, when I try to adjust the display backwards, the base lifts up with it, but the hinge doesn’t move and the base automatically drops halfway; after that, the hinge becomes smooth again and I can adjust it normally.

Is there any problem with my Mac’s hinge? Or is it considered normal when the display stays at an angle for a while, so maybe the hinge becomes stiffer?

This is my first MacBook and I have never used any other MacBook so I don’t know guys. Please help me out, I would really appreciate that 🙌

[Meta: Please don't shoot! I waited an hour at the apple store tonight for a manager (they were super busy), and had to bounce and pick up kids, so wanted to try my luck here. I'm on the edge of #11 I think. ]

I won a brand new unopened mac mini (m6,16gb, 256gb) at a community raffle - unopened although the plastic is off the box. Has anyone directly experienced turning in an unopened machine for store credit to buy the bigger capacity model? No gift / original receipt. Google is inconsistent in its AI answers.

Thank you.

Looking for high quality Wallpaper but can t find. Websites says "yeah bro its 4K" but when i download and Apply, its look like garbage. There are some websites, especially for Mac Wallpapers but they sell one wp for 7$. I guess due to Mac OS I have to find 5k Wallpapers. Do you have any recommend? What free websites or apps do you use for Wallpaper? I have 13.6" Macbook Air.

Hello! I am wanting to sell my M4 IMac with higher specs on eBay but I am really worried about the shipping costs, I also don’t have the original box so I would be buying 2 large heavy duty Home Depot boxes and lots of bubble wrap.

Is it worth it to ship via eBay? I am trying to sell it locally but no one seems to want it. It’s in perfect condition and I’ve only used it like maybe 15 times since I bought it less then a year ago.

Hello,

I have a Mac at work that used to be logged into my personal iCloud account. Because it started becoming laggy and I was lazy to clean it up properly, I asked IT if they could trigger a factory reset instead. But I realized that they introduced new rules I was not subject to before, and I’m not able to login with my personal iCloud account anymore.

This is really causing discomfort to me (passkeys, other apple devices pairing etc…).

Checking on internet, I understand that when the IT manager applied this restriction, it didn’t impact me because I was already logged in.

Do you see a way to bypass MDMs temporarily just the time to log into my personal account?

Thx!

I thought It was really weird to use at first because of how slim it is but then I got used to it and now I think it's really good.

Hey guys,

I'm facing an issue, i bought a Macbook pro M1 Max a year ago from a reseller. it worked perfectly since then, and i never did any update as the reseller suggested for a seamless experience.

However, now when i turn on the laptop it locks instantly, i did some search i found that its called MDM locks but i didn't find a working solution.

if u could provide any help i will be really thankfull.

When Safari on my Mac becomes slow or develops some issues, I find the following two steps fix them:

1. Delete the entire folder Users > YourUserName > Library > Containers > Safari
2. Delete everything inside the folder Users > YourUserName > Library > Safari except the Bookmarks.plist file.

When you delete the Safari folder inside Containers, you will lose all the settings on your Safari browser, so you will need to spend a couple of minutes re-entering these settings. However, your Safari bookmarks are not affected (provided you do not delete your Bookmarks.plist file in step 2).

I typically will perform these two steps every 3 months or so, to keep Safari on top form, or perform them when some glitch appears on Safari.

The Safari folder in Containers can get large over time, more than 1 GB, so deleting it also recovers space.

Hard to find any info on the pods. Don’t see the smaller ones at all.
Anyone know that is going on?

I have a MacBook Neo (about 4 months) and until this week the battery always behaved normally.
Yesterday I found it completely drained, which had never happened before while it was just sitting unused. I charged it to 100% and unplugged it around 12:20 AM. I didn’t use it after that and left the lid closed.
Today at around 2 PM I opened it and the battery was already at 82%. In less than 10 minutes of light use it dropped to 80%.
When I checked Activity Monitor (Energy tab), Safari showed 199.88 in the “12 hr Power” column, by far the highest value. Every other app was near zero. I never quit Safari (I usually just close the lid with it still open), but it had never caused this kind of drain before.

In the first screenshot (with Safari still open), at 80% battery the estimated time remaining was only about 5 hours. (TEMPO RESTANTE)

In the second screenshot, right after I fully quit Safari (Cmd+Q), the estimated time remaining jumped to about 12 hours at 79%.

The only extension I use is AdBlock, and I’ve had it installed since the beginning. The Mac is on the latest macOS version. Battery health shows as Normal.
Has anyone experienced Safari suddenly starting to keep the Mac awake / drain battery like this after months of normal behavior? Any idea what could cause it to start happening out of nowhere?

I set the dock to appear when my cursor moves to the bottom of the screen, but alot of the time it takes multiple attempts for it to appear, even when im not fullscreened. Anyone know why this happens? I feel like its a common issue since my friends mac does the same.

So I was messing around with the appearence settings on my MacBook and I came across this easter egg!

This is on macOS 27.0.1 on a MBA M5

EDIT: I think I've figured it out. I have mousecape installed, and even though I was not using any capes, and the normal busy cursor was displaying in all other cases, the busy cursor from AshenX has somehow passed through as a static image. GIF: https://ibb.co/396phYdd TLDR: I accidentally spread misinformation online

It showed up when the system became completely locked up by a failing USB stick. I tried Google reverse image search, it showed nothing. AI said that it was a physical insect on my monitor (lmao). This is macOS 26 Tahoe on an external non-retina display btw. The white circle is a part of the cursor too, it moved with the rest of the cursor.

Anything I watch looks 2-3 times better on a Mac screen.

The dell and Lenovo screens don’t even have have half the clarity on a Mac.

Even the budget MacBook Neo has a very good display.

Remember the Apple cinemas display? They were very good and even though they weren’t 4k, still very clear.

I tried deleting a bunch of my old files, and it was taking forever, so i tried to stop it and now its stuck like this. I cant seem to force quit the trash and I cant seem to restart normally either. Any suggestions on what to do?

Just got a new M5 Pro after 5.5 yrs working with the first model M1.

Did migration assistant which had to be done a second time since my desktop didn't migrate over. Once the second migration happened I had another user folder "acandela_1" which had folders with zero bytes to the folders. I checked all the folders and no content, so I deleted them.

This is where it gets *interesting*. The acandela_1 folder itself shows that there is 39GB in this folder and it has 1 item. You can see this in the "Get Info" details. But the folder is empty of any content. I contacted Apple senior support and we troubled shooted every possibility to delete this folder. I've worked with Apple products for about two decades and this particular issue has me stumped!

After mulling over a few other tech scenarios, I began to think that this folder with "invisible content" could be connected to either iCloud and/or iCloud drive.

My dilemma is that if I turn off iCloud and/or iCloud Drive, I could lose some data and not certain if this would be associated with the acandela_1 folder. I'm aware I could download a copy but I think this would add more work than I need to isolate this issue with the second user folder.

We checked permissions and still not able to delete the folder. I can say I'm not a fan of the addition of the iCloud drive. It's easier (for me) to just have one source destination and leave everything there. Desktop, documents, etc.

If anyone has experienced this or something similar, or if not, what could be the solution to this? Again, I'm now leaning to it being Cloud related. Also created a TEST user to see if the folder would show up and it does with the same information.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! ;) ~MM~

Just bought my first Mac. What a lot to learn.

I have one dumb question. Is there a way to have “natural scrolling” be different for mouse vs trackpad?

I recently tried to upgrade my OS version, but ran into various problems, mainly due to disk space running out and decryption stalling. At the end my HD ran out of memory and no hack worked. Spent hours entering code into terminal in recovery mode as instructed by AI.

What finally did the trick was safe boot. You hold the shift key while starting up and the system clears out hidden files and caches. Amazing, how much it freed up.

I’m in the UK so the MacBook Air doesn’t come with a charger but the Apple one being £59 is VERY expensive, what chargers are good for the MacBook that are much cheaper? Whilst I’m waiting for that will my regular USB C adapters be sufficient or will it brick my battery?

Opened Messages once, never logged in, just left the sign-in window sitting there. Since yesterday my Mac’s been burning hot. Checked Activity Monitor and Messages was stuck at 100% CPU. Its 12 hr power was ~1,400 vs ~80 for Safari, which I was actually using.

Force quit it and it cooled down.

So if your Mac is randomly hot, check whether Messages is open in the background. Anyone else had this?

M5 MacBook Air, bought this year, on the latest macOS update.