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  1. N

    MCP 15 2010 constantly freezing only if battery plugged in

    Hallo everyone, i am experiencing a very strange behaviour on this machine: 820-2850 it runs perfectly fine with the magsafe power only ASD is passed without any issue but when i plug the battery in (already tested on other machines), after some minutes i got freezes and i have to reboot. Of...
  2. WannaGoMac

    Photos App Freezing in iOS 11.2

    Configuration: iOS 11.2.6, iPhone X Details: Often when I try to send photos and/or videos (regardless of send method, email and iMessage this happens) the app just hangs at the screen to enter the recipient name and the photos are attach (i.e. the TO: line). Killing the Photos app and the...
  3. C

    MacBook Pro takes days to boot

    Please help! I believe this all started after an update, but I'm not sure. I believe I am now running Sierra, but I can't get in to confirm... My MBP began running very slowly one day. I noticed all of the memory was being used and tried to restart the computer to figure out the problem. The...
  4. Dj64Mk7

    FaceTime Video Freezes and Hangs On All My Apple Devices

    I've been 'round the wringer on this one. I've talked to Apple, to my ISP, to Apple again, the ISP, and Apple once more. The issue is: I FaceTime with multiple every day. All of us have broadband Internet at home. Whenever I FaceTime with these individuals, the video and audio freeze...
  5. Steamers

    HS and Mac PRO 6,1 freezing solution possibly

    From the Terminal run "caffeinate -isd" and leave the window open but out of the way. It seems to have cured the random screen freezing in High Sierra where everything would continue working after the screen in focus froze while leaving the mouse to move about. These freezes seemed to have...
  6. Macmonter

    Ethernet Freezes Mac Pro 3.1

    Recently had my DSL speed increased from 7 Mbps to 25 Mbps by my telephone provider. I have 3 Apple products connected to the internet: iPad Pro and Mac Mini by wifi and a Mac Pro 3.1 by ethernet. No problems until new higher speed line and modem/router installed. The iPad and Mac Mini with wifi...
  7. smackparsa

    Macbook 12 inch Freezing

    Hi guys, I recently started having issues with Macbook 12 inch freezing randomly during video playback/heavy java use on the internet mainly YouTube + other java intensive sites. Now it will barely startup. I tried resetting PRAM, SMC, Safe Mode & Internet Recovery. Reboot after Internet...
  8. Mac03ForLife

    Send Help - Slow MBP

    Please, someone help a guy out I have an MBP 8,1 and it is slow as molasses going uphill in January. There's almost nothing on the drive, only about 222GB used of 500 5400RPM SATA Drive I can't get a clean startup, transfers are slow as... well, you know, FF57 wont launch, Preview freezes when...
  9. M

    iPhone X iTunes Freezing/Blank Screen

    Hi, I've got a brand new iPhone (256) and set it up yesterday. I am having an issue with iTunes. When I select the icon, a black screen appears and after about 15-30 seconds the iPhone automatically returns to the main ios screen (the one with all the icons). When I use app switcher, I can...
  10. H

    iPhone Random Lag across several devices

    Started around last week. While using my 128GB iPhone 7 it would start to studder most noticable when going back and fourth between the search on the home screen. And was very noticeable while typing or swiping away notifications. The lag is noticeable everywhere! Just more in some places. I...
  11. spesifikbrush

    iPhone 6s constantly freezing

    I've bought an iPhone 6s last week, to complete my Apple ecosystem. I've been using it with no issues till today. I am on iOS 11.0.3 It started with freezing on the black lock screen, I had to do a hard reset. Right after restarting my phone, it froze on the black screen again. After an hour...
  12. K

    MBP mid-2010 beachballing

    Hi! My mid-2010 MBP, running on El Capitan 10.11.3, has become very slow and beachballs very quickly after a re-boot. This beachballing has started a few times this summer, any time i visited a place where it was 35C+, but it usually behaves normal once I am back home. After this last trip...
  13. C

    iPhone iPhone 7 Freezing after iOS 11 Update

    After installing iOS 11 on my iPhone 7, every once in a while it freezes up and becomes unresponsive. If I click on an app, it doesn't open. However, I can swipe from one screen to another, double-click to get the list of apps that are open, and swipe up to get Control Center (but clicking any...
  14. jwatters579

    iOS11 Beta 5 - Freezing

    Has anyone experience their iPhone (mines a 7 128gb) freezing since getting Beta 5? This is happening primarily on the home screen and the home button becomes disabled. The only way to work around this is to restart the phone (side button & volume down).
  15. KingOfStuff

    Safari causes system to freeze

    So for the past 6 months or so this issue has been happening. Latest Sierra on late 2012 iMac. When using Safari in a rather normal manner or for work i will have many tabs open. The issue can happen with anywhere from 6 or more tabs open. If Safari sits, meaning i dont refresh a page or...
  16. maverick28

    iOS iOS Simulator: simulated hardware screen frozen

    Hi, Ran into a problem recently. I have several sub-versions of Xcode's main version installed: for the purpose of simplification let's take one of them for version A (with iOS AA) and another for version B (iOS BB) from the oldest to the newest one respectively. I noticed a very odd behavior...
  17. ash-moo

    any camera related software crashes my imac

    Hi all, Recently I have noticed any camera related software (FaceTime, Skype, photo booth) when I open the applicatation my iMac freezes and takes about 5 minutes to load again. The application doesn't work as after every click of the mouse it freezes again.. any ideas anyone? My iOS is up...
  18. B

    Macbook freezes and restarts 12 times

    So this Macbook of mine keeps freezing and restarting. It's a fairly new machine and all I have on it are Apples software so far. While in Safari, I have seriously had this thing freeze 12 times tonight. I'm writing this from another computer. I have no idea what is causing this. sIt happened...
  19. adrian451

    Freezing Issues with macOS 10.12.3

    I am currently in contact with Apple concerning this and as of this present time, they are being helpful, but it is clear to me that they are as yet unwilling to admit there is a problem. It appears to have all the signs of a memory leak. The imac will freeze at any given point with no warning...
  20. J@ckPhl@ck

    iMac mouse freezing

    I am a tech at an elementary school, and we have one particular lab of iMacs that are running into this problem. Occasionally, on almost all of the 30 computers in the lab, the mouse will become jumpy. It freezes for a second or so then picks back up. At first I thought it might have been...