restore from backup

My elderly parents used a working 13-inch late-2013 Core i5 MacBook Pro until recently. The battery failed. Even if you unplug it just to move it somewhere else in the house and plug it back in, it would restart. I decided the only way to get things moving again for them was to by a temporary...

Hey community! Long-time lurker, first-time poster. Had to ask this question because I've read somewhere around 3 dozen posts with similar problems but none are nailing what I'm dealing with. I started a new Time Machine set up with an external hard drive in October. Time Machine has worked...

I've been using Time Machine since day 1 with .Mac and iCloud and could always recover lost Contacts, emails, etc within Core Apps. Now you cannot open Contacts or Mail to recover individual contacts or emails, etc. Many of us have filed bug reports with Apple since this began with Catalina...

I have latest version of the 11.4.1 Public Beta (4) installed. The only backup I have was created was done with the PB 4. If I want to do a factory reset, can I restore from the backup created with the 11.4.1 Public Beta 4 (via iTunes to ensure it is a complete one)? I guess the same question...

restored from backup from iphone 6 to iphone 7. everything restored except my music library. any insights as to why, how to transfer music library? wouldn’t library be backed up along with the rest?