Perpetual Random Apple Rants Thread

xoa said:

I wish the dock had some "group minimized windows by application" or other options, something inbetween default behavior of having all minimized windows on their own and "minimize into application icon", which makes it annoying to then hunt the minimized windows.

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IIIRC, for a brief minute many versions ago, the Dock provided something similar via click-and-hold on an app’s icon. I miss that.

Today Mission Control offers the next best thing via ‘Application windows’ keyboard shortcut: all visible app windows will Exposé across the top, with minimized windows in a horizontal list at the bottom.

gregatron5 said:

IMO Dock on the left is way better than on the right. One rarely ever uses the extreme left of a window, but scroll bars are on the right (and I use them a bit) as was old-school window resizing.

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That won't work for me.

40" Dell (5120 x 2160) - 40' Dell (5120 x 2160) - 42" Asus (standard 4K) -

So far left, is really far left

The Asus on the right is hooked to both the Mac Studio and an TV. Normally the TV, so I don't consider it a normal part of my desktop. So it's either right, or bottom.

Bonusround said:

IIIRC, for a brief minute many versions ago, the Dock provided something similar via click-and-hold on an app’s icon. I miss that.

Today Mission Control offers the next best thing via ‘Application windows’ keyboard shortcut: all visible app windows will Exposé across the top, with minimized windows in a horizontal list at the bottom.

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I just map the Option-Left Single Quote key combo to cycle through open windows of the same application and never minimize anything.

Outlook on my Macbook Pro locks up the entire Mac. If Outlook freezes, the Mac freezes for a minute or more.

I have no idea what is going on, and I can't access the Apple Menu to force Outlook to quit. It doesn't respond to the quit command when right-clicking its icon on the dock, and once I do that, the Mac is frozen. The mouse pointer moves, but everything else is unresponsive.

Once it comes back to life, I can't restart Outlook, and I need to reboot to get back to work.

For the millionth time: Why is it impossible to sync a HomePod timer to the Clock app on my phone? “Hey Siri” is great for cooking, except when my Apple TV with linked HomePod intercepts my timer request (despite being in the other room).

Instead, you have to go into Home, click HomePod (but not Apple TV, despite them being paired), then intuit (thanks to zero UI cues) scrolling all the way to the bottom to get to the timer.

A two-stage one:

A while ago I installed Monterey as a second boot option on my Mac Mini that came with Catalina, which has been how I use the machine since. However, that Safari version is falling behind noticeably and the new features in the upcoming version of the OS look good, so I pretty much decided to go with the flow and run an OS created this decade.

So in preparation I upgraded my Monterey install to Sonoma. And then a litany of iCloud complaints started: it wasn't syncing (I don't care, but apparently this is quite important so nag the user constantly!) and then also when I boot back into Catalina.

(Bonus: I need to re-pair my mouse after each OS switch. And holding down alt on my Drop CTRL keyboard or wireless keyboard doesn't let me choose the OS when booting, so I need my trusty Model M's alt key for that.)

Anyway, I have to enter a plethora of passwords and passcodes over and over again. That is stupid. But perhaps 13 times will be a charm. 14 then?

But the REALLY annoying part is the two factor stuff, where Apple randomly decides which other device I need to handle the second factor. Which is regularly my iPad. Which is not in my home office, where the Mac Mini resides, but on the couch.

Well, it used to be, now I can't find the damn thing at all. So no iCloud access for me.