10 Repairs iFixit Employees Accomplished This Year

“Fix What You Love” isn’t just our holiday sale, it’s a year-round aspiration. We want to encourage you to fix the things you already have and love so they continue to bring you happiness, and hopefully some comfort at the end of this crazy year. We…

Write cron script to open and exit application

I'm trying to write a script that opens a brand new instance of safari, displays a webpage for 10 minutes, then quits safari. I think I can follow this Stack Exchange to do steps 1 & 2 of my goal. For the "display 10 minutes piece," I w…

Safari Technology Preview 117 (for Catalina and Big Sur)

See post for details/release notes. (Download available for macOS Catalina and Big Sur.)

Trying to increase the size of my hard drive, Error: -69771: The target disk is too small for this operation

My MacBook keeps telling me I have to quit applications because there is not enough free memory. I went into diskutil and this is how my hard drive(s) are broken down. Can anyone help? I also tried opening Terminal and using the follow…

Wake On Lan behavior with Mac Mini - how to put asleep and confirm wake success?

Experimenting with Wake On Lan, I tested with a small Fujitsu Esprimo mini computer and a Mac Mini. In a Windows desktop app "WakeMeOnLan" on another unrelated computer, I can see "green" dots for awake clients, and "red" dots for sleep…

Failure to reconnect to networks on iOS

Since installing iOS 14.0 (now 14.2) my iPhone XS repeatedly fails to reconnect to my network after returning from being out of range (e.g., on a walk) and frequently loses the network connection after periods of inactivity (e.g. overni…

Where is end-to-end encryption for iCloud?

How to Add Contacts to Favorites on iPhone

Do you want to emphasize some of the people you frequently contact from your iPhone? Maybe you want to have certain phone numbers on speed dial? This can be easily done by adding select contacts to the Favorites list on your iPhone. Most people have…

Failure to reconnect to networks on iOS

Since installing iOS 14.0 (now 14.2) my iPhone XS repeatedly fails to reconnect to my network after returning from being out of range (e.g., on a walk) and frequently loses the network connection after periods of inactivity (e.g. overni…

Teardown Skills: How to Read a Tech X-Ray

You may have noticed we have a fair number of device X-rays on our site lately. Be it wallpapers, teardown photos, or just quick tweets, Creative Electron has been providing us (and you!) with top-quality imagery for years now. While we usually post…

zsh: bad CPU type in executable

I am using the terminal on an Apple M1 MacBook. I try to use a cli tool that is not build for aarm64, so I get this error message in the terminal: zsh: bad CPU type in executable Is there anything I can do to use this cli tool e.g. wit…

Revert UI on Big Sur?

How can I revert the Big Sur UI changes, especially Finder's? While it looks cleaner, it now takes 2 clicks to change the Finder's view type of gallery, list, icons, or columns. I would rather have the old UI and use 1 click. How can I …

Can I edit iOS Shortcuts in a text editor (or something) on my Mac?

Is it possible to create or edit iOS Shortcuts using something other than an iOS device? I've created a shortcut that rolls on a table and provides the output of that roll. Entering in 100 entries on my iPhone is rather painful, especi…

20 Watt charger harmful for the battery of a device?

I'm considering to buy a 20 watt charger for my iOS-devices. Obviously it charges a device two to three times faster then the 5 watt chargers, which I currently use. I just wonder: Might it reduce the life-time of the battery? Or is it …

Why am I getting bad distortion on my MacBook Pro 15, mid 2015 right speaker?

My MacBook Pro 15, mid 2015, has bad distortion on the right speaker. Headphones and bluetooth are fine, and when I use the Audio MIDI utility to swap channels it stays on the right speaker. I installed another right speaker I bought on…

OCSP Errors - Firefox - macOS

Certain websites are failing when I have "security.OCSP.require: true" set in Firefox. Normal websites work, but when visiting commonly used websites (Facebook, GitHub, Spotify) it fails 90% of the time. What could be causing this? Fire…

OCSP Errors - Firefox - macOS

Certain websites are failing when I have "security.OCSP.require: true" set in Firefox. Normal websites work, but when visiting commonly used websites (Facebook, GitHub, Spotify) it fails 90% of the time. What could be causing this? …

How can one re-create Apple’s defunct ‘Back To My Mac’ service with specific open-source tools?

Question: how can one re-create Apple’s defunct ‘Back To My Mac’ service with specific open-source tools or, if necessary, with limited custom (non-commercial) software? (Ideally, this would be done in a way that would preserve integrat…

How can one re-create Apple’s defunct ‘Back To My Mac’ service with specific open-source tools?

Question: how can one re-create Apple’s defunct ‘Back To My Mac’ service with specific open-source tools or, if necessary, with limited custom (non-commercial) software? (Ideally, this would be done in a way that would preserve integrat…

Safari crashing on WSJ.com

In the last few days, Safari suddenly started crashing on WSJ.com. Particularly when opening articles with lots of ads, the page reloads several times then crashes saying “a problem repeatedly occurred”. On the Mac, it says that it is u…

After enabling iOS COVID exposure notifications, why was I not prompted to enable Bluetooth?

After enabling COVID exposure notifications on my iPhone, I was not prompted to enable Bluetooth which was turned off in the control center at the time. I thought Bluetooth need to be on for this service to work. If I turn off Bluetooth…