Covering articles relating to macOS Big Sur, the 11th major release of Apple’s desktop operating system from 2020.
Some people commented that my previously proposed solution to instantly show/hide the Dock in Big Sur is not working on their new M1 based Apple Silicon Macs.
I was able to investigate and provide a working solution, tested on a M1 MacBook Pro:
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When your AirPods paired in macOS don’t deliver the full audio quality, here is the most likely fix for that.
What System Preferences settings need to be enabled in order to use the «Sunset to Sunrise» Night Shift schedule.
Got a «PHP Warning: session_start() failed: No such file or directory» with MAMP PHP on macOS Big Sur – but found a way to make session storage work again
A single command to make the macOS Dock to slide in and slide out without any delays
Solutions how to fix the issue with MAMP on macOS Big Sur Beta that the MySQL service cannot be started – with /tmp/mysql/mysql.pid ended
Here is an updated version of my custom made Games folder icon to use in macOS.
How to still recover data from an unreadable Apple_HFS volume/CD/DVD in macOS Catalina
Turns out that Apple has hidden the option to allow launching Apps downloaded from «Anywhere» since macOS Sierra.
Here is a summary how you can restore this feature or whitelist specific single Apps within Gatekeeper – the application responsible for app security in macOS.
When you also like a distortion-free screen, you may also dislike that the macOS cursor sometimes showing up in fullscreen video playback. Here’s a solution how to quickly hide a bothering mouse cursor.