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What r/MacOS is talking about this week

r/MacOS has 657,568 members and 41 posts in the last 24 hours, with about 8.8 comments an hour right now. From the Redlisten index, refreshed daily.

657,568members
41posts in the last 24 hours, newest 5 min ago
8.8comments an hour right now, newest 1 h ago
2,017points on the top thread this week

Words coming up in r/MacOS this week

apple20app19macbook15golden15gate15windows13air11apps8built8screen8free7safari7

Top threads this week

  1. I Hate The iOS-ification of MacOS.

    Before Big Sur, MacOS had its own unique design language. The icons looked interesting and they were all different shapes. Now they are all boring squares. The system looked angular and...

    2,017 points479 comments4 d ago
  2. MacOS keeps a weirdly detailed "Personal Knowledge Graph" about its user

    "MacOS builds a knowledge graph about the person who uses it: who you know, how it decided those people are related to you, who you write to and how often, whose faces recur in your photos, where...

    919 points140 comments4 d ago
  3. Tired of apps asking for permission to look for devices on the local network

    At least give me a way to disable asking in the first place, macOS!

    627 points59 comments3 d ago
  4. I stole a game interaction and brought it to macOS

    Hey everyone! I’m the developer of Peek, a Mac app for quickly checking information without switching apps. With Peek, hold a key to bring up websites and widgets in one overlay. Release it, and...

    533 points189 comments5 d ago
  5. Apple Taking New Approach to Developing iOS 28 and macOS 28
    485 points163 comments2 d ago
  6. This is a Crime...

    I just recently got a new Used M1 Macbook Air with 128GB of storage. and just from installing a few apps (around 11GB total). More than half of the storage is tooken by the OS itself! I'm running...

    373 points193 comments7 d ago
  7. One of the worst experiences of being a macOS user is, without a doubt, the Microsoft Office Autoupdater

    This bloody thing pops up every other day. If you close it down it'll just pop up again later. If you disable it from running in the background your apps will whine and moan that they need to be...

    362 points160 comments4 d ago
  8. My MacBook Air is so slow. Is it worth buying a new one?

    I currently have a 2018 MacBook Air (Retina, 13-inch) with a 1.6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5. My MacBook is getting to the point where it’s almost unusable. It takes forever to load things, runs...

    345 points492 comments6 d ago
  9. I've changed the Apple Music app's accent color back to Red. Here's how to do it

    I found the new Apple Music branding and colors hard to tolerate, especially the shift that makes the macOS Music app adopt the system’s global accent color. It was terrible imo, so I changed it...

    254 points32 comments3 d ago
  10. Just switched from Windows to a MacBook. Which underrated apps would you install first?

    Hey everyone, I just moved from Windows to a MacBook and I also have an iPhone, so I’m getting into the Apple ecosystem. I’ll mainly use it for work and utilities, plus studying, creative...

    225 points400 comments6 d ago

Newest posts

  1. No netflix yt or crunchyroll app in macos?
    1 points0 comments5 min ago
  2. macOS Tahoe starts several program on startup even though they are not in login items and I never select "Reopen windows" on shutdown
    1 points0 comments34 min ago
  3. Is this happening to anybody else in the new update.
    1 points0 comments50 min ago
  4. Your Mac already has a “VPN” that websites can’t block
    1 points0 comments58 min ago
  5. Who update M1 Air to 27.2.1? What about work?
    1 points0 comments1 h ago
  6. I'm calling it: Golden Gate is a nightmare for the average user.
    1 points0 comments2 h ago
  7. Can't Connect External Keyboard While Logged Out
    1 points0 comments2 h ago
  8. Ultrawide Screen support
    1 points0 comments2 h ago
  9. How can we help Apple make macOS better?
    1 points0 comments2 h ago
  10. Time Machine stopped working
    1 points0 comments3 h ago
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