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Last Week on My Mac: Five Tahoe bugs

Normally, the x.1 update fixes many of the bugs from the first release. But in Tahoe, a crop of fresh bugs have been included. Here are some of them, and how they have arisen.

November 16, 2025 Macs, Technology

Appearance revisited: Get Tahoe 26.1 looking in better shape

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Light or Dark appearance? Liquid Glass Clear or Tinted? Reduce Transparency or Increase Contrast? Pick an Icon & Widget Style too. All illustrated.

November 5, 2025 Macs, Technology

Appearance matters: Get Tahoe looking in better shape

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How to use appearance mode, reduce transparency, increase contrast, and icon, widget & folder colour to get Tahoe looking just right.

September 15, 2025 Macs, Technology

Is there a problem in Sonoma’s universalaccessd?

Have noticed brief periods of high CPU for universalaccessd in Sonoma? Do you know what com.apple.axserver is and why it can’t be found? Can you help with this puzzle?

March 19, 2024 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: VoiceOver and VMs

VMs for investigating Software Update, malware protection, and discovering how to use VoiceOver to control them. And news on bridged networking support.

September 3, 2023 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Sonoma under the hood

There’s a great more to come in Sonoma: two major changes in virtualisation, iCloud, privacy, accessibility and more.

June 11, 2023 Macs, Technology

What has changed in macOS Ventura 13.3?

The update to macOS Ventura 13.3 is substantial, and brings many improvements and fixes, including the following listed […]

March 27, 2023 Macs, Technology, Updates

More memory leaks in Monterey 12.0.1: how to avoid them

Is Monterey burning your memory away? Here are two reproducible memory leaks which could explain that, plus two more than might.

November 22, 2021 Macs, Technology

Monterey’s memory leak and how to avoid it

How this memory leak probably occurs, which apps it affects, and what you can do to avoid it completely.

November 15, 2021 Macs, Technology

When you shouldn’t use unconventional Unicode text

What’s the harm in using a tool to apply ‘styles’ to plain Unicode text in a tweet, or similar?

September 1, 2020 General, Language, Macs, Technology

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