Siri, without asking me, took a screenshot of my active window to send to ChatGPT as my question was related to what I was doing. I thought this was pretty cool!

The question here is very complex, because I don't even know from where to start.

On Windows there's a tool like DISM which you can use to fully customize the .iso of the operating system, so when you go to install that .iso you have already your fully customized os.

With DISM you can manipulate the entire content of the os at such degree - that you can even delete a lot of default stuff from it.

So my question is the following:

Is there a similar tool, but for macOS which I can use to customize the entire content of the os image?

I'm running macOS 15.1.1. As much as I want to try the wide and ultra wide virtual displays on my Apple Vision Pro, I can't afford to install 15.2 beta on my daily driver. According to MacRumors, Apple plans to release it along with iOS 18.2 on December 9. But with under three weeks to go, it seems like the current macOS beta is too buggy to get in good shape by then from what I've read here and elsewhere. What do y'all think about this date slipping by at least a week?

I can't use the chat GPT extension with the new Apple Intelligence

Region USA

Does it have to do anything with my age of 13?

on another Mac account, age is over 18; it lets us use the chat GPT extension

Sequoia 15.2 beta

Doesn't anyone have the same problem as me? I use Spotlight Search quite a lot, and now it doesn't open at some specific cases. Mac just makes an error sound instead of opening Search Bar sometimes.

I am using a Macbook Air M2 from 2022. Everything worked fine with my external HDMI displays until I updated the OS to beta. Went to an Apple genius bar and they said system diagnosis couldn't be completed due to the beta environment. Have already filed a report through Feedback Assistance and am currently waiting for response. Anyone with same issue and potential solutions?

Very frequently (twice an hour), my M3 MBA screen goes black and I can only see and move the cursor. The only way I can resolve the issue is by restarting with the power button. Not sure if this is related to the new beta but I only had this happen when I updated. Anyone else have this problem? Any advice on how to fix?

Anyone with the same issue/solution? No connection through my iPhones hotspot either. I re-installed MacOS but the problem percists.

Downgraded Mac from 15.2 dev to 15.1 but iPhone mirroring app is gone completely. What do I do

Has the Apple Music Widget been removed for anyone else on 15.2 Public Beta (24C5079e)? Can anyone check if it's still in standard macOS 15.1?

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I was checking out the drive space and noticed how much AI is taking up disk space. (I know it’s not all AI in this folder.) I use DaisyDisk to get a nice slicer view.

Is there a shortcut on Safari to move a tab to another tab group?

Anyone else’s writing tools no longer working in Word or PowerPoint? After multiple restarts, it still is not working. I only seem to get it to work in Apple Notes.

Anyone having issues with these? I just got my M4 Mac mini and don’t receive any iphone notifications, but I do get them on my macbbok air.

Any news? I am ready to stop my beta experimentation and rejoin the GA release stream. Given that 15.3 beta is out does that mean we might see a 15.2 release anytime soon?

For those on macOS 15.2 beta and experience with using ChatGPT integration, what are the limitations of using ChatGPT without an account, please?

Is there a cap on the number of daily queries? Is it tied to query type? Have you hit this limit?

Is it set impractically low by OpenAI to serve as a teaser to encourage sign-ups? Or is it actually a usable limit?

Thanks.

I installed MacOS Sequoia 15.2 Beta 3 this morning. It worked fine till the afternoon but after that, I could no longer connect to the internet. I was able to join wifi networks and hotspots but it would just show no internet connection. Tried connecting via iPhone USB and LAN too but wasn't able to get it to work. Finally with no other option had to reinstall mac os. Gladly, the recovery tool installed the Beta 2. Learned my lesson, would never upgrade to developer beta ever again.

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On my M1 Macbook Air today, i tried installing MacOS 15.2 Beta 3, and after the progress bar being stuck on the same pixel for ~10 minutes I resolved to a force shutdown, which yes, was obviously risky, but I didnt really see much of a choice.

I will say, I ran some cache cleaner program a bit before and had a hard drive connected at the time - if those are bad practices for beta updates, please let me know for the future, but either way,

It’s now stuck in a bootloop, showing the apple logo, a progress bar, and after a second shutting back down and restarting.

Long pressing the power button promises Recovery Options but restarts before those ever show up.

A single time, it showed me the support.apple.com/mac/recover screen, so that’s what I’ll do with a friend macbook and hope a revive will work, but, figured id post to caution and see if others had this issue, or maybe someone knows a workaround fix / recovery. Stay safe out there ig

[RESOLVED] Removed all spotlight areas to include in Settings. Rebooted into safe mode. Seems things are re-indexing.

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I noticed after updating to B3 that spotlight returns nothing when searching for apps, or photos, or, well, anything.

Tried to reindex through

Settings » Spotlight » Search Privacy...

but trying to add anything there results in a 'Privacy List error' (was adding to remove it)

running

sudo mdutil -E /Volumes

in terminal returns:

Spotlight server is disabled.

Anyone else having a similar issue?

I honestly can't even remember how long this has existed, but it's been here since macOS 15.0 and I'm just wondering if anyone else has this or if there's just some setting or something causing this for me specifically. Cause it everyone has it, it's going to save me hours of time trying to diagnose it if it's just me lol.

When I go to the start page Youtube bookmark, it starts a blank page that says "try search to get started" and it doesn't say I'm signed in or anything, but if I just click the sign in button, it just refreshes the page and I'm suddenly signed in and it shows suggestions and everything.

BUT, if I actually type the youtube site, it loads normally and shows everything as expected.

This has been a consistent issue since macOS 15.0 using only Safari. this doesn't happen on Safari Technology Preview using the same start page bookmark icon. I've tried changing the URL on the bookmark but it's always the same thing.

I use AdGuard and Hush extensions, but again, on both Safari and Safari Technology Preview but the issue is only on Safari.

Anyone else have this issue or am I about to dive down a rabbit hole?

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This message box keep pops up when my Mac wakes from sleep. I even checked the "Set as Default" check box and set to extended display, but it just keep pops up. I tried rebooting and it did not fix.

This message box is really annoying because every time I see that, I have to choose "Extended Display" and click "Extend Display", and change the resolution of the extended display, and rearrange it since everything messes up.

The display is connected to USB-C DP alongside with display built-in KVM switch, since my MacBook doesn't support HDMI 2.1.

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Hey guys, Is anyone having this problem? I never had any issues with Netflix in any beta… but with DP 3 apparently it just doesn't want to play anything... I’ve tried on both Chrome and Safari with the same issue… I go to watch and it doesn’t play… it just loads a "screenshot" and that’s it... I can scrub with the left and right arrows but no playback at all. all other platforms play fine. its only Netflix.

UPDATE:

It seems that it was something from Netflix's side as now is everything is back to normal...