If your Mac is having problems, macOS has multiple keyboard combinations that you can hold to recover your system, start in safe mode, run diagnostics, and more. Here's how to use them.

Launches your Mac in Recovery Mode and you get to access OS X utilities: Restore from Time Machine, Reinstall OS X, Apple support and Disk Utility. Option-D: Launches Apple’s hardware test to ...

Restart your Mac (Apple menu -> Restart). If this solves the problem, return to the Users & Groups preferences pane, re-add the login items one at a time, then restart your Mac after adding each one.

Classic Mac Startup Chime Not Present in New MacBook Pros. Sunday October 30, 2016 12:30 PM PDT by Tim Hardwick. ... Apple has updated its support documents to reflect the change.

It appears that Apple mistakenly left out /usr/sbin/BootCacheControl for some Mac OS X 10.3.2 installations. The copy Terminal command resolves the issue. Also, readers continue to report that ...

Apple did away with plenty of popular features in its new MacBook Pro lineup, including SD card support and MagSafe adapters.But a classic, underappreciated attribute, the famous Mac startup chime ...

The discovery was made on Friday by a Mac user named Dan who took note of the lack of a "startup sound" description in the new support notes describing how to reset NVRAM on late 2016 MacBook Pro ...