Hello! This is one of my first reddit posts, so i'm not sure if this is the best place for this. Please let me know if there's a better group!

While organizing my ibooks app, I accidentally deleted a file that I had downloaded (an epub from ao3 if that makes a difference). I can't find it in the files app and there's nothing in the recently deleted (I fear I did hit 'delete everywhere' when I did so). I've checked the trash on my entire apple ecosystem. I would normally just redownload, but the author pulled her work from online and there aren't any copies floating around. I'd really like to recover this file if at all possible.

Thanks so much in advance!

Hey everyone! I just got a new M4 Macbook Pro. I have it connected to 3 external monitors. 2 connections are usb-c (in the macbook) to hdmi (in the monitor), and one is hdmi to hdmi. I am able to select the external monitors as output devices, but when I look at their volume they are shown as maxed out and grayed out. No sound comes out of any of the external monitors, no matter which I select. I have already checked that the external monitors are selected in settings. Has anyone else had this issue?

My family recently found my old iphone 5 from 2016 and there are photos from there that I never thought I would see again and want to preserve, a lot of them were optimised with icloud but they have since been deleted from there so only the low quality versions exist only on the phone.

I still want to save them though, but I am unable to airdrop or email them to myself, just getting an error. Is there a way to solve this?

Guys, I currently have a 14PM 128gb .. but I have an offer for a little money to get a 15 Pro 256gb .. do you consider it an upgrade or a downgrade? Is the battery much worse on the 15 Pro?

It’s not for anything nefarious. Just that I’m talking abt private stuff with a family member, and her dad is starting to act rly weird; I’m worried he’s gonna go through her messages. We’re talking about him lmao. Anyway, does anyone know how to make her hide her contact messages temporarily (like a toggle? Idk) without deleting messages or anything?? Idek if it’s possible

For a machine that has been dead for over 4 years, but not yet tossed, I'd like to see if I can mount and read the SDD and then see if I can harvest some old family data off of it (not anywhere else, of course!) before I toss this oldie.

It's a MacBook Air manufactured in mid-2011 (for sure), and sold in 2012. It is Model A1369 which I understand is one and the same as referring to a MacBookAir4,2

Bonus points if you can tell me how or point to to information on how to copy to a backup disk before anything is overwritten or tried to "uncorrupt" it, if it is, in fact, corrupted.

I've been told I really want to buy an "OWC Envoy USB 3.0 Bus-Powered Portable Enclosure" which apparently was specifically made for the 2010-2011 SDDs from Apple just for this purpose.

I dont' think I'm breaking any rules here. This MacBook Air has been in our family since 2012 when it was originally purchased and I certainly can prove it if required. But I'd hope it wouldn't be for such old tech.

So for about a week now my sent messages don’t show a delivered status under them. However I will still get the read receipt when it is opened. This is an issue with only one recipient, all my other iMessages are normal shown delivered and then read ( if their receipts are turned on). Also should note if their phone is in focus mode I will get the “delivered quietly” status below my sent message. Any suggestions or reason to why this is occurring and with only one recipient.

• Also turned off iMessage, when sent as RCS delivered status shows.

Hi all,

My parents have an older iMac. It's a late 2015 model (Retina 4k 21.5", 8GB RAM). The OS is 12.7.6, which I think is as up-to-date on OSes as they can be on that machine. They don't use it for much. Mostly internet access, plus my dad does some light photo stuff (mostly just printing photos).

It has gotten increasingly slow over the years. Like, booting it up takes forever. Launching any application takes minutes. Pretty much any action you take results in the rainbow spinner for a substantial amount of time. I'm confident they have never done anything in terms of decluttering or maintaining the machine.

I'm relatively tech-savvy, but have far more experience with Windows machines.

Does anyone have any recommendations for obvious steps I could take to troubleshoot and speed things up for them? I know there's some way to look at what programs run at startup, etc., but I just don't know how to do it, or what things would be good to disable.

Thanks in advance!

I've factory reset my imac to prepare to sell it and I've been unable to reinstall Mac os... i keep getting an error message and I've tried almost everything that i could find... can anyone help me?? Apple support sucks and recommend me to take it into a shop... "An error occurred while preparing for installation. Try running this application again".

Hi, I am trying to use an app that allows you to control and use your iphone from your pc. It is asking me to pair my iphone with bluetooth. Initially I managed to pair them but it was switching from "Connected" to "Not connected" in a second. After I turn the bluetooth off and on, I am getting the error "Pairing unsuccessful. Macbook Pro is not supported". My macbook runs on the latest macos, same as my iphone 7 (15.8.3 ios). https://i.imgur.com/OQa7uIU.jpeg

I am looking for help to better back up my photos.

I have two storage devices

1. Synology DS223 connected via network port.

• 2 SSD 1Tb in raid 1

2. QNAP TR-004

• 3 HDD of 3 TB each on a raid 0, total 9 TB storage.

I set up the QNAP as the Time Machine to backup my files. This works fine for all the files on the computer and Google Drive, and I have also backed up files from an external SSD without any issues in the past.

I added the Synology to have disk redundancy, but I would still like to have a secondary backup via Time Machine; however, Time Machine is not backing up files from the Synology.

any suggestions?

I was charging my laptop and removed the charger at around 80%, since that's what I was told is better for the battery. I put the computer away for a few hours and went to bed, but when I just opened it up again, it says it has 92% battery? I looked over the battery graph and it does show the percentage going up after the charger was removed, and it says 'last charged to 92%'. Did I do something wrong, or is this expected? I've had something similar happen to my phone before, but not as large of a jump as this. The computer is brand new, probably less than 10 charges on it so far. Any help would be awesome, thanks!

Wife’s 16 pro refuses to turn on. Tried all the tricks so got with support. Support set an appointment at local Best Buy ( closest Apple Store is 1.5 hrs away and one car situation). What usually happens with this situation and what to expect?

My daughter has an ipad with ask permissions, which go to my email. I can see my email, and login to the icloud attached to it. But I never get an ask permission. Had an old ipad years ago thats been wiped clean and deleted. Ask permissions go....where?

Back in October I attempted to upgrade to new iPhone 16 however it’s showing my current phone is not enrolled. Despite having an open case, and calling multiple times there has not been resolution.

When calling we have been told the person assigned to the case is “away”. Since calling every day we get escalated to 1 or 2 people before supposedly getting connected to the magical third support person who might help. The only problem is every time we are about to get connected, the call gets dropped and nobody calls us back.

I am in fact in the upgrade program with all necessary documentation from Apple and citizen one.

Has anybody had this issue resolved be able to help or point me in the right direction?

Safari is taking up almost 5 Gb of storage on my iPad (I only have 32 Gb total) and I can’t figure out the reason why 😭. I tried deleting website history but that barely did anything and I only have 2.2 MB of history so could anyone help me figure out what’s happing?

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Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Hello, I bought 2nd Generation Airpods Pro second hand, but I am told that the Airpods are already associated with an Apple account, but I no longer have any contact with the seller. Does the seller have access to my location? If so, is there a way to delete Airpods from your account?