Category: macOS

  • iOS Simulator – Not able to type with the Mac Keyboard

    iOS Simulator – Not able to type with the Mac Keyboard

    When using the iOS simulator, I could not write in the text inputs with the Mac keyboard (so I needed to use the on-screen keyboard, which was a huge pain). If you face this issue, it turns out there is a setting, that enables it: Go to the “Simulator menu > I/O > Keyboard” and…

  • MacOS Tip Of the Day: Remove MS Teams Status Menus from MacOS Menu Bar

    MacOS Tip Of the Day: Remove MS Teams Status Menus from MacOS Menu Bar

    If you don’t want the MS Teams icon to always be on top in your menu bar, open Microsoft Teams > Settings > General, scroll to “Menu Bar Extension,” and uncheck the “Enable Menu Bar Extension” checkbox. Update: It’s right at the end of the General Menu:

  • Open a specific Google Chrome Profile from the Mac OSX Terminal

    Open a specific Google Chrome Profile from the Mac OSX Terminal

    I’ve been looking for this a few times and the best answer for Mac needs scrolling hidden in this tread – https://superuser.com/questions/377186/how-do-i-start-chrome-using-a-specified-user-profile#answer-1677353 So to open it in OSX, you open it using the full path, and provide the profile directory. Since there is no obvious way to say which profile is located in which directory…

  • Windows 11 to MacOS

    Windows 11 to MacOS

    Here’s my random impression on transitioning to MacOS after a long time on Windows. Backstory: On 29.12.2023 I started using a Mac as my primary machine. I’ve been using Windows for a lot of time now. Had some experiments with Ubuntu more than 10 years ago, and was occasionally using a Mac for iOS app…

  • MacOS – Tab does not focus on the next button

    For some reason, someone at Apple thought it would be better to NOT have the keyboard navigation on by default. So by default, you cannot use Tab to cycle the focus through the different buttons and inputs on the screen. To enable it, go to “System Preferences” > “Keyboard” > “Keyboard Navigation” and enable it.…