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    Other (Important) iPhone and iCloud

    I had an iphone 6 and I lost it. later on i bought another iphone 6 and put the iCloud backup from the old iphone to the new one. It's been a year. Can I recover the original iCloud backup from the first iphone or has it been overwritten by the new iphone?
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    Macbook Pro 13" keeps frying my SSD's

    I have a Macbook Pro 13" mid 2012 that I've upgraded with 16 gb ram and an SSD (kept the 500gb hdd instead of the disc drive). First I tried with a Corsair SSD Force Series GS 128GB, but after some time it stopped working - as in it's 100% dead. Doesn't work in other devices either. Then I...
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    Iphone helppp!!

    Good evening to all! I have the iphone7. I tried to upgrade to ios15, I have a very old ios definitely back behind ios12. I would not go through the process of upgrading my mobile phone if it did not stop letting me download applications that need newer software than the one I have...
  4. Pixel@Work

    M1 12.3.1 - System Update - Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1005

    Hello, this morning I turned on my MacBook Pro M1 to find that neither my Outlook synced nor did my MS Teams work. I could connect to teams with help of the browser and my colleague mentioned to try a system update. When I opened the updater I got an error: unable to check for updates the...
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    Firefox not loading/responding

    I had signed in to my Firefox profile previously then signed out and signed in with my sister's profile. This was for her to borrow my MacBook Pro as her Windoze laptop was on the fritz. Now I find when I try to open Firefox I just get the spinning beachball ie 'not responding' dialogue then...
  6. tomino17

    Magic Keyboard Apple

    Hello everyone, I have been using magic keyboard for over a half year with no problem, but suddenly it start writing only capital letters, and if I want to open an other tab, it just move it into a reading list. It doesn't collaborate with my MacBook keyboard and I have no clue why it's...
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    What is happening to my external hard drives?

    I have first gen 16" macbook pro running Monterey. I keep my important files on three drives at all times. They are all less than 3 year old, have more than 30% space available and are plugged in only a few times a year to sync between them. Drive A started slowing down last week and would not...
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    Throttling Mid 2012 MacBook Pro 15” Unibody

    Hi there! I’ve scoured the internet for help on this issue but I haven’t turned up any actual solutions so I thought I’d ask here… I recently had to change the battery of my 2012 unibody 15” since the original one finally crapped itself, however the CPU is now locked to 1.4 GHz in macOS and 1.2...
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    iPhone 5s screen problems after battery swap.

    I recently replaced the battery of my iPhone 5s with this (https://swiatbaterii.pl/baterie-do-iphone/1496-bateria-akumulator-green-cell-a1457-a1518-a1528-a1530-do-telefonu-apple-iphone-5s-5c-zestaw-narzedzi-38v-1500mah.html#additional-info) with the intention of using it as navigation for my...
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    iPhone 11 Pro Max 256Gb & iCloud+ or 512Gb???

    iCloud+ or Internal Storage To put in context; A couple of weeks ago I bought a 256Gb iPhone 11 Pro Max on BackMarket, after uploading the backup I realized that I have 80Gb left and I thought about buying the same device with 512Gb now that I am in the withdrawal period or continue with this...
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    Macbook Pro 2021 M1 Pro response time/ghosting issue. Help!

    We've heard that new 2021 macs with MiniLED have terrible pixel response time and ghosting - video I have Macbook Air M1 and Macbook pro 2020 i5. And Pro in comparison to Air also has terrible ghosting! I can definitely see it! Air seems to be the best in class somehow, super snappy! For those...
  12. emSparkly

    Power Mac G4 no video

    I have this 800Mhz Power Mac G4 that won't display anything on my screen. It will power up, chime, and the drives spin. Fresh PRAM battery, and I've reset the logic board. The only other things I could guess are that the graphics card or the VGA cable are bad, and I have replacements coming in...
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    Difference between Early 2015 Macbook Pro and current options?

    Hello all, Thanks in advance for the advice. I'm currently sporting a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with a 2.9 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 and 8GB of RAM. I've had to replace a few components over the years (the screen and trackpad) along with yearly dust cleanouts and thermal paste...
  14. seb2195

    Mac Studio Display vs iMac 24

    After the announcement of the Mac Studio display, I was underwhelmed. The display is gorgeous, but spending £1,500 on the display alone with an iMac sitting a couple hundred cheaper is making me question the value I will get from this display vs the price. Another display is out the question, I...
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    "The Installer information recovery server is damaged"

    Hi there, I am about to sell my 2017 iMac and have been trying to reset it to factory settings. Everything in the process has gone fine except for the very last part - trying to install MacOS. I erased the Hardrive in Disk Utility as per YouTube instructions but when I got to the 'Install MacOS...
  16. Gravydog316

    Automator help

    Hi does anyone know how to use Automator? I want to convert image files like .PNG, .WEBP, .BMP, .etc... to .JPG @ 100%, in the Finder & change the Label of the converted .jpg file to Orange & the extension from Automator's .jpeg to just .jpg === Quick Actions in the Finder does the job, but...
  17. Gravydog316

    iPad How do i off my iMac mouse pointer on my iPad???

    So, my iPad was just acting up... because i was using my iMac mouse & now i have a mouse pointer dot on my iPad... this has never appeared before... how the heck do i turn it off?! Bluetooth on both devices is off, tried turning wifi on both off, Assistive Touch on iPad has never been on...
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    SSD running slow with new sata ribbon Mac mini mid-2010 on Catalina

    Hello everyone! I’m new to the community and I am trying to remedy my issue. I just purchased a Mac Mini mid 2010 for $15 that was expected to have a bad hdd but turned out it was the sata cable. I ordered a 1tb SSD Hynix gold and 16gb of ram. I updated my Mac from snow leopard that it came with...
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    MacBook air early 2015 13" 8gb ram, i need some help

    Hello! I just got a MacBook air but I'm having a problem and there is literally no answer anywhere on the internet to my problem, so i thought i would join a forum and see if anybody in the world has ever had this problem-- when my battery goes lower than 80% the laptop slows down so much and it...
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    My iMac completely ignores when I hold down alt at boot

    I've tried two wired keyboards, one of them Apple, but it just goes straight to the internal SSD. No options. How do I fix this? It's a 27 inch 2009 model, feel free to move this to 'Early Intel' if needed. Thanks!! x