macOS 13: All The Little Things

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Does anyone know if enabling the Safari web notifications will drain the battery life of mac OS?

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

Does anyone know if enabling the Safari web notifications will drain the battery life of mac OS?

It should be negligible, because the web traffic is pushed to the device in question. Think of it as like receiving an email

 

[Piipperi]

AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT (and possibly other Navi cards as well) now report temps, clocks, etc. to macOS natively without any extra utilities.

Strange for Apple to add new features like this if x86 is supposed to be on it's way out from macOS. I did test if VP9 HW decoder is yet present on macOS for AMD hardware, but it doesn't seem like it.

 

[aperfectcircle]

sorry if I missed the discussion but does anyone like stage manager and what's your use case?

I feel like I'm in the minority as I absolutely love it. I've never managed to find Spaces workable, but Stage Manager just seems to work for me - mainly I think because I have the visual cues showing my app groups. I also use a 34" 5k2k ultra-wide, so I don't find the app groups to the left intrusive/stealing precious screen real estate.

I am independent management consultant, so I work with multiple clients on various projects at any one time. I will typically group apps/windows around the client/project, as well as having a "me" group with Safari and Apple Music, a communication group with Outlook, Teams and iMessage.

I find this works really well for me and I have adapted quickly to Stage Manager, which is something I always struggled with when trying to use Spaces.

I also have an iPad Pro 12.9" which I use when 'mobile' - so visiting client offices or even just heading out to work from a cafe for a few hours - and I haven't found Stage Manager quite as slick on the iPad. I'll keep at it, but so far I'm not getting the utility from it on iPadOS that I am on macOS.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

I'm really liking the ability to block a sender in Mail but i'm not sure if it will be effective. I delete the mail message after I block them so hopefully that's enough.

 

[mochascript]

Did you see three new Memoji poses on macOS Ventura? I loved those 😀

 

[Ryo@ryomac]

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Did you see three new Memoji poses on macOS Ventura? I loved those 😀

It's very good. Thank you for letting me know.

 

[GuilleA]

I'm not on ventura now but found that someone has already written a blog post about it.

Why macOS Ventura Share menu is bad

Apple was once the king of UI, but lately they have been making so many mistakes. It's baffling. Horrible UI and UX choices across Ventura.

 

[sunny5]

 

[cool11]

Is there any way of seeing the date/calendar, the old way?
A small window with a whole month?
I use to see it this way, all the time, in 'settings'.
But they seem to change this view in ventura.

 

[n-evo]

You mean in Calendar app itself?

View > Show Calendar List. Then you have a small overview of the whole month in bottom left corner.

 

[cool11]

You mean in Calendar app itself?

View > Show Calendar List. Then you have a small overview of the whole month in bottom left corner.

No, I am not talking about calendar.
In previous 'system preferences', in a tiny rectangular window, you could see or adjust, the time/date.
There is no such thing in ventura.

 

[n-evo]

Correct. Not sure what the issue is with typing in a date yourself. Seems more straightforward tbh.

 

[Chozun]

I'm really liking the ability to block a sender in Mail but i'm not sure if it will be effective. I delete the mail message after I block them so hopefully that's enough.

Do you then permanently remove that deleted EMail from your machine?

 

[gank41]

Here's a great article about using one External SSD to boot up multiple machines... Pretty cool.

Booting two Apple silicon Macs from one external disk

How can you set up a single external bootable disk to start up two different Apple silicon Macs, maybe one in the office and the other at home?

eclecticlight.co

 

[cool11]

For some strange reason, when I plug a usb flash disk, it does not appear in 'Locations' in Finder. It shows up only in 'Favorites' in Finder.
How can I fix this?
In Ventura OS.

 

[n-evo]

For some strange reason, when I plug a usb flash disk, it does not appear in 'Locations' in Finder. It shows up only in 'Favorites' in Finder.
How can I fix this?
In Ventura OS.

In your menu bar go to Finder > Settings... Then go to Sidebar and check 'External disks' (or maybe 'CDs, DVDs and iOS Devices').

 

[cool11]

How can I make this red pointer in settings icon to disappear?
It prompts for updating the apple id settings.

 

[gank41]

How can I make this red pointer in settings icon to disappear?
It prompts for updating the apple id settings.
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At the top, in Settings, there should be a prompt you can tap to take you in to whatever needs to be addressed. It might just need you to sign in again or something that's not necessarily obvious.

 

[cool11]

I want to totally bypass icloud.
Whatever I choose in the following screen, the bars always remain active. (either disabling options or choose leave them activated)

If I am signed in, where I can log out?

 

[gank41]

I want to totally bypass icloud.
Whatever I choose in the following screen, the bars always remain active. (either disabling options or choose leave them activated)

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If I am signed in, where I can log out?

What about in Settings / Click your Apple ID at the Top / Then select "iCloud", and then "iCloud Drive"

Should bring up this option, where you can turn off iCloud Drive altogether, or maybe just certain apps instead, if you wanted...

 

[cool11]

What about in Settings / Click your Apple ID at the Top / Then select "iCloud", and then "iCloud Drive"

Should bring up this option, where you can turn off iCloud Drive altogether, or maybe just certain apps instead, if you wanted...


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I did what you said.
icloud drive is now off.
But even now, there is no way of disabling the above, 'choose what you would like to store in cloud'!
It accepts to turn off the bars, but there is no way to keep these settings! They remain active!

 

[profdraper]

What a drreadful, time-wasting POS. The worst thing they've ever done in the last 30 years. Breaks everything I use for work (pro music & film), insists on re-setting keychain, removes apps it doesn't like etc etc. Garbage for Apple fanboys who only use apple apps, browser, mail & likely spend much time in doomscrolling & social media obsessions.

 

[fisherking]

What a drreadful, time-wasting POS. The worst thing they've ever done in the last 30 years. Breaks everything I use for work (pro music & film), insists on re-setting keychain, removes apps it doesn't like etc etc. Garbage for Apple fanboys who only use apple apps, browser, mail & likely spend much time in doomscrolling & social media obsessions.

what's happening exactly? no issues here (and since the first beta dropped) with logic, final cut, and my 3rd-party plugins (altho a few needed updates). no apps were removed (!), keychain didn't reset.

whatever problems you've had, start a thread, ask for help. the OS is (mostly) fine for (most of) us, so perhaps... get those issues sorted out. just a suggestion 👍

 

[FNH15]

what's happening exactly? no issues here (and since the first beta dropped) with logic, final cut, and my 3rd-party plugins (altho a few needed updates). no apps were removed (!), keychain didn't reset.

whatever problems you've had, start a thread, ask for help. the OS is (mostly) fine for (most of) us, so perhaps... get those issues sorted out. just a suggestion 👍

Yeah. All Pro apps here work just fine (FCP, Logic, Photoshop, InDesign).

Now, if you’re using old versions of apps/plugins, I can see where that breaks. No one is forcing you to upgrade to 13.0…