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You don't even need to look at security vulnerabilities to wonder what happened to macOS development at Apple.

My wife recently bought a mighty mouse. It worked for a few days, but then macOS would fail to associate with it via Bluetooth unless it's plugged in via the lightning cable, in which case it's unusable, the connector being on the side that normally sits on the table.

Anyways, after a quick Google, I found a workaround that I couldn't believe would work, but I tried it anyways: open preferences, and check off "Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices". ... and it worked instantly.

My wife doesn't even have an iCloud account...

The problem (and workaround) has been known for at least 4 years.

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Or this awesome issue on any of the newer MacBook Pro laptops, if you plug or unplug any USB devices while the system is either going into or recovering from sleep mode (I.E. after you've closed the lid, but before you see the login screen again after opening it), it will randomly kernel panic. I spent almost a month trying to figure out why I would randomly get a kernel panic in the morning since my evening routine was to close the lid, disconnect my keyboard/mouse/monitor, and then in the morning do the exact opposite (plugin keyboard/mouse/monitor, open lid). Once I read about the issues with USB devices and sleep mode I changed my routine to first open the lid, wait for the login screen to show up then plugin all the USB devices. Since I made that change I haven't seen a single kernel panic.

Thank you so much! Now I know why half the time after a meeting when I connect my laptop again it'll simply hang then shutdown. (I didn't see the panic since it's clamshelled)

Since we're complaining about stupid stuff that's broken in macOS that shouldn't be, I'll add my Ethernet problem. Apparently, it's no longer supported to move between Thunderbolt Ethernet adapters without rebooting.

I have 2 Thunderbolt Ethernet adapters, one at home and one at work, and if I move between them my wired Ethernet connection stops working. The hardware is working fine and it even shows up properly in System Report but the networking stack is completely brain dead. One "solution" is to unplug the adapter, turn off wired Ethernet, wait 30 seconds, plug the adapter back in, turn wired Ethernet back on. Or I can just reboot.

This started happening in 10.12.x and I've filed a bug report for it with every release. Still no fix. WTF?!?

There are other problem known for years and no fix in sight. ( Last time I checked )

Having Whatsapp Backup using iCloud Drive ( By Default ) and using iCloud on Mac would means you download (cache) these iCloud content on your Mac, and you would be downloading 10s GB of Whatsapp backup to your Mac, every single day if you have Whatsapp set to auto.

It is not a problem if you have an fast internet connection and you wouldn't feel the difference. If you have a slow connection your Internet will literally come to a halt. Even worst if your internet connection is dependent on 4G.

Imagine 10M Whatsapp user are also a Mac user. Even at 1GB per backup, that is 10PB /Day wasted.

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