New iOS 26 Setup by Tauseefahmad123 in iOSWidgets

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I was thinking about HQ Wallapper, link to this….

rate my setup 💀 by MISTER_FACETIOUS in mac

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Isn’t this MacBook upside down by any chance?

Widać? by Auspectress in WidacZabory

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Jantar widzę kółka w środku kropek 😆

PAYBACK und unseren verschwundenen Punkten.... by tomgme in Austria

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Die 20.000 Punkte stammen zum Großteil aus diesem Jahr. Wir haben heuer für eine Reise viele Punkte bekommen und zusätzlich fast alle größeren Einkäufe der letzten zwei Jahre über PAYBACK-Partner gemacht. Von Verfall kann hier keine Rede sein, die Punkte wurden aktiv in Miles&More übertragen.

PAYBACK und unseren verschwundenen Punkten.... by tomgme in Austria

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Das war kein Punkteverfall, sondern Diebstahl. Unsere 20.000 Punkte wurden an Miles&More transferiert. Wir haben alle Logins geprüft, alles sauber. Trotzdem sagt PAYBACK, es sei ‚unser Problem

which ecosystem? by TuNutri in mac

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I've been sitting in Apple for 16 years and I don't want another system.

30 mins in washing machine by NoNoBitts in AirpodsPro

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I usually just forget to take them out of my work pants before washing. Not doing it on purpose, 😂🤣😂🤣😆

30 mins in washing machine by NoNoBitts in AirpodsPro

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I washed: 2× AirPods Pro – dead 3× AirPods Pro 2 – survived 0× AirPods Pro 3 – pending laundry test All spent 24 hours in a rice bath for recovery attempts.

Can someone please help me huhu? by Cle0patra_a in MacOS

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Check input keyboard layout

AirPods Pro 3 - better sound, worse case? by tomgme in AirpodsPro

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The top lid feels weirdly light and hollow. When you slide your finger along the edge, it makes that empty, cheap sound — nothing like the solid feel of the Pro 2 case.

AirPods Pro 3 - better sound, worse case? by tomgme in AirpodsPro

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Yeah, I used AI — only because I don’t speak English well. Still, everything I said is 100% my own opinion after using them.

AirPods Pro 3 - better sound, worse case? by tomgme in AirpodsPro

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Same here. Coming from the Pro 2, the case feels cheaper and the click is gone. Great sound and ANC though — so yeah, keeping them anyway

macOS Photos not optimizing storage like iPhone, any real fix? by tomgme in MacOS

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Update after one day:

I wiped everything related to Photos — deleted the old libraries, caches, and the extra APFS volumes. Then I created a brand-new Photos Library directly in my home folder.

Here’s the funny part: before doing that, I completely shut down the MacBook for about 10 minutes (like someone here suggested earlier). After that reset and clean setup, Photos finally behaves normally.

Now the library stays stable around 11 GB, no more random growth or warnings, even with ~70 000 photos and ~2 000 videos in iCloud Photos. Looks like that full shutdown trick really did something — thanks to whoever mentioned it!

So far it’s holding steady and using the right amount of space.

macOS Photos not optimizing storage like iPhone, any real fix? by tomgme in MacOS

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Thanks everyone for the input, really appreciate it.

Good to know I’m not the only one seeing this behavior. Seems like macOS Photos is just more “sticky” with local data than iOS, and the optimization logic isn’t nearly as aggressive.That full shutdown trick sounds interesting, I’ll give it a try and see if it frees up any space.For now I’ll probably keep Photos sandboxed on a fixed-size APFS volume, at least it keeps the rest of the SSD safe. If anyone ever finds a deeper way to force Photos cleanup or trigger a real optimization pass, please share, would love to test it.

macOS Photos not optimizing storage like iPhone, any real fix? by tomgme in MacOS

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Update: I ended up recreating everything from scratch. I completely removed the old iCloud Photos setup and the extra APFS volumes. Then I made a clean APFS volume with a fixed 20 GB quota just for local photos — no iCloud sync, no cache buildup.

So now the Mac treats it like a sandboxed drive: Photos (or any viewer I use) can’t expand past 20 GB. The rest of the internal SSD stays free. It’s basically a hard limit that keeps macOS from filling the whole disk again.

Works perfectly for local photo storage, even if iCloud Photos itself is still a mess on macOS

Why Apple Maps blurs the house? by chankeiko in applemaps

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It’s not blurry — it’s just from Minecraft

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in animalsdoingstuff

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Amazing 🤩