Does macOS use Live Text to extract and index recognisable text in images? Is that a good or bad thing if it did? What about PDFs?
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Step by step guide to passing your Mac on or recycling it. Use EACAS where available. Don’t use .AppleSetupDone which doesn’t work in macOS 14 anyway.
Do you think that iCloud+ Private Relay is reducing network responsiveness or performance? These results may surprise you.
In Sonoma, some healthy Macs are unable to retain complete logs for 24 hours because of the frequency of entries, and even when privacy is removed, some content is censored.
It’s exactly 5 years since Apple released Mojave, with its many major changes. macOS 14 should bring fewer shocks to the system than 10.14 did.
24 July macOS 13.5 disabled all user control over access to Location Services;
17 August macOS 13.5.1 is the first mention by Apple, and fixes the “issue” without apology.
Do you need to back it up when the problem is minor? Should you erase its internal storage? Anything else you need to do?
If you’ve updated to macOS 13.5, take a look at Location Services, in Privacy & Security settings. Do you notice anything missing?
Why is it, what is it, and how can you tell whether an app runs in it? What can you do to remove an app’s entitlements?
Immediate actions to get the best result from your search, and how to tackle even the most deep-seated of Spotlight problems.
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