The MacMost Question and Answer Forum is a place where you can ask how-to questions about your Mac, iPhone, iPad and other Apple products. MacMost specializes in tutorials, tips and techniques of the “how-to” variety, as opposed to “fix-it” questions that are more about something not working as expected.2/5/25
Hi Gary,
Can you assist me with an error message I receive when accessing some websites? The message reads,
“This Connection Is Not Secure.
This website does not support connection securely over HTTPS. The information you see and enter on this website, including credit ... (1 Comment)
2/3/25
When finishing listening to a playlist on my Apple music, songs are automatically added that are not on that playlist and it appears that apple is trying to choose a song that I might like. So far, they have failed. Can someone please tell me how to turn off that very annoying ... (2 Comments)
1/21/25
Hi! Is there a way of using Apple Shortcuts to find and replace text with in a text string.
For example: I use inline images in Markdown documents.
The image file name might be something like “The image I want to display.jpg”
For the Markdown preview to display this ... (2 Comments)
1/1/25
Hi Gary, I love your highly informative videos.
I have a 2024 MacBook Air (S15.2), an iPad Pro)2024-18-2), and an iPhone 15(18.2).
I am planning to buy the new Mac Mini. I enjoyed your video about using external hard drives instead of external SSDs (which I use now).
My questions ... (1 Comment)
12/13/24
Once deep into Setting, how do I return directly to the Settings icon on the Homepage without having to back out?
I want to save time.
Once deep into Settings, and I want to go somewhere else in Settings when I click on the Settings icon on the Homepage, it brings me back to ... (1 Comment)
12/13/24
I am trying to create a attendee list
We are hosting a event for a week straight but some guests are coming the first day for 3 days, some are coming the 2nd day for less days, and so on, it’s a big group so i am trying to create a list of each day how many attendees we have ... (1 Comment)
12/5/24
How can I stabilize Mail Rule settings? I have a dozen rules set up to direct email to specific folders and for the most part they work, but, for some reason, the rules are not always applied and I have to go in and re-edit that particular rule…. for example, Rule X ... (5 Comments)
12/4/24
I have thousands of emails, etc., in my Gmail account. Apparently, once you delete an email, then even separate copies of that individual email, seemingly stored in a separate designated Gmail folder, are deleted at the same time, such that only one copy of the email actually ... (3 Comments)
11/28/24
I am using an 2013 iMac 27 inch. It runs fine, but I really would like to upgrade to a new M4. I have a ton of data on a 1 TB drive. I think what Apple charges for larger SSD drives is ridiculous. So I don’t think I can use migration assistant. Is there a strategy to move to ... (4 Comments)
11/18/24
I use an app called Shortcut Bar. It allows me to quickly find the documents that I access quite often. I don’t think the developers still support it, because it is buggy and they haven’t responded to my email. Do you know of another app or Apple short cut that ... (2 Comments)
10/25/24
Hi, I am making a presentation using Keynote and have to add music. How do I do that, and can I edit the length of the music file and lower the sound at the start and end of the music file
It will be a big file that, in the end, will be made into a movie file and be projected to ... (2 Comments)
10/11/24
Since the latest update when I open and move (drag/drop)a window/file it opens up in full screen – this is really annoying and I would be grateful for a fix.
I’m just trying to do what I’ve always done and move open files around the screen without them ... (2 Comments)
10/8/24
In MS Excel there is a FILTER function.
Is there any alternative in Apple Numbers?
I have a table containing movies with their categories.
Now I want to create a second table that displays movies of a specified category.
In MS Excel this can be done using FILTER function but ... (1 Comment)
10/4/24
How to autofill like this 👇🏻 on Numbers macbook
Evening 2pm – 5pm
Morning 10am – 1pm
Morning Here autofill
Evening
Evening
Morning
How i can do this ?
Morning, Evening i write it but after this i want in other cell autofill timing ... (1 Comment)
9/9/24
I, and I am not alone, find it difficult to navigate app pricing menus.
Is there a way to tell if an app has a “free” basic version? Not a free trial, free.
I think some still do, but no idea how to see this. I don’t want to double click and download it incase I ... (4 Comments)
9/9/24
I want to create an editable list of files from a Finder search. Is there a shortcut for doing that? I think you published a video on the subject but I can’t find it. URL? or answer?
I want to find all the files from my 25 years of teaching math at a university. I want ... (3 Comments)
9/9/24
I just bought an external monitor For my MacBook Air M3. I understand I can put two pages side-by-side but the problem I’m having is once I open Safari and I have my tabs available. I can’t put those tabs side-by-side.
I have looked at several tutorials and it’s just not ... (1 Comment)
9/2/24
What is “Other Users & Shared”? And how do I access it to delete data? Itʻs showing over 400GB of data.
This “Other Users & Shared” folder(?) is taking up way too much disc space.
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Ken Bennett
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8/26/24
What I am trying to do is to split any number into individual digits using a formula. Each individual digit of that number would occupy its own cell. Some numbers given to me are just straight numbers. Others have commas and/or decimal points. But, for all, I just want numbers in ... (6 Comments)
8/26/24
I’m getting a fair amount of spam email in Mac Mail these days. I’m trying to manage using “mute” and “block sender”. Whilst this seems pretty good I do still get spam email through from senders I’ve already blocked. Is this a fault?
I’m ok with muting and ... (2 Comments)
