How to pick memory and storage for an M1 Mac M1 Thunderbolt ports don’t fully support USB 3.1 Gen 2īenchmarking the Mac Studio (Max) and M1 Pro MacBook Pro Which Macs will be officially supported by macOS 12? Which Macs will run macOS 12 Monterey? The answer isn’t simple New Freeware menu, and Monterey compatibility Will changes to notarization make any difference?
How Apple intends checking images for CSAM Retaining access to Big Sur when upgrading your M1 Mac to Monterey
Should you clean install Big Sur or Monterey? Which of Monterey’s features can your Mac use? A reference table Throw caution to the wind – upgrading to Monterey
How to create a bootable external disk in macOS 11 or 12 When we’re almost twelve – the coming of Monterey How Monterey changes Apple Silicon Recovery Upgrading to Big Sur or Monterey: migrating Time Machine backups What’s really coming in Monterey and other macOS updates next week Silently updated security data files in Monterey Shortcuts: counting files and Quick Actions The pioneers are winning – Monterey early adoption How macOS is more reliable, and doesn’t need reinstalling Monterey 12.0.1, Big Sur 11.6.1 and Catalina Security Update 2021-007: a summary Shortcuts: flow control, filters, sorting and iteration How to use offline translation in Monterey Understanding snapshot data in Disk Utility
It’s the tiddly bits – changes in MontereyĬreating a bootable external disk with an M1 Pro in Montereyĭisk Utility now has full features for managing snapshots Monterey’s memory leak and how to avoid it More memory leaks in Monterey 12.0.1: how to avoid themĭisk Utility still can’t check and repair APFS volumes and containers Those little annoyances in Monterey 12.0.1Įrase All Contents and Settings: prepare your Mac for disposal and more Just like that: the Finder’s failed trick with APFS
When you can’t restart an M1 Mac from an external diskĪpple has released Monterey 12.1 update, and security updates for Big Sur and Catalina Is backing up to networked storage improving? How M1 Macs can run old firmware when Intel Macs can’t Inside iCloud+ Private Relay: can it be trusted?īooting an M1 Mac from hardware to kexts: 1 Hardwareīooting an M1 Mac from hardware to kexts: 2 LLB and iBootīooting an M1 Mac from hardware to kexts: 3 XNU, the kernel Memory Lane: Grokking memory problems in Activity Monitor Why Time Machine backups can be interminably slow How to work around Monterey’s Finder memory leakĪpple has released Monterey 12.2, Big Sur 11.6.3 and Catalina SU updates Looking ahead to macOS 12.3: Python, DropBox and OneDrive changes There’s still a hole in my bucket, Monterey’s memory leak What has changed in macOS Monterey 12.2.1?ĭiagnosing Bluetooth problems in Monterey How Monterey checks apps and executable codeĪpple has released Monterey 12.2.1 and a Safari update What performance to expect in the Mac Studio
Hidden controls for system settings in macOS MacOS has different strategies for M1 coresĪpple has released Monterey 12.3, Big Sur 11.6.5 and Catalina SU 2022-003 Which of Monterey’s features aren’t available where? Spatial Audio, the Sound pane and Audio MIDI Setup How Visual Look Up works in detail 1: paintings on Intel and M1 Macs How Visual Look Up works in detail 2: Object recognition and Live Text Live Text, Visual Look Up, Face Recognition, ML and Privacy What is triald and why is it taking so much disk space?Īpple has released Monterey 12.3.1 update How to enable, use and fix Visual Look Up Why M1 Macs don’t have full support for USB-C Mirages in the file system: Update and backupsīooting a Mac Studio from an external SSD, and what it doesn’t solve How to get news on Apple’s latest updates, and updates to my apps
Here is a downloadable PDF chart with links to all the product pages of my free utilities:Īccessing this blog – news feeds and pages For older articles about previous versions of OS X, see this article.įor basic help with managing problems, see my Mac Troubleshooting Summary. A list of articles to help you solve problems on Macs running Big Sur and Monterey (11-12).